Domum Corium Cordis

“Domum Corium Cordis,” (DCC) Latin for “House of Leather Heart” is a non-profit fratrem (gender neutral term for fraternal) organization, a “leather house” or “leather family.” This house began formation on 25 Jan 2018, and this Fetlife page, LeatherHeart started in late 2023. The purpose of DCC is fratremal support, education, and charitable activities, ultimately to create safe space. The Organization structures its approach based upon three house values of Family, Integrity, and Altruism, which distill many other values, ethics, and duties often seen in the leather community:

Family (Latin: familia) represents nurturing supporting loyalty, trust, mentorship, tolerance, enduring love, forgiveness, and creation of safe space. Integrity (Latin: integritas) represents proactive ethical behavior, honor, honesty, respect, humility, inclusion, diversity, justice, doing no harm, life-long learning and growth, admitting when wrong, conflict resolution. Important to our community are also concepts of consent and confidentiality. Altruism (Latin: alteri huic) includes concepts of selfless concern for the well-being of others, service, duty. In our community this is sometimes referred to as a selfless service heart, a desire to help and educate.

House membership includes heads of house Marvin Ingram (Lash Onyx, Bear Marvin) and Michael Skroch (Bear Mike, DaddyBearMike, Poppa Savant Onyx). Marvin is President of Onyx High Desert, a 501c3 and chapter of Onyx Men of Color, an associate of 15 Association. He also holds titles of New Mexico Leather Bear 2019 and New Corazon Leather (New Mexico) 2024. Mike is Vice President of NM-REAL, Inc. (New Mexico Respect Ethics Acceptance in Leather, Inc), a 501c3. He is an associate of Onyx Men of Color and associate of the year 2019, 2020,2022, and 2024, an associate of 15 Association. He is a fully patched member in now closed organizations of Albuquerque Leather Daddys and Albuquerque boys of Leather.

In 2025 there were four other members of house. DCC is a mutual member of house with the house of Sir Electric Steve, Chicago Hellfire Club, and friends of house with multiple other houses and individuals.

Community involvement and service is documented on the Fetlife page LeatherHeart. Contributions of DCC include providing educational classes across the USA including topics of Better BDSM with Passion, Born Kinky – Discovering Kink, Tools for Improving Community Inclusion, From Toys to Tasers – Understanding the breadth of ElectroPlay, Kinky Naked Yoga, Wax Play – Practical & Safe, and Tools for Resolving Internal Community Conflict. They also produced 8-10 hours of video training, Dungeon Monitoring – Training from Different Perspectives, and provide DM training.

Patch:
DCC’s house crest, patch, is unified by a trefoil knot, representing the infinite flow and interchange between the three house values and reference to the BDSM trefoil, tying the house to communities of alternative lifestyles, leather, and kink. A central heart bound by the trefoil, represents the core of this house. Colors are taken from the Leather Pride flag, with black and white colors offset to stand out on light and dark backgrounds. Family is represented by a wolf pack. Integrity is represented by scales acknowledging that the complexity of human nature and situations can be a balance. Altruism is represented by heart in hand, offering selfless service. The choice of Latin for the house name includes focus on formality of values and honors, and that Latin is a language of scholars. Letters “DCC” are subtly included with a “D” on the head of the central wolf and “C” around the eyes of the two other wolves.

The all-leather back patch in the Leather Quilt was created by leather artisan Shane Hutchinson, Abraided Leather, Fet: Abraided.