Trying to actually get some copy out these two weeks…

So…take a look at this and tell me what you think:

First, disclaimer. The more people I get to know in the Leather Community (and let’s face it, I’m a fucking new guy to most of these folks), the more I can’t throw a stone without hitting some “small world” connection.

So…probably the people who run this site are reading this blog. It’s a joke guys, feel free to commment okay?

First let me say it looks like these people make perfectly good products. And who doesn’t want a strap-on. All the Dommes I know and about half the subs and switches have a harness in their closet and a wang in the fridge. I’m all for girls fucking other girls, or even assfucking guys. I encourage this sort of behavior.

So…I happened across this site searching for leather and…I said…

Whoa…

“Aslan Leather” That’s quite a name. How do you get a name like that.

For folks who do not have quite the antecedents in British academia or geekery that I do, and are invulnerable to recent cinema, “Aslan” is the Lion from the children’s fantasy novel series “Narnia” by Oxford Don and amateur theologian C.S. Lewis. To be more direct, Aslan is not merely a talking lion. Aslan is in fact, by the admission of the author, the Christ figure in Lewis’ religious allegory. That’s right, the talking lion is Jesus.

I began to fancy the conversation of the original Partners of this company when they were deciding how to name their new company.

Partner 1: So…we need a name for the new company

Partner 2: Sure…what should be be?

Partner 1: Well…we make harnesses for women to use to fuck other women and assfuck men. So I think we should have a name that says something about that.

Partner 2: Yeah, definitely. I know when I think of assfucking with a strap-on, I tend to think of the Christian Savior.

Partner 1: Uhhh…well…sure…we’ve all screamed “JESUS!” when it went in. But…I was thinking something more like “Impact Leather”

Partner 2: No…no I think I’m onto something here. I think that most people when they are using a harness to fuck someone with a dildo have a strong allegorical conceptualization of Christ…

Partner 1: So…where are you going with this?

Partner 2: Not just any Christ either. But Christ as a giant powerful, furry animal.

Partner 1: Jesus!…what kind of animal?

Partner 2: Yeah…exactly now you’re getting it. So…preferably from a species that has backwards pointing barbs on its penis

Partner 1: Err…I’m not sure we have something like that in stock…it might create false expectations on the part of our clientele…

Partner 2: Work with me here. So…the other thing that I think about when I think about fucking with a strap on is British Children’s Literature.

Partner 1: Sure…any particular work?

Partner 2: Well Wind in the Willows is certainly the one that comes most to mind…

Partner 1: In a strange sort of way I could almost see that…

Partner 2: But no…it has to have adolescent children and be principally focused on the central mysteries of Christianity for me to really get off.

Partner 1: I have a heavy object in my hand.

Partner 2: No just listen…so…Aslan. The central messianistic figure from C.S. Lewis classic childrens series. What better to symbolize a company that makes leather toys and promotes girl on girl and girl on boy penentration?

Partner 1: sure…sure…how do you feel?

Partner 2: this is going to be great…so…obviously people won’t recognize the Son of Christ as a Lion if we just put him on the website. So I could do a little drawing where he has a leatherman’s cap to make the point.

Partner 1: You do that…definitely…destroy the innocence of my childhood…

Partner 2: This is going to be great…maybe we should hold a photo contest!

Partner 1: Can we not use the words “Son of God” on the actual website…

Partner 2: Sure sure, no reason to overdo it…

For what it’s worth it looks like the owner of the site is a very reputable well educated, interesting educator in the community who is probably going to kill me. What I get for actually clicking through.

And it’s entirely possible that they just picked up “Aslan” as the Turkish word for “Lion.” Not everybody reads British Children’s books…

But…I like my version better.