Our theme is devious toys you can have in your carry-on that won’t raise any eyebrows with TSA’s security check but they’ll raise a lot more than that at your destination.
 
We will have two presenters, the first will demonstrate and talk about tactile play.  Our second presenter will demonstrate a technique that acts like a single-tail yet uses a simple dish towel.

Tactile Play
You are bound, gagged, blindfolded, immobilized.
You are eager, excited, afraid, dripping.
Will it be scratchy, soft, prickly, penetrating, hot, rough? Yes!!!
And you will come. But not for a long, long time.
You are frustrated.
You want more.
 
Tactile play creates a heightened sense of anticipation and sensory pleasure using common household items. We’ll explore how to use our skin, our largest organ, as an extension of erotic expression. Bring your warped mind and come see for yourself what pleasures lie around your house, just collecting dust. You’ll never see your kitchen utility drawer the same way again.

Bio - Master Bill
BILL has been an active participant in the Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago BDSM communities for over ten years, regularly attending kink and play events globally. His passion for tactile play surfaced at the start of his BDSM journey and he has presented this workshop for various clubs nationally. Dungeon Masters often spend considerable time circling his scenes, eagerly watching and taking notes.

Single Toweling
Towel Dad creates all the effect of a single tail with a simple dish towel.  His take on the locker room towel flick is like nothing you’ve seen before.  A perfect alternative to the risk of bringing your single tail through airport security.  This is a demo not to be missed.
 
Bio – Towel Dad
Towel Dad (BILL B) has been a part of the SF kink scene for 30 years.  Like many others he was initially drawn by the look, feel and smell of leather.  In time, he became attracted to the activities associated with leather and kink.  His favorite toys are floggers needles and dishtowels(!).   He was one of the original LDG Steering Committee members and has served as Program Committee Chair.  He has demoed at several LDG Fetish Fairs.  His poly family includes a boy and a son (both of legal age) who will be participating in his demo.  A longtime Associate member of the 15 Association, he was also a member of Pegasus Motorcycle Owners Club.  He rides a Shadow Aero and hopes to be "the oldest mofo on two (motorized) wheels in SF".

Join Daddy Robert for peer demonstrations and games. Share different whip techniques, show off your interesting whips, and have fun in the sun (with any luck!). Listen for the sounds of the whips!

Please note: this is a whip skills event in public - it wouldn't be appropriate (or legal) to use your whips on other people. Please be respectful of the kids, dogs, and non-kinky folks who will also be sharing the park with us.

Peter Fiske in Conversation with Erik Will, followed by a whipping demonstration

Please join us for a celebration of San Francisco's, California's, IML's and the USA's beloved "Leather Yoda" as he marks fifty years in leather and BDSM. We'll talk a walk down memory lane with Peter, view selections from his renowned whip collection, and see a demonstration of his legendary singletail skills.

There is only one Peter Fiske, folks. Like all great leathermen, he's an original, and unlike so many great names of the past, he's still with us and active as ever, living proof that sweetness and sadism need not be mutually exclusive. Don't miss this opportunity to get up close and personal with a bonafide icon who doesn't seem to know he is one.

PETER FISKE has beeen a leatherman since March 1964. He is a Stonewall veteran and continues to be an activist in the LGBT and leather communities, working tirelessly for inclusion and acceptance for all in BDSM and Leather. He served on the board of the S.F. AIDS Emergency Fund from 1997 to 2002, as President of AEF in 2000, and is a co-founder of the BCEF (Breast Cancer Emergency Fund). He served as well on the S.F. Pride board from 2002 to 2005 and as S.F. Leather Daddy XXI.

Daddy Peter has been a mentor and BDSM educator/player all his adult life,presenting hundreds of programs all over the country.  He is the senior member and Chairman Emeritus of the 15 Association and former Chairman and Co-Ordinator of Delta International. He is a two-time Pantheon of Leather awardee, for the Western region and for Lifetime Achievemen, and was also honored with the Hank Cook Service award by AEF and by S.F. Pride with the 2005 Heritage of Pride award for longtime service to the S.F. LGBT community.

"How did I get to be a village elder? I don't know, but I care about those coming into Leather now and about our future. I will continue to work (and play!) as long as I can to keep BDSM healthy, safe and fun, and to keep us free to be ourselves. My motto is Play Hard, Live Free, support the LA&M and always tip your bartenders generously."

A double-decker program with one of our favorite men and presenters!

1) Mark will describe and demonstrate the purpose and application of canes, belts and straps.

2) Mark will give us a talking tour of the mind, heart and history of one of America's great leathermen.

MARK FRAZIER has been involved in the leather and kink lifestyle for over 25 years and has led over 1700 workshops. He has had the privilege of owning nightclubs, holding leather titles ranging from local to International, holding board positions and memberships on numerous prominent local to international organizations, and has been honored with many awards and accolades. Mark currently resides in Dallas, Texas, where he co-owns the Dallas Eagle.

Master Z says that he saw this stapling scene done in a dungeon and knew that this had to become part of his repertoire.

