Slightly Nefarious Fetish Artist

Ideally, this was headed to Antebellum Fetish Art Gallery. But since Antebellum has closed, I’m not sure where it’s heading or if it will be done by V-Day. I’ll bring it to Threshold for My Kinky Valentine on February.

I’ll admit, this site is chock full of penis.

For those from Instragram, welcome! Those new to the site might think WTF is with the gay stuff? And Gay readers have no doubt been thinking WTF is with the straight stuff?

Well, tell ya truthfully, almost everyone who asked is male. Modern fetish and kink has roots in Gay Leather. So if you were a straight male or female, you had to go to the gay leather bars and shops to learn about fisting, bondage, and leather gear. Funny, women seem to have no problems with this. Straight men get a little apprehensive.

Even today, European fetish mags and communities include men into the kinky mix with latex, high heels and drag. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with it.

Here’s something weird though. I’m now finding more kinky straight people than gay folk. As the Leatherman community becomes older, kink is just not for the young gay crowd. We know part of this is AIDS related. BDSM was a safer way to meet and fuck because you didn’t mix bodily fluids. We now have HIV cocktails, anti virals and PrEP. So AIDS isn’t the giant threat it once was to the gay world. As I’ve mingled in places like the Tom Of Finland Foundation, Faultline and Antebellum, more and more gay men have asked me where to find bondage, flogging, spanking and kink. I used to know half a dozen gay kink groups, but the answer now seems to be places like Threshold, Sanctuary LAX and Lair de Sade.

I have yet to hear a straight man ask what my deal is with lesbian themes.

Funny though, women seem to already know this. I hear words like Queer and Genderqueer thrown around a lot in the BDSM scene, but mostly by gay and bisexual women. They know what I’ve known for ages, and it’s the reason why you’ll see both gay and straight (and more) themes in my artwork.

Even though Tom of Finland has deep leather roots, I’m seeing less and less kinky artists at their events. Guys were surprised to see me adding on clothespins and rope bondage in the drawing workshop.

Fetish is fluid! Raunchy as it sounds, there’s not much difference between one hole and another, a rubber dick verses a flesh one, and an orgasm is an orgasm is an orgasm. Women in the scene have found it much easier to let go of gender based sexuality and embraced transgender, queer and gay culture, much to the chagrin of gay and straight men.

That’s why I have no problem drawing men on men, transgender, women on men, women on women, Dominant, submissive, switch and pansexual. I let go of those restrictions a long time ago. Kink is kink and kink is fucking hot!

From the archives. I was just in a mood today. I do have prints of this available.

So, I’m working on stuff for Electric Blue today. There are several people I’m looking to directly contact for animation and content for the company. Keep in mind, these are semi-professional, world famous creators thanks to NewGrounds and YouTube. And money is a big deal to them, because when you’re doing creative things on the internet, you need money for things like food, rent, and internet to make those cool videos. We have people who want to pay these guys for new videos. Here’s the problem. We have no business contact info for them. But they all have Patreon, which has no business contact info for these creators.

Welcome to the enigma of YouTube and crowdfunding. If you have no business contact info, you can’t be contacted by someone who wants to do business. I have my contact info right at the top of the page in the header. Look up top. See? But if I go to something like YouTube or Patreon, it becomes harder to find contact info. I’ve encountered bogus e-mails, wild goose chases through Twitter and other social media, and if they do have a professional web site, the obvious thing missing is how to contact them for business, like a phone number.

For example, someone put money in my hand for this, and I gave it to them. No web site required. 

And then there’s the enigma with crowdfunding. I’d rather actually put product in your hand for money, than just beg you for money. That’s why I have an Etsy account at https://www.etsy.com/shop/FetishArtistGallery

Patreon does make some sense for video content in progress, but seriously is backfiring. Frederator studios experimented with Patreon and crowdfunding to make Bee and Puppycat. While pilot episodes were a hit, they failed to generate the large sum of cash needed to pay for the content.

So what is crowdfunding good for? When you have a great idea that you want to put in the hands of your fans in exchange for money. Blue Blood did this with the California Death Rock book. The folks at Menage A 3 use it to do print runs of their hard copy comic books. But there is a huge risk that comes with this, and these crowd funding sites take a chunk of your money away from the artists you love.

If there’s a big project coming up, like a calendar, or a book. I’d like to do, crowdfunding may be in order. However, given the general response I get on the web in general. I’m still a little shy about that.