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Straitjacketed 7, Part 1

[Here, as promised, is the first part of this wonderful writer’s most recent bondage session(s) with his sexy, stern and implacable Master. He assures me he’ll get Part 2 to me very soon. BW]

Straitjacketed 7,  Part 1

I hadn't had an extended session with my Master since October 2008 and I was long overdue. Although I had seen Him socially a few times since then, the timing had not been right for another all-day bondage session. Finally, after checking our schedules and moving some important appointments, I was able to devote an entire day to surrendering my freedom to Him. Of course this meant I was not allowed to have any sexual release from the moment I called Him to finalize the date in May 2009.

A Lonely Activity

It’s been almost two weeks since I’ve posted anything here. That’s partly because time flies when you’re not paying attention, partly because I actually have been busy, and mostly because I’ve had no urgent bondage requests (or requests of any kind) from you, requests which might have given me something to write about. Friends tell me I don’t necessarily have to blog exclusively about bondage, that the thing about blogging is you can talk about anything at all, but let’s face it, who really wants to hear what most people have to say about anything at all? I certainly don’t.

Phone Sex Love Story

[A reader recently requested this story, with both of us trying to remember which issue it might have come from. Turns out it came from Issue 51 (March/April 1996] and was advertised on the magazine cover as “Phonesex Scandal: Bondage Breaks Class Barriers.” The story itself was titled “Phone Sex Love Story.” I’d forgotten most of it, except for the actual phone sex conversation that starts it, which comes from the days before Caller ID. I’d also forgotten how hot it was. BW]

PHONE SEX LOVE STORY

Sorry most of my experience is in the form of a conversation, but that is how it occurred:

In 1987 I was a 37 year old divorced yuppie reduced by alimony payments to living in a cheap apartment when the calls began. The caller always rang me at midnight and was an adult male who seemed to know me. I couldn’t recognize his voice.

“Are you alone?”

“Yes.”

The New Bound & Gagged

When I told Lee I didn’t know what to blog about today, he suggested I write about the New Bound & Gagged as we envision it, since many of you have been asking me what it will be like. I suggested HE do that, so the entry that follows is his:

Bound & Gagged Relaunch

The new B&G, which we are aggressively constructing right now, is being designed as a mind-blowing website that will offer:

The complete pre-2005 archive of photos, drawings, stories and special features from issues 1 through 106, all 44 online editions (for a grand total of 150 issues), plus many more photo galleries than we ever put up before—the complete Bound & Gagged photo archive, which includes thousands of photos taken before digital cameras came on the scene, is in the process of being digitized and will be made available. Also offered, of course, will be every special issue we ever published, the four volumes of Pledges & Paddles, the five photo albums (Albums 1 through 3 plus Tops & Robbers and Room Servitude), our bondage in the military issue, Bondage Recruits and The Bound & Gagged Bedside Companion.

Like the original print magazine, the new Bound & Gagged will include new stories and photos galleries and, unlike the original print magazine, video versions of new stories and even of old ones!

All of your favorite Bound & Gagged videos will be available on the site in a streaming, video-on-demand format. Scripts for new B&G videos have been written and we are preparing pre-production schedules now. We’re also making room for you, the real bondage experts, to upload your own bondage videos to the site.

Incredibly Exciting New Sections We Ain’t Talking About

Our website geniuses Josh and Trevor are designing new, exciting and—to the best of our knowledge—state-of-the-art (do people say state-of-the-art anymore?) sections for the new B&G website.  For those who decide to invest with us, we’ll provide full disclosure on what we’re doing.  For the rest of you, our mouths are taped until we push the “start” button.


When do we relaunch?

For everything we’re seeking to create, we’re looking for a mere $800,000 (there must be plenty of you guys who keep that much in your sock drawer in case of hurricane, drought, less-than-expected bailout money OR great investment opportunities). Our accountant predicts a strong ROI (that’s return-on-investment for those of you who avoided Accounting 101.)  On the other hand, while $800,000’s the optimum amount, we’re in a position to launch with far less. One way or another, we’ll hold all investments in an interest-bearing escrow account until we reach what we believe to be a usable sum.  Once that does happen, it will be full speed ahead!

