So why isn’t any president coming-out in support of us?

Actually, I think it’s neat that President Obama ‘came out’ with his view about gay marriage. I believe everyone should be able to express their opinion loudly, regardless of how unpopular it might be and I believe this particular issue has been a running current under this campaign, albeit not the only issue. I’d like to think our prez’s timing had less to do with political pressure then it did with his consciousness needing an airing, though in fairness to the man his stand on this-as with mostly all things a President takes a stand on-will be as much used pro and con for his run for reelection (I reference you to the Newsweek cover complete halo).

Still, nobody is coming out for us kinksters now, are they?

I tend towards the quickest way between two points, traveling in a straight easy line to get to something. It seems simple and straight to me (not necessarily straight sex though) that if what you are doing in your bedroom or even out a kinky event’s play space is consensual, what do I give a donkey’s about the who, why, where or what of what you’re doing? I kid President Obama about coming-out for us kinksters but the point I do think needs making is, gay/straight, guy/girl, kinky or not, whomever you are with in whatever way you are with them, is really your business. It’s a shame our President even has to come out and declare a side either way when I can’t think of an issue that should have less of a side about it; aren’t we all for equal rights here in America?

Hell, isn’t the very foundation of our laws based on that concept?

But still we all feel that critique upon us if what we do is a little afield of what is considered the norm. Mixing according-to-Hoyle normal hetero sexual activities with a little kink, or God forbid, if one happens to not be hetero, sees a shit tsunami quite often from those folks who claim they have the marquis line to what is best for civilization, is God’s plan, is simply right for the continuation of the species.

Seems like a lot of worry over nuffin’ really. And I think more than anything else that’s what the Prez really imparted to us this past week with his declaration, whether he met to or not, and whether the news media will crucify or deify him in kind…really, don’t we all have lots more to worry about then who is marrying whom?

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Being one myself, I applaud any erotic author who can gain even a small foothold in our current cultural zeitgeist.  E.L. James of Fifty Shades Of Grey fame seems surprised at her success but she is doing well indeed with her book (which is one of three in the story) and it seems that housewives and inquisitive talk-show hosts everywhere are devouring her tome.

Now I can’t comment on the book as I haven’t read it-I did have someone regale me of the naughtier parts after I quizzed her about: “Does he whip her?” and “What kind of toys does the main character use?”, but you know how this stuff usually goes…one man’s poison and all that. What I mean is, that for you gentle readers of this blog and fans of Von Gutenberg magazine probably some of, if not all of the stuff in the “Fifty Shades” will read tame in comparison to what you are getting up to nightly…you lucky little pups! I’m sure we have all seen some randy stuff at those kinky events we attend or have just this past weekend enjoyed some romping that would set the pages of Ms. James’ book alight. What I have heard of the scenes in “Fifty” they even pale in comparison to even good ole’ Nine ½ Weeks, another BDSM driven cultural phenom that I found more or less tame (though Mickey Rourke was a good looking guy way back in the day, wasn’t he?)

So, have at “Shades” but if you are even slightly kink-minded I doubt you will find many revelations. What I do find interesting though is that if this book is making such a splash, how staid is the everyday sex life of most people (women mostly because they are the ones who seem to be taking to the book mostly and blushing when commenting on it) that it is making such a splash? Consider, as I always do, that the voodoo that you do-do might really be quite afield from the everyday sex lives of most people who we bump into at the store.

Your gray areas indeed might shine deep red to everyday folks.

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We don’t do this all that often really, beyond the magazine and our couture line we’re not out printing bumper stickers, coffee mugs or blindfolds (hmmm, now blindfolds with a little VG logo dead center might not be such a bad idea…) There is a glut of stuff I know we all get bombarded with, either at those kinky events we attend, or from the various spam emails we get during the day. All you have to do is visit a site one time where you might have passing interest in a niche or some marquis style or activity and BAMMO you start getting those emails. So you don’t need me hawking our wares anymore then I usually do, but or tees are new and I think pretty cool so I did want to take the time to hip you to them.

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Once again I’m in the middle of a busy lubing weekend…ah, my difficult life.

I don’t believe much in the conceit that the creative mind is blessed by the hand-of-God or any of that malarkey…in fact, I tend to believe everyone is an ‘artist’ in their own way and we all possess a creative mind, it’s just some people chose to try and use it more than others or have a job where they can. What I do (beyond the lubing) might seem to be artistic but for me writing, assisting Erik in rolling out and up backgrounds, helping to coordinate the magazine, is a job like any other. I might keep odd hours but God knows I am not toiling under a hot sun roofing-now that is a job I’d never have the balls/energy/strength to do-and to be sure laying a roof correctly is as artful to me as me writing this blog.

It is certainly more difficult.

Now there are as many pitfalls working as a freelance writer as high points. As much as me getting my big gloppy hands across the downy highways and cute little trenches of our models, I work the weekends when most of you are sitting back with a cold one enjoying the game. I see copy come cross my email all the time in our ramp-up to a new issue, when maybe you shut-down for the day or your emails are 80% personal related. And while you crawl across your Facebook account, we attend to ours for the business of amassing friends and fans.

