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Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Current mood: relaxed

[this blog post includes replies that were received via MySpace]

A Hobby is an Addiction when “polite” “mainstream” “society” doesn’t approve of your hobby.

For instance if your main hobby is collecting stamps and you spend most of your life’s free time collecting stamps, that’s a hobby.

If your main hobby is square dancing and you enroll in every annual rotation of the local square dancing club chapter and you spend hundreds (or thousands) of dollars a year on your matching couples’ costumes, trips, hotel rooms, entry fees, and spend hours learning choreography and attending square dances… that’s a hobby.

If after work every night you go home and work on your patchwork quilts, that’s a hobby.

If after work every night you go home and log into World of Warcraft and hang out with friends in there and go on quests and collect cool stuff, that’s an addiction… so they say.

If after work every night you go home and surf the internet and collect well-done bondage pics from websites, that’s an addiction…. so they say.

Cough.

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Actually, I think some counselors say that the sign of an addiction is if it interferes with your work life, personal life or family life, or is a major influence in preventing you from having a work life, personal life or family life. That, I think, is a much better way to determine whether something is a hobby or an addiction.

8:53 PM - 7 Comments - 10 Kudos

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Doc - Artist & Writer

Bravo

Posted by Doc - Artist & Writer on Wednesday, January 16, 2008 at 11:10 PM

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Richard

The thing to remember is that there is no such thing as an addictive pastime. The only external addictions that are medically recognized are those that cause physical dependencies such as drugs and certain medications where there is a chemical cause and effect.

There are people with addictive personality disorders. What I’ve seen is that, when somebody forces such a person to abandon an activity that they obsess over, they find something else to obsess over. Sometimes, a person, with an obsessive compulsive personality will turn to religion to cure themselves of their “addiction”. That person will then pursue religion with the same obsessiveness that they did with their other addiction. They haven’t been cured of their underlying problem. They have merely transferred one addiction for another that is more socially acceptable.

I did a blog comparing porn addiction with sports addiction. In every instance where one can show something detrimental about porn addiction, I found information that showed that a sports addiction was worse. There was even a war started because of a sporting event. I’ve yet to see porn cause a war. The blog has links to back up every fact.

PS: Please dump the CAPTCHAs. They cause a problem with dialup where the letters on the screen don’t always keep up with the letters required for acceptance. The letters keep changing and the download of the visual occurs after MySpace has internally changed the ones that are acceptable. People on dialup are typing in letters for a visual that is no longer being used. I never had a problem with the old system where the letters stayed on the screen. With the new system, where the CAPTCHA image keeps changing, it takes me a half dozen tries to be in sync between what’s on the screen and what is being accepted.

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=48765996&blogID=197367450

Posted by Richard on Thursday, January 17, 2008 at 6:10 AM

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Pete Puma

Well stated and wholeheartedly agreed with from this enthusiast!

Posted by Pete Puma on Thursday, January 17, 2008 at 11:56 AM

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Duct Tape Messiah

well said

Posted by Duct Tape Messiah on Sunday, January 20, 2008 at 7:28 PM

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Andre

Then I must be in need of serious medical attention. After my real world job I come home and sketch a few damsels in distress pictures, prep a few pictures of models that I tied up, surf and download my favorite bondage pix (incl. Bedroom Bondage and American Damsels, thank you), then download a few well-done pix of women posing in sexy dresses and heels wearing pantyhose. Guess I must be a head case and a half!
-Andre;)

Posted by Andre on Monday, January 21, 2008 at 3:55 PM

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Thursday, June 08, 2006
Current mood: tired

[this post includes comments that were added on MySpace]

I managed to finish the website updates for Bedroom Bondage and American Damsels, so now I’m coasting again.

Thought I would talk about what I do late at night in Second Life.

Second Life is one of those chat worlds where you have a character of your own, which you use to move around and interact in a 3D environment. Basically these “virtual worlds” are pretty much like if you had a live cartoon running, and you were operating one of the cartoon characters, and other people were operating the other cartoons, and you were spontaneously creating a cartoon movie as it went along.

What I’ve been doing there lately is, some friends joined up with me and we got some virtual land, and we built a bondage ponygirl ranch. My two friends are ponygirl characters most of the time so they like the ranch stuff, and we all like fooling around with the bondage equipment. We have wooden bondage wheels, suspension frames, steel cages, wood cages, etc. For some reason we don’t have an X-cross yet, which to me seems pretty odd since every bondage place in Second Life does. Guess I’ll have to fix that.

Late at night I hang out at the bondage ranch and chat with strangers who show up to the place. I ran a little ‘virtual ad’ so that people can find where we are. Most of the time I’m dressed up like a big bunny lady, but sometimes I’m human (hippie, mostly). And recently I bought a pony body so that I can occasionally take a little run around the track. Around 11pm Jon comes in to see how I’m feeling and keep me company. I’ve dressed his character up variously as a police rabbit, a gorilla, and The Crooked Claw.

