Sample Consensual Slavery Contract
Sample Consensual “Slavery” Contract Contract For the willing entering into a relation of slave and master under there own free will. Contract Version: 2.03 Created:03/12/2006 Last modified: 04/07/2007...
View ArticleBasic Slave Rules
Albany Power eXchange does not endorse this list of “basic slave rules” but includes them here as a basis for which Dominants may use to incorporate their own rules for their D/s or M/s relationships....
View ArticleSpare the Rod, Spoil the Slave?
Spare the Rod, Spoil the Slave? By Jack Rinella There are significant differences between corporal punishment and the infliction of pain for the giving of pleasure: technique, reason, and effect come...
View ArticleThe 24/7 D/s Lifestyle
The 24/7 D/s Lifestyle by Master Paul and slave monique The term “24/7 Dominant/submissive lifestyle” is often used to describe intense relationships in the Scene, but in fact it means far more than...
View ArticleSo You Want To Be A Slave: The Realities
© 2000 *protected email* I decided to write this article because I have seen so many submissives come into the lifestyle expecting everything to be dream-like and perfect. I don’t wish to ruin anyone’s...
View ArticleTPE vs D/s
What is TPE and how does it differentiate from a D/s relationship By missy Disclaimer: these thoughts and definitions are solely mine, and is by no means any “official” definition of TPE. All TPE...
View ArticleSample Contract of Submission
by RebelGent This sample contract reflects what could be considered my most basic requirements, in other words, the least I would accept. This was the original instrument I used when I first began...
View ArticleOld Guard, New Guard
By Gayle Rubin I have problems with the way in which the distinction between “Old Guard” and “New Guard” is sometimes deployed. While there are many differences between leather/SM as it was practiced...
View ArticleThe First Munch
By *protected email* The Palo Alto Burger Munch was the first such regular event of its type in the country and is the event from which all other similar events were patterned after. It started in...
View ArticleEuropean Houses
By demimondaine In the 70’s- 80’s I was actively involved in SM (now BDSM) in Europe, mostly Germany. While it may have been true at one time, that old SM ‘houses’ existed dating back to the...
View ArticleDid You Know?
by *protected email* First published in England in approximately 1749, “Fanny Hill, the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure” by John Cleland was the first book censored in the United States in Massachusetts...
View ArticleS&M Isn’t What It Used to Be
Sadomasochism Isn’t What It Used to Be or Why Would Anyone Participate in S/M By Keith Kendrick, RN, Ch. NOTE: Keith Kendrick is a Portland, Oregon Top who wrote the following essay. Pemission to...
View ArticleFlogging In History
by Che “The beautiful woman bent on her adorer a strange look from her green eyes, icy and devouring, then she crossed the room, slowly donned a splendid loose coat of red satin, richly trimmed with...
View ArticleAn Essay about “The Old Days”
By *protected email* For some time now, and in particular within the last year or so, a number of assertions about so-called “Old Guard” traditions, customs, and teachings have come to my attention....
View ArticleHistory of Leather Traditions
The Old Guard The History of Leather Traditions By Guy Baldwin, M.S., author of The Ties That Bind While reading a recent interview with Brian Dawson, I came across some of his comments about...
View ArticleThe Myth of the Old Guard
by *protected email*, author of The Master’s Manual A recent question on one of the newslists had to do with smoking cigarettes at dungeon parties. The writer began her question with a reference to the...
View ArticleOld Guard…or not…
(Dogmatism) Old Guard…or not… By BullDawg66 (post from the LeatherHistory Yahoo! Group) If anyone finds this offensive…sorry in advance but it is something that eats at me from time to time. Okay,...
View ArticlePre/Post-WWII
Pre-WWII SM vs.post-WWII Leather By Gayle S. Rubin From the LeatherHistory E-Group On Sat, 13 Apr 2002, dogg_starr1 wrote: Their newest claim is that the old guard invented WIITWD and specificly the...
View ArticleThe Black Leather Community
From Dark Connections The leather community, created for the most part by gay men and soldiers returning home after World War ll, was a society steeped in secrecy. It’s members shared a love of...
View ArticleThe Oral History Project
The Oral History Project The Oral History project involves the taping, transcribing, indexing and filing of interviews with long time participants or important individuals in the leather community. The...
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