SandMUtopian Guardian # 19 from 1995

CANES AND CANING -- by Mitch Kessler. Everything you want to know about the customs, rituals and pleasures of caning. Also, choosing the right cane and the right material.  [Read article.]

DISCREET DUNGEONS: TIE POINTS
by Conrad Hodson. How to Fill Your Life with Places to Attach Bondage. Illustrated.

ADVENTURES IN 9-POINT by  The Ad-Viser.
How to Handle the Personal Ads, Including Location, Gimmicks.

BED AND DUNGEON GETAWAYS by: Gerrie Blum. Two Examples of Overnight Accommodations with that Extra Something.

THE PAYNE, THE PAIN! by Lady Gillian 
A Trip to an SM Haircutting Salon in the New York area.

SPANKING FOR EVERYONE An online article about Spanking positions, etc.   [Read article]

VISITING A PROFESSIONAL SUBMISSIVE by Stephen. Why? How? and What Should You Expect?

CENTERFOLD -- HOW TO MAKE A SPANKING BENCH Complete illustrated instructions for constructing your very own.

Note: These are just a few of the articles available in this issue of the SandMUtopian Guardian. To really appreciate this magazine you have to actually own one. Once you read it, we're sure you'll love it!

These almost-free files represent the “Adam and Gillian years” years of the SandMUtopian Guardian magazine. In its pages you will find a time capsule of “how it was back in the day.” They contain vintage advertisements, and articles on the issues, attitudes, techniques and concerns of “the Scene” that had not yet evolved to be “A Community.”

HISTORICAL NOTES: Sandmutopia Guardian was the heterosexual, redheaded bastard stepchild of The Leather Journal, an explicitly Gay Male publication. There was no “Internet,” there were few in-person BDSM venues, “the munch” had not yet been invented; and reliable information and quality merchandise were difficult to find.

Published irregularly, The Guardian was distributed in a handful of newsstands and Leather stores. However Adam and Gillian's Sensual Whips and Toys became viable ENTIRELY because of advertising in The Guardian managed and edited by the late Tony DeBlaise an icon of the SF Leather scene. When Tony announced that he would retire The Guardian for dearth of readership Adam and Gillian, who said “we know the Guardian has arrived, because our orders started coming in” bought the publication, renaming it SandMUtopian Guardian, to underscore the “Pansexual” nature of the new management, conceptualizing the magazine as “a cross between The Manchester Guardian, a political newspaper, and Popular Mechanics, a magazine for do-it-yourselfers.”