Dominatrix enemy character from Konami arcade game Vendetta aka Crime Fighters 2 (1991)

Dominatrixes in video games: The Celluloid Dungeon #bdsm #dominatrix historyofbdsm.com/2026/04/domi...

Person wearing a leather eye cover and mouth cover. Text: [The sexologist Kinsey has created a 0-6 scale in which people are rated as to their homo/heterosexuality. I think of myself as off the scale. To me, the Kinsey scale has as much relevance as if everyone were evaluated on a spectrum of whether they were more attracted to people with brown eyes or green/blue eyes. Gender is just not what I care about or even really notice in a sexual partner. ... I can relate more easily to people who are not primarily gender-erotic, but who are what is commonly referred to as fetishistic. At a gut level, I can imagine what it might be to be erotically attracted to frilly lingerie or leather or the smell of the sea. The clearest way for me to understand lesbians and straight women is to accept them as fetishists. From my viewpoint straight women are male-gender-fetishists and lesbians are female-gender-fetishists who are so culturally supported in their sexual attractions that most of the time they hardly understand my different reality.]

Quote from Some Thoughts on Bisexuality by Jane Litwoman (Lesbian Contraditions, Winter 1990, quoted in Bi Any Other Name ed. Lani Ka'ahumanu and Loraine Hutchins, 1991). Photo from Bondage Abuse Vol 1 No 1 (1975).

Pillion Pillion is not a romanticized view of kink, but a raw portrayal of two flawed men navigating power, control, and emotional limits—showing not what an ideal dynamic looks like, but what happens when it...

Just published my take on #Pillion — one of the most talked-about films in the #kink community.

Not 50 shades of grey. Not a love story. Something far more uncomfortable and more satisfying.

Read: diaryofamaster.com/pillion/

#BDSM #GayKink #TPE

Man standing in black motorcycle leathers and boots, shot from the chest down, on a dark blue background. Title "Box Hill" and author's name superimposed in white.

The movie Pillion (2025) is about disillusionment. The book it was based on, Box Hill (2020), is about loss. historyofbdsm.com/2026/04/box-... #pillion #boxhill

Ethel is a white woman with a restricted waist, large earrings, hair in a curled updo and gauze shirt over a black dress.

Happy birthday, Ethel! Ethel Granger was a famous body modification practitioner from Petersborough, England.

Round yellow patch with red stitching and black background. Handcuffs in center.

Sandia Leatherwomen was founded in 1995 as a sister club to Sandia Leathermen (est. 1989). The Sandia clubs produced the Mr. and Ms. New Mexico Leather contests. They disbanded in April 2000. Sandia's remaining funds were distributed to local charities. #LeatherClubs #LeatherHistory

Jan is a middle aged white woman with short gray hair, large glasses and a large chest wearing jeans and leather vest with many pins and a tshirt. She is in a hotel conference setting.

Jan Lyon co-founded the National Leather Association in 1986 and served as co-chair. She worked on the Beat Jesse campaign to unseat Jesse Helms in North Carolina, was named Woman of the Year by The Leather Journal in 1990, and received NLA's Lifetime Achievement Award in 1991.

"The Passion of Pain" Author: Roger Blake (pseudonym for John Felix Trimble) Detroit: Foremost Publishers: 1965, 160 pages, 24 b/w illustrations reproduced from old sources, with brief captions.

Sex educators say they're being harmed by age-verification laws Plus: Wisconsin governor vetoes porn age-check bill, more charges for penis protester, the Komodo dragon theory of social media, and more...

"Enacted as regulations of any content "harmful to minors," these could be used against sex educators, sexual health organizations, reproductive freedom groups, sex worker rights advocates, transgender rights advocates, and queer creators of all sorts... It's an urgently needed inquiry."

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Mistress Sofia proves it’s never too late to reinvent yourself.
From chef to Dominatrix in her 70s—this is a story of power, boundaries, and owning your identity.
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#Dominatrix
#Empowerment
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Age-verification is hurting sex educators, study suggests These laws aren't working to keep minors off adult sites, but they are hitting creators' incomes.

"Again and again, we were told this was only about keeping minors from accessing porn. Woodhull warned these vague and overly broad policies would also result in censorship, and the data bear this out. The current age-verification protocols are ripe for abuse, and educators are right to be scared."

Two East Asian people with lip and nose piercings holding a bouquet of roses, a man wearing a cross necklace and a woman wearing a chain mail collar.

Cover of the 50th and final issue of PFIQ (Piercing Fans International Quarterly), published in 1997 by Gauntlet, Inc. Cover photo of Demi and Tomoya by Michael Adrianne.

Cut or Uncut? How Much of Alexander Skarsgård’s (Fake) Penis Are ‘Pillion’ Viewers Getting at Home? Movies with strong sexual content are navigating the streaming era with a confusing multiplicity of versions, cut to match ever-shifting sets of standards.

“Compared to the 1990s — when studios had to worry mainly about theatrical, home video, cable and broadcast — the distribution model in 2026 seems much more confusing. A distributor summarized the situation as “chaotic.””

The stakes of teaching and learning this history are real. Britain is at this moment considering outlawing BDSM pornographic imagery (strangulation) on the specious argument that "violent pornography" leads to murder and abuse of women and girls. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

White middle aged man, clean shaven and balding, wearing a flannel shirt. Text: Metal Helmets & Masks One fantasy trip we haven't bee nable to supply yet is a MAN IN THE IRON MASK type lockable metal helmet. We keep gettings asked for it. We've got a list of over 30 people waiting for it. We've even developed a prototype but can't find anybody to make the damn things. Perhaps there's an artist in sheet metal out htere somewhere who'd like to have a crack at making them for us. Also, we're always interested in adding any other appropriate goodies to the FETTERS list both in the USA and Europe.