I’m sure it all sounds very silly — well, indeed it is. That’s why I find this stuff such a pleasant distraction.

6:45 PM - 8 Comments - 4 Kudos

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Lorelei

When I had to take the chat pages off my websites I put up an ad for SecondLife in its place… so here’s info… and when you get there just send me a message, I can send you some stuff http://gagtalk.com/chat/

Posted by Lorelei on Thursday, June 08, 2006 at 7:19 PM

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Charlzm

I tried Second Life earlier this year (or last year, maybe) after your mentioned it on Bedroom Bondage. However, the video card in this rig leaves somethign to be desired and I couldn’t get the world to load smoothly no matter how low I set detail and frame rates.

Oh, well, it looks like hours of fun exploring other peoples’ houses and domains. I learned to love MMORPGs after I got over my suspicion of them; I played Asheron’s Call for about a year.

But I found when I met my bondage-liking girlfriend about four and half years ago, I suddenly found I just didn’t have the time (or really the interest) for pretending to be a monster-slaying warrior any more.

Posted by Charlzm on Thursday, June 08, 2006 at 7:41 PM

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willingly submitted

Sounds interesting, i’m going to try it out!

Posted by willingly submitted on Saturday, June 10, 2006 at 8:03 AM

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Stan

I made a whole bunch of neat bondage stuff, including an X-cross thingie which I can give to you next time I see you online. You need to show me around Lorelei’s Ranch o’ Bondage

Stan

Posted by Stan on Wednesday, June 14, 2006 at 10:03 AM

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Lorelei

Hey Stan, hail me — what’s your inworld name? My accounts are Lorelei Mission & Taly Fluffy.

Posted by Lorelei on Wednesday, June 14, 2006 at 10:13 AM

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Tess

Kinky: Constantly adjusting your SL avatar so that the bondage gear in the game fits better.

See you at the ranch.

Tess

Posted by Tess on Friday, June 30, 2006 at 11:02 PM

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Lorelei

OMG lol, so true. I prefer to be 5′2″ in SecondLife, but all the bondage equipment seems to be sized for amazon women. So yeah, sometimes I wind up re-setting my height to 5′10″ just so that I can fit the bondage wheel, etc.

Posted by Lorelei on Saturday, July 01, 2006 at 3:41 PM

Thursday, February 09, 2006
Current mood: happy

Two topics today…

We finally added a membership area to Jon’s bondage site. Folks have been asking Jon to do that for a long time, so, there you are! Peeky at the tour & free pics at http://americandamsels.com/bondage/

I recently got to go to my first all-women BDSM play party. That was funnnnnnnnn!

I helped the set up crew, ran into a couple women I hadn’t seen in years, met some shiny newbies who were just so cute and wide eyed, got invited to sit on a Domme’s lap, and got to play. One of the new gals was open to trying & learning. So first she spanked me while we talked about ways of spanking. Then I tied her to a chair. She seemed to really like it so I kept adding more and more rope. She was quite snuggy by the time I finished.

I wore a corset outfit and bunny slippers for most of the evening, which tickled everyone to no end. The slippers got loose later in the evening so I had to rope them to my feet. That felt pretty funny. I had to head home before midnight so that my car wouldn’t turn into a pumpkin.

Threshold’s gonna add the all-women’s party as a monthly event, so now I’ll get to play with the gals regularly. Whee! If you’re in the Los Angeles area, join in the fun at http://www.threshold.org

–Lorelei

Sunday, January 08, 2006
Current mood: reminiscent

Current faves (they seem to evolve & change over time) …and stuff

Fave gag: duct tape gag

Fave bondage position: for myself, frogtie (and second fave right now is strappado). For looking at other gals tied up, I like to see them in chair ties.

Fave bondage material: currently, a set of kinda-thin nylon rope we got

Fave suspension position: frogtie suspension

Fave hogtie position: got ya! I’m not big on hogties. Heh heh.

Browser homepage: my “what’s new” page at BedroomBondage, because I use all the links at the top and bottom of that page

Bondage places I visit every week: my bondage forum, my BB yahoo group, Jon’s AmericanDamsels group, Andre’s yahoo group, and the yahoo group for bondage photographers.

Last person I tied up: Alexis Taylor

Last time I got tied up: last week

Where I got tied up: in the bedroom on the mattress

My personal essentials for bondage sex: duct tape, rope, Reality (the woman’s condom), big honkin’ muscle-massage vibrator.

Usual noises during a bondage sex session: laughing, sound of ropes whipping around hitting the blanket while being applied, more laughing, sound of duct tape pieces being ripped off the roll, heavy breathing, gag noises of “mmf mmf mmf mmf mmf”.