A day in Our Old Guard Leather Family

This is the integral version of the article I’ve sent to Mascular Magazine.

My name is Lupus, and I am an Old Guard Leather Master. I was given this name by my mentor when I saw me fit to become a Master, after 6 years of training. I live since 16 years with my husband and mentor, Sir Daniel, and our boy and slave. Our leather family is also composed by several other men that I’ve trained trough the years, and leather friends that come and visit very often.

I run an educational website on our lifestyle, called Old Guard Leathermen, where we write informative and educational topics on the history of Leather, its values, the lifestyle, the Protocols, etiquette and traditions. To me and my family, this is a matter of service, and this is the energy behind every public action we take.

Nowadays “leatherman” and “Old Guard” are both extremely biased terms, and we are very happy to share with Mascular Living’s readers some facts, on how actually Old Guard Leathermen lives, and what it means to us; how it shapes our days, our values and lifestyle, and how far away it stands from what the vase majority of the GLBTQI+ community sees “leather life” today.

Leather is just a fabric

Nowadays, Leather is simply a material, a fabric; we wear leather because we like to honor our tradition, but none of us has a “leather fetish”. The word “leather” inside of leatherman doesn’t really matter that much; if it was about leather, today I’d be a cotton man because I’m wearing a t-shit. That, would be very silly.

The term “Leathermen” originated in the 1950s and 1960s when many men, returning from military service, rode motorcycles. The US Army had a surplus of vehicles often given to soldiers, fostering a motorcycle culture. Standard protective gear for riders was leather, including boots, chaps, jackets, gloves, and caps.

Some veterans wanted to maintain the camaraderie they had in the military, forming motorcycle clubs and bars where they could socialize and uphold their hierarchical values. This is how the concept of brotherhood among Leathermen began, emphasizing military-based values and personal identity, integrity and discipline over attire, looks, age and generally bullshit.

Being a Leatherman, especially for the Old Guard, means adhering to principles that emphasize hierarchy, etiquette, protocol, respect, and integrity. It involves a shared set of ideals, formalism, and the romanticization of power exchange through discipline, viewed as a virtue rather than a kink, fetish, or role-play.

How leather culture shape our lives

Living as a leatherman is easy, because it’s so enriching; it enriches and betters our mental health, physical health, and creates a space where there’s no space for narcissism, a plague that is hitting the GLBT+ community very badly, also because of the effect of social media, dating apps, and generally everything that makes life a fast-food experience with little taste, and where all is about individualism and nourishing ego.

What is difficult, is to become a leatherman; it requires the true desire to live the modern way of living behind, to embrace what you truly want to become, at all costs; I say at all costs, because renouncing to ego and narcissism is very difficult, especially nowadays. But, once trough the training of a competente Mentor, you learn how to do that, you feel great. I went myself trough 6 years of merciless training, and I am so grateful for the man I have become today.

Discipline is what regulates our lives. Discipline is tough to appreciate for non-leather folk, because in an age where we expect automations, apps and AI to do everything for us to achieve even the most simple tasks, discipline is something often refused tout-court. We have been trained by modern marketing tactics and capitalism to refuse discipline and welcome services and expenses we don’t need, and we live refusing this concept.

A Day in the life of 4 Old Guard Leathermen

Morning Routine

We wake up every morning, weekends included, at 5.30 AM.

The boy goes downstairs to prepare the coffee for Sir Daniel and I, and the slave starts his morning meditation by keeling in front of the bedroom in kneel down position. He kisses our feet, wishes us good morning, and gets ready for another day in service.

We go to the gym, every day. This is not to better our looks or to make us sexier; there is zero interest in how a person looks. We do this because physical discipline is a moment of the day of self love, to focus on our inner strength; this applies to all other forms of discipline too.

