More noise for leather boys

SO HERE WE have a San Francisco group called the Stop AIDS Project, partially funded by the Centers for Disease Control. The Stop AIDS Project has organized a series of classes, some of them with provocative titles like "Great Sex," "Sex Toys for Leather Boys" and "A Walk on the Wild Side."

Now, of course, it could have called the classes "Opportunities in Recreation" or "Some Devices of Interest to Processed-Cowhide Hobbyists" or "Toward an Ethnology of Post-Native Cultures Along the Pacific Flyway," but probably it wanted to attract as big an audience as possible.

Why? Remember: Human suffering bad.