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1. Leather Daddies
Chaps-clad fetishists have whipped on in for the International Mr. Leather contest since 1979.
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2. Zombie Boobs
Night of the Stripping Dead, an event at the Admiral Theatre, tries to make reanimation sexy.
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3. Philanthropic S&M
The nonprofit kink club Galleria Domain 2 advocates free expression through sex.
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4. Catholics
That’s Chicago-born sex columnist Dan Savage’s take: “There’s a lot of repression.”