A Night at the Holiday Inn: Kink, Community, and Finding Connection in Suburban New Jersey
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Sophie Abromowitz
Summary
A first-person narrative recounting the author's experience at a BDSM/kink event held at a Holiday Inn in New Jersey. The piece weaves together personal anecdotes (including a past public urination ticket and near sex-offender registry incident) with observations about the leather and kink community gathering. It explores themes of friendship, legacy, identity, and subculture, framed through the lens of a specific, gritty event in an unlikely suburban setting.
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DefectorA Night at the Holiday Inn: Kink, Community, and Finding Connection in Suburban New Jerseydefector.comKey quotes
· 3 pulledIn 2011, a Princeton Borough police officer gave me a public urination ticket as I was on my way to go drinking.
It took her a little while to find her stream, but she got there.
I was reminded about that while watching a femme top squat over a girl lying across a storm drain in the courtyard of a Holiday Inn in central Jersey.
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