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Leather
Leather can have various references: - Leather subculture is about
BDSM, or that part of it that associates closer to S&M and fetish or to
Homosexual BDSM.
- Leather fetishism describes an
attraction to people wearing leather, or to items made from leather.
- Old Guard leather (also Old
Guard but not to be confused with fascist movements of that same name)
is the gay leather subculture from which much of
BDSM originally derived.
- New leather (also New Guard leather
or just New Guard) is a more sexually-liberated and less protocol-
driven version of the Leather subculture.
- Leather Family describes a family
or family-sized-group living in an alternate lifestyle often based on
the leather subculture or on BDSM.
- Leather Community is used to
loosely associate people living in the leather subculture or even into
the wider BDSM. Roughly equivalent to "BDSM
Lifestyle"
- Started in the USA and now including leatherfolk as far away as
Canada, there is the National Leather
Association: International
- There is a Leather Pride Flag.
- Leather is a common material for making various equipment including blindfold
s, handcuffs, whips and
clothing. It is made by treating
(tanning) the skin or hide of animals, usually cattle. Leather is very
strong, and may have a characteristic odour that some people like.
Some, such as those into animal transformation fantasy, may like the
fact that it is animal skin rather than artificial like PVC.
- Rawhide: Leather that has not been fully tanned is called
rawhide. Rawhide has the property that if soaked in water it can be
stretched, and will then shrink as it dries out. It can thus be used to
make bonds or corsets that keep tightening, or ropes that will
eventually lift someone off the ground.
(This entry in the BDSM Dictionary incorporates text from the
Leather
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