We're all crazy. Some of us just were able to nibble our way out of the leather straps. --jon

There are a number of jobs in this world where the people who want them most shouldn't be allowed to have them. And the people who are perhaps most suited for them really don't want them. "Cop" comes to mind first. And I often wonder about "parent". --teamnoir

Yeah, maybe asking you if something is too blunt is like, I dunno, asking Paris Hilton if this outfit makes me look skanky. --anathema device

I'm always happy to be a demo model because education is important... --kia

FUCK is not a safe word; neither is God damn it you bitch! --flowr

you guys only have 2 condoms but 3 entire boxes of gloves. shows priorities. --mudd

I bottom only to men I can trust with my body. I submit only to men who I can trust with my heart. --andei

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." ~ George Bernard Shaw

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can. ~ Willis Whitney

One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. Which road do I take? she asked. Where do you want to go? was his response. I don't know, Alice answered. Then, said the cat, it doesn't matter. ~ Lewis Carrol

There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad. ~ Salvador Dali

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. ~ AA Milne

I get up every morning determined both to change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning the day difficult. ~ E.B. White

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years. -- Bertrand Russell

There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences. -- P.J. O'Rourke

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long. -- Thomas Sowell

He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression. -- Thomas Paine

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself. -- Elie Wiesel

Liberty has never come from government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of government. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of government power, not the increase of it. -- Woodrow Wilson

Liberty cannot be caged into a charter or handed ..-made to the next generation. Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times. Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves. --Florence Ellinwood Allen

There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly. -- Henry David Thoreau

The individual can never escape the moral burden of his existence. He must choose between obedience to authority and responsibility to himself. Moral decisions are often hard and painful to make. The temptation to delegate this burden to others is therefore ever-present. Yet, as all of history teaches us, those who would take from man his moral burdens--be they priests or warlords, politicians or psychiatrists--must also take from him his liberty and hence his very humanity. -- Thomas S. Szasz

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law,' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual. -- Thomas Jefferson

One does not encourage "responsibility" by forcibly restricting the range of people's authority over their own lives. -- Butler Shaffer

The policy of the American government is to leave its citizens free, neither restraining them nor aiding them in their pursuits. -- Thomas Jefferson

I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H. L. Mencken

The argument for liberty is not an argument against organization, which is one of the most powerful tools human reason can employ, but an argument against all exclusive, privileged, monopolistic organization, against the use of coercion to prevent others from doing better. -- Fredrich August von Hayek

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand. -- Woodrow Wilson

...you have more tack than the local feed store but you don't own a horse.

...you forget that the idea of CBT might make some people uncomfortable.

...every piece of furniture you own has eye bolts screwed into it.

...head-to-toe black complete with a sweeping leather trench coat is your idea of discreet "street-wear".

...mannequins get you hot.

...shoe stores make you sweat.

...a basket of clothespins sends you into shivers.

...you find rope to be a perfectly acceptable form of clothing.

...you have sixteen different styles of leash but no dog.

...you own a speculum and you're not a doctor.

...the phrase "hard limit" comes up in your every day conversation.

...you have enough climbing gear to scale Everest but it is all hooked to your ceiling.

...you *expect* to be swatted when you bend over.

...you automatically start unfastening buttons when you see a camera.

...you've ever left all your sex toys drying in the dish rack.

...you ever find yourself writing a "You Might Be a Pervert If..." list.

it was inevitable, additions to this list were just bound to come along . . . . . .

. . . if the emergency kit in the back of your car consists of rubber gloves, baby wipes, hand sanitizer & toilet paper, with not a jumper cable or road flare in sight . . . . . .

. . . you grapple with where to post the pics of bells sewn to your nipples . . . . . .

. . .you don't have a single vacation picture that doesn't involve nudity or rope . . .

. . . you've ever made an emergency dash across town for an anal hook . . .

I get asked this all the time, like I'm some kind of bondage expert or something. Far from true. No, I just fixate on things. One of my favorite things to fixate on is a particular guy. This guy likes to get tied up. Ergo, I should learn to tie him up. Simple math.

To accomplish this endeavor, I've accumulated an astounding number of online resources, of which I will share here only the ones I reference most frequently at present:

Tutorials

Twisted Monk
www.twistedmonk.com/video.htm

2 Knotty Boys
www.youtube.com/user/2KnottyBoys


Knots

Animated Knots by Grog
www.animatedknots.com/indexclimbing.php

How to Tie the 10 Most Useful Knots
www.motherearthnews.com/gallery.aspx


Where I shop (or where to buy me presents)

Twisted Monk Hemp & Specialty Rope
www.twistedmonk.com/products.htm

Madame Butterfly Silk Rope
www.butterflyrope.com/

Rainbow Rope
www.rainbowrope.com/


Education worth paying for

Midori's Rope Dojo
www.ropedojo.com/

Max's Bondage Lessons
www.bondagelessons.com/

Other great teachers

Tom Foolery
www.tomfooleryrope.com/

Sacramento Valley Leathercorps
www.svlclub.org/

I'm not a hippie

I'm not a savior

I'm not a child

I'm not a mother

I'm not your friend

I'm not your lover

I'm not an ear

I'm not a fist

I'm not a fuck

I'm not a kiss

I'm not your answer

I'm not even the question

I am the voice

Can you hear me now?


pay-per-click self published at: www.helium.com/tm/214230/...im-motherim

The efficiency of the truly national leader consists primarily in preventing the division of the attention of a people, and always in concentrating it on a single enemy.--Adolf Hitler

Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists. --George W. Bush

Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don't want war neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country. -- Hermann Goering

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war. --George W. Bush

Beware of the leader, who strikes the war drum in order to transfer the citizens into patriotic glow, patriotism is indeed a double-sided sword. It makes the blood so boldly, like it constricts the intellect. And if the striking of the war drum reached a fiebrige height and the blood is cooking and hating, and the intellect is dismissed, the leader doesn't need to reject the citizens rights. The citizens, cought by anxiety and blinded through patriotism, will subordinate all their rights to the leader and this even with happy courage. Why do I know that? I know it, because this is, what I did. And I am Gajus Julius Cäsar. --Gaius Julius Caesar

I'm a war president. I make decisions here in the Oval Office and foreign policy matters with war on my mind. --George W. Bush

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. --- Benjamin Franklin

What luck for the rulers that men do not think. --Adolf Hitler

The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men. --Samuel Adams

You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on. --George W. Bush

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. -- Edmund Burke

When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes. Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain. --Napoleon Bonaparte

We need an energy bill that encourages consumption. --George W. Bush

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. --James Bovard

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it. --George W. Bush

All in all, the framers would probably agree that it's better to impeach too often than too seldom. If presidents can't be virtuous, they should at least be nervous. --Joseph Sobran

They came for the communists, and I did not speak up because I wasn't a communist; They came for the socialists, and I did not speak up because I was not a socialist; They came for the union leaders, and I did not speak up because I wasn't a union leader; They came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak up for me. --Martin Niemoller, 1892-1984