It seems I still have a lot to learn

This morning, I passed by (note: passed) the Pleasure Palace (Place?) in North Dupont, and their window display, with the leather-clad mannequin, caught my eye, and then I saw a small box next to it. It advertised itself as a "Bondage Starter Kit" and tried to seal the deal with the slogan, "Show no mercy!"

Now, being a stranger to the bondage world, it seems a little wrong to me you would start out by not holding back. Isn't that what makes beginner bondage? A little mercy? It just seems to me that, if you've just started down the bondage road, you'd want to hold back a little, and that the absolute abscence of mercy is the stuff of advanced, experienced bondage-lovers.

Sometimes I wonder about us as a people.