Walking the path of Spirituality within BDSM, an afternoon with Master Z By: Bushido Bard Spirituality and religion are often spoken of together as if the two are inseparable. Master Z suggests that your spirituality can be separate from your religion or fully integrated with it. Although he officially joined Leather in 2000 Master Z […]
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What is a Leather Family? An Afternoon with Master Jim, slave marsha, and Sir Cougar By: Bushido Bard Are all leather families the same? Is it required that everyone is poly? How do you define your leather family? To answer these questions I listened to the presentation given by Master Jim, slave Marsha, and Sir
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Leather Lessons Learned… from my Mama by maya My mama, a huge part of my heart and soul, died a little over a week ago. I wrote some words to say at her burial and as I’ve been thinking about and reading them again, I realized she was always teaching me some very important lessons
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Posted on date: 11/1/2013 Eligibility Adult, aged 18 or over have ever been in a Leather/BDSM/kink relationship in which you experienced intimate partner abuse, and sought help from publicly available domestic violence/intimate partner abuse services, or wanted to seek help from publicly available domestic violence/intimate partner abuse services, but did not do so. The interview will take
The DVP Team is putting the finishing touches on our training module for the National Domestic Violence Hotline. Administers and supervisors from the Hotline will be meeting with the Team here in Dallas on Friday, 10-18-13 for a first run through of the Training that the Team has developed. Any changes or additions that may
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Shrink Rap! (September 2013) Dennis C. Hartzog, M.Ed., LPC Hi! Welcome to “Shrink Rap!” My hope is that this monthly column will be a safe place to discuss issues related to having a safe and healthy Kink/Leather/BDSM relationship. I encourage you to submit any questions you may have, or issues that you would like to
The NLA Dallas Domestic Violence Project Team: Lex, Beth, Artemis, Rob, Hardy, Jim R. and I are on schedule with the development of our training module for The National Domestic Violence Hotline staff in Austin. Team members work well together and have a good balance of knowledge of the Kink/Leather/BDSM community, training experience, knowledge of
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Shrink Rap! (August 2013) Dennis C. Hartzog, M.Ed., LPC Hi! Welcome to “Shrink Rap!” My hope is that this monthly column will be a safe place to discuss issues related to having a safe and healthy Kink/Leather/BDSM relationship. I encourage you to submit any questions you may have, or issues that you would like to
I have received feedback several times in the past few months that there is a lot of talk about what NLA Dallas DV Project is planning/about/going to do. Well, that is fair and very true. Things in the mental health field don’t just happen quickly….there is much discussion, exploration of various options, establishing mutually agreed
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All interested individuals who are involved in BDSM/Leather/Kink lifestyles are invited to participate in a survey about intimate partner abuse. The purpose of this survey is to gather information regarding the quality of experiences had by those who sought help from domestic violence service providers, or those who wanted to seek help, but did not
