11 July 2023

History and evolution of the leather harness

Origins The origins of the harness can be traced back to ancient civilizations that utilized leather (a flexible and durable material) for military purposes and to control animals. Even today, leather harnesses are used as horse harnesses and headstalls, and more rarely, as full-body harnesses for attaching vehicles to animals […]
3 October 2021

BDSM and Fetish at Venice Film Festival

A sexual adventure of domination and submission turns into an intimate dialogue between two generations which, starting from lost loves and AIDS, leads to a subdued, passionate cry of life. La dernière séance Written and directed by Gianluca Matarrese, La dernière séance ( The last chapter ) was presented at […]
11 October 2020

Fundraising for quick HIV tests

Why a fundraising? Fortunately, seropositivity is no longer a sentence but a condition with which, thanks to medical care and therapy, one can live with having a very high quality of life. However, more than half of HIV diagnoses in Italy occur when the disease is already in an advanced […]
3 October 2020

lcroma.com: 20 years of online fetish community

Since its birth in 1999, the Leather Club Roma had a website, initially on geocities and then, since 2000, on the lcroma.com domain. There were the early days of the web and the site used technologies that would later be abandoned but which were then real avant-garde : flash, frontpage as […]
13 September 2020

Brief history of Fetish Pride Italy in pictures

This year Fetish Pride Italy, launched in 2014 by Leather Club Roma, will reach its eighth edition. We decided to briefly reconstruct its history by selecting, for each edition, three images from those created to promote the event (flyer, poster, playbill, featured images and more).
21 August 2020

Interview with Mister Leather Italia and Mister Rubber Italia 2019… and 2020

We spoke with Cosimo e John, respectively Mister Leather Italia and Mister Rubber Italia 2019, whose titles were extended to 2020. They talked about their fisrt year as mister and their hope for the future, considering such an uncertain moment for the Italian and international fetish community. Title, date of […]