TAMPA - Melissa J. Berry doesn't mind prancing around in public in her underwear. But the 24-year-old model and lingerie football league player draws the line at a former boyfriend - a safe dating expert - posting nude and intimate photos of her on the Internet. Berry sued her former paramour Mark C. Dawson in Hillsborough County Circuit Court today, saying he tried to extort, humiliate and hurt her by showing the photographs to her mother and friends and posting them on MySpace.com without her permission. She said he should know better because he markets himself as an expert on "healthy relationships" who has studied "success, performance and human behavior for over 25 years." Berry, a rookie linebacker with the Tampa Breeze franchise of the Lingerie Football League, said she and Dawson, 45, started dating this fall. She said in her lawsuit that Dawson used his cellular telephone to take several nude photographs of her, including one taken without her knowledge of her "engaged in a particularly private, intimate sexual act." The lawsuit contends that her destroying the cell phone was "an obvious indication" Berry wanted the images to remain private, especially to a motivational speaker who specializes in communication; interpreting body language and mixed signals; and promoting respect and personal responsibility. "I am scared of what he will do to my career," she said.

Ah it’s a story as old as time itself.  An innocent small town girl/stripper/middle linebacker moves to the big city and is taken advantage of by a fast talking safe dating expert.   But don’t blame yourself Melissa.    It can happen to the best of us.  I mean how were you supposed to know that your boyfriend would show those naked camera phone pictures to other people?    Nobody could have seen that one coming so stop beating yourself up about it.   You did all you could.  You destroyed the camera.  After that it’s in god’s hands.    But don’t worry; your career won’t be defined by this. Because it’s not what the media says about you that counts.   It’s what you do between the lines.  It’s how many lap dances you give on Saturday and how many tackles you had on Sunday that will make or break you in fast paced world of stripping and lingerie bowl football.