Fashion Designers & Kinky Chic
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Folsom Street East in The New York Times fashion pages:
There was a time when people whose erotic rituals ran to whips and chains and latex and highly complex protocols of dominance and submission were confined to the cultural shadows. But that was before Madonna turned bondage into a concert party trick, before the Gap ran ads with a tongue-in-cheek S-M tagline (“Everybody in leather!”), before Altoids and Svedka vodka purloined imagery from Venus in Furs for their ad campaigns and well before Victoria’s Secret mainstreamed the bondage pinup queen Bettie Page.
Kinky Chic Extends Its Dominance
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Fashion designers are obviously tapping into the ‘taboo’ of fetishism. But the big mainstream fetish wave was in the late 90s. Fashion is, of course, cyclical. I think BDSM and fetishism are so very easy to hype for profit–but for the sincere seeker BDSM/fetishism is very elusive. Sure, you can pay for a session, but that’s the point: trying to find a partner you don’t have to pay to indulge your D/s fantasies is next to impossible! There are LEGIONS of submissive men who are single and alone. Don’t believe me? Go to any fetish night at a club! Loads of single guys, and a few Dommes playing the field. Sure it’s great for women who can play the field, but to be a single guy into fetishism, and be submissive, really sucks: get ready to spend your life alone, for the most part.
Posted by: Pervunit_1 | June 27, 2006 1:09 AM