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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation on CBS

Lady Heather returns to CSI.  As one of the series’ most controversial recurring characters, it should come as no surprise that the professional dominatrix provides the sex-soaked, sadomasochistic fodder that earns the November 6^th episode of CSI (9:00 p.m. ET) the distinction of Worst TV Show of the Week.

Detective Grissom and his team are investigating the gruesome death of a male victim who apparently was engaged in S&M activity prior to being tied to the undercarriage of a car and dragged along the road.  Strange puncture marks appear around the victim’s nipple.  To obtain greater insight into the S&M lifestyle, Grissom seeks out Lady Heather -- who now works as a sex therapist.  Grissom asks her to explain the strange needle marks around the victim’s areolas.  Lady Heather offers the following graphic description: 

These wounds around his nipples are from needle play.  The arrangement is called stacking.  May I touch you?  Needles are inserted transversally and sagittally, which raises the nipple upward.  This causes the nipple to swell and become highly sensitive.  This creates a pain button.  Any touch or pressure overwhelms the senses and causes a flood of endorphins.

When Grissom points out strange burn marks on the victim’s tongue, Lady Heather further clarifies:

This is tongue bondage.  It's used in medical exam fantasies as part of humiliation.  You ask the patient to stick out their tongue, wrap the tongue with chopsticks, rubber band them to create a dental gag. In a typical situation, one would use wood chopsticks, which would leave some bruising, and, if you're lucky, splinters.  In this case, metal chopsticks may have been used, and electricity applied.  These are masochistic injuries.

The CSI team then visits a sex club with a dungeon room in the back and finds equipment consistent with the victim’s sex-play injuries, as well as DNA evidence placing him there.  Throughout the episode, there are further graphic descriptions of the S&M lifestyle, including slave fetishes, multiple partners, and sexual services.  The scenes switch between sexually laced content and graphic depictions of violence.  Eventually, the two merge.  Lady Heather guesses that the murder suspect is a sexual sadist:

Sexual sadists are typically charming loners.  They would be repulsed by a conventionally safe and communicative lifestyle.  When a submissive says stop, you have to stop.  That doesn’t work for a sexual sadist.  They get off on the terror of their subjects. 

The show culminates in graphic reenactments of both the bondage scenes and the brutal murders.   By interweaving sex with violence, the episode is especially troublesome. 

Parents who don’t want their children exposed to such sexual violence should be aware that reruns of CSI are sometimes shown at 8:00 p.m. -- as well as in earlier timeslots through syndicated outlets. 

For graphic sexual content combined with extreme violence CSI: Crime Scene Investigation has been named Worst TV Show of the Week.