Don't Pack Your S&M Whip In Your Carry On

Hey, here's a piece of advice from experience: if you're on the way back from the sex conference next year, it may be wise to check the bag with all your condoms, lube, and S&M gear...

This photographer (who blogs) didn't give a shit. In fact, he almost hoped something would happen once his bag passed through the X-ray machine...

I watch her face as she digs through the cuffs, the latex straps, the blindfold, the ziplock bag with condoms, rubber gloves and lube, the ziplock bag with miscellaneous nipple clamps, butt plug, and so forth, Mark Chester's wonderful spandex full-body bondage bag (if you don't have one, you should...), the wonderful soft leather scratch gloves with the sharp metal points scattered across the palm and fingers. Her face stays 100% deadpan throughout, an impressive show of professionalism.

Other departing passengers flow by, pick up their unoffending bags, taking various levels of note of the assorted toys the security guard has out on the little table. There was a time when I would have been unbearably embarrassed to have my personal sex toys -- my sexual taste -- laid out for anyone in the Seattle airport to see...

Read what happens next...