Erotica

January, 1976

It's Saturday night and we're at the Rodger Young Center in downtown Los Angeles, where the Santa Monica and Harbor freeways join in smoggy embrace above a neighborhood of warehouses and funeral parlors. (About 50 years ago, the city fathers exiled the funeral parlors to special districts and there they have remained.) The occasion is the First Annual Bondage, Leather, Fetish, Inquisition and Masquerade Party, sponsored by a newspaper called Fetish Times. The advertising circular promises demons...