April 15, 2021, 11:24 a.m.

I'm not a leather belt fetishist, but...

Sub Missives

One of the oddest sexual attractions of my life occurred in a Value Village thrift store when I was 15.

I was perusing the aisles, scouting out cute vintage items, as I did on a near-weekly basis at that point. I looked at cowboy boots, silk scarves, cotton dresses. Vinyl records, cracked homewares, tattered paperbacks. Nothing in particular caught my eye.

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