Jeff D. Kota and Shawn Islander were lovers, each starting out in the porn industry, when the great photographer Greg Lenzman, forever on the hunt for bondage models for me, discovered they also loved playing bondage games together. They were perfect subjects for one scene in the Tit for Tat video I had been planning. I wasn't daunted by Jeff's boasts that no matter how tightly Shawn tied him up he could get free, since that played naturally into the tit for tat situation, besides which the struggle to get free, the sight of all that male energy contained, is what has always made the rope bondage situation so exciting, for me at least: it's as much about trying to get loose as it is about being tied up. There's nothing worse for a rope top than seeing a bound guy immediately accepting his bondage and just lying there like a cakebox. Why bother to have tied him up at all?