## How did you find out you weren't alone?

Post by cellofello » Mon Dec 27, 2010 6:16 pm

How did you first discover that you weren't the only person in the world who enjoyed playing tie-up games?
As I've mentioned in an earlier thread, one which asked how old you were when you first got into it, I was about four. But while I found friends to play Cops and Robbers or Cowboys and Indians with, I didn't really know if my playmates felt the same intense - um, let's say, excitement - that I did about the bondage part of the game. And for some reason I couldn't bring myself to ask.
As you may have guessed from my nickname on the board, I play the 'cello. I grew up in Milwaukee. There was not a really good musical instrument shop there. Every so often my 'cello needed some sort of adjustment - an open seam, a new bridge, etc. So during the late 1960s/early 1970s I would get on the train and head down to Chicago whenever this happened. I'd leave he instrument early in the morning, and they would have it ready for me in the afternoon.
However, that meant that I had six or so hours to kill in Chicago. One trip when I was about 15, I just started walking around the Loop. I saw a shop with a sign that said, "Bookstore." I was a geeky kid who loved to read (mostly science fiction) - why not check it out?
Well, it turned out that this bookstore was, to put it mildly, not like any bookstore I had ever been to before. Why they didn't bounce me out of there in the first 30 seconds, I have no idea. I was always short for my age, and when I was 15 I could easily have been mistaken for 12. Even a blind person couldn't have thought for an instant that I had any business being in an adult book store. But nobody bothered me, and I found a rack of magazines devoted to women tied up in states of partial (and not so partial) nudity.
That's how I discovered that I wasn't the only person in the world who really had a thing for bondage.

### Re: How did you find out you weren't alone?

Post by Kyle » Mon Dec 27, 2010 7:24 pm

I had a vague idea of bondage when I was about 15 or so, give or take a few years, but really thought it was something only done for sex and not just a love for the bondage itself like I had at the time (I'd be lying if I said that type of bondage wasn't of some interest to me these days, but that is not really a discussion for this site). And I thought it was mostly practiced by some depraved individuals. It was by complete accident I discovered there were others who liked tie-ups. I was about 17. My mom used to watch some stupid talk show in the late morning. I didn't care for it but did see it on often when I was around, and this was one of those days. As luck would have it, some reality show contestant (don't remember the show) had caused a scandal because someone had discovered she'd made some clothed bondage videos in her past. This was the first time I ever really noticed others apparently had a similar interest in tying or being tied like me.
I got a laptop for high school graduation and one night when I couldn't sleep I used it to get on the Internet and was bored and decided to try to find these videos I'd seen on TV. It took me forever to find them mainly because I couldn't remember the woman's name and got the show she'd appeared on wrong but finally did find pictures of it. But more importantly, one of the first sites I discovered was this one. Yes, this very site was a big help in me discovering there were others like me. It was in 2003 and back when the site was still on that blue format you see when you first access the site, now the archives.

### Re: How did you find out you weren't alone?

Post by Ohaithar » Sun Jan 09, 2011 5:03 pm

I kinda did the same that Kyle did, I found on the interwebs, I noticed that other people took interest in it. And now I know it's a widespread thing. The Ironic thing is, that in my school we often make a few "bondage" jokes here and there, but no matter what, I seem to be the only person I know that actually likes it. Except my parents that is... but let's not get into that...

### Re: How did you find out you weren't alone?

Post by SamanthaBoundx » Tue Jan 18, 2011 12:02 pm

I was introduced to it by my first boyfriend, so I always knew that I wasn't completely alone xD
After we'd played TUGs a few times, I started to get more into it and as I was a complete newbie, I had a lotof questions that I wanted to ask my boyfriend about it (As he had been into it for significantly longer than I had). He decide the easiest way to show me different positions and gags and stuff was to show me some of the bondage websites he looked at. I realised that it must be a pretty widespread thing then. . .

### Re: How did you find out you weren't alone?

Post by SecretAgent » Sun Feb 13, 2011 10:32 am

Great topic, and I actually have a story similar to Cello... I was always excited by the idea of girls tied up, long before I knew anything about sex. Growing up (1980s), I especially loved tie-up scenes on TV and in comic books. There was one comic book store I went to every week, and always came home with a new stack of comics. One time, without explanation, there was a fetish comic mixed in with the regular ones at the store--something like Bizarre Adventures or a smilar title. Anyway, inside, this turned out to be a black and white reprint of a John Willie "Adventures of Gwendoline" comic! I had no idea what it was at the time, but I knew it was different from the other comics! So I tucked it into the middle of my stack to buy and went home with it. To my excitement, it was a Gwendoline comic--page after page of helpless Gwen losing her clothes and getting kidnapped and bound up tight by the bad guys. (In case you're not familiar, here's a sample: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Adven ... doline.jpg) I didn't know what it was exactly, but I knew I loved it.There were also some ads and previews for things like Bettie Page and stuff in the back. So between the comics and the ads, I soon figured out that I wasn't alone, and that other people liked to see ladies tied up and helpless, and that there were even some books and magazines about it.This was some time before the internet, remember!
Jeff

### Re: How did you find out you weren't alone?

Post by Appleguy224 » Mon Feb 14, 2011 1:08 pm

let's see, I think it all started with tintin for me, anyone who reads tintin knows that herge has what may be considered a bondage fetish, and he ties his characters up many times with complete gags. I just got interested and after that, my love was born, I did more searching, and soon found others

### Re: How did you find out you weren't alone?

Post by hrrrumph » Tue Feb 15, 2011 5:38 pm

I know right
BONDAGE WORN AS CLOTHING

### Re: How did you find out you weren't alone?

Post by james14 » Wed Feb 16, 2011 1:20 pm

I guess in a way when I was 8/9 and read comics with bondage scenes in them that were quite explicit in a way- so even at that age \i figured others got a kick put of it. However it was not until my mates cousin asked me to tie her up that i realised women liked being tied.

### Re: How did you find out you weren't alone?

Post by Boundboy15 » Tue Feb 22, 2011 9:05 pm

I have liked tugs for as long as I can remember. I had books that involved woman tied and gagged and my cousins had several incidents while i was with them but actually I was 12 when I realized that this like for tugs was actually an "excitement" and as I was afraid to ask my parents aboitbit (my father is very 1950s republican) I actually went to google and put in tied and gagged and found this site.