Men's "Leather 101" Workshop, Friday Oct. 1

SDLOG monthly educational meeting
7PM-9PM - October 1, 2010 (First Friday of the month)

This event will be at the Joyce Beers Community Center, in Hillcrest (the gray area on the map is the Ralph's shopping center parking lot). It's directly across the parking-lot from Ralph's supermarket, on the other side of the building containing Starbucks.

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Leather 101 is a welcoming workshop for all men.  We'll touch on getting started, communication, relationships, spirituality, tips for us in San Diego, and resources for learning more.   

Leather 101 is a popular topic and Officer Wes has presented it to different audiences including San Diego Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Pride, San Diego League of Gentlemen and Club X San Diego nearly every year since 2003.  Officer Wes thanks his friend Wendy Sue for the information on leather womyn's resources that was incorporated in 2004.

About our presenter:

Officer Wes entered his first leather bar in 1980.  He has examined and shared on issues of sexual expression and other areas of the human experience for much of his life.  His experiences and viewpoints have appeared in many publications including USA Today and The Advocate.  He judges regional and international contests and presents programs and workshops on Master/slave and Daddy/boy relationships, spirituality and leather, great sex, pain and pleasure, uniforms, fetish, interrogation, electricity, and other aspects of the BDSM arts at clubs and events across the country.  He is credited as an influence in the books Protocol Handbook for the Leather Slave and Master/slave Relations, and is the author of the electrical chapter of the upcoming book Edgeplay and Power Exchange.  His Web sites on sexuality, health and kink stand as a resource for others seeking to live in integrity with their authentic selves and have been visited by over a quarter of a million people. 

Officer Wes was an inaugural mentor for SAADE, the School for Advanced American Dominant Education, a formal mentoring program for new dominants that instructs its apprentices not only in physical SM practices but on the mental, emotional and spiritual dynamics of BDSM as well.  He served on the host committee for Living in Leather VIII, was an inaugural core member of San Diego's private men's BDSM group SuperPigs, and is an Associate Member of the Chicago Hellfire Club. 

Officer Wes has an open leather family built around shared values of respect, honor, trust, and love.  He is open to having a slave in service and is himself in service to a Daddy.  More information about Officer Wes can be found at his website.