How safe are you?

Male submissives! Would you hook up with the gal who placed an ad like this?

‘‘I’m a young robust dominant girl who likes to conquer men so I can play a nice game with them ... I’ll blindfold you and tie you up and put you in my car and take you with me to my house, where we can play all kinds of exciting games. ... I like men with a good job, suits, because it gives me an extra kick to dominate them: weaklings are no challenge.’’

Sounds like the kind of typically coy prodomme-type ad you see all over BDSM personals sites. So if she wrote you back and set up a date to meet, would you take any precautions? Would you try to vet her and find out if she was a known entity? Or would you assume that you have nothing to fear because you're a strong guy who could take a woman if need be? Would you set up a safe-call with friends or give them details, like her phone number and street address? Would you even ask for her home phone and street address before you met, or would you just jump at the opportunity to have an exciting, mysterious adventure with a domina? Maybe you'd even assume that if you saw her ad on a popular BDSM site, she was clearly "one of us" and understood all about safe, sane consensual, so you could be lazy and horny and just follow your urges.

Most of the time, even anonymous Internet hook-ups work out fine. BUT. In this case, this seemingly innocuous ad was a come-on from a woman who set out to lure a guy to her place, put him in bondage, kill him, and then steal as much as she could from his credit cards and bank accounts.

Woman killed man she lured with S&M

Think twice and then three times before you agree to an SM hook-up with a stranger. Demand facts, details, information that can prove the other party is sincere. Nothing and no one can protect you in situations like this, except your own sense of self-preservation. USE IT.