"In September 2015, Gayle Newland stood trial accused of sex by deception. It was alleged that she created an online identity as a man and used this character, Kye Fortune, to lure another woman into a sexual relationship, which was consummated repeatedly with the assistance of a blindfold and a prosthetic penis. The woman believed she was having sex with Kye until one day her ring caught on his hat and she felt long hair."
"The trial caught Izabella Scott's attention because it was a real-life example of a plot device she recognised from literature. The bed trick can be found in folk stories and operas, in Chaucer and Shakespeare. Often told for comic effect, it concerns sex by trickery and deception, under cover of darkness. The plot suggests, Scott writes, that, in bed, anyone might be mistaken for anyone else."
"According to Newland, there was no bed trick. She claimed the two women, both in their early 20s, were closeted lesbians. She'd invented the online alter-ego of Kye Fortune in her teens, as a way of expressing her inadmissible sexuality. She claimed that her friend, who was granted anonymity and is designated Miss X, was aware at all times that Newland and Fortune were the same person."
In September 2015 Gayle Newland stood trial accused of sex by deception after allegedly creating an online male identity, Kye Fortune, to lure another woman into repeated sexual encounters using a blindfold and a prosthetic penis. The deception ended when the partner's ring caught on a hat and she felt long hair, revealing Newland as her female friend. The case went viral and mirrored the traditional 'bed trick' literary trope found in folk stories, Chaucer and Shakespeare, which suggests mistaken identity in darkness. Newland maintained there was no trick, claiming a shared online fiction between two closeted women and a dispute over coming out prompted the complaint.
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