Lucienne
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ORIGINAL: areallivehuman As I understand Leather, it evolved from the original motorcycle clubs, who were founded by young men, home from the war, looking for excitement, who had been exposed to motorcycles in the service. Leather has been the garment of choice among motorcyclists forever, because it works really well for warmth, comfort, and safety. The first Leatherman were homosexual males, and evolved from these early clubs. This was my understanding as well. In the beginning, there were motorcycle clubs. The outlaws/1%ers and the leather community grew out of those into distinct groups, so that talking about MCs in general or outlaws in particular isn't really the same conversation as talking about the leather community. Is this basically correct? LadyPact, I'm curious how you first became involved with leather. Was it a social/bdsm oriented group or was it more of motorcycle type thing? (Disclosure: I was a social member of an MC that was full of mostly lower-middle class, presumably vanilla, people interested in riding and boozing, protocol was of some importance but I rather assume that the group I was involved with had little resemblance to the sort of thing that would appeal to you in any deep way.)
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