Questions about the leather subculture

[Femsupreme]

All the years I've been in the leather community, mostly femdom I can count on one hand the times I wore leather. I'm just not into it. If you saw me walking on the street or even at an event you'd never guess I was kinky or a mistress. I may come across as an alpha woman but you couldn't guess all the shit I'm into unless you were part of my private life.

 

[Ladygenuine]

Fascinating! I love the smell and feel and taste of leather ... Total turn on. Which is really fucked up because I am a vegetarian.
But this is ... Fascinating.

 

[sebastian]

LadyG: Honestly, I'm not at all surprised that a vegetarian finds leather arousing. Our kinks tend to be transgressive--they violate rules, sometimes society's rules, and sometimes our personal rules. That's why things like age play and incest play are arousing--they pretend to break taboos around pedophilia and incest. Vegetarianism is all about ethical treatment of animals, so it's going to arouse some people precisely because it breaks those rules about how to treat animals.

 

[Moonlight]

Not too long ago I read how they used handkerchiefs to identify their orientation and what they were into. When I read the different colors and such all I could think was how I would probably get it all wrong.

 

[sebastian]

Yeah, the hanky code was a good idea, but it was never standardized. Certainly colors meant different things in different parts of the country. Today, it's a loose guide, but nothing more--double check about what the guy thinks he's flagging as.