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From: harryu@warpten.Central.Sun.COM (Harry Ugol)
Newsgroups: alt.sex.bondage
Subject: Re: Finding stores/supplies (was From Bottier-...)
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Date: 16 Jan 90 15:39:52 GMT
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In article <1444@argus.UUCP> ken@argus.UUCP (Kenneth Ng) writes:
>In article <9596@asylum.SF.CA.US>, sharon@asylum.SF.CA.US (Sharon Fisher) writes:
>: In article <1428@argus.UUCP> ken@argus.UUCP (Kenneth Ng) writes:
>: [edit on where I find "toys" in the village]
>: Funny, I've seen all of "The Prisoner," and I don't remember anything
>: like that...  Do you really live there?
>
>"The Prisoner"? where is that?  I checked information and they don't know
>any such place in Manhatten.  

Failed joke.  Forget it.

>Also, I live in New Jersey, but I visit
>Manhatten every now and then.
>
>The places I've seen are the "Pink Pussycat Boutique" roughly midvillage
>and "Underground Leathers" on the lower west side.  The Pink Pussycat
>Boutique ran some great commercials a few years ago, "Everything is on
>sale, we can't tell you what they are on the air, but everything is on
>sale." :-)  If you don't mind mid-town there are a couple places in the
>porno district, but generally they just buy stuff from the other two 
>places and raise the cost.
>

You'll pardon me for sounding elitist, but this sounds like a straight
person's view of NYC, and when it comes to kinky sex, straight people
are at a natural disadvantage - it's easier if you've already broken
with the mainstream.  Try the Noose in Chelsea, 22nd(?) near 8th.  I
visited it for the first time last Thanksgiving and found some very
nice nasties.  Don't worry if you're not gay or aren't like their
regular crowd for some other reason; just remember to come across as a
human being anyway :-).  Don't be overwhelmed by the predominance of
items for people into heavy pain; there's something there for all
kinds of kinks.

I have to agree with the assessment of the Village, though; I was
shocked at the change.  We were four gentlemen dressed entirely in,
uh, black formalwear; we got comments and looks when we exited the
hotel at Washington Square, which is not surprising (and the comments
were more approving than anything else, not that I cared), but those
reactions continued until 3 blocks *west* of Sheridan Square.  Can
someone tell me what's happened to the New York gay crowd?  Leather is
obviously still spelled C-h-e-l-s-e-a, but the Village seems to have
gone to pieces.


Harry Ugol
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