Do you ever wonder where your sexual lifestyle might lead you? From wearing a latex Catsuit, to maybe wanting to lick someone’s shoes (whether someone is in them or not) to wanting some 19 year-old cutie to sit in your bed wearing your Star Trek PJ’s eating Oreos by not twisting them apart…ok, sorry, that’s just me. Seriously though, do you ever wonder if a sexual kink you court, a fantasy you feel a’bubbling, a little flicker of an itch you find yourself mentally scratching with increasing zealotry could be akin to a gateway drug?

And do you care?

I think what it is with us all; lifestyle-minded, vanilla-sex partners, full-blown spanking aficionados, everybody and anybody, is that when you cultivate an interest in something-especially something as all-encompassing as a sexual interest-you enter into a pact with a community even if you never get out among them. You can search for clothes in our shop, look through the parties from our list and you’re on your way even if you really don’t buy another outfit or even get out to a party. Especially seeing how much facility we are afforded with the net, we could more or less enjoy any kink and never even leave the house and rally a whole bunch of folk around us who will hip us to the latest trends and how to do what we want to do with even better results.

But is even looking-up an interest on a website, indulging your kink with a buddy, maybe building a sex life with your interest the beginnings of something you’ll never be able to retreat from, something you will need to increase consistently?  Do you truly have a fetish? Do those delicious hand spankings have to lead to a paddling in order to get you off after a time? Does the slight sweet restrictiveness of a corset need to lead to full head-to-toe rubber body mummification?

Can we really just eat one Oreo?

I’m not really sure of the scientific evidence of gateway drugs as I really don’t know where our sexual interests lead but I’d have to venture a guess that as in all things we need to take everything on a case-by-case up-to-the-individual basis. So it’s for you to judge really how much wider the nozzle gets each time, what material the tethers are made of and if you go for the regular or the double-stuffed. But does wanting a little increase, a slight change-up, something tighter/harder or shinier mean you have fallen into the spinning-wheel mud ditch of a gateway sexual interest?

Damned if I know, I got to go get me some milk.

I warned you I’d have more to say on the past weekend and all Erik and I got into at Exxxotica…

I just found out that with 28,000 people attending those 3 days the convention reported a record-setting weekend! Nice to know all these sex-minded people could make my NJ home proud. For me personally I enjoyed, as I always do, the diversity of the crowd; from what I reported previously to meeting Digital Playground contract girls Stoya and Riley Steele, to the famous wrestler, now adult performer Chyna, to Erik making his way to some of the contacts he knew, like convention sponsor HotMovies.com, to making new friends we hope will figure into the Von Gutenberg world and our shop someday soon.

I happened by Mistress T, a famous dom in NYC and an old friend (she and I had first met at this very convention when I first attended 3 years before reporting for RadioDentata) and I once again saw the ridiculously buff and hung Mr. Marcus, the booth for L.A. Models, not to mention all the local strippers Exxxotica employs to dance in various cages, on swings and ride a seesaw with dildos on each end (not something I recall from my school yard).

This year the convention did not let press in any earlier than the rest of the rabble, which served me better as I wasn’t walking around for hours waiting for people to set-up and even with NJ Friday afternoon traffic, trying to keep my appointment with Jennifer and her Digital Playground ladies and all I knew Erik and I had to get to, we still managed to get in our carousing-personal and business-a solid three hours and were out of the place by 8.

Erik and I meeting our buddy Jeff at a good ole Jersey diner for a yummy dinner, the waitress’ wide smile and some classic freshly made cheesecake made the day perfect.

And I think that’s all I have to now say about that.

And by the way, the quick shots you see here (and in the last blog) were all taken by Erik

This is the first of what I feel will might be a few quick reports about the NJ Exxotica convention that happened this past weekend (11/4-/116) down at the Raritan Center in bucolic Edison NJ. Littered with strippers, porn-stars, doms and quite a bit of business people plying their wares, Erik V (CEO of this adventure) and I made our way to the big cement building in mid-Jersey to catch a glimpse of some of the mayhem, get me a few interviews and take some pictures.

First-up we visited a truly great Von Gutenberg friend, Rubber Doll, attracting picture takers and fans to her huge space in the center. As well as offering her DVD’s, T-shirts and other goodies for sale (not to mention posing for pics) the lady also had the issue of Von Gutenberg magazine she appeared in clearly displayed and for sale…and we can’t thank her enough for that.

I doubt anybody can wear latex nipple covers better then Rubber Doll!

We made our way round to the XXX van, happened by some toy sellers, past the super cool car round-up the center always allows in with this convention-making the space seem not so cavernous-gave a wave to Ron Jeremy and basically walked the pink-carpeted floor for two hours.

Sometimes you just have to get out and about, ya know?

I promise more reporting from the Exxxotica convention, for now I just wanted to tickle you.

I know I have been on about this before, but…

Von Gutenberg Magazine Launches New Event Promotion Website:

Fantasy Event List – www.fantasyeventlist.com

Dear Promoters,

Von Gutenberg Magazine, the leading Fantasy, Fashion & Lifestyle magazine offers a natural extension to its global reach with the new  www.fantasyeventlist.com. Offering all promoters the possibility to promote their monthly local events, and kinky travelers the ability plan months ahead Von Gutenberg’s Fantasy Event List is the one stop on the web for us all.

Interested in sin-o-matic in Boston, or a global event like Montreal Fetish Weekend? Are you making plans to attend Torture Garden in London or the German or Japan Fetish Ball? We offer the dates and links to the event home pages, constantly updated with information you can rely on.

Fantasy Event List is the unique and only place where the Fetish Event Fan can go to look up his or her favorite event, recommended and vetted by a leader in the  Lifestyle community, Von Gutenberg Magazine.

Please send your event info and dates and flyers and banners to:

events@fantasyeventlist.com

We also offer specially highlighted advertising possibilities within the Fantasy Event List. Please see the advertising rate sheet available at the website www.fantasyeventlist.com .