But then again…I ain’t roofing, so I ain’t complaining.

I guess what I am prattling on about is that this is not a 9 to 5’er I do, but I wouldn’t want it any other way. And while I will be deep into some latex this weekend, maybe lacing a corset or standing-in for a light test I really do thank you for letting me do this all. Really, without you reading this blog or buying the magazine, hitting those kinky events we promote on Fantasy Event List or liking us on Facebook I wouldn’t much get to spend these weekends in the middle of it all again. And if you are roofing to afford your forays into the marquis latex lifestyle we present you here, even to the smallest degree, I do tip my hat in your direction, believe me.

Now, let me go get my hands wet.

Look below at that picture, it celebrates one of the most iconic sexy scenes of modern day cinema with our dear sweet Marilyn Monroe. This is a statue that was recently unveiled in Chicago and while I think it would be a gas gas gas to walk right up to the lady’s legs and get a gander up that skirt this reminds me more of the sweet basis of sex:

1.) A paddle with holes, the stunted deer-hide tethers of your favorite flogger, a belt looped hard and tight…sure all of these are good for those who have been naughty in your life, but how ’bout the basics of pulling him or her over your lap for a little bare OTK?

2.) The thigh-high leather boots, the latex choker, the long leather duster…whatever happened to her modeling a nice tight pair of high-cut panties or him a tight white tee with no sleeves?

3.) Hitting that kinky event weekend far from home where you partake in the seminars and nighttime playing in the makeshift dungeon…or simply staying home on the couch for a shared foot massage and whatever else comes from it.

I am as much for the pony-play, diapering, suspension end of the spectrum as I am for the the getting into position to piston one’s hips like a jack hammer. I like all the bells and whistles of buckles and bows, marquis one-of-a-kind outfits as I do enjoying the classic little black dress or a girl wearing an over-sized sweatshirt. Like that famous subway breeze blown image of M.M. sometimes it can be the simple basic sexy that gets to you as much as anything else.

I love the run-up to our issues. Working with the models (and no, not just the lubing), hanging-out with the crew, getting all the text in, editing-in-chiefing, working with Erik to make the best damn magazine we can…really it’s a lot of fun for me. I like meeting all these new people or seeing old friends, learning all this cool stuff about running a marquis fashion latex empire. Dreaming about hitting the fetish events and revising copy with the writers, sharing emails and stories. It’s also cool when we get free stuff to review-really, who doesn’t like free stuff?-or we are invited to happenings because of our rep. (though more Erik then me, he’s the one with the rep really) or people put faith in our opinions, or shoot us over a listing for FEL or are happy to see themselves in the magazine or work with us (not ever has happy and flattered though as we are to work with them, to be sure). All this warm and fuzziness makes it hard for me not to spill the beans though, makes me chomp-at-the-bit (and in what we are ll into I can mean that figuratively as well a literally) sees me holding my tongue in a way I am not used. So right here and now let me tell you that for issue # 7 we are planning…

No no no, I can’t say, I really mustn’t. Let me just clearly state that you’re gonna love it, it’s gonna be fun with a capital “F” and we are going to opening the Von Gutenberg portal as wide as we have yet.

Stay tuned kids, the ride has just begun.

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By now you’ve no doubt heard about those Secret Service dudes not having the sense enough to keep their paid-for sexual liaisons down in Columbia a secret? But did you hear the one about Detroit Circuit Judge Wade McCree sending nearly all nude full frontal shots to a woman who works in the courthouse with him (found on that woman’s cell phone by her hubby!) It boggles the mind how these guys-and girls also do this kind of stuff, it just happens to me men here-continue to let their libidos do the talking and walking so often and so ardently that common sense gets trumped time and again.

But it also makes me feel slightly superior as it should for all of us…there was not a kink to be found in any of this.

Too often, as you well know, we who attend kinky events, use leather and lace for a lot more than just clothing-and rubber and latex for only clothing-who know a little about fleet enemas and how long to let a clothespin stay affixed to a nipple come under derision and mocking for the things we let our libidos get us into, but God knows, for the most part, we try to keep our dalliances private, we don’t seem to be the one’s found out all too often (unless that’s our particular kink); we simply get on with getting-on in the way we need to get off.

If any of those Secret Service guys were paying escorts for a little spanking with their happy-endings or if ole Judge McCree had a cock ring circling his unseen tallywacker at this juncture nobody seems to know, but I am heartened that is was, as usual (but surely not always) everyday hetero men getting into trouble with everyday ‘normal’ lustful thoughts and actions.

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I know, I know, I have been on about this before, but I was prompted by a few things…

First of all the publication of David J. Ley’s The Myth Of Sex Addiction, a new book that explores a cultural phenomena that is not yet even recognized by the American Psychiatric Association. I happen to think this hardcover, which I am currently half way through, might be one of the most important books of recent years.

And then the CEO of Von Gutenberg and I had a talk about some future things here and I put these two things together in the dull organ I call a brain and had me a scribble as I do here twice a week.

