Have an upvote. Unpopular opinion time: This has been my experience too. I have seen too many leaders/presenters/event managers do this exact thing. Maybe I’m just jaded after 5+ years of seeing this in various communities on the East Coast.
When I started out, I never understood why someone wouldn’t want to be part of the kink community. Now that I have spent a significant amount of time in the community, I completely understand why some folks just do what they like with their partners behind closed doors. It’s too hard to watch this pattern play out over and over and over.
Once a predator is engrained in your community, it’s nearly impossible to dethrone them. And then we ask ourselves to choose: Do we kick this person out to protect our community, or in doing so do we put more vulnerable people at risk by forcing them to operate in the shadows, with no one to police them?