Kink...stopper

Last night I attended a "Kinkstarter" fundraiser cabaret for [elided]'s upcoming debut musical Dogboy & Justine. I'm going to miss the production (one weekend only, when I'll be away), but chuckro has been hyping evangelizing it :-) and he and jethrien were performing in the cabaret last night, so I wanted to make sure to go.

It was on the whole a fun night (despite my missing the whole first set, due to getting there late and then not being able to figure out the secret back staircase that led to the event space!). Lots of good performances, including from teddyleevin as well as the above, and it was fun to see mnemex and drcpunk there.

However, it brought home to me one of the same points as did seeing Venus in Fur (which, being David Ives, was lighter and smarter than I walked in expecting, and then also surprisingly complex) with justom this past weekend, which is: that I have built up a certain amount of baggage regarding all things BDSM, a kind of knee-jerk negativity, if you will, based on one or two specific past relationships. I will be glad to say more about that, but now is not the time (and a public entry is not the place ;-) -- so consider this a placeholder.