I was wondering how everyone on here got into all of this, if you remember. For instance, when I was younger I liked a lot of adventure stories, and one of the things I liked was a damsel in distress. It always seemed very heroic to me to save a damsel in distress. I actually liked any damsel in distress story, but having the girl or woman bound and gagged seemed to make it more interesting to me, because then she was really helpless. Eventually I started to focus more and more on the bondage aspect of it.
My interest has evolved somewhat of course now that I'm much older (I had some interest in bondage as early as the age of 5 or 6 I think). I'm now also interested in being tied up myself too. I started getting interested in that when curiosity got the better of me when I was about 12 or 13 and tried tying myself up a few times. But the damsel in distress fantasy will always be with me I think. As I noted on one of my stories on the true stories forum I did play some games with one of my neighbors where she was "kidnapped" and I "rescued" her although it seemed to be more of an interest for me than her, and they were always very simply and short.
Well, anyway, the fantasy of rescuing a damsel in distress is how I got started in this. What about the rest of you?