Source: English.elpais.com.
USA – Just as sex shops have gone from being hidden, dark corners to bright stores with show windows, the world of bondage, submission and sadomasochism is also coming out of the dungeons into the light
The room is filled with people dressed in leather and latex. They wear harnesses and chains; some sport collars with a ring and others pull on a leash in their hands. On one of the walls there is a large X, a Saint Andrew’s cross. In another stands a throne-like armchair, and, a little further on, a person-sized cage. From the ceiling hang hooks to tie ropes. Even the uninitiated observer can infer that this is a space for BDSM, an acronym for Bondage, Domination-Discipline, Submission-Sadism, Masochism, a set of sexual practices that include the transfer of power from one person to another. BDSM has long been considered alternative and underground, but it has begun to enter the mainstream.
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