One of the biggest kink festivals in the world filled the streets of SoMa with whips, chains and public displays of BDSM.
Source: SFstandard.com
USA – SAN FRANCISCO – There’s leather, latex, hardware, puppy masks, leashes, fur-suits, and nude bodies as far as the eye can see. Dance music, chatter, and the sound of wrestlers slamming onto a stage fill the air. The aroma of street meat (no pun intended) mixes, at least at one venue, with the scent of piss.
It’s the Folsom Street Fair, one of the world’s largest kink festivals that on Sunday celebrated its 41st year since launching as a protest against gentrification.
At 11:30 a.m., the streets were still quiet but the music was already bumping. Onlookers in various states of nudity enjoyed the dance moves of four performers, two of whom were in cages, at the DJ & Gogo Stage.
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