Gimps: they all start to look alike after a while. If you often misplace your gimp at crowded fetish parties, or get confused and wander off with someone else’s gimp by mistake, I’d suggest that you dress your own in one of these masks. That way, you’ll always be able to spot which gimp is yours.

Yes, I know. I’ve blogged on Bob Basset steampunk leatherwear before, but there’s far more of it now, and it’s even been featured at the Retronaut blog recently so it’d be a crime not to draw your attention to it again. To see a gallery of lovely leather masks through the Retroscope, click here, and for the Bob Basset website itself, click here.

Here’s part of an interesting article from East Bay Express about kink professions in California, and the legal difficulties involved in Pro-Domination there:

‘…BDSM work still exists in a legal gray area, since state law prohibits the selling of “lewd acts” — meaning physical contact with genitals, buttocks, or breasts. But many people in the scene have found ways to circumvent the law by prohibiting sex, using coded language, and keeping their brick-and-mortar addresses under wraps. Generally, they also vet the clientele fairly thoroughly, requesting references or a hefty deposit for first-timers. (“Police aren’t going to put down $50 just to make an arrest,” said one domme who does, indeed, have sex with her clients.) Such precautions have enabled them to render BDSM a viable cottage industry, and by extension, a visible subculture…’

Click here to read more of the article, including an interview with the awesome Kitty Stryker.