Bob Wingate's Blog: Curious B&G Communications

This week the Leather Archives and Museum (LA&M) in Chicago will be picking up the great bulk of the Bound & Gagged archives, which we are consigning to their care. To that end, Lee and I have been scrambling to prepare, filling up boxes and inevitably going through documents we haven't looked at since we closed up shop a little over ten years ago.

One of the small files I just came across was labeled "Weird Letters." It didn't contain all that many—we had an amazingly sane readership, for the most part—but some of the documents are doozies, a few letters simple howlers, one or two of them sad. Lee and I had a ball rereading them, and I hope you enjoy them, too. Printing them here (with no special regard for the order in which they were received) means keying them in, since many are handwritten and contain names and addresses, but I'll do what I can, and maybe even just turn some of them into jpegs and post them that way.

By the way, the rush we're in to ready our archives for shipping is the reason I've been lax about posting recently.

A BETTER USE FOR MY TALENTS

Handwritten note, on letterhead of:

United States Senate
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

From: A.B.J., Chairman

Undated

Mr Bob Wingate,

Recently, I saw an issue of your magazine, and found it shocking and repulsive. No doubt you have considerable management, business and journalistic talent. Our lives on Earth are rather short, and we should make the best use of our talents during the limited time we have. I hope you will turn your talents toward a much more worthwhile and respectable direction. Our great country is in need of talented people working toward good and worthy causes.

Best wishes

(Unsigned, though name on top of notepad

DEAR MISS WINGATE…

The following exchange was with a customer who sent us several bad checks. [Note: KW Enterprises was a sister company of The Outbound Press. The Outbound Press published Bound & Gagged magazine, special issues and books; KW Enterprises was a mail order company selling gear and the books and videos of others]

To M.A.U., Hermosa Beach, CA from Bob Wingate

August 17, 1989

Dear M.A.U.

Your check (enclosed) was refused by our bank for insufficient funds. While we're sure there was just some confusion involved, we must nevertheless request that you send us a money order or bank check for $29 to cover both the ($24) subscription price and the $5 service fee that we were charged by our bank.

We look forward to continuing your subscription to Bound & Gagged.

Sincerely,

Bob Wingate

From M.A.U., Hermosa Beach, CA to Bob Wingate, undated

(No salutation)

On August 2nd I mailed check No. 1730 to you in the amount of $62.45 for a video.

3 weeks is ridiculous service, period.

It was ordered for a social event and I think that 3 weeks is more than enough time to simply put a video in an envelope and mail it.

I would never consider ordering a thing from you again.

M.A.U.

P.S. If this letter crosses with your mailing, I still do not feel guilty.

To M.A.U., Hermosa Beach, CA from Bob Wingate

August 29, 1989

Dear Mr. U.

I enjoyed the righteous indignation in your (undated) letter postmarked August 24th.

You will be interested to know that it is people like you, who send bad checks (see my letter of August 17th and your own bad check, No, 1696, for a subscription to Bound & Gagged) who regrettably make it necessary for mail order companies like mine to print "Please allow four to six weeks for delivery" [Note: this was common in pre-internet days] on our order forms and actually to wait until checks clear before sending merchandise. I suspect you are too impatient and important a person to waste your tine reading such information on order forms, or on anything, for that matter. I noted with amusement that you didn't include the $1 fee required for forwarding letters to advertisers on the Bound & Gagged Bulletin Board when you sent a letter to be forwarded last week, either because you didn't read the information at the top of the Bulletin Board or because you consider yourself too important to pay such fees.

In any case, having been stung by you for $24, I was hardly about to allow myself to get stung by you for an additional $62.45.

May I request that you return the first issue of your subscription to Bound & Gagged, which I in good faith sent out on receipt of your original bad check, in the condition in which you received it, or send me the $5 retail price of the magazine, plus the $5 service fee penalty my bank charged me for your bad check. We will then consider your subscription closed.

I am very glad you would not consider ordering anything from me again, as I'd be hard put to accept your order if you did.

Sincerely,

Bob Wingate

From M.A.U., Hermosa Beach, CA to Bob Wingate, dated August 28th [which means that it crossed BW's letter above in the mail] and received on September 5th.

(No salutation)

A check written on July 12th, remailed to me on August 24th.

Do you not practice simply running a check through a second time? Hell, six weeks went by from you getting the check to you informing me it was insufficient funds.

All you had to do was simply redeposit the check and yes, it was a banking error.

Then, why return a xerox copy, send the whole check back because there is nothing to stop you redepositing the check.

At any rate, it would have cleared easily if run thru again. The balance as of 7-24 when cancellation was indicated, was $6,812.00

Whatever, your check for $30 is enclosed and please, on August 4th I mailed you check 1730 in the amount of $62.45 for a video that has never arrived, period. Check payable to KW Enterprises.

Sincerely,

M.A.U.

To M.A.U., Hermosa Beach, CA from Bob Wingate

September 5, 1989

Dear Mr. U.,

I am returning your check for $30 and also enclosing a check for $62.45, a refund for the video you ordered. I have neither the need nor the desire to do business with boors, and would suggest you use some of the returned money to buy yourself a book on manners.

From M.A.U., Hermosa Beach, CA to Bob Wingate, dated September 9th

Dear Miss Wingate

How convenient for a fucking nobody queen like yourself to fire off a letter. I prefer personal confrontation, like most men.

My check for $62.45 was cashed and cancelled by someone at your so-called KW Enterprises. What's the KW for, kink wimps?