We are excited to offer this new service to all Fetish travelers worldwide and will continue to report on the best events in Von Gutenberg Magazine and our website. We are looking forward to your participation in this lifestyle community venture.

Fetish Greetings,

Erik von Gutenberg

So by happenstance-more like an unusual dump of snow we got on Oct 29^thhere in NJ-I spent the next day, my b’day (yes I know I am a ‘Mischief/Goosie Night’ baby) not really going anywhere, staying in and simply writing for my b’day…and I couldn’t have been more content. I had managed to get my regular writing work done early, thanks to the writers in my employ working diligently to hand-in their work under deadline for this ‘special’ week and had the entire day to goof-off and to get into writing that was what I still consider my work but the pleasurable part of what I do…like this blog for instance.

I remember reading a piece by the great Isaac Asimov, premier grand-daddy of science fiction writing who said that his wife never understood how he didn’t want to take a vacation, go out to dinner or meet with friends because his vacation, his fun, his leisure time activity happened to be his work…I feel the same way. There isn’t much else I’d rather be doing then writing (ok, maybe a few things, you naughty little monkeys, probably with a girl or two wearing some of the stuff you can find at VG Couture) but generally if I am not writing I want to be and if I am I want to just keep doing so.

See, I understand desire because I have found my desire in life (at least what I desire professionally) and I know how it is to have something on your mind, no matter what it is, 24/7, to want to do that one thing, whether it be writing, gardening, or lacing-up a corset to the exclusion of all else that you define your life and yourself around your passion. I get it loud and clear how an ache can lead you to often times some crazy wild happenings (and you can find some here FantasyEventList) or to want nothing more than to stay in on a cold second-to-last day in October, the day you were born no less, tickling your keyboard and be perfectly content doing so.

Just to show you there is something else going on in the world other than worrying over how you are going to bend down in that new corset to lace-up those boots, an Amanda Holman, doctoral student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a Dr. Alan Sillars, he of the University of Montana, interviewed 274 college students to determine once and for all what the term “hooking up,” means.

The results?

Holman and Sillars found that that while 94 percent of those students survayed were familiar with the phrase there was no consensus among them about what “hooking up” meant. Over half described a hook up as involving sex, 9% percent described it as not including sex and about one-third said they weren’t even sure hooking up had to involve sex! In a recent Teen Vogue survey, seeing 2,287 responses, the definition of hooking up ranged from kissing to sex.I recall when I first heard the phrase and asking my younger friends if hooking up was synonymous with my generations “making-out”. Assured by some that hooking up could indeed mean intercourse I saw it covered a hell of a lot more ground that our old “Paradise By The Dashboard Light” baseball bases metaphor.

Definitions come-up often for us in the kink field, those interested in non-vanilla pursuits in our bedrooms and people living what is termed an ‘alternative’ lifestyles…alternative to what, I always ask. Kinky as opposed to what? Not normal by whose definition of normal? I know you’re not picking out clothes from our couture line for your everyday office wear. I realize that every time you cuddle into bed next to your honey you’re not trotting out the enema bag, that you might not ever define your actions, common or uncommon that they might be. Most of us are so busy just trying to get on with the getting on of life that we’re not worrying about labels, defining terms and really just trying to deal with what Gertrude Stein said years ago, that sometimes “things are what they are.”

Sometimes we don’t need the term defined nor do we need the word at all. Sometimes we just need to get on with hooking up, dressing-up, having our sex in our usual way.

Sometimes a rose is just a rose even if that rose is made of leather.

I know I am going on and on about our upcoming issue, but…

Von Gutenberg has always been a global concern, as in we care about the lifestyle through-out the world (check out our FantasyEventList) and the fact that the work I do here is not only seen in this country but so many others tickles me pink…though I won’t tell you exactly where on my body I grow that blush. With all any of us do nowadays we can reach far and wide because of this Interweb thingie and really become part of a world-wide approach to having our work seen and meeting people. I love this idea, that at the same time we sit in our jammies in our attic rooms alone and safe we can say hello, build friendships and get into all kinds of one-handed mayhem with just about anybody anywhere.

I am also humbled.

Not to get too heavy here but really the more I learn about and from all the people I meet through Von Gutenberg the more I realize that my little spot on the planet, my specific concerns and my world-view, while equal to anyone else’s, is insignificant in the big picture and while I pride myself on my ever-lessening ego (some would say not, but I really do try to keep it submerged) this idea that I am just one little piece of a much bigger pie (even though that pie might be made of latex….mmmm, yummy right?) makes me truly feel empowered while at the same time humble.

It’s not that any of us need to think global every single moment of our day (though Green Energy people would want you to) it’s just nice to be reminded that we’re really not alone in a fetish we might coddle or a type of music we might like to listen to.

God, I so want to get on a plane and go someplace!

Erik von Gutenberg is proud to present the Von Gutenberg Fetish Ball 2011 in Tampa Florida! November 11 and 12 will be a great weekend and the last chance to escape before the holiday season!

Great DJ’s and the top performance from MiMi Cheery from Montreal in addition to the Von Gutenberg Couture Fashion show! In a nutsshell an event not to miss as always at Von Gutenberg Magazine!

More Information:

Nov 12th Vongutenberg/Secretroom Fetish Magazine Ball
Annual Art Fashion and Erotica Event for the
Fetish Magazine VonGutenberg by Jsin of Secretroom.Net
at the Amazing Castle Club in Ybor city

… Headline performance by;
International Star Mimi Cherie (pictured)
of Montreal Canada

Guest DJ Steve Woodman of the KitKat Club in Germany !!!
much more t.b.a. Asap

Djs Danny Bled – Ft.Lauderdale
Nemesis
Sean
Tom Gold

GoGo dancers;
Maus
Sheena
Defenzmechanizm
Ladee Danger

M.C.Host ; J-Sin
Erotic Art show
Vending by Synthflesh

$15 Before Midnight if dressed in;
Latex Fur Feathers Leather Vinyl PVC Lingerie Apocalypse Cyber Gothic Steampunk Edwardian Uniforms Tokyo Glampop
$20 everything else~

Castle Dungeon has a strict dresscode to enter !!!
Private Mayan Sacrifice Show Fri 11/11/2011
~ in the Dungeon Only ~
Defenzmechanizm , Xzanthia, and JSin sacrifice multiple victims and eat their hearts ..

