Contestants 2026
#1 Candidate Sven
Before you stands Sven, a 49-year-old man from the Kempen region near Antwerp. A grounded and multifaceted personality, shaped by life experience, passion, and connection. Outside the kink scene, he carries a deep love for cooking and brings the creativity and care of a former chef into everything he does.
Within the community, Sven is first and foremost a Master, Dominant, and handler. He is the boyfriend and Master of his partner and slave JayJay, and the handler of his puppy Azul. His journey began at a young age as a submissive, but through personal challenges, he embraced the role of Master, a path that continues to fuel his exploration of techniques, materials, and power dynamics.
Sven is a natural guide: attentive, thoughtful, and always willing to support others. His passions include leather, bondage, sportswear, vintage helmets, psychological power play and puppy play. But also being creative with fetish and kink. Active in social events and clubs, he values growth, shared experience, and community.
Sven’s ambition is to give back to the community. Guiding and supporting those who need help finding their place within it. Those who seek him out will find someone ready to stand beside them.
The rest is for you to discover.
#2 Candidate Damon
Ladies and gentlemen, meet Master Damon from Antwerp.
From an early age, curiosity led him toward what once seemed forbidden. The moment he turned eighteen, he stepped into the BDSM scene—and never looked back.
Driven by passion, grounded by responsibility, and shaped by almost five years of hands-on experience, this 22-year-old dominant is not one to underestimate.
He enters this competition to prove that the younger generation can lead with confidence, integrity, and pride—and that no one should ever hide who they truly are.
#3 Candidate Mike
Mike Goudeseune (52), from Bruges, has been a member of MSC Belgium since the late 1990s. He temporarily paused his membership during a period when language and community-based differences within the club carried too much weight. This felt strange to him, because at its core the community shares the same fetish and the same passion. For him, a man in leather remains a man in leather—whether in the north or the south—until he speaks. It is often language that creates difference, not the fetish itself. What connects people is stronger than what separates them: material, identity, expression, and experience. This is the insight he wants to bring back to the heart of the fetish scene in Belgium.
His attraction to leather began at a young age. On the campsite where he stayed with his parents, the son of the bar owner rode past every evening on a red Ducati, fully dressed in leather. At that age, he understood nothing about fetish, but the aesthetics, presence, and impact of leather left a deep impression. That early fascination grew into a meaningful part of his identity as an adult.
Over the past 25 years, Mike has worked as a school leader, most recently in Brussels. There, he operates in a multicultural environment with people from a wide range of cultures and religious traditions. This context taught him how diversity functions: how habits, traditions, and sensitivities can clash, but above all how they can strengthen one another when there is room for dialogue. He consciously brings these insights into the fetish community.
In his private life, Mike lives in a polyamorous relationship with two partners.
– One partner comes from Wallonia, which deepens his understanding of linguistic and cultural differences.
– The other partner describes himself as a proud Black fetish man. Through him, Mike sees where inclusion and diversity are making progress, but also that men of colour still often feel insufficiently seen or represented within the fetish world. These experiences have sharpened his awareness: diversity requires more than good intentions—it requires action and attention.
Over the years, Mike has been present at various events, both in Belgium and abroad. Not to stand out, but to remain connected to what truly lives within the community. This allows him to clearly see two realities: the positive energy, joy, and sense of togetherness, and at the same time the quieter challenges that are discussed far less openly. He hears stories of loneliness, mental pressure, drug use, and unsafe situations—not as exceptions, but as signals that some people do not feel sufficiently seen or supported. He does not position himself as someone who judges, but as someone who seeks practical and meaningful ways to help.
Mike chooses to be transparent about who he is. He is not a showman, nor someone who jumps on tables or deliberately seeks attention. The part of the competition in which candidates are expected to perform an act genuinely frightens him and lies far outside his comfort zone. That is not where his strengths lie. This does not mean he cannot hold a stage or conduct an interview on national television—something he has done several times in his professional life. What he offers is not a grand performance, but an authentic presence. He will participate in his own way: calmly, sincerely, and without pretending to be someone he is not. For him, leadership can be restrained and still deeply meaningful.
Mike Goudeseune is running for Mister Leather Belgium because he wants to connect where language and culture sometimes create distance, listen to what lives beneath the surface, support those who feel less seen, and contribute to a strong, warm, and inclusive community.
His central question remains:
How can he help? And how can people help one another?
