Dear NotBob,
If you aren't doing anything this weekend, you can see what "vanilla" really is.
An Oakland hairstylist by day and co-owner of a South of Market dungeon popular with the whip-cracking crowd by night, Knight, 46, is an ambassador of kink. She and about 70 other volunteers will staff Leather Alley, one of the fastest-growing niches at the annual San Francisco Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Pride Parade and Celebration.
On a splash of asphalt on Grove Street will bloom a place for what leather aficionados call "vanilla" types -- i.e., everyone else -- to learn about flogging, spanking, boot blacking and other staples of the subculture known as BDSM (a condensed acronym for bondage and discipline, dominance and submission and sadomasochism). The "ambassadors" will answer all their questions.
Creating the environment for such intimate acts in a parking lot -- not to mention broad daylight in front of an audience -- can challenge those more accustomed to the windowless dungeon setting.
"At first, you're very aware that everyone is watching," said Knight, who runs SF Citadel, a 7,800-square-foot playground for the leather set. "But once you start to concentrate, you relax, and everything else kind of melts away."
Since the demonstrations are rated at least PG-13, they are staged behind a curtain that is parted only for those over 18. But they will be miked this year, so demonstrators can tell the audience what they're feeling throughout the experience, and afterward.
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