“Mix is one of at least three bars in the Castro that wheel out the Patronscan kiosk each night to collect the personal data of every customer that comes through the door, including names, addresses, genders, and even how they behave inside the bar.”

Elust 198 is now live! elustsexblogs.com/2026/06/15/e... Thank you Emma Flowers throne.com/prettytiired for the cover image.

Leather - It’s Not What You Wear, It’s Who You Are! Have you ever wondered what the leather lifestyle is about? Where did it come from? What does it “mean” to be leather?

Fantasies about being "forced" to have sex are very common. So where do these fantasies come from? And is there a deeper psychological meaning behind them? https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-myths-sex/202003/why-are-rape-fantasies-so-common

Washington Examiner joins the censorship chorus, and believes they will be greeted as liberators. "All pornography must be made illegal ... we must free people from partaking in it at all."

A new op-ed in the Washington Times finally says the quiet part out loud: Fascism demands sexual repression. "Pornography corrodes the exact social foundation that supports national strength... A society marked by loneliness, weakened families and diminished social trust becomes brittle."

OUT NOW! What does it take to become a pioneer while continually reinventing yourself? Isabella Sinclaire shares her journey of BDSM, filmmaking, entrepreneurship, mentorship, & property development. A conversation about authenticity, consent, legacy, & building a life on your own terms. @Clips4Sale

@thetammyjo and I discuss the dom/sub relationship in Pillion (2025) #bdsm #film #pillion youtu.be/ri1lZpCjEsc?...

Kink has been part of pride from the beginning. And if you disagree you gotta argue with him. Happy Pride Everyone 🏳️‍🌈

Amy Crowder was a corsetière and owner of Wasp Creations, located in Kansas City and later New York.

The Celluloid Dungeon sees how The Good Fight deals with female dominants: historyofbdsm.com/2026/05/the-... #bdsm #femdom

Vanessa Williams in Penthouse USA, January 1985, photographs by Jonathan Michael Aaron

Batman: Arkham City #1, "Sugar and Spice" cameo (Kink In Pop Culture- comic books, 2011) 15th Anniversary released May 11th, 2011 Characters' original appearance - bsky.app/profile/did:... #KinkInPopCulture #kink #bdsm #fetish #fetishwear #batman #sugar&spice #comics #comicbooks #2011ce #2010s

Utah can not "ban" VPNs because there's no effective way for most websites to identify, let alone ban, VPN traffic from Utah. Disguising where you're coming from is the whole point of a VPN. What Utah has done is create a constant state of legal jeopardy for adult sites. Which maybe was the point.

It is often argued that using realistic sex dolls will increase sex crimes. However, new research shows that sex dolls reduce users' sexual compulsivity and violent tendencies. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/all-about-sex/202605/evidence-mounts-sex-dolls-reduce-mens-sexual-compulsivity

"Fear is effective ... A fear of pornography morphed into a fear of diversity, equity and inclusion, of educators and librarians supposedly indoctrinating kids and ultimately, of transgender and genderqueer kids themselves."

"A woman in Turkey, an adult model faces ten years in prison for 'encouraging prostitution.' This has me thinking about FOSTA-SESTA, which passed eight years ago this month ... sex workers have since then been largely erased from the internet we largely helped to build."

This is a fucking INCREDIBLE and spot-on way to describe the increasing restriction by corporations and governments of sex work, porn, and erotica. Resist the enclosure of the sexual commons!

Richard Hennigh was titled Washington State Mr. Leather 1985 and was second runner-up to International Mr. Leather 1985. He was one of the organizing members of the National Leather Association.

Bettie Page: Love Hurts Statue (Kink In Pop Culture- art, merchandising, collectibles, 2025) Bettie Page birthday, born April 22, 1923 “I was never the girl next door.” – Bettie Page #KinkInPopCulture #kink #bdsm #fetish #BettiePage #Birthday #art #collectibles #merchandising #2025ce #2020s

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

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).

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

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

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

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 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.

"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."

OUT NOW! on Authentically Kinky. powered by @Clips4Sale 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. #MistressSofia #Dominatrix #Empowerment #SelfDiscovery #kink

"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."

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.

“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...

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, March 20 gomag.com/event/lsm-pr...

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...

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" 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.

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.

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.

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

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.!

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

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).