Dr. Sprott, Flag Breakfast Q&A Speaker

Richard Sprott entered the San Francisco leather scene in 1990, and after a few years joined the Defenders/SF in 1995.  That led to involvement in the Leathermen’s Discussion Group, serving on the Board since the Board’s inception in 1999 until 2006, and then returning to the LDG Board in 2011 to help start up the LDG Mentoring Program. 

Richard served on the organizing committee of the SF Leather/Levi Weekend from its inception in 2001 until 2006; and he was chosen as SF Leather Daddy XXIII in 2005. In 2009, he was chosen as Mr. Alameda County Leather 2009, a title produced by the Alameda County Leather Corps (now called the Alta California Leather Corps). Along with Dr. Robert Bienvenu and sex therapist David Ortmann, he founded CARAS (the Community-Academic Consortium for Research on Alternative Sexualities), a nonprofit corporation designed to promote scientific and scholarly research on leather/kink/BDSM sexuality, polyamory and other forms of ethical non-monogamy, and served as its first Executive Director. 

Richard also is one of the founders and serves as the Research Director of TASHRA (The Alternative Sexualities Health Research Alliance). Richard has a Ph.D. in developmental psychology from UC Berkeley.  He is co-author with sex therapist David Ortmann of the book “Sexual Outsiders: Understanding BDSM Sexualities and Communities” which was published in 2013 by Rowman and Littlefield.  He served as President of the Society for the Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity (Division 44 of the American Psychological Association) in 2021-2022.  He has a wonderful leather family supporting him:  his husband Dave (22 years), his pup Spunky (17 years), his slave marcus (16 years as boy, 1 year as slave), his slave eric (10 years), his slave lyle (8 years), his slave jason (5 years), and slave 3468 (5 years).