Apparently, there isn't a safeword for business

Even fetish club owners have legal rights:

The Quest club is a place where consenting adults go to satisfy their appetite for such fetishes as foot worship, bondage and puppy training.

But it's not all about pleasure at the club these days, thanks to a nasty legal fight with the Phoenix club, a competing fetish group.

The owner of Quest claims the Phoenix unlawfully stole business from him.

The story begins in March 2007, when James Jordan and Perry Edge purchased "The Master's Quest" club from Edward Joseph Mitskevich.

Jordan and Edge had a falling out and Edge went on to start the Phoenix club. Mitskevich, who signed a non-compete clause, also became involved as a member in the Phoenix club.

A contract is still a contract, even when the business involved skirts around mainstream sexuality. Expect this case, minor though it is, to attract far more press coverage than it otherwise deserves . . . especially in a slow news month.

Update: Sadly, the "infamous" Betty Page has died:

A cult figure, Page was most famous for the estimated 20,000 4-by-5-inch black-and-white glossy photographs taken by amateur shutterbugs from 1949 to 1957. The photos showed her in high heels and bikinis or negligees, bondage apparel — or nothing at all.

Decades later, those images inspired biographies, comic books, fan clubs, websites, commercial products -- Bettie Page playing cards, dress-up magnet sets, action figures, Zippo lighters, shot glasses -- and, in 2005, a film about her life and times, "The Notorious Bettie Page."

Then there are the idealized portraits of her naughty personas — Nurse Bettie, Jungle Bettie, Voodoo Bettie, Banned in Boston Bettie, Maid Bettie, Crackers in Bed Bettie — memorialized by such artists as Olivia de Berardinis.

"I'll always paint Bettie Page," De Berardinis said Thursday night . "But truth be told, it took me years to understand what I was looking at in the old photographs of her. Now I get it. There was a passion play unfolding in her mind. What some see as a bad-girl image was in fact a certain sensual freedom and play-acting - it was part of the fun of being a woman."