Madison Young and Claire Adams. Together. With bamboo and rope. More than that, you don’t just get to see them in all their glorious hotness posing; no, the geniuses at Cybernet have let you peek behind the scenes and get a glimpse not only of the stills, but of the rope work in video.

I’m doing a Keanu-esque "Ahhh-haahhh-haaaa…" just thinking about watching Claire work Madison over. Satisfies on just so many levels.

And I would have a podcast for you all, but I’m afraid it didn’t record when FaerieRing and I were in the hotel room…so her mellifluous voice will have to wait. But I’ll get it up there soon, promise.

In other news: aside from the upcoming show at the Miramar Theatre in Milwaukee on January 19, 2007, I will also be teaching two workshops on January 20 at A Woman’s Touch in Milwaukee. Minx and I have also been accepted as presenters at the Leather Leadership Conference in Minneapolis in April. We’ll be presenting on "Citizen Kinksters: Building Community Using New Media Tools."

Last night was the first of what I hope will be many fun fetish nights at the Cardinal Bar. I was at first pretty discouraged, as the crowd was very slow to form, but by 11pm I’d tied my first victi–er, volunteer, a rope virgin named M. Our negotiations were adorable:"I’ve been, you know, tied up," (hands and feet spread wide) "but never, you know, tied up," (body huddled close). I did a traditional chest harness on her, and then some pretty improvised lower-body work using some of the D-rings built into her dress, turning it into a bit of a hobble skirt.

And that seemed to kick the evening off. Had a fairly rough (for a public bar) take-down rope scene with Alegra, which was just what the two of us needed, and which both intrigued and intimidated the next volunteer ("I just want to be tied up!" she said. "None of, you know, that scary stuff…") I started easy, with a chest harness made her already-magnificent bosom even magnificenter (yes, that’s didn’t used to be a word, but after that tie, it became necessary). She kept asking for more rope, and the addition of a matanawa left a big smile and then tying her knees together started her giggling as she hopped around with her friends.

I did a quick scene with SlavetoPurple, a sensual karada (it had been too long!) and then came the one down moment of the evening…looking over the happy dancing crowd, seeing my rope mixed in among the fetish wear, and suddenly really missing minx, wishing she were in service to me right then.

But there was rope to tie, and M, the first tyee, came back, dissatisfied. Apparently the rope was too easy. "Contort me!" she demanded…so, with some arm binders to start, I put her in hair bondage, did a little agura action, and then, when she was a twisted little ball on the end of the stage, we discussed the strangeness of being claustrophobic but liking rope. She decided to wiggle out of them, which took about 1/2 hour, but I realized that it’s much more fun watching pretty bottoms wiggle out of rope than to actually have to untie the knots myself.

Much more fun.

So if you’re here from seeing me there, thanks for making the evening a fun one, both my old friends and new…

In case you forgot, you can get really neat examples of fine ropework and even better BDSM scenes at Chanta’s Bitches. I mention it because I forgot, and came across my affiliate’s link in my old email. A visit to the site reminded me…there’s lots of fun stuff to share.

Enjoy!

Just a quickie from the hotel room in Atlanta–check out Mark from DV8House’s pics of the Midori/Satomi performance at L’Erotica. A 1-ton steel cage suspended over the stage, Midori as a latex ninja suspending the lovely Satomi.

Follow the link for a better description and more pics, and share in my envy of all those who were able to go to L’Erotica. I gotta get my passport…

Tags: midori, satomi, dv8house, lerotica, shibari, bondage

I’m really happy to learn that that bastion of civilization, Good Vibrations, has launched its own video podcast! Looks like it’s mainly sex ed, though the special on the Amateur Erotic Film Festival looked entertaining.

And, finally legal: I re-mixed the old video of our first rope performance, part one (with minx and Jen and I) with music that is, in fact, legal (bababluetango by Alessio Zara, in fact). You can check it out at the RopeVideo site. It’s sort of work safe–it was at the inferno, after all, so she is quite demure in thong and taped-over nipples. Ok, not really work safe.

Unless you work at Good Vibes.

Today someone who I chat with while working said something very flattering to me. She’s a person I know tangentially, but we’ve seen each other on the local scene, and she spoke about her impression of me:

"You seem to have more of a connection with the people you are playing with, and while there is often a sexual overtone, it is not obnoxious and does not run the show. You have an interesting combo of gentle and dominant."

While I also happen to feel that there are disadvantages to being all about the connection (since connection is sometimes hard to come by, and wouldn’t it be nice if it were just all about the hot ropey sex sometimes?) it was really nice to hear that, since that’s pretty much exactly what I aspire to.

So, just for her, some happy ropey sexy content. Behold what my lovely wife (no, that’s not her, she’s prettier) calls "the happy knot":

It’s called the Happy Knot because it makes people Happy:

Even people who, moments before, appeared Not So Happy:

These and more available through my friends at Water Bondage (click for the gallery, or here for the mpegs). And can I add, I really love these kinds of dungeon pix?

With some final pictures from JasonC and the revelation of some "secret" pics from Mick & Dee, I want to thank everyone who took part. Especially our main sponsor, Twisted Monk, of course, and the co-sponsors Susie Bright and Native American Exotics.

 In case you didn’t hear the podcast, here are the winners.:

1. Turkey Tie theme: Greg & Jen
2. $50 Native American Exotics Gift Cert (raffle): Madame Sacha & Bondage Party, and Crowcat & Sentinel
3. People’s Choice ($50 Gift Cert to Twisted Monk): Who else but Mick & Dee?
4. Grand Prize ($100 gift Cert. raffle): RopeGeek & Elf

But remember, everyone who took part gets both a GloRoMo sticker and a Susie Bright GrrlyCard that will give you a free month of her audio program (well worth a listen). So…if you haven’t already, send your mailing address to graydancer@gmail.com, and I’ll start sending them out this week.

Oh, and if you feel like helping with postage, there’s a shiny new donate button on the front page. Try it! You’ll like it!

Apparently parents are more willing to have their kids learn about kink than about homosexuality.

This should thrill me. It makes me sad. but here’s the big question: where’d they get this picture?

KINKY SEX: Many back school lessons (work safe, except for topic, maybe).