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Not quite the target demographic.<\/p>\n<p><small>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghostofaflea.com\/archives\/001087.html\">GoaF<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In some ways&#8217; it&#8217;s just the opposite of the PETA campaign, in other ways it&#8217;s part of the same &#8220;shock &#8217;em to get attention.&#8221; I&#8217;m sure that someone at Abercrombie&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-business"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4205,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/01\/18\/when_interest_g.html","url_meta":{"origin":4838,"position":0},"title":"When Interest Groups Collide!","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 18-Jan-03 4:43pm","format":false,"excerpt":"In this corner, I give you Gay Leather Fetishists. 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