This will cover the basics of punching and and doing it safely. And then we will discuss what it takes to seduce further consent, and how make a good scene fantastic. How to connect and and communicate on a deeper level. Too often a bottom has fear that is allowed to end a scene, the pain was not what caused the scene to end, it was the fear. By staying focused on the bottom, the top is able to provide the bottom with an experience where the bottom allows the scene to be more intense than his fear would have permitted.

Joe Gallagher is a Philadelphia native. He lived in New York from 1987 to 1998. He had the honor of representing New York City as Mr. Leather New York, and then winning International Mister Leather in 1996. He is a sex positive proponent of exploring our personal potential through S/M. Using his year as IML to focus on the issues of sex and S/M, he spoke across the US and Canada on the importance of being out to ourselves and our to fellows about who we are, and what turns us on. Rather than neutering himself to be politically correct, He focused on a healthy combination of activism for sexual freedom and a realism and appreciation of the transformational power of S/M. Joe was the First IML to come out as HIV+.

Joe has lived in San Francisco since 1998. He became a barber in 2002 after attending Moler Barber College in Oakland, and opened Joe’s Barbershop in the San Francisco’s Castro in 2004. Joe lives in a small loft [basically a dungeon] in the Mission District, he is grateful that it has enough room for him to throw a whip.

He is an Associate of the Chicago Hellfire Club. While he lived in NYC, he was a board member of Gay Male S/M Activists 1996 - 1998. He has appeared in four videos; two S/M videos for Zeus, "Brute Force" and " Brute Force II - Expect No Mercy" and Catalina's "Hellbent for Leather". The fourth video was so bad that he tries to never talk about it, although he is horrified when it shows in a bar or sex club while he is there.