Risk of death or mutilation makes life more precious and intense, that intensity borders on the spiritual. The experience can be devalued to a simple thrill, the choice lies with the individual. Throughout the leather lifestyle resides choice. We pride ourselves in being consensual, the primary rule of leather scenes is that all participation is voluntary. As such, spirituality in the leather lifestyle involves choice, one can ascribe spiritual meaning to an experience or not.
Leather is a symbolic overstatement, an exploration into the realm of erotic excess.
It is a new personal reality we have created by consensus, so we may make of it what we will. Leather people are testing their limits, the limits of pain, pleasure, and discipline. The spiritual plane is limitless, on a leather ladder we can ascend above our limits, the choice is there. I don't feel that my covering of spirituality and the leather lifestyle can be complete without a few guidelines of how to. There's no guarantee that you will automaticly become the leather avatar, nor are these guidelines complete, you must follow your heart and soul.