"ICYMI":Folsom Street Fair stresses consent amid leather and BDSM(Photos at link, but tamish)

sfgate.com ^ | 10/1/2018 | Kimberly Veklerov

[rktman]

Organizers of the Folsom Street Fair, San Francisco’s famed fetish festival, took new measures this year to educate attendees — especially sightseers and gawkers — on the subject of consent.

“Gear doesn’t mean consent. What you’re wearing doesn’t mean consent. An enthusiastic ‘yes’ means consent,” said Edwin Morales, president of the Folsom Street Events board.

For poet Maryann Leilani Wood, 42, “the playground,” a fenced-off area for women as well as transgender and gender-nonconforming individuals, was invaluable. Everyone was welcome in the zone except cis-men, or those who were assigned the male gender at birth and still identify that way.

[rktman]

And for others, there was Street Vibrations chock full of motorcycles in Reno this weekend. Guess I'm just more of a #NOTme2 kind of person. Photos and videos at link. Also, looks like I was "assigned" as a male at birth and still ID that way. I'm such a dinosaur. LOL!

[gaijin]

PUBICLY, they pee on one another. Fellatio, again, completely in the open, is a thing at this event.

The SFPD is on scene, fully understands, does nothing, and is SEEN doing nothing about all this.

TWO SETS OF RULES.

[bk1000]

Will normal people rise up and put an end to this?

Rhetorical question. Probably not.

[rktman]

I've seen Zombies photo essay of this den of depravity. But they claim it's all consensual. Guess the sfpd is there to protect the pervs from "gawkers". 👎🏼

[null and void]

I’m glad I no longer live in California.

[rktman]

Last time I lived there was 1956. Wasn't bad then. 👹

[areukiddingme1]

Is law enforcement wearing HAZMAT suits...Man, I would not want to be anywhere near that freak show...The smell alone would knock a buzzard off a $hit wagon.

[NorthMountain]

Everyone was welcome in the zone except cis-men

That's SEXIST!!!

[Chode]

FDRQ delenda est...

[gaijin]

Until 5 or so years ago, SF city law featured an anomaly:

Wearing clothes —any clothes— in public is NOT required. You can be completely nude on Fisherman’s Wharf or Union Square and the cops couldn’t do anything about it.

So you would see sexy, fit young chicks nude, right?

NEVER.

It was ALWAYS disgusting older (usually) white guys, usually with weird tattoos and piercings.

[null and void]

Ah! You must be a racist...

[null and void]

Remember that to a gay man, sex really does smell like $hit...

[rktman]

Grand events such as the naked bike ride? Hmmmm. Any sign of Chris blasey ford there? Doing psych research of course.

[rktman]

I used to participate in quarter mile adventures, so, yes, racist in that sense. 🤔👹👍🏼

[null and void]

It’s never the ones you want to see nekid.

[null and void]

Well played

[rktman]

Thanks. God willing, I'll be here all week. 😹

[Hot Tabasco]

Sorry, ain't going to any website about Folsom st......been there once and that was more than enough.

I think God ran out of sulfur when He destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah....

[elcid1970]

The gals you do want to see nekkid know what they’ve got, and it don’t come free!

[JimRed]

Real men forbidden zone? Don’t the queers prefer real men?