is for Leather. The intense spirit of camaraderie among leathermen is expressed in one of the house organs of the leather movement, Dungeon Master. In 1981, the magazine announced in all seriousness the establishment of an emergency relief fund for the S/M victims of a devastating firestorm that had swept through San Francisco's South-of-Market district, reducing well-appointed playrooms to rubble, incinerating irreplaceable collections of historic whips, and melting down whole teasure troves of marital aids and dildoes. Rather than asking them to send money, the author urged readers to scour their own dungeons and rifle through their toy chests for harnesses "you never use, your duplicates, the things you've outgrown," box them up in Care packages, and send them off to an S/M group in San Francisco that, like the Red Cross or the Save the Children Fund, would make certain "they are forwarded to the men in need."
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