These days, online or off, we are going to pretty much look for that which attracts us, spend our time in communities of the like-minded, circle round us that which we are comfortable or at least slightly interested in. And no matter if what we are ‘into’ falls aside of what’s considered ‘normal’ in our frequency of taking to it or the thing itself the fact we are do does not mean we are necessarily addicted. Hitting a kinky event, enjoying a threesome or just watching a porno at home, who among us is to say what is too much and what’s too wild? Even if what you are into is beyond the pale of most people-though if you are reading this blog you probably have a least heard of most of the things people are into even if you don’t know the technical name for it-the oddity of the thing does not make your need for it odd.

Get that, should I repeat myself?

Really, if you are even on the web a small amount you know what’s out there, you know what consenting adults are getting into-sexual or not-you know what we can all find and indulge in. And while I am not saying that some of these interests couldn’t turn into obsessions (or cause a little chafing from time to time) need we term them addictions?

The web is big wide wonderful place and so we hope is the portal we present with all of the things we do here at Von Gutenberg, from our shop, to our Twitter and Facebook presences, to or Fantasy Event List. As the summer approaches and we all enjoy the normal evolution of our hearts, minds and lusts let’s just take a breath and consider our fellow guys and girls as many not so much addicted as just maybe kink and horny on occaison?

So I got a run down where you can find Von Gutenbeg magazine in Canada. If you happen to be living in the environs north of me, our issue six cover-girl MiMi Cherry’s home country, then make sure you pick-up a copy of issue 6 (and what will soon be issue 7) at:

Does Your Mother Know (and I am sure she does!) at 2139 W. 4th Ave in Vancouver sell us, as does Mayfair News at 1535 W .Broadway and Zulu Records at 1972 W 4th there (not so far away from Does Your Mother Know actually). You can find us at the Daily Globe Newshop, 1004 17th Ave S.W. in Calgary and Billy’s News 206 7th Ave S. in the same city. In Winnipeg there are two places that sell us, Dominion News And Gifts, 262 Portage Ave and McNally Robinson Books 1120 Grant Ave #4000.

And in Toronto we are at Presse Internationale-Bloor, at 537 Bloor W.

I guess my point is that if you are looking for Von Gutenberg you are sure to find it. We are out there among you, tickling and teasing from or our most recent steamy red cover, just dying for you to peal us open and feast your eyes on our latex marquis words and pictures and reporting on kinky events.

I have a extensive listing of the Canada locations we’ll be putting up soon as well sneaking in the other locations around the globe where you can get your grubby hands on our pages.

It’s not the easiest thing to do, as we all have found, but somewhere along the way we have to place the ex in the right compartment in our mind and heart if we want to get on with our lives. Young or older, gay or straight, guy or girl, we have all been at the precipice of teetering for the rest of our days or turning our back finally and firmly, pickin’-up our britches and getting on getting on.

It ain’t easy, I know. Shit, with Facebook staring us in the face at every turn, God knows it’s so tempting to look-up-the-old flame and get those answers you have been dying for near a half decade…or at least get to ask the questions. It’s a dangerous path to walk though and memories are a bitch; it’s best leave them be, really.

How ‘bout getting out some latex? How ‘bout attending one of those amazing marquis kinky events you read about on the equally amazing Von Gutenberg Fantasy Event List? How ‘bout letting your freak flag fly and finally inviting your very best girlfriend to come over, share a glass of wine and finally reveal your desire for her to spank you bare bottom? How about completing the cross-dressing you have only ever dabbled in before or traipsing cross the boundaries of bisexuality and hitting a few sites you normally would not.

I’m not saying sexual and/or kinky pursuits put the worry and pining over our ex’s in the proper perspective…actually, I think that is exactly what I am saying.

Really dude and dudesses…get off the fucking Facebook and meet some friends outside and out of your house for a cup of coffee, take a twirl across Fetlife? Pick-up issue #6 on Von Gutenberg magazine (available here) and get on with your life.

The ex will always be out there, it’s up to you how you deal with him or her, where you place your memories and how you get on with getting on. Fan the cards and deal or don’t, it’s up to you Potsie.

It’s amazing to me in this day and age how people-some political pundits, some religious zealots, even so-called psychologists-are still going on and on about porn and adult entertainments. Writing for the industry as I do here and a few other places I always err on the side of: if you don’t like it, don’t look at it.

Am I being naïve?

We try to make Von Gutenberg magazine the very best visual representation of the latex lifestyle we can, but we still realize this is a niche interest. Hell, I’d love for everyone the world over to flip open our pages or come to our website, I am truly proud of what we do. But I know Von Gutenberg, like every other magazine out there, doesn’t cater to everyone’s tastes. The way I figure it, if you pick up a copy of the magazine-wonderful!-if you happen across this blog and it makes you giggle once or twice-fantastic! If you suddenly find you’re interested one of the kinky events listed in the calendar of our Fantasy Event List then God’s speed Shadowfax, go and enjoy (just makes sure you take pics and send them to me). But not everything is for everybody’s taste all the time.

Really if you don’t like what you see, close the book; turn off the T.V.; spin the dial. It’s your right to do so and please, monitor the kids as best you can. Really, they shouldn’t be exposed to the sexy stuff until they are really ready to be.

