Sunday, May 3, 2009

Making fetish wear in Pakistan

There are many good bits in this one; you can find the whole thing at the NYT.

Here is just one:
Today, they sell their products to online and brick-and-mortar shops, and to individuals via eBay. Their market research, they said, showed that 70 percent of their customers were middle- to upper-class Americans, and a majority of them Democrats. The Netherlands and Germany account for the bulk of their European sales.
Of course, there are important similarities between a good bondage session and being subject to higher marginal tax rates.