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The former speaker of the Missouri House has been charged with a felony after what looks like a bout of sado-masochistic sex that went way too far.

Details are still unconfirmed, we should note. But a woman appears to have suggested to police that Rod Jetton, a Republican who now works as a political consultant, may have slipped something into her drink, then beat her up during sex, after she failed to use the safe word they had agreed upon as a signal to calm things down.

The woman recalls Jetton hitting her on the face very hard. She then remembers waking up, lying on the floor and Jetton was choking her. She said she did not know what happened with her memory because she had been drunk but had never had the blank spots in her memory.

Jetton then stayed the night, says the woman. When he woke up, she says, he kissed her and said, "You should have said green balloons." He then left and hasn't returned.

Jetton, 42, was elected to the House of Representatives in 2000, and became speaker in 2005. He was term limited out in 2008. According to Wikipedia, he and his wife divorced in October after over 20 years of marriage.

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_charged_after_rough_sex.php

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