Gay Leather Culture Blog

​The following is an essay by Guy Baldwin about Old Guard traditions, testifying not only Old Guard Leather’s existence, but also its traditions.

Many men are sexually driven by the idea of pleasing another man, and often mix the need to please with the actual concept of submission. There’s a deep difference between pleasing and submitting, even though these two things are often linked together.

As expressed in our article on why is it healthy for a Dom to submit, and how is that submission different, I’ll reprise here the topic to look specifically at what can go wrong when submitting to another Dominant, and how it can affect your self confidence, your sense of self worth, and ultimately, your future subs lives.

As we have explained in our article on why FinDom is a scam and how is it getting away with it, FinDom isn’t truly a fetish. Financial Domination is about the weaponization of a fetish, to fulfill individualistic and narcissistic tendencies and behavioral patterns.

FinDom is a BDSM term related to the act of the submissive of giving up control of their finances to their Dominants, who takes care of it, whilst also using them responsibly to tease and deny. Unfortunately, like most other fetishes based on power dynamics, this has...

What’s curious about the modern “community”, it’s how none of their spokesman or its users, are wondering if this harmful behavior towards one self and others, isn’t actually the ugliest face of internalized homophobia.

The hankie code is a system of communication that expresses trough the colors of hankies (typically bandanas used by motorcycle riders and mechanics) what a person is sexually attracted to, and in which polarity, in the context of kink and fetish.

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.

Read the definition and explanation of what SSC (Safe, Sane and Consensual) means in the context of Leather and BDSM. Clearly adhering to the principles of Safe, Sane, and Consensual into BDSM practices fosters a culture of responsibility, respect, and mutual enjoyment.

Read our open letter to Race Bannon, an active and popular person in the glbtqi space, who actively tries to cancel Old Guard Leather. He claims that we don’t exist. He has been invited to an interview with Sir Lupus for a healthy confrontation, but he never showed up for it.