
By 'Nob'
Illustrations by Robert Bishop
Originally published in Bound To Please Vol. 1, No. 12
Story Codes: Sbf, ropes, chains, leather, straps, manacles, cuffs, boots, heels, gags, X
Solo-Bondage In My Cellar Of Exquisite Torments
I'd been vaguely discontented as a coed, despite the fact that my good looks were enough to make me popular. I'd had my share of affairs and one-night stands with football stars and even some young professors, but I felt somehow that I was missing something terribly important in my relationships with men. It wasn't until my parents were killed in a plane crash when I was twenty that I discovered what I really wanted.
One morning, a week after the funeral, I was moving some boxes into the basement of our isolated hilltop estate when I found a hidden door. Curious, for I had not known of it before, I opened it and followed some stairs down to an elaborate sub-basement, which was how I discovered that my parents had been secret bondage devotees.
There was no question that this had been their "hobby." A few large photos of my mother, attired in exquisite bondage outfits, hung on the walls, and there were others of my father dressed in leather torturer's garb. Out of curiosity about what they had found so satisfying in this unusual activity, I chose some things at random from a book-shelf and read through them carefully.
GRATIFYING EXPERIMENTS
The next morning, I was still feeling this particular thrill. After breakfast, I determined to try out some bondage for myself. Luckily, my mother could have been my twin (except that I am a bit more buxom), so it was not difficult for me to don a leather corset, thigh-boots, and long gloves that I found in a cabinet. The feel and smell of the leather so snug against my skin excited me, and the next step was to try on some chains. Even a simple ankle-chain added to my excitement.
From that moment on, I was thoroughly committed to bondage. I understood completely why my parents had invested so much time and money in it. It was perfectly clear to me that sex without forced restraint would be flat and meaningless. It was not hard to figure out that I needed a strong dose of enforced submissiveness to make sex "right" for me, and that bondage was the obvious answer.
After I once accepted the idea that bondage was the answer to my problems, I spent the next several months exploring its possibilities. I returned to college just long enough to take my final exams, and then hurried back to the fabulous collection of bondage materials that I had accidentally inherited from my parents. After making sure that my financial affairs were in good order, I let it be known that I would be in mourning and wanted to be left entirely alone.
INTRICATE DISCOVERIES
Although I am somewhat more generously endowed than my mother was, all of her bondage costumes fit me very nicely. I made a practice of wearing nothing but leather during these sessions. High heels, a skintight bikini outfit, and gloves were my usual outfit, but sometimes I wore boots and a full corset for a change. All the while, of course, I was learning more and more about the intricacies of bondage through my reading, and spent an increasing amount of time trying out different forms of restraint on myself.
My hands and arms, of course, were the most difficult to manage. By leaving them until last, I could fix up almost any form of leg bondage, get my various costumes and straps properly tightened, and even put on gags and helmets. But getting manacles locked on my wrists was always a problem, and freeing them later was an even greater challenge.
TRAPPED AND HELPLESS
I remember one dreadful experience when I had to spend a full twenty-four hours in heavy bondage because I couldn't find the key to my wrist chains. I had pulled on a pair of high-heeled boots, laced a corselet tightly about my waist, and even put a leather pear into my mouth with straps buckled about my head. Then I locked a short hobble between my ankles and crisscrossed my wrists behind me in heavy manacles.

But I could neither relieve myself nor get a drink, the body strap attached to my corselet and the gag saw to that. It took all the willpower I could muster to calm myself and start a systematic search for the key again, but I did it. Before I found the damned thing late in the afternoon, behind a sofa cushion, I was in a perfect agony of arousal and hunger. The more I needed to relieve myself, the more the body strap irritated me; the hungrier and thirstier I got, the more thoroughly dominated I felt.
I finally hit on the idea of locks fitted with timers so they would open automatically after a set period of time had passed. Such things are not for sale in every hardware store, naturally, so it took me some time to order them custom-made through the mail. Fortunately, some of the B&D magazines advertised confidential services of this sort, and it was only a month or so (and a lot of money) before I received what I needed so much.
ABSOLUTE CREATIVITY
What I finally got was a complete set of suede-lined iron cuffs for my wrists and ankles, together with a slave collar and a snug iron belt. Each had a lock that could be set to open at any time from five minutes to six hours. Once the timer was set and the lock closed, there was no way to release them any sooner because locking it made it impossible to change the timing. Each article, of course, was provided with several sturdy D-rings so chains or straps could be attached to each as needed.

For example, I would double my legs and lace them tightly into a pair of thigh-sheaths, put my belt on over a wasp-waist corselet and fasten a body strap to it, fix a head-brace to my collar so I couldn't move my head at all, and then struggle to get my arms locked wrist-to-elbow behind me. With all the locks set for three hours, I would be in for a lengthy period of delicious helplessness.
- Waddle around the room 20 times.
- Dust all the furniture.
- Turn 10 somersaults.
- Polish the mirror above the sofa.
- Stand on your knees for 30 minutes.
- Lap up all the water in your dog-dish.
- Spill the bucket of marbles and then put all 50 back again.
- Straddle your crotch-bar and wait to be released.
In forcing myself to do all these things I, of course, had to develop a fair amount of agility and physical stamina. Waddling around the room in thigh-sheaths, for instance, required me to balance on the balls of my feet with my knees tucked up against my breasts. I took more falls than I care to remember while I was learning to waddle properly. Turning somersaults was even more difficult, but eventually I learned to throw myself backward with enough force to make me end up on my knees again.
As "punishment" for being so slow, I would then have to rest my motionless head on the sofa and stand on my knees for the required half-hour. That was a good time for erotic fantasies, but it was also hard on my leather-bound legs. Having filled the dog-dish with water earlier in the day, now I would have to kneel and bend down to drink it, lapping it with my tongue like a dog or cat. The act was particularly degrading, I thought, and thus particularly satisfying.
But finally, my reward came: having to climb astride my padded crotch-bar. It was slanted up from the floor so I could get it between my thighs easily, and the higher it went the more I had to shove with my knees to get aboard it. The top was level with the floor, high enough so I could barely touch both knees to the floor at once, and it made a lovely place to stimulate myself until the time-locks opened and freed me.