Lesson in leather

As a wrap up of all my other posts on the subject of leather ... I would like to say that past all my dumb cliché slogans ... one size does not fit all, feel good in your own skin etc., one thing I've learned about the leather scene and just only recently really getting into it obsessively, is that it is an evolution.

 

Each year fetish fairs and leather balls and leather competitions get racier and more high profile, porn sites reposition themselves around leather and how they present it to their porn audience (i.e. Bound Gods). Halloween and New Year's have now become official leather event weekends, and leather styles and trends get more innovative, require MUCH LESS fabric, but are more intricate and provocative in design. The face of leather changes and has been more mixed with the jock and sportswear scene. And industry leather events are bringing out record crowds headlined by wicked high-pofile DJ's.

 

Hot DJ Supergroup Luther headlined Bal en Cuir, Club Soda

 

Leather is essentially the average gay man's access to be a porn star. So it's really just about showing off a lot, and having fun.

Sometimes going to these leather events at first is a bit nerve-wracking. Just standing around in leather is actually not a lot of fun. One thing I've learned about the leather scene is that wearing leather is already an advertisment your 'out there.' So smile, act the part, be confident about yourself as a sexual being. That is HONESTLY the greatest turn on.

 

So after the Bal en Cuir, I ended up in somebody's apartment in a threesome, but don't remember how I got there. All I remember was somebody at the event talking to me, me really not sober, and I guess I got picked up. They must have seen me dancing half naked on the dance floor, no inhibition, drunk ... very sexual and ripe for picking!

 

Had I been at a regular gay bar standing in the corner, regular schmoe in t-shirt and jeans ... not every guy would be like coming to approach me. But that night, the leather and all the shots I took gave me a sense of sexuality I don't have when I am a just normal gay. It gives you visibility and raw animal sexuality being part of the leather crowd, that wearing ordinary clothes and being NORMAL, just doesn't.

 

At at the RENEGADE party, I went with a new friend I made, and sure he had been with me naked before at his condo, but in my leather get-up I donned that night at Apollon ... he was just very PLEASED to say the least with what I hard worn that night, constantly twerking my nips and touching my body every chance he got. He was great and I appreciated the attention.

 

This is the appeal of leather. Putting on leather means you're in SEX MODE. And let's be honest. Not everybody gay at a gay bar is necessarily interested in an end of the night hook-up. With leather, it is like the secret access code to tap into one's sexuality and bypass a lot of barriers that even do exist in our sexually progressive community. So really I just love it.