A telephone stalker obsessed with underwear made a big mistake when a gym opened across the street from the apartment that he shared with his mother.

Paul Kavanagh was caught on film by detectives as he leaned over his London apartment balcony while making calls to the gym’s female receptionists.

This month Kavanagh was sentenced to two and a half years jail. He admitted to making 15,000 or so harassing calls to women asking them questions about their underwear. He’d call posing as a clothing researcher and claim to be gathering marketing data for a retailer.

Kavanagh had been making these calls for 12 years before he was caught. He’d usually start off his conversations with questions about the womens socks and sweaters, but then he would move on to their underwear and make lewd suggestions to his victims.

Judge Peter Testar concluded that Kavanagh had been “making these calls for the purposes of sexual gratification and, I must say to my mind, for the purposes of cruelty.”

The calls were all placed using unregistered pay as you go phones. When Kavanagh was finally caught he was, as stated above, targeting the female staff at the gym by commenting on their clothes and the way they wore their hair.

Can’t leave it behind …

Di Yerbury, retired vice Chancellor of Australia’s Macquarie University is battling with her successor over her past spending habits. Her successor was so incensed that she seized 1000 pieces of art that Yerbury had tried to take with her as she left.

Yerbury states that many of the works she tried to remove were her own personal property that she had on display. The art work included a painting of a womans derrière that she said she posed for 31 years earlier, and this past February she even offered to have the then-wife of the painter testify that the posterior is indeed Yerbury’s.

In another turn of events …

A former pastor and Southern Baptist leader, Lonnie Latham, who had for years preached against homosexuality, was arrested outside a hotel in Oklahoma city in 2006. He was charged with soliciting a lewd encounter with a man. Rather than apologize, Latham demanded a trial to proclaim is constitutional right to engage in consensual sex with an adult male. In March he was acquitted.

Have you heard of the legendary US lawsuit of 1970 when $50,000 was awarded to Gloria Sykes who was injured on a San Francisco cable car and was left with an unrestrained libido as a result?

Now there’s a new interesting case. In 2005, Stephen Tame, 29, of Suffolk England won a judgment against his employer when he was injured at work in a fall. His injury left him with an aggressive sexual disinhibition that has left his wife exhausted and annoyed, and led the man to infidelity. Tames wife has said he’s not the man that she married 8 months earlier. This past December Stephen Tame was awarded $5.9 million dollars. I wonder if that “tamed” his libido?

You just never know what turns people on …

Sexual offenses prevention orders were granted to police by Englands Liverpool Magistrates Court against Akinwale Arobieke, 45, who’d been jailed for publically pestering people with requests to feel their muscles. He’s now banned from touching, feeling or measuring muscles or asking people to do squat exercises.

Of course, it’s not only muscles that turn some people on, some have hair fetishes too. Take the case of the baggage handler, Rodney Petersen, 30, who recently plead guilty to charges in Melbourne, Australia, to stealing hair from clothing and hairbrushes in womens luggage. When police investigated his home they found 80 bags containing hairs, labeled with each owners name.

Now that’s creepy isn’t it?