Welcome to our Reading Library!  Dive right in.  We host a range of important BDSM writings you may download, share, cite and use (with attribution to its author, please) in your own writings and classes!

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Stories and Speeches

To Feed Your Brain


COMMUNITY ELDERS AND ACTIVISTS

Gloria Brame

Keynote Speech, Colorado LeatherFest 2020

5 Cliches About BDSM That BDSMers Should Stop Repeating

Liberating Bisexuality is Liberating

Put Your Toys Away and Build Your BDSM Skills

Transformation and Transcendence in BDSM

Keynote Speech, Leather Leadership Conference 2009


David Stein

The Origins of Safe, Sane, Consensual


Guy Baldwin


Race Bannon

Are Our Educational Efforts Backfiring? 

BDSM Education: Has it Gone Too Far

The Purpose of Education 

Coming Out Kinky:  How Much Should People Know


Laura Antonio

Leave the Myth, Take the Cannoli

Warnings and Consequences


Patrick Mulcahey

First, Be a Human Being

Kemmerings

Learning About Learning


Master Taino

Building Bridges: Diversity in our Community

Latinos and Blacks: A Similar Journey 

Leather Families


Tony DeBlase

Listen and Learn


Guides for Organizers and Leaders

Best Practices for Event Leaders by BED Board

How to Create a Safer and More Accommodating BDSM Education Event by BED Board

Building Diversity in BDSM Education by BED Board

When the Bad Boys Come for You: Dealing with Law Enforcement by Guy deBrownsville, BED Board Member

WODO: Wisdom of a Dungeon Owner by Unc’ Abdul, BED Board Member


Kink/Fetish Resources

How to Stay Safe During Pride by Jude Samson

Horizontal Violence and Othering by Allena Gabosch

Show Your Partner You Love Them (Through Spanking) by Dr. Pega Ren

Cuckolding:  Why Men Want to Share Their Wives with Other Men by David Ley, Ph.D.

Answers by M. Christian


Kink Scholarship

Leatherboy: Finding Identity Within a Sub Subculture  by Randi M. Kemmler, BED Board Member

Women in Leather: creating a voice in a male-dominated civilization by Randi M. Kemmler, BED Board Member


International BDSM

Voices from Leather/BDSM/Kink communities abroad.

BDSM Organizing in Budapest by RisleyAddix/Daniel

Post-Socialist Paranoia and Great Improvements in the Hungarian BDSM Community by RisleyAddix/Daniel