It just seems to be that to truly be a marquis player in the world of popular opinion you need to have a truly fire-and-brimstone opinion these days, whether pro or con something and nothing divides people more then what it is we think and do to fire-and-brimstone our libidos.

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Did you happen to see this article? http://www.xbiz.com/news/146553

Basically the meat of it is that UK’s huge adult lifestyle consumer event, Exotica has been cancelled for this year….though a “new generation” format is slated for 2013, which might include a different venue and dates earlier than planned this year.

Staged annually at London’s Olympia for the past 17 years to avoid charging exhibitors more this year and/or raising ticket prices over all the event was cancelled.

It seems the world-wide economy affects our more prurient interests.

Seeing that I am constantly updating our Fantasy Even List calendar with kinky events like Exotica, and like you all a champion of all adult lifestyles and consenting naughty activities-not just marquis latex fashion lubing-I am troubled any time a sex event or convention gets downsized or cancelled. God knows if we need anything in our lives presently it is our personal entertainments and diversions, our ways to express love and lust with and to one another and I am all about free expression of one’s kinkiest desires whenever one can feel free to express them.

This news of Exotica makes me as disappointed as it does pushes me to want to get out in a pair of leather boots, a lacy boa around my neck and…well you get the idea! I want to as much pull some over-18 year old cheerleader across my lap as I want to…well, you get the idea! I want to get a truly great issue #7 of Von Gutenberg together for you all…and you will get the idea when we do get it together and unleash our summer issue on the masses.

Buck-up my kiddies, we are out here and we are strong and even though the economy sometimes makes things tough we can still be as kinky as we wanna.

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All the kids were on hand…our resident spectacular star of screen, stage and her own amazing curtains Gina Novotchin performing her amazing make-up transformations; newcomer to VG but I believe now our friend/hair person-for-life doing the voodoo to the do’s he did so amazingly well, Kurtis Dam-Mikkelsen, our fearless steamboat captain Erik Von G and I making the most around, under and of the already most-est Goddess Shea. Introducing us all to not only her beauty and poise but her own Rubber Fucker http://www.rubberfucker.com/ latex line of clothing it was a spirited shoot as we stole time, light and barbecue chicken to amass a bunch of amazing pics you’ll be introduced to in our issue #7.

From the ladies Eric has shot so far for this issue and really how well all things are clicking with the team I am amazed at all we are getting to, realizing that at these shoots I do the least amount of work really. Yes lubing is a tough job but watching Kurtis and Gina work on the models, watching the models sweat through various different poses, balancing in bullet heels and the various fetish boots we all know and love and hearing Erik click, suggest a position as he lies on the floor or climbs a ladder I realize I have the easiest job of all.

Still I learn something every time, I enjoy myself immensely and this time I got to meet Goddess Shea and Kurtis Dam Mikkelsen both and was thrilled to have done so.

We want to thank Goddess Shea, Kurtis Damn Mikkelsen and sweet Gina Novotchin for all the great work they do with us at Von Gutenberg.

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So, did you happen to know that Kylie Marilyn was crowned Miss Rubber World 2012 over the past weekend? See what happens when you don’t keep up with the Von Gutenberg Fantasy Event List, you just never know what kinky events are happening!  The rubber world site is here, have a look : http://www.nyrubberball.com/ or check out the doings on https://fetlife.com/groups/37640/group_posts/2336405 (at least to keep up with the next one, all these events just happened.)

Living in the NYC tri-state area as I do and where the VG studio/office/pirate Nutella factory happens to be I often feel we are in one of a handful of kink epicenters and as it is with the wide variety of food I can find in this area, I come to be spoiled with all that’s just a bus or train ride from me. I assume this is the way it is for you folks living in Berlin, London, San Francisco, any really big city. But when I look through the marquis happenings we happen to list in the FEL calendar I notice more and more the kinky events happening in places not the typically celebrated big cities, but places with a healthy lifestyle contingent who turn out time and again for a wild night out with the like-minded.

I had occasion to speak to our friend Mistress Jade Tiger for an interview that appears here (yes, a little cross promotion is good for us all) and she reminded me of a healthy underground of kinksters she used to work with when she lived in Charlotte N.C. of all places. Every time I turn around some other city I never would have even dreamed of supporting a kinky crowd pops-up with an event or a new club that rends my prejudices of small towns asunder. I know in some of the smaller suburban enclaves near my house there are munches that N.J.’s own KFE hosts monthly that see tons of kink enthusiasts.

So you never really know. This is why I tell you time and again to check our FEL, get yourself ready for a party or weekend convention, or just a munch.

You’ll be so happy you did.

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The big question for the non-kinkster about kink always is: just how and why do those people need THAT particular thing to get off? The big question for us lifestylers and kinksters usually is: can we find somebody else with a similar kink or fetish or at least someone interest in facilitating ours who we can come to trust and will be attracted to as they are to us. Sure, we have all been in those situations where we might be getting a particular need met and know full well our partner meeting that need is not so, or at all, into the exact same thing we are, but they are either adept at what they are doing or amiable enough that we let their lack of desire slide…I know it’s none too nice to admit to, but we have all been there. Yes, if we find a like-minded lover and they are as much into dressing in that bunny suit as we are or truly like splashing us with the sweat from socks they have worn through their work-out, all’s the better.

