Review of “The Bed Trick” by Izabella Scott – a bizarre story of sexual duplicity
3 Quarks Daily • 2/3/2026
Summary
In September 2015, Gayle Newland stood trial accused of sex by deception. It was alleged that she created an online identity as a man, named Kye Fortune, to lure another woman into a sexual relationship, which was consummated repeatedly with the assistance of a blindfold and a prosthetic penis. The review of “The Bed Trick” by Izabella Scott was written by Olivia Laing in The Guardian.
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