“Regular guy or master of his own erotic freak show? A 25-year-old Arden Heights man was arraigned yesterday on charges he satisfied a bizarre fetish by forking over large sums of money for the dubious privilege of poking teen girls in the buttocks. But his defense attorney calls it a case of blackmail. However it turns out, credit the charges against Frank J. Ranieri for introducing Staten Islanders to the weird world of piquerism, a sexual fixation on penetrating the body with sharp objects, such as pins, nails and stilettos…. Ranieri paid at least five teen girls ‘thousands of dollars’ since 2003 to prick their hind parts, using a pen or a pin, while he sexually gratified himself. In one instance, Ranieri offered to help get a 15-year-old girl a newspaper delivery route if she would let him take a jab at her. In others, he posed as a cop to dupe his victims into trusting him, she added. Yesterday, the stocky, bald and bespectacled Ranieri was charged with two counts of second-degree assault as a sexual felony for paying a 17-year-old Richmond Valley teen about $6,000 to be his erotic pincushion for about a year and a half. Other charges against him are pending further investigation by the Staten Island District Attorney’s office, said spokesman William Smith. All of his victims were between the ages 15-17 at the time of the assaults, law enforcement sources said.” — Staten Island Advance (US)

Here is a picture of the alleged piquerist Ranieri. According to a police source reported in another newspaper, Ranieri “liked to see the pins go through muscle and flesh… A sexual deviant. He didn’t see much wrong with it.” Evidently word got around that he was willing to pay exorbitant sums for the pleasure of practicing his aim on the butts of teenage girls, so a whole group of them would come to him for relatively easy cash. Next time you see a fifteen-year-old with an iPod or (coming soon) an iPhone, you’ll know how she managed to afford it.

Prosecutors are saying that Ranieri suffers from an affliction known as piquerism, which comes from the French piquer — to poke, pick, stab. (Does that pique your interest?) Probably it is a more common perversion than is realized. It does not seem to be discussed very often, and yet it occurs in the wild relatively often. Here in New York, there was a notorious example of piquerism in 1990: a guy managed to shoot darts at the asses of 53 midtown babes before the police finally collared him. The local tabloids dubbed him Dart Man. Probably there is also a touch of the piquerist in any serial killer who lavishes on his victims more stabbings than are needed to murder them.

On some level, you can understand the simple pleasure of the piquerist. Have you never enjoyed taking a fork or a shovel and jabbing it into something until you’ve destroyed it? Combine that simple nihilist glee with a distorted libido and you can get a fleeting taste of the pleasure that the piquerist pursues to an extreme. Lots of people get off on spanking. Is poking someone in the ass really much different? If anything, the thing that stands out in Ranieri’s psyche is not the piquerism per se but the Bic pens that he liked to use. It half leaves you with the impression that some weird grafitti impulse was mixed up in the whole thing, as though every ass wound was his weird way of saying “Kilroy was here.”

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