I think they disguised the field test as a street fair in NYC last week.
http://www.1010wins.com/Pictures:-S-M-Street-Fair-Whips-Manhattan/1060106
S&M Street Fair Hits Manhattan
Excerpt:
A public flogging brought some to their knees on the West Side Sunday, and they better have loved it.
The city's first-ever, kinky-sex street fair featured open-air flogging, hard-core leather-whip types and punishment fans in cowboy chaps.
"It's a celebration of leather and fetish," said New York Leather Invasion group leader Robert Vallan, one of the organizers of the event on Weehawken Street near the West Side Highway.
"It's all consensual, ya know. We're all consensual adults and alot of the community is about educating others on how to do this safely without harming anybody, with respecting people's boundries," Vallan said.
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