But when is what we want a kink, when a fetish, when a lifestyle? I think really no one can tell that except you.

I heard a very funny line from comedian Sebastian Maniscalco from his last comedy special. I am paraphrasing but basically he said: “There are no single men in sex addiction classes, single men are not sex addicted, they are out getting laid!” which is basically a matter of how you come to look at a situation, your sense of perspective. Kink is only a kinky if you deem it to be. That school-girl role-play with the big bad principal spanking your bottom won’t even blip on the ole radar for some people as kinky at all.

(You seeing a pattern here with what I might be into…sweaty socks, bunny outfits, school-girl/principal spankings?)

Really to each his own to whatever lifestyle, kink or need you have and it is for each of us to determine if what we need and pursue is at all any of the above, or not at all.

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So I will fall well into a shameless promotion blog for today…but fuck-it, I’m entitled.

The way we see it, here at Von Gutenberg you are all entitled actually. Entitled to the very best videos, books, magazines, kinky event calendar and yes, even the very best blog we can deliver. It’s very important to Erik and I, all the staff here, the models, other writers, artists, even the good folks who email in their events that all we do our best providing the very best we can to the lifestyle and the fashion of latex.

In a way, we are trying to keep the customer satisfied when actually we are all the customer.

Attempting to be the marquis latex portal or your MLD, we really do work hard to deliver designers to you, photos, stories, events but we can’t unless you-the customer for want of a better term-deliver right back. And I don’t mean ‘deliver’ with your purchases-though we do “a lot appreciate it” (can you tell me what movie that is from?) when you do make a purchase-I mean by sharing in this community with us all because there is no community without us all.

So while we really do work to keep our customer satisfied we really feel don’t feel such a clear delineation between our customers and us. We are all in this kinky world together my friends, for bad or for good.

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Our friend Madame Carmel, has a great vacation spot for you kinky-minded individuals out there.

Hoxton Dungeon Suite is a first-class BDSM apartment just minutes from the City Of London, featuring a full equipped dungeon and punishment rooms, as well as a bedroom, kitchen and bathroom.  Supplied with Fetter’s furniture though-out, in the main dungeon room you’ll find Bondage Chair & Stool, St. Andrew’s Cross, Whipping Bench, Vac Bed…and a new full-length cage/rack. There’s also a wide variety of restraints, medical and corporal punishment toys and PVC sheets and an iPod docking- station so you can bring your own music.

The Rubber Room features a Chesterfield Chair, 5 rubber catsuits, 2 rubber and 15 rubber hoods, plus  corporal punishment toys.

The bedroom/apartment features a double bed, tables, chest of drawers and a LCD TV. Complimentary WiFi access us now available on the dungeon’s in-house laptop and the kitchen is fully equipped with cooker and hob, fridge/freexer, microwave, kettle toaster, glasses…well you can the idea.

The bathroom features a full range of Champneys toiletries.

Really what else could you want in a marquis kink destination?

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The Beatles asked the question and I seem to come back to it again and again-and it speaks to what we present in our Fantasy Event List-is dressing-up as fun in private as it is for the masses? Are those Spank- and-Much parties we attend more exciting the more people that are there or the fact that a couple can crawl into a corner (literally or figuratively) and have at each other in various ways and with various implements?

A friend and NJ native, infamous photographer Anton Fury, is actually holding a photography party (see the deets here https://fetlife.com/events/93887/v2) amongst his usual monthly parties that happen every 2^nd, 3^rd and 4^th Saturdays at his studio, simply because he knows people like to witness, take pictures of, experience others getting it on, over and under . Usually Anton’s play-space marquis kink events are private happenings for his dungeon’s members-though anyone can fork over the minimal fee to be a member-but the point I am making is that when it comes to fetish events there is a certain elemental thrill to seeing and being seen, of showing-off your frockery and perversions for the masses. There is a sense of community to be sure, but those of us who like to dress or kinkafie like to do so in a group of the like-minded sometimes, as much because voyeurism and exhibitionism are their own fetishes as we just have a sense of wanting to do what we do ‘in the road’.

But it might be just as thrilling for you to simply spin and preen for your mirror as you model your latest latex cat suit. First and foremost we have to feel we look good before we go out and pounce on the populace. We have to try out, at least in our heads, how a certain scene might go down before we try and make it go down in public. And sometimes we don’t need much more than just ourselves, a glass of wine, our latest leather gloves and maybe some sandpaper to have a party.

Out and about or in and with our own skin, we all do it ‘in the road’ in our heads or actually out and about one way or another.

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Amping-up for our issue #7 we spent the weekend photographing DeannaDeadly. The beautiful Miss D. is from Chicago, a model/performer/dom of exquisite expertise, fetching beauty and slightly sardonic humor which fit in well with all of us at the Von Gutenberg studios. Working hard with our master make-up/hair lady Gina Novotchin, (found here) at her side D.D. snuggled into our marquis latex outfits, one of which you see here, others we won’t be revealing until the next issue (sorry kids, all you get is this tease for now).

