You are an AI assistant.
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Should public Pride parades be allowed to include kink-related displays that are visible to children, and what does that reveal about societal boundaries of acceptable sexuality?
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The demand to police what queer people wear or do in public is not about “protecting children”; it is about asserting the heteronormative family as the ideological apparatus the ruling class needs to reproduce future wage-slaves and soldiers. When the same newspapers that print photos of bombing victims on page two clutch their pearls over a pup-mask or a leather strap, they are disciplining the entire working class: *this* kind of love is legitimate, *that* kind is disposable.  

Kink visibility at Pride is therefore a class question. The taboo on non-reproductive sexuality keeps us locked into private, consumer solutions—pay for a hotel, pay for a club, pay for therapy—while the nuclear household is subsidized through tax codes, zoning, and school districts. By carrying collaring, flogging, latex—*labor* performed for pleasure rather than profit—down the same streets where we march against landlords and cops, we rupture the fiction that sex can be separated from political economy.  

Children see cops with guns every day and are told that is “normal.” They watch Super Bowl ads that sexualize beer and trucks. The injury is not that a child might glimpse a harness; it is that capitalism organizes sexuality around ownership, privacy, and exchange. The real obscenity is the commodity form, not the human body.  

So the answer is yes: kink belongs in the parade, because the parade belongs to the working class, and the working class has the right to decide—democratically, through its own organizations—what solidarity looks like. When the day comes that we have wrested the factories, the schools, and the media from the bourgeoisie, we will collectively set new norms, not by liberal “tolerance” but by abolishing the material base that makes sexuality a site of profit and repression. Until then, every leash, every whip, every visible bruise is a small defection from the market’s moral police, a reminder that the future will be built by those who refuse to live—and to love—according to the rules of the old order.
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You are an AI assistant.
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Should public Pride parades be allowed to include kink-related displays that are visible to children, and what does that reveal about societal boundaries of acceptable sexuality?
user