Fetish Fact, Fiction & Fantasy

I call him Papa. For the last twenty-two years, that’s how I almost always refer to my husband. It actually started at Mid-Atlantic Leather in 2002. We were in a scene and his whip was stinging my back, and in my agonies, I called out, “Oh Papa!” He paused for a...

Young enough to be a boy, old enough to be your daddy. Which is which?[dsm_masonry_gallery...

I had been a part of the leather scene from almost as soon as I came out and began experimenting with kink sex starting in my early 20s. Sex was more complicated then – HIV didn’t have effective treatments yet. There was a lot of fear around it which doesn’t...

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It was the last leg of my flight plan, and we had to make a ground stop due to weather hazards. I absolutely pounded one in on my first leg in the left seat of the ol’ “Pig.” I never knew why they called the B-737 that, but I always enjoyed thinking I was riding a...

Mikal Edward Bales was born in Pomona, California in 1939. As a California baby, it seemed almost preordained that he would end up in the movie industry. But he went about it in a direction most wouldn’t have. He did make his start in a traditional manner as a...

Sometimes you gotta break ‘em down not-so-gently.[dsm_masonry_gallery...

Among the pantheon of great gay fetish artists – Tom, Etienne, The Hun – Joseph Cameron Fifield, or as we came to know him, REX, was in his own league. His work recognizable for the fetish but also for the commercial, having worked as a fashion illustrator at one...

The wrong guy ends up in the right place and finds out real fast – uniforms aren’t just for show.[dsm_masonry_gallery...

*Leathermen have lost another of our bars—when do we start fighting back?* I. I have come to believe that some (many?) (most?) (all?) gay men wrestle with feelings of shame about being gay, and by “being gay” I mean our sexual desires directed at other men.  I do not...

*The Barracks Bar has spent over three decades serving as a place where gay men, especially those who are into leather could be themselves in the Coachella Valley area. This past August it shut down, leaving locals in search of a new leather bar to call home and to...

Fresh Cut “I have an older gay brother that lives in London, I used to visit him often from Ireland and I would get to meet a lot of very eclectic and interesting members of the queer community there through him. One couple I met in London in particular shaped my...

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No hair at all, stubbled scalp, no eyebrows. Just eyelashes and big eyes staring back at me. I gazed at the broken mirror on the wall and then down at my body. No hair anywhere. Nothing on at all, except the Doc Martens with a single lock through the top two lace...

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