Why Leather Eros?
Why Leather Eros?
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Why Leather Eros?
Leather Eros is a return to the original vision of this ministry: exploring Sacred Sexuality through a Christian lens.
Within the leather, kink, and BDSM communities, the phrase Sacred Sexuality is often associated with Goddess traditions, Wicca, Paganism, and other earth-centered spiritualities. Those traditions have made significant contributions to conversations about embodiment, ritual, and sexuality. Leather Eros seeks to reclaim and explore Sacred Sexuality within the Christian tradition.
Love is important enough in Christianity that the Greek language gives us multiple words for it: Eros, Storge, Philia, and Agape.
Eros speaks to physical, romantic, and sexual love.
For many people, Christianity has become intertwined with guilt and shame surrounding sexuality, gender identity, sexual orientation, sexual expression, and relationship structures, including Ethical Non-Monogamy (ENM) and polyamory. Whether through personal experience or religious teaching, countless people have learned to see their bodies and desires as something to fear rather than steward.
Yet Genesis offers a different starting place:
Genesis 2:25 spells it out: "both [were] naked, and were not ashamed."
Leather Eros is rooted in the theological belief that humanity is created in the image of God. As bearers of that image, our sexuality is not separate from our spirituality but part of God's good creation. We understand Genesis 2:25 not as limiting God's blessing to one particular relationship structure, but as revealing a deeper truth: before shame entered the human story, human bodies, intimacy, and vulnerability were received as gifts rather than burdens.
We believe that informed, consensual expressions of sexuality between adults can reflect faithful stewardship of God's good gift of sexuality. Like every gift God entrusts to humanity, sexuality carries both freedom and responsibility. We are called to be faithful stewards of our desires, our relationships, and the intentions behind our actions. Harm, exploitation, coercion, and shame are not inherent to sexuality itself but arise from the ways humanity distorts what God has made good.
By embracing Sacred Sexuality, we seek to:
Understand the intersection of religious and sexual trauma.
Reconcile sexuality and spirituality rather than separating them.
Ask honest questions without fear, embarrassment, or shame.
Foster relationships rooted in consent, mutuality, integrity, and love.
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