Fetish Fact, Fiction & Fantasy

Forget All About Equality This Issue's Featured Photo Essay Photography: Ulli Richter[dsm_masonry_gallery gallery_ids="71575,71576,71577,71578,71579,71580,71581,71582,71583,71584,71585,71586,71587,71588,71589,71590,71591,71592,71593" dsm_sort_images="off"...

My name is Lancelot Runge and I'm a faggot in Brooklyn. Scorpio if you're into that. I've been an artist in some capacity my whole life from drawing, painting, printmaking, making altered books and zines, performing and making music. I lost my vision and drive as an...

I am not a historian. I am a storyteller. Many years ago, my psycho-analytic psychotherapist explained what we were doing in analysis this way: you are telling yourself the story of yourself, telling it in such a way that it is coherent and all the pieces fit, and...

By Steven Harwick

Written by: slave69porter is the property of Master Douglas(ChiefDaddyMaster on Recon) Over the years, it has sometimes been approached by other bottoms/subs who have asked “how does one becomes a slave and what does being a slave entail”? Firstly, who is it that...

Interview By: Matthew MullinsPhoto: Ulli Richter What would you do if you were locked in a cage against your will and given no choice in what happened next? Recounting a memory of such an experience can be daunting but also helps frame the experience, showing us what...

A Nod to Fellow Travelers By Sir Jacob, Master of the ArtsPhotos: Ulli Richter Please master can I touch your check Please master can I kneel at your feet ~Allen Ginsberg, “Please Master,” 1968 Mid-20th century U.S.A. – Founding dads of Leather returned from war...

Written by: Drew KramerPhotography: Chris GreeneModels: Vince Edd, John Simon, jv   In Drummer Magazine’s long history much ink has been spilled on the topic of Mastery and slavery... Many depictions of Masters and slaves have appeared in our pages. Typically, these...

Written By: Drew KramerPhotos: Ulli Richter   My first night in Berlin. Airport baggage claim, taxi, checking into my hotel, Artim on Fuggerstraße, schnitzel at a restaurant down the block, and now for the purpose of my trip: I was going to a leather bar. My...

Illustration: Dave E. Ashley

Stephen Sadowskiwith Shane Rooks

For years, Doctor Sado has had his diabolical schemes foiled by that interfering superhero who calls himself Bravura. Once before, Sado had captured Bravura and thought that tying him up in a basement with a ticking time bomb would put an end to the the meddling hero....

Tim woke up to the rhythmic sound of a chain sticking a sling frame coupled with the sound of heavy breathing from the two guys across the cabin from his bunk. After dinner, Tim had kicked off his boots and laid down for a nap. His bunk was in the leather barrack not...

So said Uncle Ben to Peter Parker. As I have grown older as a leatherman, I have found that my erotic power has increased rather than diminished. I am now a Daddy. I get attention from men half my age - and sometimes younger. As best my feeble old brain can recall, in...

How To Talk A Straight Bro Into Having Sex With You You good? Need me to beer you? Cool. Dude. You gotta admit, I’ve got it way better than you. Don’t pretend you don’t know what I’m talking about. Sex, my dude. Sex. Think about it. The three possibilities for people...

Steve “Titpig” Hurley (born Paul Yinger) set a new standard for what the image of what a gay porn star should look like.  Rising to fame in the late ‘90s and early 2000s, he was burly and hairy and hyper-masculine at a time when trends favored a more toned and smooth...

By Sir Jacob, Master of the Arts “If it wasn’t about power, domination, or suppressing my emotions, Bruce didn’t have me read it.” ~Dick Grayson, also known as Night Wing, formerly known as Robin, Titans"   The Gay Male Leather subculture as we know it was...