This is just the sex parts of my European trip report. For the rest of the report from this day, click here.
At the Men’s Shop — “adult novelties”, if you will — I used my certificate from the contest for a video (Fist Pack 20). I had to spend another 25 DKK — $5 — above the certificate price, but no problem. (Having since watched chunks of the video, I recommend most any other edition in the FP series. The first scene goes for like 20 minutes before getting to any digital insertions, which was kind of the purpose of getting the video. I haven’t watched all the scenes yet, though, so others may be quite a bit better.)
I went back to the hotel for some e-mail (free WiFi) and blog time. Finally made contact with Ole from X-Rated Leather, then traveled to his shop for measurements. What sort of a custom piece to get, though. I want a piece that is special and notable — why have it otherwise? — but it also needs to be mainstream enough that I actually can and will wear it. (As stated, why have it otherwise? I have a couple pieces like that, actually, that I can only wear once per city per year, and sometimes not even that often.) Obviously, he prefers to do a couple actual fittings for his custom pieces, which would not be possible (Denmark being a bit far to go for a fitting).
The idea I had was to get a custom-made vest, with lightning bolts across the back which exactly match the pattern of my lightning bolt tattoos, but with color — yellow bolts with a bright blue “shadow”, to echo Lightning Lad’s costume iconography that they are drawn from. Per Ole, the vest will be lined inside with leather (rather than having one side raw as is usual in the States, which tends to leave suede crumblies on your shirt, and sometimes even dye stains), with a pair of zippered pockets on the inside. He’ll also put some yellow and blue piping on the front to echo the colors on the back. I will send him the computer files from the tattoos so that he can use the exact shape to match.
Is this a €500 (US$750) value? Probably not, technically, but if you think of the prize as intended to be “a custom piece of leather clothing, value up to” the amount. And given the physical distance between his shop and my home, I’m satisfied with the result; I think it’s an adequate solution, given time and location and desired uses.
The master’s cap arrived by post this afternoon from the Anco, before I had to leave. Thankfully!
The hotel in Berlin is quite a trip. This is a leather-themed hotel/bed & breakfast, with semi-themed rooms supplied with kink play equipment. (The most well known of these is the Black Tulip in Amsterdam, an obvious antecedent in the name department; Seattle once had the Gypsy Arms, too.) The hallway was lined with a dog cage, mannequins with straight jackets, a display case with assorted electric gear, and so on. The room had a sling, a vertical bondage rack, and an adjustable fuck bench, plus a selection of medical furniture. (And a closet, TV with DVD player, and sink, and a single bed that was originally a medical bed of some sort.)
After a quick nap, I went out to Mutschmanns, then to Scheune (as I had been directed; the crowd shifts from one to the other around 2:00 am). There I met Pieter (from Berlin) and Graeme (from Los Angeles), and we all eventually went to New Action (where the crowd shifts to after 4:00 am). Pieter was dealing with a friend of his who was suffering from lung cancer who had essentially moved in with him for the duration.
Graeme was a good piss boy and drained me a couple times.
Pieter gave me a piece of candy, which I later realized was probably Ecstasy, although if it was, I don’t know what effect it had on me, if any. We also shared a cigarette laced with hash (I think), but again, no effect that I really can identify. We ended up back at my hotel room, but he left soon after. He tried to lay a trip on me about not being interested in him and just wanting him as a handy dick or fist, but he was feeling depressed about his buddy with cancer and that was more of the issue, I’m sure. And maybe some drug effects as well.
Updated on February 26, 2010
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