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We Live in Packs: In San Francisco, the dogs are very out. (NYT alert)
New York Times ^ | April 26, 2019 | Blake Montgomery

Posted on 04/30/2019 11:18:55 AM PDT by reaganaut1

SAN FRANCISCO — Men are dogs, some more so than others.

There are those, for example, who wear puppy hoods, harnesses, chain collars and tails while out and about. Sometimes they appear in packs. While hardly as mainstream as walking the red carpet with kink-adjacent accouterments, dressing up doggy style has become more visible in San Francisco and beyond.

Puppy play enthusiasts are part of a larger community interested in bondage, dominance, sadism and masochism, collectively known as B.D.S.M. Participants primarily consider it a form of sexual role play, because they get to act like puppies — friendly, frisky, often nonverbal — and gain pleasure from doing so. Adherents, lots of whom are young gay men, adopt pet names: Pups named Turbo, Wonkey, Level, Twitch, Trigger, Cakes, Amp and Mowgli spoke to me for this story.

“You stop using words and start communicating in growls. It’s really fun,” said Phillip Hammack, 42, a University of California Santa Cruz psychology professor who goes by Pup Turbo. “You’re disconnecting from the human side of thinking about every little thing you’re doing. You’re being instinctual and playful.”

Jason, a 27-year-old entrepreneur in Boulder, Colo., who goes by Pup Level, said that pup play has accentuated the tendencies he had before he began practicing it. He said his puppy gear allows him to “be more who I am.” (The Times agreed to not use his last name to prevent professional consequences.)

“I was always nuzzling and whimpering like a puppy,” he said. “Sometimes words are hard to assemble in the right way to express emotions. If I’m feeling lonely or sad about something, and I’m cuddling next to my partner, I’ll give him a whimper and a nuzzle to engage him.”

Jason described himself as an “emotional support puppy.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; homosexuals; sanfrancisco
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Are you allowed to call anything a perversion any more?
1 posted on 04/30/2019 11:18:55 AM PDT by reaganaut1
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SMOD oh SMOD, please plop down on the Golden Gate.


2 posted on 04/30/2019 11:21:22 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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Yet another reason on a growing list to not visit San Fran.


3 posted on 04/30/2019 11:22:40 AM PDT by BBQToadRibs
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Would you believe that the NYT was once regarded as a serious newspaper?


4 posted on 04/30/2019 11:22:52 AM PDT by Interesting Times (WinterSoldier.com. SwiftVets.com. ToSetTheRecordStraight.com.)
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If God doesn’t destroy San Francisco at some point, He owes Sodom and Gamorah apologies.


5 posted on 04/30/2019 11:23:47 AM PDT by SENTINEL (Kneel down to God. Stand up to tyrants. STICK TO YOUR GUNS !)
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Imagine how hard it must be to own a real dog in San Francisco. You couldn’t walk it outside.


6 posted on 04/30/2019 11:24:39 AM PDT by cnsmom
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The canine polite butt sniff.


7 posted on 04/30/2019 11:26:32 AM PDT by grobdriver (BUILD KATE'S WALL!)
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Its people like this that make me wish for the big reset event.


8 posted on 04/30/2019 11:26:43 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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Apparently, the author considered all of this to be quite normal. In saner times, a good journalist would have spoken to several psychiatrists to find out what the underlying mental issues were involving all this.


9 posted on 04/30/2019 11:26:53 AM PDT by Kazan
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My husband is my emotional support puppy— he flies free and everything is 2 for one? = D


10 posted on 04/30/2019 11:27:17 AM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheelbarrow)
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Welcome to ‘New Weimar’...watch your step.


11 posted on 04/30/2019 11:28:28 AM PDT by glasseye ("24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? I think not." ~ H. L. Mencken)
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At least they have diversity.

12 posted on 04/30/2019 11:29:41 AM PDT by chief lee runamok (expect nothing)
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What a plum assignment for a New York Slimes reporter! Ha!! All expenses paid to the sex pervert capitol of the Pacific. ( complete with tons of shiit on the streets, if he’s into that sort of thing?) He either loved or hated this assignment, ha! There’s no in between. ( at least it’s one thing in the Ny slimes today that isn’t anti- Trump or anti- Semitic )


13 posted on 04/30/2019 11:30:02 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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The article is doing it doggy style.


14 posted on 04/30/2019 11:30:16 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Lying Media: willing and eager allies of the hate-America left.)
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Apparently supporting Israel is one.


15 posted on 04/30/2019 11:30:19 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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IBT pic of Beto in the furry costume!


16 posted on 04/30/2019 11:32:27 AM PDT by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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They aren’t mentally ill?


17 posted on 04/30/2019 11:32:51 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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Have you heard the news?
The dogs are dead
You better stay home
And do as you’re told
Get out of the road if you want to grow old

Pink Floyd - Sheep (from ‘Animals’)


18 posted on 04/30/2019 11:34:56 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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See.....aside from the human crap and used needles on the sidewalk, this is why I can’t take my young impressionable black lab to San Francisco. He has no idea just how filthy, depraved and disgusting some humans can be. I don’t want him to ever find out.


19 posted on 04/30/2019 11:35:16 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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Somebody needs to make a LOT more STRAIGHT JACKETS! Half of a CITY NEEDS them!


20 posted on 04/30/2019 11:55:52 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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