The goth club where I like to hang out sometimes hosts vac bed demonstrations, courtesy of a local latex vendor. Everyone seems to have fun trying it out, and/or feeling up their SOs who are trying it out. It is exciting to get a look at all the local hotties in such a helpless position.

I've always been a little bit resistant to doing one of the demos (they charge $1) because after carefully picking out slimming black clothes that hide my flabby places, the last thing I want to do is let everyone see me in vacuum-packed form. The other thing that gave me pause was something a friend of mine said: "Imagine how much you'd sweat if you were in one of those for a while... you know the way your skin feels after you take off a band-aid? What if your whole body felt like that?"