Best Selling Author, Columnist, Educator and Famous Leatherman |
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For more than fourteen years Jack Rinella has been writing LeatherViews a weekly, column about his favorite topic: kinky sex. The acclaimed author of the best-selling book, The Master's Manual, The Compleat Slave, Partners in Power, Toybag Guide to Clips and Clamps, Becoming a Slave, and his most recent Philosophy In the Dungeon, the Magic of Sex & Spirit, is a free-lance writer and college instructor. A sought-after lecturer, Jack has presented seminars on BDSM history, techniques, and relationships across the country including the Leather Leadership Conference, Black Rose, Bash at the Beach, Beat Me in St. Louis, TES, Headspace in Bloomington, IN, Kinky Kollege, and the Arizona Power Exchange. Born in Albany, New York of Italian-American parents, he's been a high school and college teacher, a drug rehabilitation counselor, a cook, a computer salesman, a Catholic seminarian, a Pentecostal minister, an advertising copy writer, a graphic designer, and has done stints at printing, publishing, telemarketing, head-hunting, and computer consulting. He has a Bachelor degree in Philosophy and a Master Degree in Business Administration. He has been active in the Leather scene since 1983, is a founding member of MAsT-Chicago, an associate member of the Chicago Hellfire Club, and serves as a director on the board of the Leather Leadership Conference. He has written extensively about our lifestyle as a weekly columnist for Gay Chicago Magazine. His writing has also appeared in Drummer, in The (San Francisco) Sentinel, and in Philadelphia Gay News, and is available on-line at his website at http://www.LeatherViews.com and through his free weekly newsletter which can be subscribed to on his website. He lives on the North side of Chicago with his partner of ten years, Patrick, and his boy Matthew where he passes the time writing, cruising, and falling in love whenever he can. You can contact Jack at mrjackr@Leathermail.com.
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Creating Spaces for Good Sex: (Course overview) |
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Whether you live in a studio apartment on a fixed pension or have a trust fund allowance from your Rockefeller uncle, this workshop will talk about the top’s toy bag, the hidden dungeon, and making good sex better by paying attention to the details. A workshop only a former altar boy could do. |
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The Primal Self: (Course overview) |
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Leather allows a unique expression of our most inner personae. How do SM and sexual activity allow us to express the animal within? How does it put us in touch with our basic instincts? How are we expressing primitive drives for initiation, maturity, and acceptance of self into our kinky community? This is a lot more than just a presentation on biting! |
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Becoming a Slave |
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The Toybag Guide To Clips and Clamps |
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More from the Master |
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Partners In Power |
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Philosophy In the Dungeon |
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The Compleat Slave |
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The Dictionary of Scene-Friendly Terms |
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The Master's Manual |
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