Folsom's flesh and fantasy

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 9/29/03 | Demian Bulwa

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Parading a pair of naked, hooded and gagged men down the middle of the street on leashes, a San Francisco man named Dean elicited a few glances and camera snaps when he stopped to make an adjustment -- a strap here, a clamp there.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

This things sounds almost as ghastly as 49ers-Vikings. I'll bet you folks in fly-over country don't get treated to spectacles like this very often.

[GSWarrior]

Empty lives lead to empty pursuits.

[r9etb]

"Sexologist" Carol Queen

[MD_Willington_1976]

We have the Drag Queen show next to us (10-15 miles away) in Moscow Idaho put on by Tabikat production...They have it every once in a while indoors at a night club...

[I_Love_My_Husband]

ping

[I_Love_My_Husband]

Bunch of old, gray, flabby, ugly homosexual men wearing no clothes. Seriously. It's gross.

[annyokie]

My sympathies. It's bad enough to ride the cable cars with the leather gang.

[usnret99]

This things sounds almost as ghastly as 49ers-Vikings. I'll bet you folks in fly-over country don't get treated to spectacles like this very often.

Yeah!!! Thank God!!!

[Redcoat LI]

"Then Dean moved on,submissives in tow."
I didn't know Howard was in town.

[Gritty]

Thousands gathered to celebrate the leather world and the larger arena of sexual fetishism....

Where is PETA when you really need them?

[BudgieRamone]

I guess that its time for Sodom and Gommorah part II...seriously tho' I NEVER want to see this here in "flyover" country, Leather chaps are for cowboys, horse riders or bikers and have an honest to goodness purpose.

The scary part of this is that if you go to the shopping mall on any given weekend you can see teenage boys and girls wearing "bondage and fetish gear" some of it is subtle and some of it overt, so they are being indoctrinated into it somewhere. And if there are any unbelievers out there find your nearest "Hot Topic" and just sit back and observe.

[fire_eye]

Okay... Let's just suspend all moral judgement here for a moment, and look at this.

We've got a bunch of grown people - well into the age of what one would consider maturity - parading around in public dressed up in costumes focused on their sexuality?

And... we've got a newspaper taking up print space with it, thereby implying that there is no other news worthy of the space?

And... we've got a "Sexologist" with a *degree* in "Human Sexuality"...

Talk about *no life*... I mean, really. Fundamentally, these are a bunch of pampered urbanites, children who never grew up, obsessed with a bunch of utter trivia. Somehow - to me, at least - they're not even deserving of attention, much less any notoriety for ostensibly "scandalous" behavior (the attainment of which is the real objective of said behavior, ultimately). They're just pathetic (as is the entire geographical area in which they live, and for the same reasons...)