Leatherati Voices

Glove Love or Free Love

Raw - Bareback - BB - Natural

Whatever you call it, barebacking, ie fucking without a condom, is the highly charged 3rd rail of sex and the opinions are as strong as the stakes are high.

Is barebacking killing a new wave of us all over again?  Or is it just another risk aware behavior that we need to weigh as we negotiate sex and play.

But the most important question seems to be "what do we do about it?"

In this edition of Leatherati Issues we asked well-known members of the BDSM Kink community to address the decision last year by the International Mr Leather Executive Committee to ban bareback porn vendors and all bareback materials from IML.

Big surprise that their opinions vary widely.

Check em out and get involved in the discussion by either commenting on a specific article or by clicking on the Submit Content link to send us your own contribution or comment.

And most importantly, make sure you know the facts for yourself and make your own intelligent decision so that when things heat up you know whether you're going in without your glove or not.

Loren Berthelsen
Editor in Chief

*Leather Contests and Leather Titleholders

We cover a lot of contests for Leatherati.com.  Really...a LOT.  So naturally it's a topic that interests us and lately we've been hearing a lot of murmurings about what's happening with our contests.  

Not only are contests continuing to proliferate, but the pressures on producers and contestants to perform is greater than ever.  What started out as simple bar events have taken on lives of their own.  We want to explore whether it's a benevolent life form or a Frankenstein.  Where are we headed and will we be one of the evil undead when we get there?

Presented below are several articles form members of the community on the issue of contests and title holders.  We invite your comments and welcome articles from you too if you're so moved.

Loren Berthelsen
Editor in Chief