Best Selling Author, Columnist, Educator and Famous Leatherman
Jack Rinella

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.

Polyamory: (Course overview)

The when, why, how, where, and what of maintaining multiple sexual relationships.

Poly-partnering is becoming more and more acceptable, and certainly more and more evident. It's not, though, all a bed of roses.

How to make it work and how to avoid it when that's what really counts.

My God What Am I Doing? : (Course overview)

Why do kinky folk do what they do?

This seminar will explore the reasons behind our fetishes, with emphasis on the human side of SM.

We will look at the Why of SM, with a discussion of what it is and what it isn't. Our approach will be holistic, recognizing the myriad of forces that bring us together in the dungeon.