I'm going to throw a topic out there fairly briefly for once and keep most of my own thoughts to myself for now. The topic is when humiliation becomes public, I've noticed a lot of subs are excited by this, and yet it's one of the kinky activities I have most doubts about - even though I happen to be a great fan of humiliation play in general.

First a clarification: when I say public I mean chiefly vanilla public, things happening among us perverts are more simple in this department.

Now there's a lot of general issues about humiliation, safety-messures to keep in mind, things to do in order to ensure the well-being of the consenting victim and that is not what I would like to discuss here. Of course there are extra things to keep in mind when the humiliation is public, but they are of the same sort, and discussed in threads like this:
http://www.bdsmlibrary.com/forums/sh...or-Humiliation

But since the humiliation is happening in public, among nilla peoples, what about their safety and consent?

Obviously public humiliation has to be about the consenting victim, about what goes on with her (/him) - if it's about distressing a lot of innocent bystanders I think it's basically forreign to the concept of SSC. But the charm of the publicity is the risk of being found out, of others noticing you're robbed of your dignity... the fact that others who have not asked for it will see you being treated like a slave/whoretoy/cumbucket/etc.

Now I can see some small humiliations like the 'wearing unmatched clothes' mentioned in the thread I linked and so on is not a problem. Perhaps the 'smelling of sex' or 'wearing a toy' is also so much in the subs own mind rather than the public that it's not much of an issue. But where do we draw the line?

Is it in general acceptable to involve others in our play like this?

While general debate is encouraged examples and tips may be lovely as well.