Yo, a user from a kbin (mbin?) server! I don't see those around too often.

There are dozens of us. DOZENS!

For some it kind of is, the leather subculture is a thing, and needless to say leather is a pretty important part of it.

I am not at all qualified to really go into it too much beyond just pointing out that it exists.

I do have a little anecdote about it though. I know someone who is an all-around very kinky person, into all kinds of fairly extreme bondage stuff. She entered and won some sort of "Ms Leather [city we live in]" competition/pageant thing a few years back but there was a bit of controversy about it because she wasn't part of the leather subculture, even though there was a pretty decent amount of overlap between her own kinky interests and the leather community, and so she decided to resign her title and apologize over it.

Yeah I kinda know, it was a generic term to make the joke work. This word just popped up in my mind so I had to share.

P.S. Yes I migrated here after the main kbin instance collapsed, it's a fork and at the moment works fairly well.