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Last week’s FM scrutiny on an anonymous student’s struggles coming out with his sadomasochism habit has given me the courage to come forth with a fetish of my own. A fetish that I’ve long kept hidden from all but my closest friends. A fetish that I hope to purge and come to grips with through the writing of this column. Since my preadolescence this longing has been with me, eagerly perking up at the slightest mention. In fact I remember when it first hit me—where...
Perhaps this isn’t so odd. The benefits of “talking dirty” have been explicated in countless Cosmo and Glamour pieces, alongside other secrets that men don’t want women to know. In this wild, fetishized world, am I then really so strange? Yet my obsession has nothing to do with sex. In fact the raunchiest of rap’s sex-jams won’t have the slightest effect on this particular fetish...
Still, he coped, discovering “play parties,” or fetish house parties hosted by local contacts, and meeting women, some of whom followed him back to his room in Cambridge...
Within the community, Kramer says, education is just as important. During their Fetish Fair Fleamarket, hosted twice annually, 4,000 members of the scene and 100 vendors from across the country come to meet, peruse and learn at 24 different SM workshops and classes...
...years ago, UN Weapons Inspector Jack McGeorge was nearly forced to resign when the Washington Post exposed his connections to SM/Leather/Fetish advocacy groups. Last month, a Kansas City Holiday Inn shut down a costume ball for fetish enthusiasts 24 hours before the event after a Fox News reporter called the hotel with a question about the party...