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
Coming Out Kinky: How Much Should People Know
Laura Antonio
Leave the Myth, Take the Cannoli
Patrick Mulcahey
Master Taino
Building Bridges: Diversity in our Community
Latinos and Blacks: A Similar Journey
Tony DeBlase
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
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