Hotel – Hampton Inn & Suites Tampa/Ybor City/Downtown
1301 East 7th Avenue, Tampa, Florida, USA 33605
Tel: 1-813-247-6700
For the Special Hotel Group Block say passcode;
“Secretroom”
Hotel is a $5 cabride from the Castle
there were 50 rooms available as of Oct 5th

Castle Club
http://www.castleybor.com/The_Castle/Home.html
2004 North 16th St Tampa/Ybor

tickets here: www.vongutenberg.com/shop

Supposedly a well-respected lawyer in the NY State Attorney General’s Office, Alisha Smith moonlights as a dom. The mid 30’d lady is “Alisha Sparks” when she ‘performs’ at S&M events for pay and it’s the for pay part that has seen the lady in trouble, or so her office claims.

Interesting to us all specifically, at a recent event Smith-as-Sparks posed for photos wearing a skin-tight, see-thru latex dress with heart-shaped pasties.

At the beginning of the week the lady lawyer was removed from her near $80,000-a-year job supposedly from a New York Post uncovering of the woman’s lifestyle. And though there is going to be an “internal investigation” according to state Atty General Eric Schneiderman, Smith had been lauded by her boss AG Andrew Cuomo-way back when-so she can do her job for sure. But it’s a question of whether Smith got paid for her domming that could get her in trouble…or that’s what the Atty General’s office is claiming.

As we all know it’s common for doms to get paid for appearances at fetish parties, and there is supposedly a standing executive order in the Attorney General’s Office that requires employees to “obtain prior approval from the [Employment Conduct Committee] before engaging in any outside pursuit … from which more than $1,000 will be received or is anticipated to be received.”

So there is the legal question of whether the lady received money when she wasn’t supposed to, though I do question whether anyone-would The Post?-have cared if the lady made more than $1,000 (of indeed she did) in some other way. It seems to me we are once again faced with the obvious Puritanical ethic that runs too deep in this country and one Von Gutenberg doesn’t see too often when we encounter our European markets but one we do come up against here in the states.

And seeing that Smith was involved in something kinky…well, you know how it is here, really anywhere in mainstream society when a hint of leather is smelled or the “shniza pat-a-tat” of a naughty slap lands and a sigh of relief follows.

It’s just damn hard having a desire these days.

Not all Japanese Anime has a measure of sex to it…but a lot does. About as far removed from Tom and Jerry or Bugs, Japanese Anime certainly centers around more adult themes-when cartoons get adult in the Western world they tend to be irreverent like a Family Guy or The Simsons-with Easterners enjoying the classic doe-eyed school girl receiving some sort of sexual comeuppance, or one of those female/male hybrids giving it good and hard to one another.

I guess this is technically part 2 of my report from Comicon but attending the massive convention this past weekend I noticed that the second floor of the Javits was devoted to Anime and I feel Anime, more then most other things that went down this weekend, is nearer and dearer to our hearts. Fans of all ages were dressed as their favorite characters-some of these kids would give our outfits at V.G. Couture a run with how elaborate their costumes were or how perfectly pleaded the wore their school girl skirts-and with the culture on display in resplendent relief I once again realized that there are tons of people into the gaming, collecting, role-play and yes, the sex of cartoons.

Putting together our next issue of V.G.-Erik and I had one of those super productive meetings recently so I guess I am more hyped then usual-I am constantly reminded of the power of a drawing (you’ll have to see issue #6 to see what I mean). Sure there are Western artists who do this sexy sketching very well (and again I refer you to the soon-to-be released Von Gutenberg #6) but Japanese Anime is such a part of Eastern culture it’s hard for a kinky Westerner to understand with our lifestyle so often occupying the fringes.

So I say give me a mischievous willowy teen who knows she’s been bad or a wild moving castle with gears and stones seemingly alive in its construction. I am hot for toons man.

We all do what we do, get into what we are into, live, love, enjoy or reject what we do for a whole host of reasons. You might be into leather boots, your girlfriend into cooking, your next door neighbor into video games and the couple down the street might love to go antiquing on the weekend…and they might not even be a gay male couple. We just do what we do because we do it, sometimes there is no more reason that then.

I was reminded this week of the many facets of our interests when I attended NYC’s Comicon at the sprawling Javitz Center. I know lots of us have been to conventions, events, parties, weekend get-a-ways for our particular interests and/or fetishes, but I have to tell you the tons of folks who attend Comicon are a zealot, fun breed.

First of all, about 40% of this crowd is dressed, dressed in such amazing homemade costumes of Lycra, leather and other materials it would make any lifestyle fetishist chartreuse with envy. Secondly, these folks-and it’s not just light-shy teenage boys that populate these conventions as it was when I hit the second-ever Star Trek convention back in the day so many years ago I won’t dare admit to you now what year that was-I saw a great cross section of old and young, male and female at Comicon. And lastly, there is so much stuff at Comicon you could get lost picking out a leather corset (yes, we were well represented in this crowd, believe me) as much as those comics you have been looking for the past decade or so.

But mostly this convention tickled me (as Exxxotica will do in a few weeks here in NJ) as TES Fest did and does for me every July 4^th weekend and as any of the events you will find on our FantasyEventList site do. When I see like-minded people reveling in their interest, no matter what that interest might my ever-dwindling faith in human kind is bolstered.

