Tied Up By Other People’s Kinks
5 min readMay 27, 2021
Somebody’s kink may feel perfectly normal to them. Somebody else could be so embarrassed by their kink that they hide — and deny — all evidence of its existence. Stumbling onto someone’s kink can be an otherworldly experience, especially when you’re 11-to-13 years old and trying to navigate your own burgeoning sexuality.
Back in the 1970s, my friend Jimmy coaxed me into the Boy Scouts (for a brief period of…