Jonn Ireland / www.sensualwhipping.com
A Kinkster's Blog with Thoughts on BDSM and Kink
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Kink Events and New Friends
The Kink Events that I have attended have been educational, interesting and just plain fun, yet the deepest pleasure of these events is in meeting new people, old friends and developing close lasting connections through talking, playing and sharing deep experiences. I make an effort to be as open as possible to new people, ideas and experiences while being ready to stop and talk while wandering around the grounds of the Event.
At The Floating World, we were fortunate enough to share a room with Lolita Wolf and her date. The friendship that developed through shared experiences, talking and play was quite memorable and will be long lasting.
Lolita & Lil'One Messin' Round / Lolita's Date Posing as Security,Cavity Searches Lil'One
One of the more unusual shared experiences was the Monday morning Hotel Fire Alarm going off at 6:00 AM after just going to bed at about 3:00 AM. We barely heard the alarm (they really do need to make the alarm louder in this Hotel) and groggily got up, left everything in the room, walked down the stairs and into the parking lot. The sun was just coming up and the parking lot was filled with sleepy disgruntled Kinksters, Fire Trucks and very fit looking Firefighters.
False Alarm Lil'One flirting with a fireman
Another person we met is Shibari Warrior, who owns a beautiful Dungeon in Philadelphia, PA. (Well at least he did until he was sabotaged and got shut down a mere week after the Post TFW Party however He has informed us that He will be opening another Black Phoenix Dungeon very soon.) He invited Little One and me to come over to Philly on Tuesday, after TFW and play in the space so we took the train from New York City toward Philadelphia, which was an hour's journey through interisting small towns and beautiful scenery.
Shibari Warrior met us at the train station and we continued on our journey in his car to the Black Phoenix Dungeon, which He opened up especially for us and enlisted the services of Dov, a terrific Photographer and Bondage Expert to photograph our Scene. We also met their friend Zelda, now our friend too, a beautiful blond Kinkster who allowed me to whip her after my Scene with Little One. She loves whips and is an erotic, sensually delightful creature to play with, it was a very hot scene. Because our play ended so late and the trip back to NYC would take several hours, Zelda invited all of us to stay overnight in her nice country home in New Jersey.
Black Phoenix
The Lounge Main area
Scene Space Ready for Whips
It is a pleasure to have a connected feeling with dear Kink friends across the country and in the Northwest too. I would like to invite all of you, that whenever you go to a Kink Event, to stay open and receptive to new experiences, new friends and realize that we are all connected one to another in this, our chosen Lifestyle.
At The Floating World, we were fortunate enough to share a room with Lolita Wolf and her date. The friendship that developed through shared experiences, talking and play was quite memorable and will be long lasting.
Lolita & Lil'One Messin' Round / Lolita's Date Posing as Security,Cavity Searches Lil'One
One of the more unusual shared experiences was the Monday morning Hotel Fire Alarm going off at 6:00 AM after just going to bed at about 3:00 AM. We barely heard the alarm (they really do need to make the alarm louder in this Hotel) and groggily got up, left everything in the room, walked down the stairs and into the parking lot. The sun was just coming up and the parking lot was filled with sleepy disgruntled Kinksters, Fire Trucks and very fit looking Firefighters.
False Alarm Lil'One flirting with a fireman
Another person we met is Shibari Warrior, who owns a beautiful Dungeon in Philadelphia, PA. (Well at least he did until he was sabotaged and got shut down a mere week after the Post TFW Party however He has informed us that He will be opening another Black Phoenix Dungeon very soon.) He invited Little One and me to come over to Philly on Tuesday, after TFW and play in the space so we took the train from New York City toward Philadelphia, which was an hour's journey through interisting small towns and beautiful scenery.
Shibari Warrior met us at the train station and we continued on our journey in his car to the Black Phoenix Dungeon, which He opened up especially for us and enlisted the services of Dov, a terrific Photographer and Bondage Expert to photograph our Scene. We also met their friend Zelda, now our friend too, a beautiful blond Kinkster who allowed me to whip her after my Scene with Little One. She loves whips and is an erotic, sensually delightful creature to play with, it was a very hot scene. Because our play ended so late and the trip back to NYC would take several hours, Zelda invited all of us to stay overnight in her nice country home in New Jersey.
Black Phoenix
The Lounge Main area
Scene Space Ready for Whips
It is a pleasure to have a connected feeling with dear Kink friends across the country and in the Northwest too. I would like to invite all of you, that whenever you go to a Kink Event, to stay open and receptive to new experiences, new friends and realize that we are all connected one to another in this, our chosen Lifestyle.
