San Francisco is known for their street festivals. From Lovefest to Bay to Breakers this city will find any occasion to party in the streets with anybody and everybody! Folsom street fair is not unlike the typical San Francisco street festival. Although it does have a darker undertone which makes it more about whips and chains, than teens getting drunk in American Apparel body suits. This festival is put on by the leather community on Folsom Street, which usually occurs the last Sunday in September. The Folsom street fair is the largest BDSM festival in the world. What exactly is BDSM? It stands for bondage, discipline/dominance, submission/sadism, and masochism. Basically, it is translated into deriving pleasure from pain. Upon arriving at the festival, I am engulfed in a culture that I have never been a part of. Even though I do not practice BDSM, I can appreciate any community that has a core sense of family.
Crazy things that I saw would include a man who had reconstructive surgery to look like a pig. It was unbelievable. It made me think that he altered his body to probably work in the BDSM pornography world and he is probably known as the "pig guy". It was not uncommon to see naked people, but besides being naked there were sex acts happening in the street. It was not uncommon to see men in leather grabbing other men's penis'.
This is definitely not a festival to bring the family to. It is very raw and you will probably see many things that will make you uncomfortable. With that being said, if you feel inclined to experience things outside the box and attend the world's largest BDSM festival... GO FOR IT! Even though I am personally not interested in getting gagged and whipped, it is entertaining and will open your eyes. Plus, it's always interesting to see people being so free with their sexuality and sharing it with the festival goers.
Great report! Lots of penis grabbin.... Thank GOD i didn't see "Pig Guy." Keep it funky ; D
ReplyDeleteLast year's Folsom Street Fair was the very first festival I had ever been to in San Francisco. My friend didn't even tell me where we were going and I just noticed I started seeing a lot of people in leather as we got closer to the fair. I feel I can relate when you said that you weren't into that kind of stuff but it was just interesting to see how much fun people where having just being themselves at the fair. It was a kind of weird but very unique experience.
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