It was harrowing and embarrassing for me. Which was the point. To get me to confront those feelings, control them in public, and walk tall.

I should add, many community kinksters these days would consider a public display like that to have violated everyone else on the street because they didn’t consent to see it. But back then (late 90s), the kink community didn’t hold such views.

I think that’s a North American thing, because just before Covid I saw a leached woman being walked along the Champs Elysees in Paris. Nobody batted an eye. Lol