Once again I did my best to lube to the rigorous expectations set down by the Nat’l Luber’s Boy Scout Manual. Just know kiddies that I lube not because I want to, but because you need me to.

I found I was having as much fun with Deanna as I was helping set-up for her, complete with a jaunt into the wilds of NJ suburbia (and believe me, driving on a Saturday afternoon in suburban NJ is certainly wild) to grab some photographic needs specific to D.D.’s shoot. I know so many of you out there are following the happenings on our Fantasy Even List but I must tell you, this past weekend was a truly great kinky event for yours truly and all I did was lube and move lights!
A great special thanks to Deanna Deadly, find her here, to the always lovely Gina (and her good personal advice to yours truly) and of course to EVG for letting me be part of the fun.

Really, wait ‘til you see these pics!

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So let’s talk shoes…

I am not sure if you have checked our couture page for shoes lately, or if at all, but we really do have some amazing stuff for your feet. I do such opining about such truly meaningless subjects here that I forget that we do have some cool stuff for sale in the shop so if you are of a mind to, have a look see. We have hosiery, hats, leather masks and plenty of latex dresses, but there are shoes and boots here (even those female shoes of a large size ‘for him) that I would think you’d be able to pick a few items out you’d want to add to your foot wardrobe.

Now I am not about to ask you what kinky event you are attending where you might model your Ballet Thigh High Boots or if friend or foe is going to lick the heel of your Domina 6’’ Peep To Mule, but these, as is all our footwear, are pretty smokin’ hot and I’m not even a foot fetishist. Von Gutenberg sells marquis fetish wear and we can pretty much encase you from head to toe with whatever your nasty naughty little mind can fantasize about.

The fun thing I have found from our footwear, not having had occasion to wear it myself, is helping lovely ladies in and out of it, or balance in it, as I have assisted plenty of our models. If I find the shoes and boots fun and pretty much wild just lacing or unlacing them, lubing them, buckling and unbuckling a pair or two every now and again, just think how much fun they are to wear or to get on your knees and attend to!

Have a look around at our shoes, you might be very glad you did.

What’s the sexiest shoe you own? 

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Yes the weekend you are your play partner are at might be labeled a marquis kinky event. Yes, you might frequent Fetlife or shop in stores known for their adult toys (I have been lucky to hit one’s in London, NYC, L.A. and San Francisco-strictly for research purposes of course); you might even spend time with people who read Von Gutenberg magazine or you have turned-on a few folks to our pages; you might brag about a wardrobe that competes with our couture line, found here.

But rest assured, no matter how much you play, ruminate over or share some time with like-minded folk, nobody but nobody has a clear definition of what kinky really is.

And that’s the way it should be; one’s man meat is another’s poison and all that. If playing airline pilot and stewardess is your thing, then have it, just don’t try and convince me that this is the apogee of kinky then I’m into wearing my Jackboots everywhere and get-off on making my lover smell the sweaty socks I wear with them. I double-dog dare you to convince me that you have the clear objective definition of what kinky is, because I assure you you don’t.

Von Gutenberg is a decidedly lifestyle fetish magazine, more often than not showcasing latex and leather but you will see by our articles or all the kinky events we list on our Fantasy Event List that we include as many interests and happenings as we come in contact with and are always on the look-out for more.

From the mild to the wild it is up to you to determine which, if either works in your life and your specific definition of both.

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As we were assuming with our issue #6-and I believe we were assuming correctly-comic books and scifi are quite popular in mainstream entertainment these days.  You really don’t need much evidence of this fact beyond turning on your T.V. any night of the week or taking at a look at what’s at your local puberty-plex 114-screen movie house, but if you doubt me (as you are wont to do, I know, nobody believes me these days) you need only to consider what’s being produced presently in the all-important mirror on society output, porn movie parodies. Companies like Vivid are seeing quite the success with titles that featuring characters like Batman and now the latest from super duper director Axel Braun, “Star Wars XXX: A Porn Parody” . The fantastical has never been more popular, as the award-winning Braun expounds here at Die-Screaming Blog and he should know as his “Spider-Man XXX: A Porn Prarody” (another Vivid title) was this year’s AVN winner for Best Parody, Best Parody Drama, Best Cinematography as well as Braun winning the Director of the Year second year in a row.

As Braun opines “I get to shoot movies with my comic book heroes, fulfill every geek’s dirty fantasies, and pretend that I’m a real director. Can’t beat that!”

Fantasy is what we are all about here at Von Gutenberg, as much with the kink events we list in our Fantasy Event List, to the amazingly fantastic models we reveal in the magazine, to expanding and championing the fantasies we all have when wearing our latex or even just thinking about wearing it. It might be pure ‘geek-dom’ that rules the comic book audience world, but it seems if ever there was a time that the geek was a marquis member of society it is now.