The check was returned to me cancelled and quite cashed on August 16th, Miss Wingate, so you had the money and all the rhetoric about waiting for it to clear your bank was just faggot bullshit.

I have a condo on Park Avenue I use 4 or 5 times a year, and next trip I will make it a point to see how tough you are in person.

After 8 years in the NFL, Stanford Law School and a legitimate business owning a 78 lawyer firm, I do not need any comment on anything from a piece of shit shlock peddler like you, fuckface.

We will meet sooner than you will want to in your prestigious address, your class I do not need on Park Avenue.

M.A.U.

P.S. I notice also no phone number on your so-called letterhead and that is not surprising. I would not waste any of our secretaries [sic] time to write you. I type this fuckface while looking out on the ocean from my porch in Malibu. I know from your address what you are looking at.

You are a wonderful arguement [sic] for abortion, Miss Wingate, and I may use you as a prime example in an upcoming case I have pending in the Supreme Court.

A NEW FETISH (AT LEAST FOR ME) TO CONSIDER

A man of many fetishes myself, and tolerant of the fetishes of others, even I was taken aback by these responses on a survey sheet we sent out:

To the question, "My main area of interest is (check as many as apply)" the reader crossed out Bondage, SM, Shaving, Water Sports, Rubber, Leather, and Tickling, writing "I am NOT into these," then followed that, in the space to describe "Other" with: "Rubbing, licking and creaming on the fenders & hood of sexy, sleek sports cars (I love 'em!)."

On the explanation lines left "Other" on the next question, asking about the KW products he might be interested in, he wrote: "Stories of others who masturbate with/on sports cars! Ooh…yeah."

And, finally, in the comments section at the end, he wrote: "I have desired sexy cars & aircraft all my life. I'm 42, single, gentle & passionate/compassionate. My penis is 8 full inches (Also it's thick) & I love to slide up and down the round, bulbous fender of my V.W. Beetle, squirting loads of jism on the car's ass. I have made love to many cars, & helicopters too. I have videos of me doing so. My home is filled with posters of cars, animals (lions & polar bears) and aircraft. Love…(signed)"

PROBABLY NOT FUNNY, BUT, SORRY, IT IS

Letter from a mother, on the back of a renewal form:

Please stop sending your publication to Michael. At the present time he is incarcerated in Oregon State Hospital for sex crimes. I do believe this is an inappropriate publication for him at this time. Maybe in time when he learns responsibility & discretion he will continue his subscription. But as a parent, I hope it's never. But please respect my wishes at this time. Since his mail comes here, I'd rather not have this publication here. Thanks for your time. (Signed)

SAD AND STARTLING

Letter from a wife, on the back of a renewal form:

Dale is dead. On 7-9-91 he set fire to and burned down our house and shot himself in the head. My children and I have nothing now. The last thing I want to find again is porn material in the mail box. Send no more mail!

BULL BALLS

From a reader in Cleveland:

I am being forced to type this note for "Jay." He wants to meet some new young guys to play with. If no one responds, he is going to make me eat raw bull balls from the West Side Market. He says they're good for me and that they're "human stud balls."

But I followed him one day and saw him buy them over the counter, at the market. They're too big to be human, anyway.

If you two get together, I must insist that a registered nurse be as close as the telephone. It's come in handy before.

From a priest on letterhead stationery from the Sacred Heart Jesuit Center:

Please remove my name from your mailing list.

This is not the same priest who called to ask us to call him back right away about an order. When we did, the person who answered the phone apologized as she told us She could not disturb the priest, since he was currently celebrating a Good Friday mass. That priest's name remained on our mailing list till we closed, and he remained a very good customer.

TRYING TO PLEASE ALL OF THE PEOPLE ALL OF THE TIME

A Customer's Movie Review:

I have just watched Bound & Gagged: The Video. Frankly, I am disappointed and feeling very unsatisfied. I know that there is no way you are going to be able to satisfy all the various "turn ons" in one video, but there are several things I would have done differently to satisfy my desires. Maybe there are others who would also appreciate the video more with my suggested changes.

FIRST SCENE:
At some point, while the victims were tied up, I would have removed their shirts completely. I would have left out the second gagging, and the final roping of the victims together. After the Tit Torture, I would have whipped or flogged both victims on the back and chest.

SECOND SCENE:
I would have left this scene out completely. I do not care for cages or rubber or mummification. I do not care for bare asses, cocks or balls, and I do not care for cum shots. I prefer torture of the upper torso, not of the ass, cock and balls. I find the models much more attractive with their private parts clothed in underwear, shorts, swim trunks, loin cloths, etc.

THIRD SCENE:
The manipulation of the cock and balls during the flogging detracted from the scene, as did the cum shot. There was too much rope across the victim's chest which got in the way of the whip.

FOURTH SCENE:
TOTAL WASTE of time and video tape, plus another disgusting cum shot!!!

Summary:
I would have added more whipping and flogging to models tied up, but with their private parts clothed. I would have added hot wax torture of the upper torso as well as torment with a hot poker. I would like to see victims stretched on the rack, and taken into the woods and tied to trees in many different positions and whipped. I would have added upper torso licking and biting/sucking of nipples. I prefer less rope and restraints than you used. I would leave out the TOP'S manipulation of "BOTTOMS" cock and balls.

Basically, my interests are tortures of the upper torso (chest and back) with private parts clothed.

Video was way too short for the price paid.

That's enough for today. I'll post the others, which tend to be longer, tomorrow.