Sunday, January 08, 2006
Current mood: amused

Someone just sent me this message: “Do you actually talk for yourself? See, I wonder if you do this as a business or if you actually enjoy this as well…”

I get questions like this a lot. People think I’m not real, or not really into bondage, or they think I’m lying about running my bondage sites and that actually some man is doing it (”women can’t write html”), etc.

I’ve decided to answer this person’s question in public, so that hopefully the next 10 people who were gonna email me asking if I’m real, might read this first.

Dear (insert name),

On the ‘net I write constantly about my personal feelings about bondage — in my blogs, forum, and yahoo group. In the rw community I’ve been active for about 12 years, playing at bondage parties and teaching bondage classes. On my sites you can read my early bondage diaries, and personal biographies, and there are a lot of pictures of me tied up by Jon where it’s pretty obvious the pictures were taken before and after we had bondage sex. I webmaster my own sites (poorly, I admit) in my own words.

Overall, I would say my presence on the internet and in the Scene is at the level of Publicly Obnoxious.

Yet I still regularly get emails from people asking me to respond individually, to prove that I’m for real. What more am I to write as proof, if they didn’t read any of the one-million self-absorbed words I already wrote?

So if you’ve somehow missed the fact that I’m an obnoxiously obsessed bondage freak, please go take a second look at my websites or something.

And don’t forget to read the words instead of just looking at the pictures. ;)