Let’s face it, I wouldn’t be able to pen this blog nor would you be able to read it if it wasn’t for some guy or girl the general populace thought a nerd in school having invented all this digital stuff we now use.

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In my work with Von Gutenberg not only am I around our beautiful models, learning the ins and outs of latex (and how to help women in and out of it), setting-up background and lights, but I get to watch amazing craftspeople work on make-up and hair.

One of these amazing craftspeople is Gina Novotchin.

I’ve met Gina now a handle of times, watching her conduct what seems like alchemy to me, making-up our models, French-twisting hair, running in and out of shots to touch-up and pat down, and offering some marquis modeling instructions (as well as being a master hair/make-up artist Gina also taught modeling). But what struck me beyond the lady’s artistry-and how cool a hang she is (really you got to be as super cool and talented to hang with us)-was when we sat around jawing about skin care, what to do and not to do with the products you buy, and what it is all about with the science of what is happening with your skin. Like most people I know there is lots going on in our body processes but Gina had the skinny about what our faces go through and I really sat there fascinated soaking it all up.

You can see Gina’s work in many places (she just came from working NYC’s infamous Fashion Week), in our issue #6 (as well as other issues of ours), she’s worked with Pink, Drew Carey and The Red Hot Chilli Peppers   and in T.V. and movies (you might even meet her at a kinky event or two) and can certainly check-her out here at : http://www.modelmayhem.com/51701

You could fill volumes with what I don’t know, a fact I revel in. Sure I am learning more every day, as I guess we all do, or at least trying to. But you get to a certain age and you realize that there is just some stuff you’re never going to know.

It sure is fun to be around an expert like Gina.

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So a-lubing is upon me once again.

Yes kiddies, I once more have to Agent sully forth into the breach, Chip-and-Dale to those foreign battlements, tuck under and up for the monumentally difficult job of spilling copious amounts of gloppy lube into my hot palms and through my soft long fingers (and you know what they say about a guy who has long fingers right?…he wears big gloves) and apply my expertise to making shiny some new Von Gutenberg models.

I recall well that day our intrepid CEO suggested I might help in this enterprise, only a lowly writer I was at at that time, light-shy from my days spent hunched over my lap-top, ignorant to the curves and byways of the female form, nervous even to contemplate those curvy downy ways and deep puckering welcomes. But after much cajoling, a good pizza and my resolute resolution to take one for the team-VG I shucked down my man skirt and agreed that yes, I would be the marquis luber and do all I could to make the experience as painless as possible for myself.

That the first go-round of ladies were so kind only made my experiences with each a joy. I have related my times with Goddess Deanna Storm, Miss Mischief and MiMi Cherry, how each were a wonder to behold and hold and how my nervousness was bested by their professionalism. Yes, I muddled through as best I could and came out the other end my hands a little cramped but my confidence the better for the experience.

So soon once more into the breach my fellow latex loving comrades, my fellow kink event participants, Von Gutenberg friends one and all. Say a prayer for your warrior friend Ralph not to falter on his way to lands unknown, furrows firm and expanses slippery. Come hell or high water like modern-age, long-haired Magellan I shall return to regale you my triumphs.

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Sorry to say I am not available for every shoot we do at Von Gutenberg. Yes, I jump at the opportunity to interview our captivating ladies in person (oh yeah, to lube them too, I almost forgot about the lubing…tee hee) Though I had the pleasure in issue # 6 to feast my eyes upon, in person, the incredible woman-ness that is Mimi Cherry, Deanna Storm and Miss Mischief, I did not enjoy that same pleasure with Bianca Beauchamp.

But this doesn’t mean I like the lady any less.

Bianca, like our cover girl Mimi, is a Canadian lady. She was the first model to dedicate her whole web site-Bianca’s Latex Lair-to latex fetish erotica, has worked with Playboy and has hosted fetish events in the U.S. U.K., Germany and Montreal. In her photo shoot for us she wore fashions from Westward Bound, Polymorphe and HWD Design and wore them so well her pictures are incindiary! If you have yet to see them, might I refer you to pick-up the marquis latex lifestyle magazine (if I might be so bold to say) here.

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So I find myself once again doing that “step into my office” thing here at my local Starbucks®, this early am…ah the life of a freelance writer…looking at all the peeps coming in for their morning over-priced Joe. Clearing my head from a busy week, I do like to get out and about and the weather here has been unseasonable warm for us this time of year so here I be checking-in for my end-of-the-week Von Gutenberg missive and it puts me in mind of…

The NYC Cinekink Festival was held this past week. It celebrates a wide range of naughty films, from the short erotic to the longer kinky ones. Hit their website http://cinekink.com/ to check it all out. For us ‘alternative’ minded, it is one great time and the festival plays across the country at major cities all during the year.

Our Fantasy Even List. I link the FEL Twitter page every blog now but what I don’t always do is speak about it; I am adding kinky events on an almost daily basis. Check-out our calendar http://www.fantasyeventlist.com/, I am sure there is something happening in a city near you.