So many of you have told us that you miss Bound & Gagged, that there was nothing else like it and nothing has replaced it. Well, what we’re assembling is something that is so unique that no other site comes close in content, design and easy usability (if that’s a real word)!

How Do You Join Us on this Fabulous Adventure?

We now have a business plan with—what the accountants and attorneys tell us—very impressive financials.  Both Bob and I will be happy to go over these with those of you who are interested.  

If you’re concerned about anonymity, the top level legal firm working with us will guarantee total discretion and gives assurances that all investments will remain anonymous and not traceable to anything resembling “a gay male bondage enterprise.”

We think we’re onto something BIG!  So contact Bob (Bob@boundandgagged.com) or me (Lee@boundandgagged.com) and see if you think so, too.  

Come be part of this with us!

Empowering Confinement

[This story was originally posted in Bound & Gagged online, Issue #10 (October, 1999). Not only do I think it a very sensual description of the bondage experience, but I was pleased to note that the reader started out by agreeing with my oft-repeated contention that recapitulating a hot experience is a turn on in itself. I wish those of you reading this would try it, and send your recapitulation to my email address, Bob@boundandgagged.com. If you want a good reason to jerk off to something hot some quiet evening when you find yourself home alone, you won’t find a much better one than writing down your own thrilling memories of delicious helplessness. --BW]

 EMPOWERING CONFINEMENT

NORTHERN ILLINOIS. Enclosed is a true story of a recent intense bondage experience. It was simple but powerful. And you are right, it does turn one on to try to reflect on and write up an experience. Sorry if it got too long—so much of the experience came alive for me.

I’ve enjoyed so many other guys’ estories—so I took your challenge to write up my own experience.

Even More on IML (With Pictures!)

Another reader has written me about his IML experience, and included some flattery, which I always love. The pictures are after the jump, but the letter starts here:

Hey Bob,

I’ll get the compliments out early. I started out in the gay bondage scene reading your magazine before understanding fully what i was getting myself into. That was 11 or so years ago. I still have many old copies in my closet. Since the magazine is gone it is some good classic reading. You were as hard core as instigator magazine, but you gave what was promised, guys bound and gagged. It is still my favorite.

More on IML

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Here’s another view of IML, sent me by a friend:

Hiya Bob, I went to IML this year and I think it's still great.

It's a leather event, yes, but you know very well that the umbrella-term leather is not strict and covers bondage, S&M, many many different fetishes (feet, etc.) and even leathersex of all kind (rubber, wetsuits, sports uniforms, furry, plushy, anime). Need I go on?

IML

Did you go to IML? I didn’t. I wanted to, there were lots of guys going who wanted me to tie them up and whom I’d have liked to tie up, and I always love being in Chicago, but after many discussions that went on long into the night, Lee and I decided it didn’t really make sense for us to go this year, especially since we couldn’t afford it. It would have been different if we already had the magazine going, or were on the very verge of starting up, in which case we’d have had a booth, or at least a room for a reception. But just to go for a good time, well…

You're Fucked, Asshole

[I thought I’d already posted this story here, but apparently not. It’s always been one of my favorites, not because I believe it actually took place as described, since I’ve never been sure about that, but because of its sheer outrageousness. Of course nothing that happens in it is safe, and I shudder to think of the writer left alone, thickly gagged behind a tight hood, totally helpless as he’s remorselessly fucked by a huge dildo that one feels could go right through him, but it’s damned hot to read about. This story, appropriately called “You’re Fucked, Asshole,” appeared in Issue 26 [January/February 1992], long out of print. BW]

YOU’RE FUCKED, ASSHOLE

ST. LOUIS, MO. My partner and I met in Chicago because I saw him ask for a copy of Bound & Gagged. I was fascinated with bondage but never had the nerve to connect with anyone. I was so excited to see a beautiful, virile man from home with my interest that I had the guts to meet him. It turned out that underneath the clean-cut exterior is the body of a god and the imagination of a demon. I've put both to good use.           

Update on Bound & Gagged Launch

Lots of people have been asking me about the B&G relaunch, so let me try to give you some info about it here. The relaunch is entirely dependent on our getting adequate financing to get us into and through the first year. We’ve just about finished our business plan, which may be the first actual business plan ever written by an “adult” company under the guidance of a top accountant and highly respected legal firm, or, for that matter, by any “adult” company at all.