ONLINE: What's Leather Got to Do With It? Leather Identity, Fetish, Sex, and Soul

The world of BDSM often speaks of Leather as an identity, or as shorthand for our passions, but what about leather itself? The hides of animals, our second skins, this material that once lived and breathed has inspired erotic explorers for generations… why?

From tools of pain and pleasure to the wide varieties of clothing that wrap around our form and conform to our shape with time – we will examine our tough exteriors to find how leather fetish has inspired leather sex, and in turn, leather soul, identity, and spirit… and the term “Leather Community” itself.

Bring at least one piece of leather with you – be it a piece of your earned leathers if you come from that tradition, your favorite flogger, a tight pair of gloves, your favorite boots, your old friend of a belt, or something else to inspire yourself or others as part of this conversation towards understanding leather as more than a raw material.

PRESENTER:

Lee Harrington is an internationally known spiritual and erotic authenticity educator, gender explorer, eclectic artist, and award-winning author and editor on erotic and sacred experience. He's been traveling the globe teaching and talking about sexuality, psychology, faith, and desire, and believes you deserve passion and connection in your life.

His books include Playing Well With Others: Your Guide to Discovering, Exploring and Negotiating the Kink, Leather, and BDSM Communities (with Mollena Williams), Sacred Kink: The Eightfold Paths of BDSM and Beyond, Shibari You Can Use: Japanese Rope Bondage and Erotic Macramé, and Traversing Gender: Understanding Transgender Realities, amongst many others.

Lee has been a passion instigator, academic, adult film performer, world-class sexual adventurer, outspoken philosopher, polytheist priest/ess, kink/bondage expert, and has been blogging about sex and spirit since 1998. Read more about Lee at PassionAndSoul.com.

TICKETING:

https://forbiddentickets.com/events/wicked-grounds/4625ae077d

We offer a sliding scale, so that cost is not a barrier to attendance.

$30 is what most people should pay.

$20 is offered if the regular ticket would be a barrier to participation. $40 allows us to make the discounted ticketing available to others.

So - that's it! Choose the level you can comfortably afford.

Patreon members at the VIP+ level may get discounted tickets for $10. Just see your Patreon membership emails for this month's discount code. Find out more at Patreon.com/WickedGrounds!

If cost is a barrier at any level, please use the "Volunteer List" to request a free scholarship ticket. We will award as many scholarship tickets as we can on a space-available basis.

ACCESS:

This will be a live, online class offered through Zoom. To participate, you will need to download the free, basic version of the Zoom app before the class! This class will be recorded but might not be guaranteed available for later viewing.

Zoom now provides closed captioning which will be available for this event.