Language

The Lexicon

The Lexicon preserves the language of the Lifestyle — its words, concepts and traditions. It records meaning; it never prescribes practice. Where usage varies between Houses or lineages, each is set down with equal respect.

Practices

Uniform Appreciation

The admiration and ritual attention associated with uniforms and uniform aesthetics.

Definition

Uniform Appreciation covers the admiration and ritual attention associated with uniforms — military-inspired, service-inspired, occupational or invented — within consensual scenes and dynamics. It sits within the wider family of Object Devotion and garment appreciation.

Historical background

Uniform imagery has a well-established place in fetish culture and in Leather and BDSM aesthetic tradition.

Discussion

Communities differ in the ethical and aesthetic considerations they attach to particular uniform imagery.

See also