Come see the fun you can have with an electric staple gun (yes, the Home Depot type), a little duct tape, and impact instruments, including fists.  Those who may be a little squeamish about blood play should be aware that they probably will see some.

MASTER Z OF TEXAS is a well-known Dominant, presenter and leader in the Leather and BDSm scene.  Selected International Master in 2004, he travels all over the United States and Canada making presentations on the Master/slave-Leather lifestyle and BDSm technique.  He has also served as a popular keynote speaker and emcee for a number of events.   He is the Owner of slave bill and slave kiki, and has slave tina, slave trudy and slave mark and Douglas, who is his first boy, in service.

Master Z is Chairman and President of Butchmanns, Inc., and currently is an Instructor for the Butchmanns Weekend Experience.  He is the Producer and HeadMaster for boys Training Camps and Co-Producer of Masters Retreat.

In 2010, Master Z was the recipient of the Leather SINS, Inc., President’s Award.  He was the recipient of the “Masters Heart Award” in 2006 and the “Leatherman’s Heart Award” in 2004.  He is one of the Heads of Household for the Texas Leather Tribe, a leather family he shares responsibility for with his wonderful leather brothers, Master Roy and Master Glen.

Master Z is eternally grateful to his mentors, the late Master Dean Walradt and the late boy Patrick Chees, who taught him much of the leather protocols and rituals that he cherishes today.  Master Z is certain that his leather journey, BDSm experiences, and a certain wonderful desert Master are directly related to his Spiritual Path.

Legendary body-piercing pioneer, scholar and writer Paul King and his bottom will demonstrate an uncensored play-piercing scene (which will not be recorded or streamed live).  The evening will include an interview with Paul, a play-piercing Q.&A., and a broader discussion on matters pertaining to blood play, from symbolism and sex to safety guidelines.

PAUL KING has been a professional Body Piercer since 1991 and a SM enthusiast before that. He is Gauntlet trained and certified with a one-and-a-half year apprenticeship under Elayne Angel, author of The Piercing Bible. He worked in all three former Gauntlet locations, Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco, and was store manager in L.A. and NYC. In 1996, Jim Ward, founder of Gauntlet, awarded Paul the honorary title of Master Piercer. Paul apprenticed many piercers for Gauntlet as well as co-taught Gauntlet training seminars.

In 1999, Paul King partnered to create Cold Steel America tattooing and piercing services in San Francisco. He is an active member of the Association of Professional Piercers (APP). Recently he successfully completed a three-year elected position as a board member for the APP. In 2007, he received the APP’s President’s Award for contributions to the piercing industry. Currently, he is the board appointed Treasurer for the APP.

Paul lectures at universities and conferences on various aspects of body modification. He is an avid traveler, collector, and student of anthropology. Please visit www.safepiercing.org to read his articles on piercing history and traditional practices in issues of The Point, as well as for information on his documentary Rituals of life: The Phuket Vegetarian Festival.

Paul has given play piercing lectures for Avatar, Threshold, Society of Janus (L.A.), Chicago Hellfire’s Inferno, and Atlanta SM Solidarity.

Come and let NICK ELLIOTT, INTERNATIONAL MR BOOTBLACK 2012, show you the ancient mysteries of the bootblack, from the basics of how to care for your leather, to how to negotiate the bootblack chair — both as a client and a bootblack.

After Nick left the US Military in 2004, he spent his early leather years in Texas. He spent 3 years on the board of EROS, a long standing group in Houston, and was an active member of NLA-Houston. Nick currently lives in Portland, OR with his lovely wife, and has a boyfriend in Edinburgh.

Nick is one of the charter members of the PDX bootblacks, and a Portland Leather Alliance member. He is also the Oregon State Bootblack 2011, and International Mr. Bootblack 2012. He believes by taking care of your leather, he's taking care of you.

Nick calls himself a bi-poly-pagan-kinky-gamer-geek or slut for short. He enjoys switching for impact and rough body play and loves to bite. He is also turned on by bears, armpits, gloves, and cigars.

The skin is by far the largest organ in the human body, but most SM techniques evoke only a small fraction of its potential for painful pleasure. Even a thorough flogging stimulates the nerves in just a few square feet of flesh. Wake up as much of his skin as you want, and leave him crying, moaning, and begging for mercy — or for more! — with cheap, disposable abrasion gear, from sandpaper and emery boards to an endless variety of brushes. Abrasion can be exquisitely calibrated from sensuous to excruciating, and sometimes the effect is all out of proportion to its immediate cause. A long, patient brushing can leave your bottom's skin so sensitive that simply breathing on it will make him shriek! Most abrasion play is very low risk, but even in a heavy scene you can minimize the risk of transmitting blood-borne diseases by taking simple precautions.

DAVID STEIN knew he was twisted very early, before puberty, but he didn't get into the gay leather/SM scene until his late 20s, first in Pittsburgh and then, from 1977 on, in New York City. (See details here.) He's always been a big ol' bottom except for a period of about a year in the early 1980s when he explored the other side. Although he got laid a lot more, he enjoyed it much less, so he switched back for good, with one exception — demos of erotic abrasion.

