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As a Chicagoan, I must protest the characterization of the bondage and domination community as located only in "some parts of San Francisco and New York." Is the author unaware of the National Mr. Leather competition, which takes place right here in The City of The Big Shoulders? Not to mention the thriving local dominatrix industry, which stretches back to the days of the fabled Everleigh Club (where the heir to the Marshall Field department store fortune is said to have expired from excess excitement during a session with one of Ms. Palin's 19th century predecessors). And if you need further evidence of the robust presence of pathological masochism here in the heatrland, I offer to you the fan base of The Chicago Cubs.
