If two Broadway shows, Lady Gaga,  and Rhianna's music videos, and Daphne Merkin's sexual confessions in The New Yorker magazine that she enjoyed being spanked, didn't prove that S&M had gone mainstream in New York hipsterville, then the photograph of the East Village apartment closet of the actress/designer/hipster icon Chloe Sevigny in this Sunday's New York Times definitely proves it. You may have to paste the link below in your browser, but do so. Ignore the article and just focus on the blouse and dominatrix leather harness, including "O" ring for insertion of strap-on dildo, hanging from the doorknob of the opened closet on the lower right hand side of the photograph. Ladies and gentlemen, S&M is mainstream in NY!!! As mainstream as a tatoo.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/03/fashion/chloe-sevigny-an-it-girl-now-a-woman-but-still-defining-fashion.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=chloe%20sevigny&st=cse

Rotary night in Des Moines, next?