A weekend full of gaming, NYC hotdogs and girls dressed as their favorite Anima characters… all is good in the hood my friends.

From time to time we like to feature new designers in the pages of Von Gutenberg but Lüllepop is so provocative I wanted to give you a little look-see here as well.

Created by Cathleen Reinheckel & Andre Gawanka, this young, unique Berlin fashion label is attempting to revolutionize latex fashions with clever catchy combinations of textiles and latex. Using lace, Lycra, fine Nappa leather-even knitted materials-cleverly integrated with latex feminine lines Lüllepop gear takes full advantage of the female form, endeavoring to lure and bedazzle the male of the species. The company also uses lots of lace to keep a soft feminine touch with their racier fem-dom style latex outfits.

They have created G-strings & triangular bras, and an array of charming panties too.

Ready for the start of the 15th Erotic Fair in Berlin ( Venus ) Cathleen and Andre created a fitting Desous collection, turning heads and beguiling the public…particularly the men in attendance, while their Dolcessa in autunno collection featured colors spanning from soft Champagne tones to a warm passionate burgundy filling the eye with a deep full-bodied red wine taste. Lüllepop also designed some of the latex and lace dream garments that model Micaela Schäfer-the face of 2011-wore at the Venus Berlin Awards.

For a complete look and feel Lüllepop sells a number of fitting accessories like
arm bands, spats, collars, etc.

The Lüllepop aesthetic is at once eye-catching and extravagant, yet still practical and wearable and we just know they will continue to be a growing force in our community.

So here I am the modern day writer scribbling this blog in my local Starbucks (Rte. 17 S. Paramus, N.J., if you want to find me) and I look around at the two business men having a meeting not five feet from where I sit, the mid-50’s lady enjoying a cup of over-priced Joe reading her New York Times (poor Steve Jobs, his face is plastered on the front page of every newspaper here; 56 is just too young to go!) and the young girl to my right humped over her lap-top just like I am, and I wonder about these folks and their sexual peccadilloes…sorry but this just how mind rolls. I could care less about their jobs, their families even (though I wish everyone good health of course); in the too loud music they are blaring and the over-worked A.C. (my nipples aren’t hard just because I am writing a V.G. blog I can assure you) I really am wondering just who here is kinky and if they are, in what way might they be.

More people are into the non-vanilla side of bedroom activities then you ever give them credit for. Just think of what you have got up to in your day (and nights) and you’ll come to realize that to a greater or lesser degree your neighbors, friends and yes, even your parents (ewww, now that’s not a picture you want to conjure, huh?) have probably tried or continue to enjoy dressing in latex, some role-play, inserting various sex toys in various places and probably a 3-some or two a time or two.

Yes Virginia there is a Santa Claus and he might just be wearing something from our couture collection under his red suit and jingle balls.

Not that any of this should come as a surprise to you (it doesn’t me as I sit here and sip a small Passion Tea) it’s just that from time to time I assess this little blue-green nub will live on (or at least my end of it) and am smack-me-on-the-cheek-but-not-so-hard-it-rattles-my-teeth reset that in so many ways we are equal…especially in some very basic naughty ways. And this fact, as I have mentioned before in other blogs (actually, this concept of equality through kink-ery has been at the root of most of my blogs here ) warms the cockles of my mind (or wherever my cockles happen to be) and makes me not even care that it really is too damn cold in here, the uber-cool music too loud and that I am jonesing for a Pumpkin Spices Latte’ I can really afford even if I took out a bridge loan!

As I have already told you, each day I work here at Von Gutenberg really is a joy. From the lubing to meeting the models and their friends, to moving lights even, I’m having a blast putting issue #6 together with Erik. But what I can never get past/over/too far from is the writing…it is what I do after all. To this end I am reminded of what my buddy and well-known writer M. Christian said to me once about erotica-verses-porn: “I just like to generically use the word erotica and use pornography as the keyword of the industry… Like the Supreme Court justice said…I know it when I see it.” I have no idea if what I write in the interviews with the models for this magazine, the short stories and all the other copy I edit is erotic, informative, porn (though to my mind nothing we do at Von Gutenberg is porn) I just hope my words read well, they entertain and you know it when you see it and want to see more of it.

As an adult I make no clear distinction between the writing I do here and the writing I do for people who are not linked into the latex lifestyle community; to me it’s all just writing. I’d like to think I have something to say, a competent facility to say it and then I just get on with the writing. In a magazine as visual as Von Gutenberg I realize where the words fit and where they don’t. I appreciate what we need to do visually and I care very much that there is a balance in the issues and on here with the blog between text and picture; if I can create something in your mind’s eye with my words to add to the overall visual experience all’s the better.

It’s not easy describing the clothes we sell at the shop, or really what our lovely ladies look like (I’d rather you enjoy the pictures of them), what our overall concept of “fashion, fantasy, lifestyle” is…as M. Christian says ‘you’ll know it when you see it’ and I hope you do in the magazine as well as on this site.

I just hope these twice-a-week blogs are leading you in our direction, that my words entertain and tickle and that maybe even a scintilla of my love for writing comes across in these paragraphs.

As it becomes ever more apparent to me as I work with all the talented folks of Von Gutenberg, as I peruse all those latex outfits in our couture collection, lace-up (or lace-down) shoes and boots, slip and slide my lubed hands over downy crevices or high balustrades, as I look at thighs and necks, dab sweat, attempt to marry my personal aesthetic with the one of the magazine, as I enjoy the artistry of make-up artists and hair designers, I realize that it is the look as well as the feel of all this stuff that makes us all so happy.

For men who seek comfort or arousal wearing women’s under things, to those who need leather and/or latex on their person as much as possible to feel truly connected to the world, to feeling all that much stronger and competent when we circle the clasps and buckles of a uniform round us, to those shoe fetishists who need the smell, the tickle taste and pointy click-‘alick heel concert to fuel their fevered day dreams, to even those of us who regard all this with a passing fancy, I am heartened by each step I slip deeper down the latex-lined rabbit hole finding people who take full measure enjoying what they enjoy.

