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My beloved visited me this weekend. As the weather was nice and we hadn’t been in a while, we went to South Street. Brief history- In Colonial times, there were many restrictions on the sale of alcohol within city limits. So, just south of city limits people set up a street full of bars and taverns that were free from those restrictions. For a long time, South street was just another bad neighnorhood. Then, it was revitalized into a wonderful place of diverse restaurants and odd stores.
One of those stores is Passional. Passional sells various sex toys, fetish equipment, offers various classes, and has a bunch of fetish clothing on the second floor. While we were up there, I was stunned to see not one but two neatly printed charts giving the most varied and most detailed version of the hanky code I have ever seen. I should have thought to take out my phone and snap photographs. I did not for two reasons. I was in shock. I thought the hanky code had gone the way of cursive writing. I thought you just checked the appropriate boxes on Grindr or Tindr and met that way. Also, while the hanky code charts were not immediately obvious, the big signs prohibiting photography and video were.
Ah well, we’ll probably go back to South street in the spring.