My family is staying with me during their visit to Seattle. There have been some awkward conversations.
I have told my family that I participate in bdsm. I have discussed my custom dungeon as a shibari studio. I have intentionally handed my unlocked iPhone to my parents with the bondage-show-and-tell gallery open. I intentionally left the books Complete Shibari and Male Bondage on the coffee table during previous visits.
But it is discussed as engineering, art, and hobby. My bdsm is not discussed about sex.
All things considered, I think this is a comfortable equilibrium.
But this made the discussion of the bondage demonstration on the recon stage at IML a little awkward. My parents are career academics. So I had understood that they viewed the demonstration as akin to presenting a paper at an academic conference.
I told them my rough estimates of the size of the audience. I told them about general differences that I saw between my demonstration and other demonstrations at IML. I told them about how I felt before, during, and after my presentation. I told them that I was trying for a dynamic erotic theme. I mentioned some of my critical self-evaluation. I did say that I had performed the demonstration wearing only a jock-strap and boots.
I never said the words "bondage for sex".
