s l a v e...d a v i d...s t e i n

writer  ·  editor  ·  activist

The silver chain and turquoise disc i'm wearing in the photo are gifts from my Guardian, Master Steve, founder of Butchmann’s Academy. It was Master Steve who helped me rediscover my “heart of slave” after a couple of painful “failures” made me feel that i could no longer follow this path. His teaching is that “heart of slave” is innate, and though being collared and owned by a Master fulfills a slave’s nature, it does not create it. So although i am unowned, i see myself as someone who exists in order to serve and whose greatest happiness comes from obedience — even if my ego resists and rebels for a time, LOL!

NOTE: Master Steve has retired from the leather lifestyle and is now a full-time Buddhist priest living quietly. It is still a great honor to be part of his extended family, and i will always be grateful to him for allowing me to be part of his life.

It is my hope that these pages will be of some service to Masters, slaves, bondage enthusiasts, and others. Except for a few photos of me and illustrations created for some of my writing, the pages consist of text and links only, and while the content frequently concerns the erotic, nothing here is obscene. Still, if homosexuality, bondage, consensual slavery, or s/m practices offend you, i respectfully advise against following any of the links below.
 

New book! Check out my new book about long-term gay Master/slave relationships, Ask the Man Who Owns Him at Perfectbound Press.

New book! A collection of my short fiction, Boots, Bondage, and Beatings, was published in April 2009. It has eight stories, five of them previously unpublished, including an “outtake” from my novel, Carried Away, and a new epilogue to it. Check it out at Perfectbound Press.
slavery
bondage
s/m-leather history
erotic fiction
Mentors and fellow travelers
about me
gorgik@aol.com
When i first went online, i wanted to use "david stein" as my screen name, since i am pretty far out of the closet, but there are too many others with the same name on AOL, and i didn’t want to be "david st738" or the like. So i cast around for an appropriate handle and settled on "gorgik," after a character in the Neveryön series of fantasy novels by Samuel R. Delany. Gorgik was a slave who found himself freed by chance, and he decided to dedicate his life to eradicating the institution of slavery. He also found, however, that he was incapable of performing sexually (usually with another man) unless either he or his partner wore his old slave collar. That seemed to be a good metaphor for someone like myself, who spent years in the struggle to liberate gay and s/m sexuality yet wanted nothing more than to be happily enslaved. While i always sign my real name to my posts online, i am proud to carry (with the author’s permission) the name of this protohistorical gay hero.
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