Too much of our time is spent covering-up in ways we don’t want to, in working for THE MAN, in chasing the dollar and the dream we quickly realize is nothing more than a nightmare that too few of us get the time to just sit back and enjoy a leather glove brushing our cheek or never consider what it would really feel like to be trussed-up in that girdle. We don’t give ourselves enough time with our pursuits, whether that pursuit is playing weekend warrior baseball or spanking a friend.

When I meet people like I have met recently I feel pretty damn good about mankind and have a glimmer of hope we all might make into our very next decade if more and more of us can be allowed to take the time to enjoy our little perversions and indulge our whims and take a moment, every now and again, to chase that damn big bunny with the pocket watch.

So, we had Miss Mischief come in for a weekend photo shoot and the adorable lady traveled down from the great state of Massachusetts with her boyfriend Jesse and their roommate Shaun and as always, we had a grand old time at the old Von Gutenberg studios. Third lady in now for issue 6 and I have to say I’m having a great time meeting everyone and in Miss M’s case not just the model herself.

Yes, I got to do a lot less lubing with her man there (Jesse def knew his stuff in how to work latex and he and Shaun were like a well-oiled comedy duo as only the best-est of friends can ever be) but assisting Erik as I do and did lots on this occasion I am learning so much about the behind- the-scenes making of a magazine, beyond just what I knew about the writing of one.

Really, we learn all the time if we can keep our ears open, mouths shut and eyes peeled.

Even with the lubing, as much as my buddies constantly assure me it’s about the best job in the world (and I’d have to agree), I have learned so much about the care of latex, how to lace and unlace knee-high boots and really how much stuff Von Gutenberg has in its couture collection. I have had some quick hands-on lessons about moving photography backgrounds and setting lights, peering over Erik’s shoulder as he considers the aesthetics and trying to understand why he likes what he does and why he doesn’t. And of course mainly I’m meeting some truly great people at every shoot, getting to watch extremely talented hair and make-up artists do their thing and each one of these cool guys and girls has an interesting story to tell.

And of course I am learning just how to spread lube across pert breasts and work it into tight latex-covered taints so that when we go to shoot everything is shiny.

My parents always stressed the importance of a good education.

Erik von Gutenberg is proud to present the upcoming www.dommetrips.com event in Tampa, Florida next moth.

The kinky global holidays for everybody who likes to play and have a great time. Every night has a different theme and the details are right here:

http://dommetrips.com/tampa-oct-2011-events-themes/

It starts on Wednesay October 12 with a big Meet & Greet and Cocktails and WEAR THE HAT! In Tampa of course pool activities are fun the whole week and the resort Caliente is just the ideal venue for that.

Friday, Saturday and Sunday are the top nights with VG Latex Fashion Show, Performances and secretroom.net and subversion UK bringing great entertainment to you!

The Events features:

~ Exclusive events for our group
~ A full dungeon set up in a villa with furniture and there’s a hot tub at the dungeon.
~ poolside djs mashing up a mix of hip hop and sexy international house music for that south beach vibe
~ water and sand volleyball courts
~ outdoor BBQ grill · hamburgers · hotdogs etc
~ poolside drink service and servers
~ vip cabanas · daybeds · bottle service – For VIP Cabana or Bottle Service Reservations please call (813) 675-4465 after booking your trip
~ a massive 250,000 gallon pool and a relaxing waterfall with a 23,000 gallon pool and hot tub on the upper deck.
~ RAIN or SHINE – an indoor nightclub adjacent to the pool (if it starts to rain, we simply move the party inside)
~ Fitness Room including Yoga, Pilates, Aerobics Classes etc.
~ Spa Services
~ Pool tables
~ Disco
~ Tennis Courts
~ Piano Bar
~ Karaoke
~ Water Volleyball Courts
~ Sand Volleyball Courts,
~ Fully Stocked Liquor Bars with Happy Hours Specials
~ 2 Restaurants

To book call 00-1-980-613-2294

Feel free to leave voicemail there for a return call for booking info. We accept paypal, wire transfer, checks, and money orders.

The price includes your hotel room on the property, admission on the grounds with all of the pools, the disco, all the fetish parties, fashion shows, and access to ALL the dungeon parties. Airport transfers are $65.00 each way per couple (unfortunately its the same for a single) or $130 for the round trip and must be paid in advance (a cab will cost approx $90 each way) . We would advise that hiring a car would be more cost effective. Please be aware that this resort is NOT all inclusive. You can put money on a room debit card to carry around with you for food and alcohol purchases and the money is refundable if you don’t use it all. You MUST book via DommeTrips.com not the resort to gain entry to the parties and be part of the event.

www.dommetrips.com

I see it way too often in the everyday vanilla dating world, where a man pays a little attention to a woman and suddenly he feels he is entitled to some personal information from her…or at least her cell phone digits. Or some lady sidles-up to a guy in what she feels is just the right way, flashing and wiggling all her charms and she just assumes she is entitled to that man’s attentions. And don’t think you gay girls or guys are getting away with this either.

Just because we find somebody attractive and make them aware we do doesn’t mean we are entitled to have them be attracted back.

It just don’t work that way kids.
We can send all the Facebook requests we like, make inroads and overtures until our little hearts beat out our chests, but nobody owes anybody else the time of day, sorry kids, but that’s just the way it be.

Even in our little kinky community, a need to be spanked or maybe to truss some one up in binding leather boots does not mean we will see this need met. We all still have to err on the side of politeness in our kinks, at our parties, in our clubs, even if we’ve come to a play space for the night and everybody is of a like-mind.

