2. Leather or PVC?
Following up on the twenty questions I found at Amorous Rocker of Not Your Average Chick that I decided to answer one at a time instead of all in a rush. We'll see how that works. And so...
2. Leather or PVC:
Leather for sure. I totally get that some people enjoy the scents of vinyl and rubber, and get off on the slippery humidity that accumulates underneath it's impermeable barriers. I'm not a big fan of hot weather or humidity though so I think leather, which is breathable and slightly absorbent, is a more comfortable material.
Plus there are other nice things you can do with leather... more particularly there are some other nice things *I* can do with leather. (In my youth I went through a formal leatherworker apprenticeship, and besides hand-tooling and upholstering, belt-fitting, and bag making, stitching and dying and finishing, our shop made the occasional specially fitted items, and while my employer and her husband always did the *really* special fittings, she taught me that there are rougher and gentler ways to measure a person intimately and that it's important to assess what the customer is looking for. But I digress...)
I'll tell you my little secret though, about maybe mildest but most fulfilling fetish: my choice between leather or pvc, just like my choice between cotton or lace, is nothing at all so that I can fingernail stroke someone from the soles of her feet to the backs of her knees, to the curves of her bum, to the small of her back (with a pause for a meticulous and exquisite back scratching), to the nape of her neck.
My personal thing about PVC is that the sound of it squicks me out.
Also, a lot of the fashion stuff done in it looks like ... wearing lawn and leaf bags to me. :}
[I know. We don't choose what gets us going, of course, of course, but I'm just glad nobody's into *styrofoam* because the squeaks from that stuff makes my skin crawl! :-) Working with most of those materials -- leather, pvc, latex, vinyl, is way harder than it looks! Most of it wants to be flat and people are anything but! Thanks, Dw3t. --fl]
Amen on the "exquisite and meticulous back-scratching," btw. I literally brought my BF to his knees about five minutes ago with a random bout of scritches. (I was sitting on the couch, and couldn't get a good angle. He was quite accommodating. :))
[I'm tellin' ya, just because a good back scratch, or especially a good scalp scratching, uses a different set of nerve paths than sex does doesn't mean that it's necessarily any less delightful! Mmmm! Funny how we're that way, eh? Thanks, Nekobawt. --fl]