@socalgecko I couldn’t help but be curious what he had to say about the experience. For anyone else wondering, let me save you the trouble of climbing over the paywall:

Cruised a leather gay bar.

My gay son offered to take me to a gay bar. I asked him what I should wear, and he said, “Leather, if you want to be hit on.” I’m 60, not dead—of course I wanted to be hit on! At the bar, I met a “pup”—someone who puts on a dog mask for his “owner” partner—and soon this pup was philosophizing about life and the freedom of letting go by, say, eating dinner out of a bowl on the floor. Safe to say, that was a point of view I’d never been exposed to before. I liked that!

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