This enables us to focus on taking care of our health, and to start the day with hard work. For the salve, this is also about performance, to be able to endure better service for longer time; and for me, this is to be able to withstand what it takes to be in my position during a session. As an example, lifting an inversion rack with the salve on top, requires a lot of physical strength, in order for such action to be done safely. The same applies for many other situations. When I perform sexual hypnosis on the boy, I need to be able to grab him firmly in my arms when he just lets himself fall from standing.

So, physical discipline isn’t about looks, just as much as being a leatherman is not about the fabric. It’s about putting in the hard work, to be the best version of ourselves for each other; the mental aspect of physical discipline is much more important than the physical one.

I run my own business, so I can take the boy and the slave to work when they are not busy at home taking care of the household. There, they both do their own jobs, and serve Sir Daniel and I our coffee, take care of tidying up and cleaning, and occasionally come by for a hug and a kiss.

These are not house chores

As leather subs, our submissives don’t clean the house or iron or do gardening as “chores”; a chore is something to withstand patiently and with some frustration because you have to. No one has to do anything here; if they wouldn’t be happy to take care of their jobs, they would be free to go. We could very easily afford a cleaning service; we choose not to.

Instead, for a leatherman, taking care of the house is like taking care of barracks. Inside of a military facility, within the hierarchy of ranks, each one has a different job, and each one concurs to the success and wellbeing of the whole group. It’s a horizontal hierarchy where each one of us have their job to do, and to take very seriously.

So, for the boys and for me, taking care of the house is duty, a pleasure, a honor and another way to exercise discipline. Discipline is what keeps us focused on being all in service of what we believe in, rather than pleasing ourselves with condescending actions and thoughts.

We find strength in this way of living, and we are all happier than we have ever been, when we are together and can live our “normality”.

Social Protocol, Low Protocol, High Protocol

Our way of living is highly structured, because formalism is to us a way to invest in discipline and effort, to show respect for ourselves, each other, and our lifestyle choice.

• every sentence of the subs start with SIR and ends with SIR.
• when idling, the subs stand in “point position”.
• they are both locked up in chastity cages
• we only have sex within the family
• there is no “chems” nor alcohol abuse
• every action and way of doing it is hardcoded in specific rules and rituals

The list could go on, and you can find here some examples of behavioral and even written Protocol.

Of course, one cannot live this way 24/7; that’s why there’s High, Low and Social Protocol.

High Protocol is reserved for official ceremonies, official events and in the Master Bedroom / playroom. This is the moment where the focus is maximized on perfection in behavior and attentiveness to rules.

Low Protocol is for the most part of the day. The verbal and behavioral rules stay, but the boys are not objectified like during sex; instead, we are a group of men who love each other deeply, and we watch tv together, go to the groceries, and do all the things that everyone would do in a family.

Social Protocol is for when we are in the presence of work peers, biological family members, or generally when it’s not a good idea to display our lifestyles to complete strangers.

The Nights

Night time is our favorite part of the day; each one of us has done their job, and it’s time to enjoy the remaining time. We have one special night per week, which is pizza, movies and gelato time. The slave also gets to enjoy this treat most times; sometimes he is lucky enough to just be locked in the cage while this happens.

The other nights are normally handled in a different way; I enjoy watching movies while slave is my footrest and ashtray, or while boy provides foot rubs, makes my smokes, prepares my drinks the way I prefer, and so on. If I am not preparing a session or play time, we then proceed to sleep time;

There is a boy room, where both the slave and the boy sleep; when they get a special treat, they get to sleep in the playroom with Sir Daniel and I; the boy gets to sleep in bed snuggled in my arms (and usually gets railed as a result), while the slave sleeps chained on the floor at the foot of the bed. Clearly, this can’t happen every single day.

This was a peek at our days and how we live, and how leather lifestyle shapes our living. I would like to share much more, especially about the sexual and BDSM part of this life, but there’s the whole website for that, and maybe another article here in the future, if this will be requested.

For now, it was a true pleasure to share some of our private lives with all of you and Mascular Living, and we are very grateful for the space that we have been offered.