Does location matter for BDSM

tr65

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I was just curious if any one region had more practitioners of BDSM than another. In NY, a museum of sex opens next week and some of the remarks concerning it are that New Yorkers are always first with everything. I don't particularly believe this but was curious as to the number or estimated amount of BDSM being practiced in the northeast vs say the west coast or the midwest vs the south.

Or is it just spread out all over?

Any thoughts?
 
Spread out is the right term, I believe.

:)

I think if you researched it you'd find NYC and SanFran have large pockets of BDSM lifestylers.

Then again, the same goes for almost anything you could mention I suppose.

Urban centers attract more "deviance" of all kinds due to the enhanced anonymity, I'd suggest.

Lance
 
Absolutely

The bigger the city, the more diversity. The more diversity there is, the more tolerance you will encounter, which means that a greater number of people will be kinky. ;-)

I found that there were much greater opportunities for kink and swing parties, conventions, etc, both public and private, in Los Angeles, than in Reno.
 
What about "speciality" towns? By this I mean, towns that are very popular with a specific crowd. For example, Provincetown, MA is HUGE with the gay community. During the summer this town is basically overrun with gay men and women. There are obviously several other towns like this. I can just imagine the same is true for the BDSM community. I would think with such a high concentration of "kink" in one small area, you'd see just about every and anything you can imagine.

Thoughts?

PBW
 
Here in San Francisco they just had the Folsom Street Festival... they estimate 300,000 people show up for that over the weekend.. although i'm sure a good number of those are from out of town... It's typically thought of as the biggest BDSM-type festival in the city.. (and it is an event in which you pretty much see anything and everything)

I think more so than any one region being more kinked than another, it has to do with the coasts attacting certain types of people... I'm sure it also has to do with the law of large numbers... more population = more kink
 
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