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You’ve done this dance time and time again. You’ve met someone sexy, you’re kissing passionately, the clothes come flying off and you’re all over each other. Then out of nowhere the anxiety sets in, the thoughts spill out, you’re trapped in your mind and you’re unable to be present in the moment. Sex doesn’t have the wild untamed magic that it used to have because you’re too busy worrying about things like ‘Will they like what I’m doing?’, ‘Am I enough?’ and ‘Why can’t I fucking get hard?!’

Time to turn on the Golden Shower!

Let’s start at the Leather beginning, a very good place to start. Leather bars first developed out of a need for gay men to have safe places to meet, surrounded by our community - our ‘people’. The gay leather scene was started in the USA, by gay soldiers returning home after WWII. The leather culture they created enabled them to continue their masculine bonding rituals, leather wearing, and S&M practices. It is believed during the 1950s ex-military men formed motorcycle clubs as a cover for their gay/leather/bdsm activities—and as a rebuke to society's view that all gay men were effeminate. Over time it has evolved to be more inclusive of people with various interests in leather.

These days as we are growing more and more conscious about the future, we are always looking for ways to minimise our impact on the planet. Recycling more, using renewable energy and alternative diets like Vegetarian, Pescatarian or Vegan. We are more conscious now about the future and we are always looking for ways to save a buck or two – especially given the last 18 months. But when it comes to the leather and the fetish communities, are we ready to embrace a plant based leather future?

The origins of women exploring kink in Australia seem hard to define. The earliest local records I can find are in the short film Wicked Women by Anna Brownfield of Poison Apple Productions.

I think we can all agree that, just like their animal counterparts, pups are one of the most universally beloved subsets of the kink community. Affectionate, loyal, playful, primal, with just the right dash of mischief....

‘I could never date a bi-guy. I need to be with someone who knows what they want.’ A gay friend once said this to me. He just blurted it out over a beer. Maybe he thought I had a crush on him or something. Who knows? I could tell there was no malice intended, he was just regurgitating one of the too often believed stereotypes about bisexual+ folk that make us undatable to 44% of Australians, but knowing that didn’t take the sting out his words.