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Matthew is the only Leather Boy Titleholder in Australia! Non-binary, rope bunny, self-described BPRC. He tells us why kink can be an identity and not just an activity: finding leather at 18, the difference between the leather boy and rope bunny sides of himself, shibari versus Western rope, and the aftercare nobody talks about, including the aftercare doms need too.

He also tells us how he got strung up like a chandelier at a rave, turned to the crowd, and finds eight of his coworkers in the front row, which makes the whole conversation hit differently! In the Deviant Download, Quincy takes on the leather boy: where the "boy" comes from, why it's not about age, and what the flag actually means.

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Clown fetish is real, it has a founder in the UK, and his name is Barney Muckle.

Barney runs Stuck in the Middle, the UK's first dedicated clown fetish event, and this week's Deviant Download is his: what clown play actually is, why nobody agrees on a definition, and how fear and disgust end up wired into desire. He gets into building a community from almost nothing and what it takes to be a full-time sex clown. Penultimate episode of season 1.

We all started as the shy nervous person who felt weird. Barney just leaned all the way in. 🤡

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Shayn, international handler and all-round badass, joins Dax and Quincy to talk about what actually separates a handler from an alpha, the work of holding a community together, and building spaces where everyone gets to show up as themselves.

Ten episodes in. What a ride. This one runs from headspaces and the pup-to-handler journey to the political climate for queer and trans people in the US, ICE raids hitting the LA scene, and what real, equitable inclusivity takes.

⚠️ Trigger warnings: sexual assault & abusive relationships

Kemriss scans every event for people who look like they need someone. They also carry DoxyPEP in their bag for whoever asks after.

Kemriss (@pupkemriss) is the neon purple professional brat of the UK pup scene, co-runner of the Doggy Style Discord, and a regular at Manchester events from Scritches to K9. This episode covers dark room consent, what cruising language is and why nobody teaches it, and why he audibly retches at consent violators until they leave his space.

He also spent 11 years in a relationship. He had no language for it while it was happening. Three years out, this is the first time he's talked about it publicly.

After that: aftercare. What it is, why it's different every time, why doms drop too, and why cooking pork belly ramen counts as grounding yourself after a scene.

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The spoon goes in the snoot. The doxy goes in the bag. Neither is an accident. 🐾

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Tosa literally wrote the book on pup play. Spyke is what it looks like off the page.

Tosa is alpha of the Mazrim Pack and the author of Puppy-Play, a properly published book on the history, hierarchy, headspace and social side of pup play (there's a French audiobook he narrates himself). Spyke is his beta, born in France, now in Canada, and about as much pure energy as one pup can hold. Between them, you get the whole picture: the education and the joy, the theory and the bark. They get into pack dynamics, what it actually means to live in one rather than play at it, and why writing down a community you're part of matters.

Find them at @puptosa and @spyke_mazrim, book, calendar, and much more at mazshop.ca.

Tosa wrote the book. Spyke lives in the bark. Come as a pack. 🐾

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Tom of London got sober in a scene built around wet spaces, and built a whole philosophy out of it.

He talks about what it actually takes to keep a community alive rather than just take from it: the clockwork theory where we’re all cogs keeping it ticking, leather’s European roots through the ECMC, and why the titles he held were never the point. He’s also 14 months sober and relearning his kink from the ground up, which makes the whole conversation hit differently. Find him on Instagram @tomoflondon.

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What is Pride actually for? Dax and Quincy sit down with Shippo, first Slovak Puppy and a Pride organiser, for a Pride special that doesn’t dodge the hard bits.

They get into acceptance, belonging, why kink keeps getting pushed out of Pride, and how the smaller, scrappier Prides are doing it better. Plus the moments that make the whole community worth it.

Drop a comment with the year you first realised Pride was for you. We want to know.

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Joker made Bone Battle Cards: a card game built for this community, by someone in it.

He talks about what it actually takes to build something for the scene rather than just talk about needing it: the creative process, the community thinking behind the design, and what it means to put something real into people’s hands. He’s also an anxious pup who went and did it anyway, which makes the whole conversation hit differently. Check out the game at bonebattle.app.

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Chipper runs short kink education reels on TikTok and Instagram. He’s also a handler with a lot to say about what consent and agency actually look like inside a power dynamic.

This episode gets into the stuff that often gets oversimplified: submission as a choice, power exchange as something both people are actively doing, and what access to kink really means in a community. Chipper’s social media is worth following in its own right, find him at @followchipper on both platforms. One of the sharper conversations the show’s had so far.

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By the time this episode dropped, Astrid had just become International Ms Bootblack 2026.

She’s a butch trans woman, a Leatherdyke, and a bootblack who knows the history most people skip, military origins, post-war motorcycle culture, the racialised shoeshine trade that nobody wants to talk about. She also gets into what it’s like to move between male-centric, female-centric, and mixed leather spaces as a masculine-presenting trans woman, and why she co-founded London Leatherdykes anyway. Glasgow and Manchester have chapters now because of it. This one runs long. It earns every minute.

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