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San Francisco BDSM Dungeon Remains Open During COVID-19 Scare
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A San Francisco BDSM parlor called The Gates stays open to the
public despite the Covid-19 health scare. Apparently taking the
Corona scare under advisement, the home page for bondage and
fantasy house brings you directly to a COVID-19 Update.
“Many of the providers that use our space want to continue
seeing their clients, either during their normally scheduled office
hours, or by special arrangement on days that they are not on our
posted schedule.”
This “premier house of bondage and fantasy” which has been
open since 1994 claims that during this global pandemic, “our
mission remains unchanged.”
The bondage house continues to operate at a time when businesses
and their employees all over the country are suffering from
restrictions placed on what some in government call non-essential
businesses.
Very much like the flu, the coronavirus is most commonly
transmitted through respiratory droplets that contain the virus.
While these droplets are too big to linger in the air, they can
remain on any surface. According to new research compiled by
National Institutes of Health, Princeton University and UCLA this,
the virus can still live in the air for up to three hours, and
contaminated droplets can live on surfaces for up to three
days.
The owner and proprietor of the Gates SF, known as Mistress
Sage, says that these are not problems for the BDSM Dungeon, and
that they will be “expanding” bio-containment policies
effective immediately.”
Mistress Sage claims to have taken on a vigorous sanitation
regimen in order to keep her bondage dungeon operational, aiming to
evade the spread of COVID-19 by: disinfecting all doorknobs, light
switches, equipment and surfaces in session rooms; having guests
wash their hands before and after sessions; halting the “wet body
worship” or “spitting scenes”, suspending the use of
non-machine washable gags, and asking symptomatic customers to
remain at home.
Brothels and Sex Dungeons everywhere have been trying to find
loopholes for social distancing by providing online services, or
requesting donations to keep their sex workers financially stable
during the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite these efforts by the sex work
industry, The Gates SF decided to leave their doors wide open.
Laws governing the BDSM industry are a bit “murky,”
according to one aficionado who writes at Evilleeye.com. The
mistresses over at The Gates offer many services that are still
categorized as assault and battery including “whipping” and
“various forms of torture.”
For many years the state of California has been easing up on
their laws surrounding the transmission of communicable disease.
Particularly in 2018 under SB 239 California updated its HIV
transmission laws to decriminalize the act of knowingly spreading
the to a healthy partner without their knowledge.
Although this law doesn’t apply to sex workers, The Gates is
one particular establishment that wouldn’t attract legal
ramifications as they outwardly advertise that all contracted sex
workers do not preform any acts of penetration.
According to the most recent updates from the New York Times,
the Bay Area, which is also home to the Gates, has the highest
concentration of confirmed cases in California.
Due to the anonymity of patrons of The Gates, it is impossible
to track if or how many COVID-19 transmissions occur in their BDSM
dungeon. Since the COVID-19 virus can remain transmissible for days
after contamination and the symptoms don’t develop from five –
14 days, sex workers could possibly be catching the virus and
spreading it to their clients for up to two weeks before the call
into work sick.
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San Francisco BDSM Dungeon Remains Open During COVID-19 Scare
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