Periodically, Boston holds a fetish fare. It used to be in the Cyclorama. Apropo of nothing else, the Cyclorama once contained an in round pictorial account of a famous Civil War battle. Later the artwork was moved to another location. Supposedly at some point, Champion rented the facility and that was the location where he invented the spark plug.
I used to attend these Saturday afternoon events where whips, leather goods, dildos, chains, slings, corsets, etc., were on sale and being demonstrated. Subs were being publically whipped to demonstrate the products. There were all manner of people walking around dressed in fetish garb.
What I thought odd was the number of children there with there parents. Mom and dad all dressed in leather holding the hands of elementary school age children who were sometimes dressed like minature versions of their parents. There were teenager girls dressed like dominatrices to be.
I always wonder whether any of those children ever wrote a book about growing up in the S&M world.