Master Taíno

Master Taíno
Founder, MTTA, Inc.
Master Taíno has been active in the Leather community for more almost four decades. He has a Leather Family of 18 members. Slave Paul has been in his service since 2010.
He founded MTTA, Inc., a non-profit organization that runs MTTA Academy as well as the annual Master/slave Conference (MsC), among other programs. He was the Executive Producer of MsC since its inception in 2004 until his retirement in 2022. During recent years, he has been devoted to the growing kink community in Costa Rica where he has a second residence.

In August 2024, he published his book “Kinky Tales: Real stories of my Leather Journey”. The book includes 38 stories from “Kinky Childhood” to “Leather Grandpa”. He also was a contributor to “Our Lives, Our History: Consensual Master/slave relationships from ancient times to the 21st century”, a nonfiction anthology published by MTTA. Under his legal names, he wrote his life memoirs in Spanish in 2017.

He has been honored with several awards including the National LGBTQ Task Force’s “Leather Leadership Award 2022, the “Guy Baldwin Master/slave Heritage Award 2019”, the Vi Johnson Award at Black Beat 2012, the Pantheon of Leather’s “Man of the Year 2011 Award”, and the “Master Steve Golden Paintbrush Award 2011”, among others.

He became a member of the Defenders Leather Levi Club in Washington, DC since 1993 and served as President from 2001 to 2004. He also founded MAsT Washington in 1999, one of the oldest chapters and was its director for 23 years. He is a founding member of MAsT San José, Costa Rica since 2019. He also has been an Associate member of ONYX Mid Atlantic.

One of his mentees in Costa Rica called him in 2022 her “Leather Grandpa” and Master Taíno ran with the title as it embodies who he is and his role in the community during his seventies.
Master Taíno has a very comprehensive website: www.mastertaino.com. During the pandemic of 2020, Master Taíno started his own educational YouTube Channel ALT SEX TALK – www.youtube.com/c/ALTSEXTALK. He can be reached at Master@mastertaino.com