Though I am a creaky old curmudgeon whose best days are well behind him I still just want to see everybody get along and I want everybody to be civil. Some of the nicest people I have met are those with a penchant for leather or maybe someone who likes to be peed on (who’d a thunk that the kinky amongst us could be the most polite?) but still even in our lifestyle I still see some incredible forwardness.

When you begin to peruse our fantasyeventslist in the upcoming weeks ahead, remember if you get your shapely little rear to one or two of the events make sure to always be nice, respectful and polite.

You never know what you’ll find if you are.

The fall is almost upon me here in N.J. and the cooler weather and the smell in the air reminds me my favorite holidays are on their way. Trips, events, happenings, hangings…it all gets so sweet for me the end of September, all through October (my b’day month…get those presents in early kids) and into November. I think if we can have a little bit of influence here at Von Gutenberg, we’ll make the fall sweet for you to.

First of all, as I mentioned, our fantasyevents is starting up. I blogged about that last week and will be revealing more about it with the launch of the site next week. Talk about keeping-up with lifestyle events, you’ll find no better place for it then or fantasyeventlist!

As always, we are are featuring fantastic latex clothes and accessories at our shop, VG Couture.  Check it out when you get the time. Let’s face it, with all the holiday parties fast approaching (not to mention the events that will be listed at fantasyeventlist.com) you’re going to want to have something to wear.

As I have also been mentioning we have issue #6 now in production and between the arduous task of lubing the models (really, you won’t believe how I dread those weekends of having to slap and knead copious amounts of lube across a pliant bottom) and editing the copy coming in I just know the next issue of Von Gutenberg Magazine is going to be a spectacular fall surprise.

Lastly, we’ll be keeping check on Halloween of course, probably the best holiday for us kinksters; Thanksgiving where we all eat way too much to for our latex and then into the winter for the mayhem that ensues.

So put on a light jacket kids, tighten-up those boots and smooth those latex gloves, here comes the fall.

As I mentioned in my last blog, we’re starting something new here online at Von Gutenberg. As you know from reading the magazine we pride ourselves on being your one-stop Fantasy, Fashion & Lifestyle spot, not only revealing spectacularly festooned latex models and presenting these incredibly well-written blogs but we also report on the global events in our community. It’s with this reporting in mind that we are offering a website for all scene enthusiasts, partiers and playmates.

www.fantasyeventlist.com will offer the global Fashion and Fetish Friends  the possibility to find out more about unique events, from the local sin-o-matic in Boston to a global event like Montreal Fetish Weekend or the Fetish Factory Anniversary Weekend. Travelers will learn exactly when Torture Garden is happening in London, when the German Fetish Ball takes place or how and when to make their plans to attend the Japan Fetish Ball. We will offer the dates and links to the event home pages, for the scene-ster to peruse. 

Von Gutenberg’s www.fantasyeventlist.com will be the unique spot on the web to keep our community informed and we welcome you to click the link and go there often.

If you’d like an event listed, please send all info and dates and flyers and banners to:

fantasyevents@vongutenberg.com

From time to time we like to feature events that we know tickle, tease and taunt our community (and we will be doing more of that in the upcoming weeks with our new section www.FantasyEventList.com…but more about that when it happens). For this blog I just wanted to tell you about the upcoming The DC Fetish Ball & Metro Underground CIRQUE party, what they are calling An enticement of the Mind, Body, & Spirit on Columbus Day weekend. Within a three-floor extravaganza inspired by Cirque du Soliel the DC Fetish Ball is bringing together the scene’s very best DJ’s, models, fashion, and nationally recognized talent, plus a one-of-kind playspace in one of the DC’s most lavish spots, the Ultra Bar  at 911 F St NW DC.

For those of you who are not familiar with The Metro Underground they serve as “a primary gateway to the entire spectrum of the alternative, adult, & underground scene for DC, Baltimore, & Mid-Atlantic region.” and their CIRQUE will prove to be tops for dancing, fetish fashion and play, I am sure. There will be a special performance by Electrocute, a fetish fashion  show by Passional Boutique & SLYX Fashions, DJ’s like Dirty-B (Power-Noise), Mindcage (EBM/Electro), Cosmo (Darkwave/Synthpop), and many more. The dungeon on the premises will be provided & hosted by DXS Rapture; Vac-Bed by SLYX Fashions; Electric Play by Dark Electric and Sybian by Assaf. The special events will include a rope demo by Professor Oni, fire play by New World Sparrow and GoGo by the Cosmos Dolls, plus some mistress mayhem by Mistresses Tyler, Dolphy, Madam Ember, Brendan Lear.

Of course dress code is theme-oriented as this is what is being called “an evening of decadent elegance so dress to impress” and you can find plenty to wear here:  www.vongutenbergcouture.com

Tickets are only $20.  Doors open at 9pm – must be 18+ (21 to drink) and V/I.P After-Party immediately follows the main ball.

Find more info see below, and if you go to DC that weekend tell them Von Gutenberg send you!

http://DCFetishBall.com
http://www.TheMetroUnderground.com
http://www.Facebook.com/TheMetroUnderground
http://fetLife.com/groups/4756
http://Twitter.com/MetroUndergrnd
http://MetroUndergrnd.LiveJournal.com/

Erik von Gutenberg is proud to present the Von Gutenberg Fetish Ball 2011 in Tampa Florida! November 11 and 12 will be a great weekend and the last chance to escape before the holiday season!

Great DJ’s and the top performance from MiMi Cheery from Montreal in addition to the Von Gutenberg Couture Fashion show! In a nutsshell an event not to miss as always at Von Gutenberg Magazine!

tickets here: www.vongutenberg.com/shop

Erik von Gutenberg is proud to present the exclusive interview with Eric Paradis at Montreal Fetish Weekend.

So super cool writer/editor that I kid myself into believing I am, along with my buddy, the well-known writer M. Christian (who you will be hearing from in Von Gutenberg #6) I am collecting fiction for an anthology of ageplay stories to be published  Renaissance E Books/Sizzler Editions . And while I want to brag about this turn of my fortunes and thank Jean Marie Stine of Renaissance for having confidence in me and M. Christian for his continued friendship, what really comes to mind pertinent to this blog is ageplay and specifically how it falls into the broader range of fetishes, kinks….fantasies.

