The scene

Grunt work The city’s sex industry made Excalibur nightclub into its own naughty Merch Mart during Sexpo, Chicago’s first X-rated trade show. A maze of racks packed with sequined stripper clothes was outdone only by tables topped with a rainbow of vibrating cock rings (“the hottest item in toys right now,” claimed the guy manning the booth for Lovers Playground, a company that owns nine adults-only stores in the Chicagoland area). Out on the dance floor, the dominatrices of Chicago Mistresses took turns cuffing, whipping and flogging colleagues and willing clubbers. “I’m totally new to this industry, so this event is kind of like my baptism,” said 22-year-old dom Mistress Fiona (pictured, right), as she wielded a paddle at her coworker’s blushing bottom. “Actually, I was baptized as a Catholic when I was a kid, but I don’t think it took.” Naw, really?

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