He learned about abrasion in 1981 from the man who more or less invented it as an SM technique, Chuck Barrow, a full member of the Chicago Hellfire Club. It was Chuck, in fact, who showed David that he had a strong masochistic streak and wasn't only a bondage bottom and slave wannabe. Their SM sessions were both the heaviest David had ever had and also among the most satisfying. After Chuck died of AIDS a few years later, David sought to pass on his abrasion "gospel" in an essay, "Oh, the Pleasure of the Pain! An Ode to Abrasion." This was widely reprinted and came to the attention of an Australian leatherman, Bob Buckley (also now gone), who developed his own spin on abrasion and popularized it through his scenes at Inferno.

Meanwhile, over the years David gave programs and demos on abrasion both for his own group, New York's GMSMA (Gay Male SM Activists, which disbanded in 2009), and numerous others. In 1980, David had co-founded GMSMA — which became at one time the largest gay s/m organization in the world — and he helped lead it through 1991.  In 1983 he coined the phrase “safe, sane, and consensual s/m” for the group’s Statement of Purpose. (Go here for his essay about the origin, use, and misuse of the “SSC” slogan.)

In 1999 he co-founded the NYC gay chapter of MAsT (Masters And slaves Together), which he also led for a number of years. He's a widely published author on SM and M/s topics, and for six years he was the safety columnist for Bound&Gagged magazine. He has presented at numerous leather events, including the Leather Leadership Conference, the Master/slave Conference, South Plains Leatherfest, Southeast Leatherfest, and the Northwest Leather Celebration — where he'll be speaking this year about BDSM Ethics, just a few days before his LDG appearance. His M/s novel, Carried Away, was published in 2002 by Daedalus and is still available. In 2009 he published Ask the Man Who Owns Him, a nonfiction book based on interviews with gay Masters and slaves in long-term relationships, and Boots, Bondage, and Beatings, a collection of his shorter fiction, under his own  imprint, Perfectbound Press.  Since then he's published kinky gay story collections by Thom Magister and Christopher Pierce, and more titles are in the works.

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Update: David is kindly allowing us to post the handout he brought as an aid to his program. Its a short, excellent read. Please enjoy your erotic abrasion play :)

The more technical our play becomes, the more layers of gear or equipment between our own skin and the skin of our play partner, the more important are the strategies we use for achieving meaningful connection with each other.

Join us for one experienced and widely respected player's take on how to make your electro play serve you -- rather than you serving all those dials, clamps and electrodes.

YOSSIE SILVERMAN has been a kinky player for 25 years. His interests cover a wide range from basic corporal punishment play to esoteric medical play. As a member of the Chicago Hellfire Club he has taught various SM techniques both at the yearly Inferno event and other leather venues around the country and the world.

A special Leather Week evening with the legendary leatherman, April 1978 Playgirl "Man of the Month," 1989 Mr Drummer, 2002 bronze "physique" medalist at the Gay Games in Australia, and star of such Zeus Studios bondage/fetish classics as "Steel Dungeon," "Brute Force," "Recaptured," "Rubber Roughhouse," and the "Bodybuilder Bondage Wrestling" series. Dawson will talk about his introduction to leather, his sudden celebrity, his experiences over the span of decades in the leather community, and will offer a demo and tips on erotic body punching.

MR DAWSON has been in demand as an emcee, speaker, educator and contest judge since he was named second runner-up at IML 1988 and selected as International Mr. Drummer the following year. He was the keynote speaker for Leather Leadership Conference Six and has presented at numerous leather events including Thunder in the Mountains, South Plains Leatherfest, Southeast Leather Fest, and Tribal Fire. He was named “2006 Mentor of the Year” by the Los Angeles Leather Coalition and was given the “Leatherman’s Heart Award” at the 2007 Southwest Leather Conference. Most recently he was the featured speaker at the Mr. Leatherman Toronto speaker’s series.

Dawson is past facilitator of the Orange Coast Leather Assembly and a member of Avatar Los Angeles. He feels that it is up to each of us to educate those new to the scene. He aligns himself with "Old Guard" ideals and thanks those that have gone before him for his training.

Breath Play is obviously one of the most potentially dangerous SM activities, requiring responsibility, trust and scrupulous safety practices. Practitioners describe Breath Play as sensual, euphoric, and erotic.

Note that solo breath play can be fatal and intended "safeguards" often fail, find an experienced partner with whom to play and learn.

We will explore techniques, methods and safety, and will conclude with a question/answer session and hands-on play.

Mark Frazier is co-owner and executive producer of the International Leather Sir/boy and Community Bootblack contests. He currently owns the Dallas Eagle and is also an ER Nurse.

Mark has been involved in the Leather lifestyle for well over 20 years. He has had the privilege of holding leather titles ranging from state and regional to International, holding board positions on prominent local and national organizations, and receiving many awards and accolades.

His most current project is documenting the leather history of North Texas from the 1950s through current day. It is his hope to have the project completed by the summer of 2011.