And they begin to develop an attachment to leather, both to the material and the culture that surrounds it.

Leather became the kind of catch-all term for those of us who were to the left of the norm.

If you wanted to learn where to get the best toys, i.e. the most expensive handcuffs, cuffs, whips, paddles, etc., you went to Club O.

If you wanted to be more the voyeur, you went to Chateau 19.

If it was 2 o'clock in the morning, everything had closed, ovaries to the walls, no holds barred, you went down to Hellfire.

And none of it is behind glass.

When I can put a book written in 1701... into the hands of an 18-year-old and go, I want you to open it.

Look at it, hold it, smell it.