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ICcode for "Leather"

[b]Leather[/b] can have various references:


[item] [about=Leather subculture]Leather subculture[/about] is about BDSM, or that part of it that associates closer to S&M and fetish or to Homosexual BDSM.

[item] [about=Leather fetishism]Leather fetishism[/about] describes an attraction to people wearing leather, or to items made from leather.

[item] [about=Old Guard leather]Old Guard leather[/about] (also Old Guard but not to be confused with fascist movements of that same name) is the [about=gay]gay[/about] leather subculture from which much of BDSM originally derived.

[item] [about=New leather]New leather[/about] (also New Guard leather or just New Guard) is a more sexually-liberated and less protocol-driven version of the Leather subculture.

[item] [about=Leather Family]Leather Family[/about] describes a family or family-sized-group living in an alternate lifestyle often based on the leather subculture or on BDSM.

[item] [about=Leather Community]Leather Community[/about] is used to loosely associate people living in the leather subculture or even into the wider BDSM.  Roughly equivalent to "[about=BDSM]BDSM[/about] [about=Lifestyle]Lifestyle[/about]"

[item] Started in the USA and now including leatherfolk as far away as Canada, there is the [url=http://www.nla-i.com/]National Leather Association: International[/url]

[item] There is a [about=Leather Pride Flag]Leather Pride Flag[/about].

[item] Leather is a common material for making various [about=SM equipment]equipment[/about] including [about=blindfold]blindfold[/about]s, [about=handcuffs]handcuffs[/about], [about=whip]whip[/about]s and [about=Fetish Fashion]clothing[/about].


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