Jim Stewart had an early interest in bondage and was a dealer in "Houdiniana" before founding the company Fetters in 1976. He is the author of 'So I Like To Get Tied-up … So What!!?'

Sucker Punch (Kink In Pop Culture- movies, 2011)

15th Anniversary
Released March 25, 2011

Watching Sucker Punch on the big screen when it came out, I couldn't help but think this was the most expensive fetish film ever made...

youtu.be/TFzoo4Rr94Y?...
(Babydoll fights)

#KinkInPopCulture #kink

LSM Presents: Leather Herstory Panel: Building & Sustaining Community - GO Magazine Bringing together longtime local organizers Goddess Narcissa, Sir Raven, and Sally for a Women's (Leather) History Month panel.

LSM Presents: Leather Herstory Panel: Building & Sustaining Community, March 20 gomag.com/event/lsm-pr...

Colorful illustration of two women straddling a man tires on the floor in front of a couch. One is tickling his foot and The other is holding a strap.

Eric Stanton was an influential and popular fetish artist who was first commissioned by Irving Klaw to draw bondage comics in the 1940s.

Is the kink concept of "play" a way to think about sexuality without pigeonholing in taxonomies of sexual identities that stigmatize and pathologize human sexuality? I love this idea (Tiidenberg and Passonen 2019)

#kinkhistory reading note

The Celluloid Dungeon ponders the use and misuse of female masochism in Submission, aka Scandalo (1976): historyofbdsm.com/2026/03/subm...

In a dark room, a dark-haired woman in a bra top approaches another dark-haired woman in her bra and panties, cuffed to a wall.

The Celluloid Dungeon reviews Secret Life of a Dominatrix (2024) and asks, what is the point of a PG-rated erotic thriller? historyofbdsm.com/2026/03/secr...

Next Tuesday: Paris-based Dominatrix and filmmaker @Inanna Justice joins Authentically Kinky powered by @Clips4Sale to talk about her new documentary “The Heart of a Dominatrix,” the power of women building community in kink, and her vision for ethical adult filmmaking.

Make porn expensive again The social consequences of pornography are becoming too nasty to ignore

"Make Porn Expensive Again" is part of a long tradition — from the Catholic Church to Jeffrey Epstein — of separate sexual ethics for the elite.

Stunning, though I guess not shocking, to see it rise again.

Shined leather boots and folded leather garment.

Text image, see body text.

Tomorrow! ⏱️ March 13, 2026, 5pm-7pm

⭐ Opening reception for Interval: Portraits Thus Far

Eve Beatrice Weiner (he/they) is a transsexual leatherdyke photographer and writer currently based in Brooklyn, NY.

[So it's with a broken heart and great sadness that I inform everyone that the one and only Sheldon Jacobs passed peacefully in his sleep at 5PM earlier this evening. Sheldon was a poet, comedian, actor and singer. He was a Vet, a former docent at the Museum of Flights, Seattle Leather Grand Dad 1995, members of multiple organizations and more. He was funny, stubborn, whimsical he made us laugh, cry and at times got us to say Sheldon Shut it!!! Or visa versa. He will be be forever missed but never forgotten. May he rest in peace. Information regarding memorial and such will be shared as soon as things are set in place.]

Sheldon Jacobs was a poet, comedian, actor, singer, and leatherman. He toured on Broadway in the 1960s before moving to Los Angeles. He was an army veteran and volunteered at the Museum of Flight. Sheldon was a member of the Seattle Men in Leather and was named Seattle Leather Grandad 1995.

Text says, "Women of Landau/Jim Kent". Image is nude woman tied to stake, menaced by two male humanoids with pointed ears and fangs, in black robes. One holds a red-hot branding iron shaped like a letter K.

Cover of "The Women of Landau", by Jim Kent, pub. 1970, artist unknown. Australian.

Reading Ray: Cruel, Cowardly, Brave | Pillion (2025) Analysis A kink-affirming, trauma-informed reading of Ray–part tragic Dom, part abuser, part queer refusal of the couple script, and what his exit really costs Colin.

I put my disjoint thoughts about Pillion (2025) into a blog post: ponyhound.link/pillion-revi...

Thanks to the rich discussions w/ @mistrq.bsky.social , @spiderdog.bsky.social , @zadkielice.bsky.social , @aphyr.woof.group.ap.brid.gy , @ccshan.woof.group.ap.brid.gy , @cottonrope.bsky.social, etc.!

Red and white title card showing the poster for Sanctuary (2022), which shows a blonde woman and a dark-haired main embrace in closeup.

TammyJo & Peter discuss the femdom/malesub romance (?) Sanctuary (2022) youtu.be/sJYskmcazFk?...

Two young Black women, one woman leaning over the other’s lap and wincing and shouting. One has short curly hair and the other has light eye liner and hoop earrings. Both wearing knit shirts. Text: While BDSM has become a larger part of mainstream culture over course of my lifetime, it has always been billed to me as a white thing, a misogynist thing, and a hetero thing, and it continues to queer my experiences with every other community of which I am ostensibly a member. It has never been something that I could access that would not, for some people, invalidate the “authenticity” of my other identities.

Quote from “I Don't Exist: Conflicting Communities and the Nature of (Un)Belonging” by alea adigweme (in Poroi, June 2011). Photo from Tied and Spanking Vol 1 No 2 (1970s).

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Clovo "Fetish" (Kink In Pop Culture- music, music videos, 2025)

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