Having recovered from an action packed couple of days at London Fetish Weekend our team at SkinTwo Clothing and Honour are back preparing for another busy month of naughtiness. [Read more...]
Dos Santos – Exclusive Leather from Germany
July 29, 2011 by
Berlin is one of the world’s coolest cities and Berlin’s main attraction for connoisseurs of fine leather is the design studio of Petra dos Santos. Petra has been making super quality unique custom leather for 15 years, using selected highest grade leather from regional tanneries, certified free from cancerous substances like PCP. [Read more...]
The English Leather Rose Company
January 6, 2011 by
Leather roses are the perfect fetish gift. The English Leather Rose Company handcrafts beautiful blooms in an extraordinary range of colours. Their collections include the Gothic range, roses with barbed wire, and the ‘Black & Blue’ leather rose, specially created to celebrate the unique character of BDSM relationships. [Read more...]
AMF Korsets: Couture Leather for Apocalyptic Flesh
December 20, 2010 by
One of the major stars of the new Skin Two Magazine is AMF Korsets – there’s a four page feature, with some stunning photos and an interview with designer Louis Fleischauer [Read more...]
BDSMBadAdvice: How do I earn my leather?
October 23, 2010 by
Dear BDSMBadAdvice,
I have long been interested in Leather but I only recently worked up the nerve to do anything about it. So I went to my city’s biggest leather store last week and bought over $2000 worth of leather items.
Last night, I proudly wore all my shiny new leather to a local leather bar. I was hoping to make some new friends who might teach me about Leather, or possibly even the Master of my dreams. Instead, a stranger lambasted me for wearing a bunch leather I clearly hadn’t earned. I was so embarrassed!
Before I go back to that bar and risk humiliation again, can you please tell me how I should earn my leather?
Closet Full of Unearned Leather
Dear Closet Full of Unearned Leather,
Yours is a common problem. Enthusiastic newbies often want to embrace every aspect of Leather culture with gusto, and leather stores are very happy to sell them lots of clothes and accessories. Sometimes, though, these stores don’t take the time to explain the rich symbolism behind every piece of leather. For this reason, a secret cabal of Leathermen has created universal procedures for earning each item.
The Bureau of Official Old Guard Protocols recommends questing for leather items. Go back to that Leather bar in your street clothes. Don’t worry about whether the bar has a dress code. Just tell the bouncer that you seek a quest. Seek an elder Leatherman with an orange question mark floating over his head. To earn a leather armband, he will have you kill a dozen level-10 zombies or bring him eight martinis. You will have to complete several lower-level quests before you are ready to earn bigger items like chaps. Some more challenging quests, like for a Master’s cap, require a party of up to five people. Also, it’s helpful to remember that you earn double experience if you’re rested.
An alternative method of earning leather is to shoplift from the leather store. This requires many of the same skills you’d use for questing, so the Bureau considers the two methods roughly equivalent. You will have to hide items in your body cavities, so again, it’s best to start with smaller items like gloves. With practice, you’ll be able to accommodate things like spanking benches and bondage beds.
When you go out wearing the leather you’ve earned by either of these methods, it’s important that everyone knows that you have the right to wear it. Leave on all the pricetags, and in the case of shoplifted items, the anti-theft devices. Also, be sure to wear all your clothes correctly. For example, true Leathermen only tuck in one side of their shirts. Go over your boots with very coarse sandpaper to give them a matte finish. Masters always wear lacy pink bras on their heads. Boys put a cigarette in each nostril.
You’ll never have to worry about being embarrassed at the leather bar ever again.
Jonathan Byrel Moore is a collared boy and switch in the San Francisco Bay area. Though he is dangerously unqualified to dispense advice on BDSM, kink, Leather, or any other topic, he enjoys giving it anyway. When he isn’t busy being a bad influence at dungeon parties, he drops little brown pellets of wisdom via Twitter, Facebook and FetLife.
Have a question you’d like to ask BDSMBadAdvice? Send an e-mail to BDSMBadAdvice@gmail.com.
BDSMBadAdvice: Where are the submissive boys?
October 2, 2010 by
Dear BDSMBadAdvice,
I am a gay Leatherman living in a large city. After years of identifying as a boy, I have begun exploring my Daddy side in the last year. I’m fairly attractive, in pretty good shape, college-educated, self-employed and active in my city’s Leather community. I don’t seem to have a problem attracting young men; it’s more that the men I attract aren’t exactly what I seek. A lot of young guys are excited by the idea of having a Leather Daddy, but aren’t interested in service or kinky sex.
What am I doing wrong, BDSMBadAdvice? Where are all the boys who want to serve a Daddy who will beat them and fuck them roughly?
Aspiring Daddy
Dear Aspiring Daddy,
I can see why you’re having trouble finding what you want. Real submissives and masochists find nothing less attractive than a lean, handsome man in leather who wants to use them for his pleasure. Quit the gym, gain about fifty pounds and neglect your grooming and hygiene. Instead of leather, wear a sequined figure skating costume when you go out. I guarantee that young, submissive boys will trample their own grandmothers to wear your collar.
Integrity and experience are essential qualities for a Leather Daddy, so you should lie to give yourself the appearance of having them. Tell boys that you’ve been a Daddy for twenty years and that you trained in a European Old Guard Leather house. Tell them that Mr. Benson was your mentor. This works best if you only communicate with them online. The lies are more believable if there are no other Leathermen around to refute your claims.
Speaking of the internet, all your online profiles should be poorly spelled, typed in all caps and lacking punctuation. This shows boys you are extremely Dominate.
Show your confidence by making outrageous demands on prospective boys. Tell them they aren’t real subs if they question your directives. Demand that they let you fuck them bareback without knowing your HIV status. In fact, get angry if they ask you anything about yourself. True subs should submit unconditionally without knowing to whom they are submitting.
In other words, since seeking a boy honestly and honorably clearly isn’t working, try dishonesty and dishonor instead. You’ll have a dozen boys within a week. Online, anyway.
Jonathan Byrel Moore is a collared boy and switch in the San Francisco Bay area. Though he is dangerously unqualified to dispense advice on BDSM, kink, Leather, or any other topic, he enjoys giving it anyway. When he isn’t busy being a bad influence at dungeon parties, he drops little brown pellets of wisdom via Twitter, Facebook and FetLife.
Have a question you’d like to ask BDSMBadAdvice? Send an e-mail to BDSMBadAdvice@gmail.com.
Affordable Leather: Quality Bondage Gear
June 14, 2010 by
Affordable Leather, based in Portsmouth, have been living up to their name since 1993, supplying sensibly priced leather bondage and BDSM gear to many thousands of customers. [Read more...]
Love My Leather: Stylish New Leather from Absolute Danny
May 31, 2010 by
Absolute Danny, based in the Amsterdam Red Light District, is well known for her high quality rubber clothing label, Love My Rubber. Now, Danny has teamed up with an old fashion academy friend to design a new leather collection with the utmost precision and craftsmanship. [Read more...]
