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Ignorance = Freedom
On Sunday, September 5th, 2010, I got hit in the face with an epiphany about my journey in Leather, in slavery, that shifted my paradigm, re-routed a stifling blockage of self-pity, and enabled me to take back a part of me that felt broken and damaged. It was a massive reset. I was…
Read MoreLeather Reign 2010…my keynote speech.
I’ve been invited to do keynotes at Leather / Kink events a handful of times, and as someone who doesn’t really believe in writing speeches, this always throws me into a blind panic. Yes, one of my own making but I personally challenge myself to life up to the challenge of what speeches are, IMO,…
Read MoreAccepting your submissive self.
Some anonymous person asked me the following on Formspring…and I felt more like talking to them rather than writing about it. Admitting my submissive side is one of the hardest things that’s happened to me. I don’t know what to think or do with myself anymore. I wonder if it’s a result of past sexual…
Read MoreNot so goddamned fast….
There is little within the BDSM and Leather community circles that I take seriously serious, and that is not because I am irreverent about everything. OK well maybe it is, a bit. And maybe it is because fringe communities so often be takin’ so much so got-dammed seriously, I do not see that…
Read MoreWhen it is simple.
I didn’t break down crying. There were no other witnesses. I felt no cosmic upheaval. It was the middle of the afternoon in the middle of the country and I was in the middle of his dining room, in the middle of errands. We had been taking, since the day before, about expectations. He had…
Read MoreLook, Ma, I’m in the Washington Post!
…and I WILL be clipping and sending this to Mom :-D Gay leather fetishists gather to celebrate skins and substance By Monica Hesse Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, January 16, 2011; 7:30 PM Saturday night in Las Vegas was the 90th annual Miss America. The winner was a sweet 17-year-old blonde from Nebraska. Sunday afternoon…
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