It took longer than I like to publish, and has taken longer than it should for me to blog about it, but I’m getting around to it at last. Not for Ransom, my eBook of 24 Bound & Gagged kidnapping stories, is now available on Amazon Kindle.
I’ll say it again, since I’m constantly being asked this: You don’t need a Kindle device to read the book. Just download the free Kindle app and Not for Ransom will be readable on any electronic device you own.
I state my theories on kidnapping in the introduction to the book, but now I’ll try putting them to the test. How many of you have fantasized about being kidnapped and kept in ropes and/or chains or both? I’ve always suspected it’s a huge fantasy, especially among male bondage fanatics, but this may be the first time I’ve ever asked the question directly. I wish you'd let me know.
Let me know, too, those of you who are kidnapping fans, if you’ve ever done a kidnapping scene, either as kidnapper or kidnappee. I’ve been asked to do such scenes more times than I can remember, but I've always refused, not simply because it’s a hell of a lot of work but also and mainly because it would be far too dangerous to stage a kidnapping on a New York City street.
On the same subject, the other day my dear friend Jason Branch, whom some readers may remember as the star of a number of Bound & Gagged videos, sent me the following very à propos article from the BBC News. I wish this had happened and been reported before I published Not for Ransom. I would have used it in my intro.
I reprint the article in its entirety here:
Men hired for sexual fantasy break into wrong house
In a sex fantasy gone wrong, two men with machetes entered the wrong house in New South Wales, Australia, before quickly realising their error.
One of them has now been acquitted of entering a home armed with a weapon in July 2019, Australian media report.
They had been hired to carry out a client's fantasy of being tied up in his underwear and stroked with a broom.
The judge concluded that "the facts of the case are unusual".
The role play was arranged over Facebook by a man near Griffith, New South Wales, who provided his address to the hired pair.
"He was willing to pay A$5,000 if it was 'really good'," the judge said.
However, the client moved to another address 50km (30 miles) away without updating the two men. They then entered a home on the street of the original address.
When the resident noticed a light on in his kitchen at 06:15, he assumed it was a friend who came by daily to make morning coffee.
When the men called out the name of their client, the resident turned on the light and removed a sleep apnoea mask he was wearing.
It was then that he saw them standing above his bed with the machetes, which they appeared to have brought as props for the role play.
When they realised their error, one of the pair said, "Sorry, mate", and shook the resident's hand, according to local reports.
The two men then drove to the correct address, where the client noticed one man had a "great big knife" in his trousers and asked them to leave the weapons in their car.
The client then cooked bacon, eggs and noodles, and a short time later, the police arrived at the property, found the machetes in the car and arrested the hired pair.
The judge ruled that evidence did not suggest the men's actions were intentional.
"They carried the machetes either as a prop or something to use in that fantasy," he said. "The fantasy was unscripted and there was discretion as to how it would be carried out."
A lawyer for Terrence Leroy, one of the accused, said: "It was a commercial agreement to tie up and stroke a semi-naked man in his underpants with a broom. Entry was not with intent to intimidate."
What are the titles of the 24 stories? Thank you!
Bob replies:
The Real Thing
Mistaken Identity
Bound on the Fourth of July
The Desk Clerk
The Mascot
Howie Makem
Boondock vs. Stickville
Complete Circle
The Feeling of It All
The Cowboys’ Wife
The Nephew
Mike, the Yachtsman, and Me
Motel Room Servitude
The Guy in the Camper
The Van on Christopher Street
Kidnappee Dumped in Dumpster
Fantasy Heaven
A Piece of Furniture
The People You Meet in Bars
A Kidnapper in Victim’s Clothing
The Night We Kidnapped Mike
Kidnapping Ray
The Well-Dressed Victim
Jason
Posted by: Bondage Engineer | July 02, 2020 at 05:56 PM