Michael Travesser, formerly known as Wayne Bent, the cult leader accused of sexual molestation, sent his son, Jeff Bent to Larry King last night to do some damage control. King asked Jeff about the National Geographic documentary, Inside A Cult, during which Michael talks about boning Jeff's wife. Jeff claims that the couple were divorced by the time Michael and his wife consummated their "spiritual marriage," and besides, what they did wasn't sex as mere mortals know it. "They've been ordained by God...it was a spiritual experience illustrated by a physical act," Jeff tells King. Clip above.
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Well, my libido just packed it in for the weekend. Thanks.
Is it just me or does the cult leader kind of look like a living, breathing creepy-as-shit version of an oldy timey tin type photo?
Yeah, maybe just me. Though he do got the crazy eyes!
Oh, and his son looks like one of my TAs... CREEPY.
Edu-tain me, CNN!
Someone has been drinking waaaayyy too much of Daddy's kool-aid.
Wait a second . . . you mean the son of a crazed lunatic cult leader turned out to be a crazed lunatic?
Oh good, guess I do need to replenish my supply of Excedrin.
They both are way off their rockers...ugh.
You can see the sanity behind his eyes, screaming to get out. Be free little sanity! Be free!
Whatever gets you through the night, Jeff Bent.
"terminated our marriage relationship."
Yeah, I'll bet your marriage was over when she had sex with your dad.
yuck, echoes of warren jeffs.
and really, what's weird about your cult leader dad banging your wife, ex-wife or bevy of under-age girls?
yeesh, so judgmental!
The day I hear about women doing sick shit like this, is the day the world ends.
Poor things.
now i know why sex has been so mediocre lately... my boyfriend is just a mere mortal.
sigh...
I'm still waiting for the headlines inspired by his arrest that read, "Getting Bent."
I needed a good shot of EWOMGICAN'TBELIEVETHISSHITGOESON for the weekend, and here it is.
@BowlingForDollars: Well, there is the spookily high incidence of female teachers sleeping with their male students... but that's not nearly as bad as this.
wonder when a woman is going to claim she's the messiah...
If I say "oh god" during sex, does that make it a spiritual experience? Mr. Spamanda wants to know!
Wayne... Bent... Wayne Bent... Wayne Bent? Wayne Bent! Do y'all know where I can get the forms to legally change my name?
I wish other drivers would just understand that I have been ordained by God to have the right of way.
@searched.and.seized: That cracked me up. Like sanity is clawing its way to the surface, but is kept back only by the great tide of batshit crazy that overtakes it.
All this makes me think is "Is it time for Fine Lines yet??"
So this "spiritual marriage", does it have a "spiritual pre-nup?"
Aslo WTF is he talking about their Sex being different from the way the world views it?
Aha...yet the Duggars are the batshit crazy ones...
@mbprice: and why are so many of them hott and blonde? or are they just the ones that make the teevee?
Tori Amos had a good line for all this. "So you can make me cum. That doesn't make you Jesus."
Important words for Mr. Bent to consider, though I doubt he's even accomplished that much.
@BitchIsTheNewBlack: That makes me think of ghosts sitting around a big, glossy table and trying to decide who gets the yacht.
@CorporateTool: According to doc, Wayne Bent ordered all the followers to dissolve all their marriages, and pledge their loyalty to him. He's shagged every single one of those mens' wives, pretty much. And their kids. Yeah.
@Charlotte Corday: I think they come in all shapes and sizes.
On a related note, I found out my old junior high track coach (male) was recently arrested for molesting a kid and providing drugs for him to sell. Which is an odd thing to discover.
Why was it necassary to consummate more than once?
Because I'm an oversexed dirty bastard.
There's a little part of me that really never gets tired of cults. Whew. Felt good to let that out.
@Pinkosaurus: damn skippy. why can't other drivers know that they have been preordained to use a freakin' turn signal?!
@BitchIsTheNewBlack: this smacks of crap reasoning from a dude about 'chronic male horniness' or something. at least that guy called it horniness and not some 'spiritual marriage' bullshit, which is damn close to the classic line 'the heart wants what the heart wants'. blerg.
This clip isn't nearly as funny as when King asked the son about his father being with naked young girls, to which the cult leader kept repeating "Doctors spend time with naked people. MD's spend time with naked people." like this excused his behavior somehow. And the son actually emphasized "the girls requested to be naked with him".
Simply can't make this shit up.
I'm not a violent person, but I'd shank that guy if he tried to get with me. Just saying.
it is so strange when the cults circle around sex. or maybe that's what the news chooses to focus on, whichever, still strange. The leader looks like he's wearing a glue-on beard.
@TheUptightMidwesterner: Oh, there's enough crazy to go around.
@BowlingForDollars: I know can you imagine some chick with 30 15 year old boys living in her house and having sex with them all to just "consummate their spiritual marriage?"@mbprice: I found out a similar thing about a choir teacher of mine. I always thought he was secretly gay, but apparently he was an equal opportunity pedophile. My spidey sense was good back in high school.
@ArtfulSlinger: My old choir director, too! What is it with choir directors? I feel like half the time when something comes out about a teacher banging his students it's a choir director.
@ainsworth2:
wonder when a woman is going to claim she's the messiah...
Slut Machine should rename herself Messiah Machine. People would stop giving her crap about sexual relationsh with multiple people, right? Right?
I am so going to start my own cul...er, religion. And live in a cave because the world is ending. And claim that God told me to go shopping every day, eat chocolate and watch reality television. What I am not going to do: lie naked with virgins.
And seriously, did this dude lie naked with the male virgins? I think not...
@Captain_Morgan: Actually one of the children that was taken into state custody in this whole deal was male, a 15 or 16 year old male.
I'll give up my own selfish desires when you stop being a creepy douche bag. Deal?
you guys, that time i cheated on my husband, it was totally a SPIRITUAL kind of sex. doesn't count. talk about unevolved.
@ainsworth2: Well, there's the Mita cult in Puerto Rico (a Pentecostal offshoot, I think)... but they think her son Aaron is the Messiah and stuff.
Also, of course, there's the rumors of abuse, rape, etc.
I have the selfish desire to punch this dude and his creepy pedophile father in their throats.
@kelsium: Yeah, but all the news I can find says that he molested the girls, not the boys.
@ediebeale: I have a 100K Volt taser (a gift from daddy) and I had this spiritual revelation that I should bless the balls of this douche and his dad.
@Brigit: with the taser, of course
@ainsworth2: Oh, honey, who would ever believe her?
@Brigit: Testify!
My sisters ended up with the same guy (separately of course) a couple of times and I found that way creepy. They don't even have similar tastes. This city is too small. Em and no cult was involved.
Ooh and what's it with cults and the bearded and which comes first the beard or the crazy?
@zivah: shocking, eh? someone please get some help to the women who love the crazies. they need to learn the one and done concept.
There is just no "bros before hos" sentimentality in this cult at all, huh?
i pity the fool that has a horny cult leader for a dad.
I have spent way too much time reading about these guys on the internets. They're starting to convert me to Christianity, in the sense that I believe there is actually a hell for them.
I wonder if son Jeff stays with the cult in the hopes of preventing something terrible from happening or he would feel responsible in some way if anything bad happened. In the doc he was quite insistent that they would not be one of those cults that commits suicide
@mepo: first you get the beard, then you get the crazy, THEN you get the women