Word: leathering
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Particularly memorable is the shopping expedition scene where Marlon Wayans needs assistance zipping up a pair of uber-tight leather pants. His facial expressions, clearly visible beneath all of the prosthetics, are priceless. In fact, it is a feat unto itself at how Shawn and Marlon Wayans are transformed into looking like strangely normal, but utterly grotesque women...
...name of God and experienced intense endorphin rushes in the process. He can explain the story of SM’s rise in America: a population of gay men left the military after World War II but held onto that structure and order, and then, in tight leather pants, let biker bars act as their camouflage. He’ll tell you all of this without a moment’s pause...
Freshman year, before he perfected the art of bondage, Mark was just beginning to build up his arsenal of SM paraphernalia. He bought leather shirts, floggers—shorter, thicker versions of whips—and 25-foot strings of rope. He even strung his own cat-o-nine-tails out of parachute rope. All of these items he hid away in the closet of his room. The closest SM/Leather retailer to Harvard is Hubba Hubba on Massachusetts Avenue, but Mark puts his money elsewhere, calling Hubba Hubba “ridiculously overpriced...
Luckily for Mark, there are a number of stores for those who list rope and leather on their shopping lists. The demand requires it. After all, one in ten Americans have had some sexual experience with sadomasochism, according to a 1990 study released by the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex at Indiana University...
Mark also found support at the New England Leather Alliance (NELA), a BDSM advocacy group. During an internship there last summer, Mark got to know NELA’s board members, including Sandra J.M. Santiago, who he used as a sounding board...