Nothing sets the stage for a night of fervid lovemaking like being set on fire. Just thinking of those hot flames licking up can turn even the most prudish man into a lust-filled beast equipped with the most raging of erections. Funny, then, that 27-year-old Darlene Humby finds herself going to jail for it.

The Wayne County, New York, woman pleaded guilty to a kinky bit of foreplay in which she set her man's shirt ablaze, and now has three years to sit in prison and think about other ways of saying "I love you."

According to Wayne County DA Richard Healy, the fire-setting was consensual, and no harm was intended. However, harm was indeed the result. Humby's unidentified mate suffered second- and third-degree burns to his face, arms and torso and required two skin-grafts.

Investigators believe lighter fuel was used, but not enough of the two shirts the man had been wearing were left to confirm that.

» Scott Saxon