We call Von Gutenberg a Fashion/Fantasy/Lifestyle magazine, so I’d like to think we know a thing or two-or we like to at least ruminate over the idea of-fantasy. Surely, each one of us coddle different  hot scenarios in our nasty little noggins, some we can explore in the here-and-now, others we only ever get to online, still others that never see any actual play except what we dream about or masturbate to.

But it’s all good….very good in fact to explore these fantasies in whichever way you like, partnered or not.

Let’s face it, even for life-stylers of latex, collared subs and the doms that keep them, even lowly little writers in NJ with a penchant for women who can recite every Emerson, Lake and Palmer album title without consulting their iPhone, there are times we can explore our fantasies and other times we have to put them on the back burner for a bit. We can certainly peruse the expansive Von Gutenberg Couture Collection as much as wear what we buy at a fetish party, but for the most part all of us with a fantasy (and that’s all of us, come on, admit it) don’t get to live that fantasy 24/7.

And those times we don’t get to act like a fireman (man or woman) or don’t get to slip on our pirate boots and eye-patch or have to act like a well-meaning second grade teacher when we wish we could be acting like a puppy drinking out of a dog dish or we visit our doctor and wish it could be us wearing the scrubs and holding the thermometer, make those times we get to explore our fantasies that much sweeter.

The memories I conjure when I hear the simple phrase “back to school” are both good and bad…as I assume they are for us all.  Between too much homework, skirting through hallways with friends I know now await to pounce on me from Facebook, to those days of my college career when I finally came into my own to enjoy a social life I have never seen equaled, I realize my school daze (and they certainly were a daze) provided a full spectrum of experiences I wouldn’t trade for all the world, even if I could go back and change them.

Of course as I have grown into a full-fledged budding lifestyle-er, interested in all things latex, leather, kinky and fun, the words “back to school” often hold a whole different connotation…and I know you know what I mean.

Demerits, wooden rulers, and stern-faced teachers in starch-white blouses and pencil-thin skirts; sitting-up high in that chair at the front of the class in abject humiliation; that requisite trip to the principal’s office…oh yes, we can as much build endless scenarios of classroom badness as we can consider the ole’ pat-on-the-chin from a smiling teacher; sneaking fleeting seconds in classroom coatrooms with a school crush; spiriting a girl into your dorm for yet another sleep-over.

Like medical fetishes, school scenarios and the clothes, props, settings and role-play about school days, teachers and classrooms are probably some of the most common for the beginning kinkster and the old pro both. There really is a plethora of naughty ideas that come to mind when the resident lifestyer or even layman whispers with a wink and knowing smile how much he she wishes they were going “back to school” if maybe just for a night with their lover.

Hell, I won’t even expound on the amount of fun one can have with a pair of white knee socks or a pleated skirt…and that’s just on a girl. One could work plenty of our super sexy Von Gutenberg clothes, found here VGCOUTURE into many a student/teacher scenario.

Let the fall begin I say as we all do our homework in hundreds of naughty little ways.

I’ve been on about this subject before, for various reasons and prompted by various moments in my life, but as I just went through that lubing session for us here at the magazine recently and having had a discussion with a buddy just the other day about how certain clothes fit certain women in certain ways, I think the older I get the more I really do like it, whatever it happens to be being, things covered on a lady.

With the latex I lubed, the way it stretched and held the various parts of our model truly cemented the idea that what was covered and only slightly revealed through that covering, was very enticing indeed. That the material our Von Gutenberg lady wore wasn’t just sexy because it shone really great in the camera lights (thanks to yours truly lubing it) but it was sexy because of how it held the lady’s body and didn’t reveal her.  Yes, I could make-out contours, ridges and the occasional separation of the lady’s amazing church and states-if you know what I mean-but I also got to appreciate the outfits for what they were, from catsuit to a naughty latex nurse dress to the various other forms and play things.

Lots of stuff like it can be found here: VG COUTURE

I guess my point is: I don’t need to see a lady all naked like to be excited by that lady. And while yes, I did lube some bare skin as was asked of me (really, I went kicking and screaming into this job I can tell you) I also found that lubing the woman over the latex she wore was nice to. Maybe it’s the fact that latex really does feel like a second skin, maybe it’s  that the outfits were super sexy or maybe it’s just that the older I get the more mature I become and can appreciate the subtletiesof life.
Nah, I doubt it’s that last one.

I just think that although clothes never make the women they sometimes can be quite nice on a woman when she is covered by them.

Thanks to our amazing model, Miss Deanna Storm; the fantastically cool, Honeymooner-Bugs Bunny quoting latex savor, fellow long-hair Jeff; the keen eye of both Robert and our leader Erik-not to mention Erik’s warm hospitality-I spent the stormy weekend with our elite Von G. crew shooting our first model for issue #6…and I was the luber on the shoot. It’s not often I get my hands on such a fetching young lass I do not know but we all got quite chummy as the rain sluiced outside, the wind raged and we made with some amazing pictures.

At one point in the proceeding I had to lube Mistress Deanna’s tight little behind in order for her to slip the skin-tight back of a latex dress over herself  comfortably and as she teased me slightly about where my hands were about to land I remarked that though I was indeed facing and then touching a cute little behind of the female persuasion, at that moment it was less an ass to me then it was a surface I had to cover with lube so the lady could get dressed and go do her job for our cameras.

A job she did so well we seemed to speed through the proceedings and get to the lasagna (which the lady herself had time to make!) which was as yummy as the company

Still lubing a latex model is not your typical 9-5. Attempting to keep my hands from lingering too long-or lovingly, I was a bit nervous my first time at the job, but taking one for the Von Gutenberg team I did my best to make sure the raven-haired dom from Boston looked very shiny indeed in the cat suit, naughty nurse and many other outfits she donned, all of her own design.

