biography
Jim is my name. Originally I'm from San Antonio, Texas. Coming from a lower income family, I have worked very hard to be able to enjoy the life I now have. After graduating high school in 1999, I joined the US Marine Corps where I served 8.5 years.
I've earned a Bachelor of Arts in Intelligence Studies to bolster my professional credentials and am a very active world traveler, both for work and pleasure.
I consider myself cultured and grateful to have been given the life I now enjoy. I'm in a committed, but open & non conventional relationship with my kinky rubber partner in Seattle. He's my partner and while we do have a BDSM component in our relationship, we are equals.
I enjoy volunteering, mentoring, and helping where I can, when I can. Bottom line is that I hate to see people in pain and suffering when they need not be. As a consequence of my line of work, I developed two mental health conditions: Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), and depression. Thankfully, I have control over these two conditions and realizing it wasn't easy to 1: admit it, and 2: seek help, I have turned this vulnerability into my source of power and have become a mental health activist to help eliminate stigma and the roadblocks to recovery, and to encourage others to seek needed treatment.
I would say I am a gentleman and while I can be chivalrous, I encourage equal burden, responsibility and courtesy between all genders.
Suez Canal, USS Tarawa (LHA1), 2005
During my Marine Corps career, I deployed to several locations throughout the world. Some great, some not so great.
Originally, I joined as a Personnel Administrative Clerk but after nearly three years in that occupational field, I decided to do something a bit more intense and moved into military intelligence. It was there that I found myself deploying with the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) to Iraq for Operations Enduring, and Iraqi Freedom.
In February 2006, I was "outed" and investigated for being in violation of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy that had been in place since the 1990's. While ultimately my investigation was placed on hold for unrelated but more pressing matters, on the advice of counsel, I opted to not reenlist for a third tour of duty and rejoined the civilian workforce in January 2008 with a clean record and Honorable Discharge.
Photographer: Kristofer Reynolds, 2016
These days, I work for a private firm in the aeronautical defense industry, working to provide my company's clients assistance with their information gathering needs. I still find myself traveling all over the world from places like Iraq, Afghanistan, to more pleasant places like the United Kingdom as well as within the United States.
Even so, I still strive to continue my charitable work while still working towards earning a Master in Business Administration.
In terms of my Leather Life, I am in a leather family where I serve my Master, support my leather brothers (Master's boys) in their own lives regardless of our sexual/BDSM dynamics. I pride myself on being their big brother. In addition, I have a boy who serves me that I strive to mentor and free from his limits and fears, for I also serve him. I intend to continue to build my own leather family as time, resources and my personal limits allow. My leather family is an extension of my Master's family.
A leather man or woman must always be eager to grow and in turn mentor others.
My leather pillars:
- Connection
- Eroticism
- Love
- Mentorship
- Respect
- Transcendence
- Trust
"What a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable." -Socrates