http://bannon.com/2009/11/07/the-mainstreaming-of-gay-kink/ Intelligent information, ideas and insights about the adventurous side of sex and relationships. Thu, 26 Aug 2010 23:00:13 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://bannon.com/2009/11/07/the-mainstreaming-of-gay-kink/comment-page-1/#comment-361 Marc Webb Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:56:20 +0000 http://bannon.com/?p=198#comment-361 Race, good points as always. I'll point you to a similar article in Newsweek recently about ending US prohibitions against Cuba, against Gay Marriage, etc. The Internet and all electronic social media, allow people to align themselves to easily to require macro-gatekeepers/connectors such as bars or affinity by viewable means. Everyone belongs to a myriad of micro-tribes now of friends that join together for different reasons. I think what gets lost in the commentary of kink in ye-olden-days is that it ultimately was about bringing people together as friends too. A night in the leather bar may have helped me get to someone, sexually or otherwise, but the people who stay in my life surpass that connection because they are funny, kind, curious, etc. We've just learned to jump over the utilities like bars to get to the same ends, creating our families. Race, good points as always. I’ll point you to a similar article in Newsweek recently about ending US prohibitions against Cuba, against Gay Marriage, etc. The Internet and all electronic social media, allow people to align themselves to easily to require macro-gatekeepers/connectors such as bars or affinity by viewable means. Everyone belongs to a myriad of micro-tribes now of friends that join together for different reasons. I think what gets lost in the commentary of kink in ye-olden-days is that it ultimately was about bringing people together as friends too. A night in the leather bar may have helped me get to someone, sexually or otherwise, but the people who stay in my life surpass that connection because they are funny, kind, curious, etc. We’ve just learned to jump over the utilities like bars to get to the same ends, creating our families.

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