After several weeks of reflection, I recently decided to refrain from Leather circuit events, except for one, and to focus my kink associations and play with more thought during the coming year. WHAT???!!! Miss IML???!!! Um, yeah!

Think about it--for every weekend away from home at some big event strutting about and fucking other wild beasts, we're spending several hundred dollars to a couple thousand, usually on credit. One buddy whose stepping down from a title soon said the last year year has put him deep in debt keeping up with the Leather Joneses! In my case, that's money I can better use to pay for grad school, save for a new home, or put into causes I care about like LGBT domestic violence and empowering people living with HIV.