Bound to Speak
From GMSMA News, Vol. 1, No. 5, June 1983 |
The following statement by Robin was tape recorded and played as he sat totally bound in leather during the Rigid Bondage program on April 13, 1983.
Here I am inside, bound, helpless, vulnerable. The man who encased me in this leather cocoon can keep me in it for as long as it pleases him. He can display me, or just leave me--sometimes overnight if it suits him. He knows the severity of my restriction, because he knows the limits that can be imposed by tightening or loosening the restraining straps. In this and other forms of long-term bondage, such as the pillory, rope webbing, or tape mummification, muscular discomfort is gradual, heightening to pain which levels off as I accept it through inner concentration. There is time now; there is time to dwell upon my condition, consider my limits, concentrate on my will and stamina to stay the course. I want to prove myself to myself as well as to SIR.
At other times in shorter term, more severe forms of bondage, the reality of ever increasing restriction is quicker in manifesting itself. I MUST endure it. I am forced to live with it--in it. I abandon myself to a fate totally beyond my control. And the deeper the restraint infuses my spirit, the more it liberates, and, yes, gives me freedom!
And all the time there is stirring warmth, a sense of unutterable joy in my loins. An initial erection may subside and re-su