New Podcast! Sir Robert Helms, NLA-I President

New Podcast! Sir Robert Helms, NLA-I President

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I’ve been on a bit of a hiatus, but the podcast is back! In this interview I sit down with my dear friend Sir Robert Helms to discuss the National Leather Association International and their goals to support and advance leather in North America. During the conversation we dive into topics such as the newer … Continue reading »

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Play, Dammit!

Play, Dammit!

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I’ve spent a great deal of time over the past year being a good listening ear for my friends as they navigate their way in the community. A great majority of them are either producers of contests and events, or titleholders…and sadly, there appears to be an abundance of seriousness and resignation with all of … Continue reading »

World AIDS Day

World AIDS Day

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I will never forget the day I found out my status. I had never thought that I would actually contract HIV, given how careful I was. But not only was I poz…I had full blown AIDS. I had gone for years not bothering to get tested…I was in a monogamous relationship, and he kept testing … Continue reading »

Wounds

Wounds

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Perhaps not the happiest title of a blog entry, but one I feel necessary to speak openly about as a leatherman and a human being. By ‘wounds’ I’m not referring to the decorative welts or cutting marks that are shown off with pride after a heavy play session with a sadistic top. I’m actually talking … Continue reading »

Transition

Transition

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Perhaps a better title to this posting would be ‘evolution’…simply because that is what we do as human beings in everything we do.  I like it as a word too because there is an element of optimal change and growth associated with it. In life it becomes all too easy to look at the transitions … Continue reading »

Teaching in Ireland

Teaching in Ireland

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Early in the year I had the unique pleasure of presenting in Dublin for Ireland’s gay men’s leather BDSM organization, RULE (Rubber-Uniform-Leather-Event). As the group is slowly establishing its place in the international community, they are expanding their endeavors by conducting educational demos and workshops. The event consisted of a 3 hour introduction to bondage … Continue reading »

Jump

Jump

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About 15 years ago, I participated in an ultimate thrill seeking rush. A group of friends asked me to join them in the Mojave Desert…to go skydiving. To this day I still consider it to be one of the most intense endorphin rushes I have ever experienced, far more than anything I’ve done in a … Continue reading »

About the Scorpion

About the Scorpion

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Yesterday I was very saddened by some news that a dear friend – who I consider to be a very honorable Canadian leatherman – shared with me. After much consideration and trial, he had to de-collar one of his four boys and release him at the boy’s request. The boy was not getting along with … Continue reading »

Protection

Protection

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I am at a point in my leather journey (good lord that’s an opener that is so incredibly overused – but I digress) where I have come to realize something very simple and basic…yet something incredibly easy to forget.  And that is that in leather, and in life, love equals protection…and it’s something we all … Continue reading »