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Issue 1: December 2017

KILKER - MR LEATHER UK

What is like to be a title holder?
I think there is a lot of misconception
out there: while some people see title
holders as freaks and beauty pageants,
other people see it as a mandatory full time
job. I would say it’s more like a voluntary
work that has its good and bad things.
Not every title holder is the same,
obviously, and I think each and everyone
brings something different in his title year
and is equally valid to the legacy that the
previous one left. Some people think we’re
stuck up people but the truth is we’re
people just like everyone else, with our
strengths, weaknesses, and of course,
insecurities and shyness too.

How did you get into it?
I met Sly Hands by chance at Gatwick
airport where I was working in summer
2011. He was flying to Scotland if I
remember well and we connected well. He
told me about “Mister Leather UK” that was
being organised in Manchester and he was
very persistent so I agreed in competing.
I didn’t expect to win being Spanish myself,
but just visiting Manchester for the first time
and have a little bit of fun. But it happened.
So I went along with it and continued my
journey by winning “Mister Leather Europe
2012”a year after. And the rest is history.

What is the best thing of being a Mister?
I would say meeting so many people from
all over the world and discovering that
each and everyone understands fetish
in a different way. Also, after you’ve
finished with your title year, you’ve gained
confidence in speaking in front of an
audience. I am also bit shy when I go to
fetish events, so having people recognising
you helps to break the ice at some events,
which I really appreciate.
What is the worst thing of being With the popularity of dating apps, and more social and to an extent, acceptable,
a Mister? I guess helped also by the financial crisis, I wouldn’t like to see that feeling of sleaze
Once you win a title, people, people have stopped going out to fetish disappear from the scene, if that makes
understandably, will always treat you like bars and clubs and I think the scene is sense.
“Mr Leather” or “the one who won…”. While becoming bit smaller. While it is very
a little bit of the popularity that comes with comfortable, and sometimes even horny to What are the challenges the scene
it can be nice, you also want people to give meet a stranger at the touch of a button, faces nowadays?
you the chance to meet the person behind I think it’s also nice to meet someone in I think social media and dating apps and
the title and sometimes it doesn’t happen a bar, even socialise in gear, and make the gap between the old and new
no matter how much you try. I’ve had many new friends. generation of kinksters. Some people feel
people rejecting to meet me as when they like they don’t belong in the scene anymore
know about the title, they automatically What would you change from and it’s sad. In my opinion, we should
think I’ll be arrogant when in reality, I am the scene? respect each and everyone as, at the end
just as shy as everyone. I think as the scene is becoming more of the day, we are all pieces of a huge
mainstream and less of a taboo thing, puzzle game that makes up the fetish
How has the scene changed since you it’s losing its appeal in some sort of way. scene.
got into it? While I do enjoy that it’s becoming way

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