I wonder how many people have moved from simple kind of TUGs to complex? Growing up in Vietnam, ropes and cloth were the main materials the guys used on me and my friends at school. I was introduced to tape at only say fifteen years old. Not that Vietnam was that backward but ropes were the easiest to find--we didn't really have to buy. There were hardly any story books to gather ideas from; so we made our own games until I started reading English story books like the Hardy Boys and Famous Five (which I felt had hardly any tie-ups for girls) in my mid teens.
I guess that studying overseas in America transported me into a whole new world TUGs like jumping across a a large ditch. I found that there were different kinds tape, was introduced to handcuffs, the zip-ties and plastic cuffs. In my Sophomore year I discovered what leather cuffs and medical restraints were. Simultaneously, I probably tried new gags--ball gags which I hated, panel and penis and tube gags that turned me on, and then even a chastity belt which was a little large for me. Legirons, chains, crotch ropes all came in the months after.
Do you stay with the same kind of materials or shift to others as to grow older.