Just hanging. Not every place you go, all the people you meet and everything you get into is going to be a marquis happening, but like I am here at the Starbucks-which is filling with so many people now, is everybody a super-hip legend-in-his-own-mind writer like me?-we got to get our asses up off the couch, snuggle into our panties-man/woman both-get off the fucking cult-of-a-Facebook (and yes we have a Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/261144418631/ too, I am biting the hand that feeds I know) and get out and about, even if the traffic gets to us and lots of us human beings are an impolite bunch (like this guy next to me bleating too loudly over his cell phone while I try to write this all-important Von Gutenberg blog. Jesus doesn’t he know who I am?!)

But really I’ll take out and about over in and ruminating any day! 

You know me, I like to champion the Von Gutenberg extended family when I get the chance…and we have lots of people in the family (if you’re not part of this marquis club, join us at the Von Gutenberg Facebook Fan Page here:http://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/261144418631/). One of the folks/friends/fans/professionals featured in our latest issue is none other then writer M. Christian. Chris (to his friends, and who isn’t Chris’s friend, the guy is just so damn likeable!) is having fun prompting his latest book, Fingers’ Breadth.

I’ll let Chris tell you what’s he’s up to in his own imitable style. According to the latest PRESS RELEASE:

In what is clearly an act of pure desperation, author M. Christian has threatened to amputate part of one finger to publicize his new novel, Finger’s Breadth (Zumaya Books).

Here at Von Gutenberg we boast some marquis fetish photographers in house, but we also welcome and champion some wonderfully erotic stuff from others the world over. Really, the magazine has been built as much on our readership, models and designers as it has been-and will continue to be-with the wonderful contributors we have in our writers, photographers and artists.

In issue 6 we are proud to present a resplendent 8-page spread of Richard Knightly pictures.

Mr. Knightly meshes advertising styles with fantasy art with the traditional to create one-of-a-kind photos. Posing his models in their amazing latex outfits and picking the often wild places he chooses to shoot in (in issue 6 Mr. K. describes shooting at the Alps, among other incredible spots) truly make the man’s photos in our latest issue more like single page fetish events! Using muse/girlfriend/collaborator Emma Alexa-and you will see her in lots of the pictures we feature in Richard’s expose’-Mr. Knightly reveals why he is indeed one of the top photographers in his field, a field that stretches from fetish to fashion to panoramas…and beyond.

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We here at Von Gutenberg are tickled pink sometimes a full blushed red, (it depends on how hard that whip is falling across our…) for all the great people we get to work with. I have already told you about lots of them, especially the folks in our new issue #6. Designers, writers, photographers and our wonderful models all; I am honored to have worked with all these wonderfully talented folks and look forward to continuing to do so.

Now I have introduced you to the models we shot, at least with a preliminary essay about when I met the women to lube them (a tough job as I have said before, but one I suffer through) and in these past few weeks with more recent pieces of our cover girl MiMi Cherry and the provocative Miss Mischief. This week may I introduce you (well actually reintroduce you to) to Goddess Deanna Storm, our raven-haired hottie of issue 6?

Wearing a number of her own designs from The Storm Collection, created by Nemy of Latex Nemesis for lots of her pics in issue #6 you will see why Deanna Storm wears the title of Goddess well. An articulate woman who was gentle with me in ways I cannot begin to describe (she was the very first girl I lubed…well, at least for a magazine shoot) Deanna was a delight to behold, hold, hang with and lace-up. Deanna was actually the one who gave me the idea for the name of the band in my two stories in issue #6, Latex Camel Toe, as she joked about just that during her shoot (something I had to keep a keen eye on…another tough job to be sure).

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If you’re looking to flirt I double-dog dare you to find a better two-page article about this ancient art of interpersonal play then Erik and my “Flirt Tips-From Flirt To Sex…In One Night?” in issue number 6 of Von Gutenberg magazine (see it’s not all just about the latex and the girls!). We run the gambit in our suggestions from ‘Stimulate their mind: Inspire for more’ ‘Imitating: To copy what he or she is “doing”’ and the ever dangerous but oh-so-effective ‘Flirt with others: Seek out your intended’s friends’.

According to the almighty Wikipedia flirting is “…a playful, romantic, or sexual overture by one person to another subtly indicating an interest in a deeper relationship with the other person, and can involve verbal communication as well as body language.” I just know it is a damn well fun way to spend one’s time and might lead to a little bumpy-bumpy at the end of the night if one plays their cards right and keeps to our rules.

The way Erik and I see it, Cosmo and Vogue can dispense their top ten lists like “How To Be His Wild Harlot In Bed” and the “5 Things Men Really Wish You’d Do With Your Mouth” so why can’t we offer our own Von Gutenberg advice, lists and questionnaires, as we did so in issue 5 with our “How Kinky Are You?” test? We view Von Gutenberg magazine, as much as we do all the various sites, like our kinky event listing Fantasy Event List and everywhere else within the brand as maintaining a high marquis water-mark in the lifestyle and want to entertain, inform and always maintain a dialogue with you our close friends and loyal readers.

So pick up issue #6 here http://www.vongutenberg.com/shop, get your flirting groove on and thank Erik and I when you’re not knee-deep in more dates then you know what to do with!

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