Yes, it’s a tough job this work I do for Von Gutenberg and the very last thing I wanted was to be driving round in what I had heard was going to be some hallucious weather, but luckily I never saw much of it as it seemed to hit places other than my home and surrounding towns.

Though it was a mighty hot storm with Mistress Deannna Storm and her wily ways wearing some wicked latex.

You can visit the lovely lady of our stormy weekend here: http://sadisticvixen.com/tour1.html

So, what are you wearing?

We don’t find ourselves asking this question so much anymore. It’s like making an obscene phone call these days, technology has more or less robbed us of certain ways of expressing our sexuality. With caller ID we will get found-out if we attempt a panting phone call to our neighbor and cams and sexting really get in the way of your girlfriend/boyfriend describing their jammies to you…they can just take a picture and shoot it over to you for some quick masturbation. We don’t need to imagine, wonder or describe and I’m not sure we are all that better because of it.

In a way what we do here at Von Gutenberg is try to retain some semblance of the mystique, maintain the balance between showing too much and showing not enough. It’s not easy of course when a lot of what you do is built around showing nicely built ladies in tight latex wear, but we know there are plenty of magazines and websites that show copious amounts of skin; we try and err on the side of enticing, teasing, entertaining with just enough.

Jaded sensibilities aside, how much of all of it do we want anyway?As we grow older we learn that arousal and seduction are as much about a buttoned-down blouse buttoned down to reveal a hint of cleavage as they are about a pair of slacks fitting a man just snug enough we can discern contours but not be transfixed by bulges. It is as much the high tough scent of our leather jacket as it is how it fits snugly across us that makes it so interesting to wear. It’s as much the ‘click a click’ of a pair of heels crossing a wooden floor as how tall a girl or guy is wearing them.

Is our modern age bleeding these nuisances from us, I do not know.  Is it because I am well over 40 that I come to regard my sexuality this way, I’m not sure. All I do know is that it’s nice on occasion to  have an upper thigh flash across my field of vision and nothing more. That I do like to take a gander at the clothes at www.vongutenbergcouture.com and imagine them on a lady and that I do like to, on occasion, ask someone I am on the phone with..hey, what are you wearing?

I just realized while enjoying an unusually calm cool day for August in New Jersey that this summer passed me by without me having spied one bikini! Now, it’ not that I put myself in areas where bikinis might have been these past three months-namely beaches and pools-but I do like gander at a bikini on occasion and not just hanging on a store mannequin but on a real life lady. I’m not sure if this speaks more to my sedentary recent writing life, my fear of crowds at the Jersey shore (the place, not the T.V.  show, though the T.V. show Jersey Shore does bring crowds to the place where the T.V. is filmed) or just the fact that as I grow older I attend less pool parties and summer-time outings.

Either way, I missed me some bikinis.
And not just bikinis. All the variations on swim suits the lasses wearing this summer. I didn’t even get to see any new styles or pant over what-all-the-kids-are-wearing (and by kids, I mean post 18 year old’s, please!). Sure, I keep-up with all the latest in latex, working for Von Gutenberg how could I not? I peruse our shop all the time and will have occasion to spend some eye-balling moments interviewing our upcoming models (more about them as we put issue #6 together), but as far as a tight elastic bottom of a bathing suit rising up over the downy side of a long thigh or the snuggle and pop of a slice of errant breast sliding free its moorings in a low cut bikini top, I haven’t been privy to any summer sun action, sorry to say.

To tell you the truth I’m not even sure if bikinis are popular on ladies anymore. Last I saw it seemed some sort of boy-short was all the rage for bottoms while mix and matching tops were employed to make the suit complete. And it has been my experience that there are a hell of a lot of smokin’ hot one-pieces out there every bit as enticing as any bikini I have ever seen.

Either way, I saw none of them.

So I guess my opportunity is gone, the summer stretches to its end and all that bare-bikini flesh will be secreted away until next summer…when I will probably miss it all again.

I was having this discussion with a friend of mine the other day about thongs and full panties, specifically when did one become the more popular for women to wear then the other? In the dull recess that is my brain I find I can’t recall when suddenly I was spying more cheek on my dates then panty. My nascent sexual experiences were with women wearing full panty-at the most some of the ‘French-cut’ variety which was nothing more than a full panty cut high on the leg-and I learned to enjoy seeing the full roundness of the derriere at the back and that temple-of-all-things-holy-I’d-never-understand covered judiciously in the front. In fact, now that I think on it in the full blush of hindsight, I was so good awful terrified of woman way back then (what’s really changed?) a full panty covering gave me time to think, steel my resolve and remember what I had learned about where I was about to go.

Sure, I acclimated to the changes, what red-blooded American male wouldn’t? But really I don’t recall when suddenly my dates were sporting thongs more than they were a full panty.

Was it around the same time that Pink Floyd announced their break-up? Now that certainly was a monumental moment in history as far as I was concerned.

Seriously, these days I don’t much really care what kind of a panty a lady is wearing, if I am lucky enough to take a gander at it. I like the variety of full panties, boy or booty shorts, thongs, whatever a woman wants to wear. I’m the kind of guy who can find fun with whatever I am faced with and liking what is in the panty more than the panty itself it’s not going to much matter to me what a woman is wearing as long as she feels comfortable wearing what she wears.

I feel the same way about the stuff we sell at VG COUTURE; I like it all. It all looks pretty hot to me, but really it’s the woman in the clothes that makes the clothes. Even the hottest latex skirt’s not going to do much for me simply hanging on a rack.

So full, half, thong whatever kind of panty a woman-or even a man-wishes to wear and when or why they came into vogue, I say have at it and enjoy. Somebody somewhere will appreciate the skin you do show as much as that skin you don’t.