Nelson\borhek#press Life, leather and the pursuit of happiness: life, history and culture in the leather/bdsm/fetish community, paperback/steve lenius

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ANNOUNCING A MAJOR NEW BOOK ABOUT LIFE IN THE LEATHER/BDSM/FETISH COMMUNITY.

Life, Leather and the Pursuit of Happiness is the first book by award-winning leather columnist Steve Lenius, whose Leather Life column has appeared in the pages of Lavender Magazine since 1995.

Now he's chosen selections from fifteen years of Leather Life columns and other writings, newly updated and annotated, to create this book: a humorous, touching, revealing and enlightening tour through the alternative sexual and social worlds of contemporary leather, BDSM, fetish and kink.

Read Life, Leather and the Pursuit of Happiness and discover: --A recipe for a leather vest --What's your LPT (leather personality type)? --The hankie code (in poetic form) --International Mr.

Leather and International Ms Leather: A handy comparison chart --Are your sex toys hazardous to your health? --An open letter to Senator Larry Craig --Christian BDSM (Christian? Yes.

Vanilla? Not necessarily.

) --The feng shui of leather .

and much, much more.

About the Author: Author and columnist Steve Lenius came out as a gay man in 1974 and became involved in the Twin Cities leather community in 1993.

For fifteen years his Leather Life column has appeared in Lavender, Minnesota's GLBT magazine.

His writings also have appeared in The Leather Journal, Skin Two (a fetish magazine published in London, UK), the 2008 Yearbook of the BDSM Creative Collective (Minneapolis/St.

Paul), Leather Tribe Leather Nation (a yearbook published by The Leather Journal), The Petal and the Thorn (newsletter of Black Rose Society, Washington, D.

), International Leatherman and Roundup (magazines for the GLBT leather and country/western/rodeo communities published by Brush Creek Media), The Journal of Bisexuality (published by Haworth Press), The Gayly Oklahoman (a GLBT newspaper based in Oklahoma City), XL (Lavender Magazine's Adult Xtra) and Gaze Magazine (Minneapolis/St.

Paul's forerunner to Lavender).