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ORIGINAL: ExiledTyrant I was perusing another thread and find myself stymied by stupidity, yet again. I know, shocker, right? We often get inundated with stupidity from new posters, and far too often by a regular poster, that thinks public kink is the coolest thing EVER! They always justify this by, "Hey, it's okay, we're consenting adults" and in their simple little minds, it is okay. Now, I'm curious how being the victim of a non-consensual display would effect them, let's say: Being in an elevator with someone with chronic flatulence, you consented to get on the elevator, after all. A radical Muslim beheading. It is, after all, their kink. Nose blowers/pickers at a restaurant. You consented to endure it by walking in. They brat child kicking the back of your airline seat. A road side strip search in LA. Ain't that America. Jehovah's' witnesses that don't take no for an answer. Some of the above is pretty extreme stuff. However, exposing some kink in public is equally extreme in some views. Is it the insecure idiot that has to utilize vulgar public displays of D/s to overcompensate for the lack of genuine control in the dynamic or what? Good topic. I would suppose it would depend on the level of kink involved. I was in NYC a few months back and saw a guy leading a girl down the street on a leash, she had a collar on and was decked out in latex and fuck-me style boots. It didn't hurt that she looked like a supermodel, but I was watching and observing the reactions they were getting. Some people kind of stared in disbelief, others glanced and turned away in horror, others pretended not to look, still others kind of dug the entire thing. Me, I watched the entire thing, drinking it in and had mixed feelings about it even though I approved. On one hand I felt that it was not something for the public... call that the puritan side of me desperately gasping for air because it doesn't get out much. On the other hand I felt that it was pretty damn cool that they were comfortable enough with their lifestyle that they felt no shame for it. And still, on the other hand I kind of felt bad for the people that were horrified. In a setting like NYC, I am kind of surprised that anyone noticed at all. Are public displays of light kink with no nudity vulgar or are people just too fucking uptight about sex in general in this country? I don't think that a public display as I described above demonstrated an example of gross overcompensation for lack of control, I saw it as freedom for both of them. If we want to get nitpicky about the whole thing, if the display above is offensive, then so is the gay male prancing around in high heels and a pink feather boa singing show tunes and dripping homosexuality all over the place. If that is acceptable in today's society, bring on the leashes, the public slut walkings and whatever else that allows someone to express themselves in front of others without crossing into outright sexual displays. Oh, please don't bust my balls about being a homophobic shithead... it was an example, and that is all it was.
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