My friend, p., pointed me to a link today which made me cringe:
50-acre BDSM sex camp disapproved of.
Wow, did they have to torture the English language too just to make their point?
A BDSM party space in Pennsylvania has drawn local ire. According to comments on the original story, it's a neighbors' spat and shouldn't have merited a story in the first place. But, you know, it has BDSM in it, and nifty pix the nosy neighbors shot of the interior. So it's news!!! (BTW, I hope the BDSMers file a restraining order on that neighbor's ass, but maybe that's just me.)
You know, it's almost quaint that there is still a place in the US that is so fucking far behind the times -- and apparently bereft of an Internet -- that discovering there are kinky spaces in the vicinity could still come as a shock. I'm surprised the reporter didn't include a few interviews with locals saying "we've lost our innocence" or "we never thought it could happen here," to further make the townspeople sound like rubes. They did however manage to score this profundity:
“What goes on up there – I wouldn’t even say on TV,” Leonard Dean said. “I mean, it’s all about sex and it’s all dirty."
The only thing dirty in this entire story is Mr. Leonard Dean's mind.
The next time someone tells you sex is dirty, do what I do: feel verrrrry sorry for them. They are missing out not just on the juice of life, but on life itself.
Meanwhile, if you identify kinky, fight the past and look towards the future: no more harassment of BDSM clubs and spaces!! You have LEGAL resources to combat hate crimes these days. USE THEM.
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