First Fire Experience
My Fire Experience
Here it was, Sunday night and the final day of The Floating World Event in New Jersey. Daddy and I were preparing for his Whip Workshop, the last of three Presentations He was giving when He came over, pulled me in close to Him and casually asked me how I felt about “Fire Play”.
My instant response was, “Oh Daddy! You have known that ever since we saw that Fire Scene done by Ellwod at the 2006 Sagacity Birthday Bash in Victoria, I have been exceedingly curious about it! Why do You ask?”
He said, rather blandly, “Oh, just because I was thinking of taking a Class on it.” He then walked off and left me with the business of preparing Handouts for the Participants.
We were pleasantly surprised by how well this particular Class was attended, especially since it was the very last Class scheduled, being held from 10:30 PM until Midnight. We had the usual folks who were reluctant to leave, those who had more personal questions, those who wanted to seek further information and those who wanted a deeper, more intimate connection with the two of us, so by the time we cleared out, it was nearly half past Midnight.
“Daddy,” I asked as we gathered up our materials and exited the Class Room, “are we going to do a Scene tonight,” and He, being ever so succinct, turned to me and said, “Yes, Little One. ‘Q’ the Event Photographer is going to do a Fire Scene with you.”
Speechless, I gaped at Him in open mouthed wonder as I felt a deep, driving need surface like a Phoenix from the ashes. A need so primal and real that I have found myself throughout my life participating in high risk sports and adventures just to see it met and fulfilled. This was the adrenalin rush of being held on the ‘sweet edge of terror’, something akin to diving with and feeding sharks, which I have enjoyed immensely. The edge that is so far out there that it somehow merges with Universal Consciousness and I become ‘All That Is’.
Fear and excitement, which are basically the same experience in the body, bubbled furiously within me as we walked to the Fire Play Space. This was like a dream come true and I began asking Daddy a thousand questions at once, not one of which I remember, nor His answers.
He said, “Q was absolutely hot for you, Little One, and He asked me if He could do a Fire Scene with you. “Q” tells me that he has been learning about Fire since Boy Scouts and has using this element for decades with some of his close-up magic tricks, however it has only been during the last two years that he started using Fire in his Play Scenes.”
Daddy further found out that “Q” had learned this type of Fire Play primarily from Pyro Sadist, of Needle Play and Helen Fluterby, Member of TES who lives in NJ. He has attended many Workshops and had practiced on himself for weeks before he practiced on others. From the very first time he shared this with another person, he felt an immediate connection and response and was hooked! Whenever he can, he attends various Workshops to learn more about Fire Play and has even begun to develop some of his own techniques.
“Little One,” Daddy said, “I would never let Him near you if I did not feel that He could be trusted,” and I found myself even more excited than ever about the prospect of playing with a “Magician of Fire Play” because all my life I have loved magic and everything about it.
I was both bemused and once again amazed at His statement because I had no idea that this man was all that interested in me. Daddy did tell me though, that on Friday night when He did our Whip Scene, the Event Photographer went wild shooting us from every angle because He wanted to capture the raw passion, eroticism and sensuality which He saw vividly portrayed and unfolding before His eyes.
Quite frankly, I had not really been aware of His presence because by the time He evidently started, I was well past the “conscious awareness” of the comings and goings of the various Participants and Attendants. Throughout the course of the next day, we were inundated with a multitude of individuals wishing to share the expressions of their experience of our Scene and we both considered ourselves to be well blessed and in deep gratitude for this most positive and illuminating feedback which, once again, fed our souls and reaffirmed the vision of our mission in the lifestyle we honorably pursue.
As we continued toward “my appointed destiny”, which I by then, had begun to call this serendipitous event, images, thoughts and questions raced through my mind. Feelings of doom, death and fiery destruction rose unbidden from my subconscious. How was I supposed to prepare for something I barely knew anything about? How was I supposed to respond? What would be required of me from this new Master? My body was alive and pulsating with a growing excitement and I felt as though I would faint dead away right there on the spot as my Daddy placed me into the enfolding arms of “Master Q”.
Having no idea what to expect and trusting my Daddy completely in His choice of who He allows to Top me, I permitted myself the infinite pleasure of literally falling into and under the spell of ‘Q’, whose deep brown eyes appeared like bottomless pits of dark carnality and unexpressed passion. His gentle sensitivity calmed me at once; however the felt influence of His arcane talent completely and utterly mystified me. In my own inner knowingness and conscious awareness, the realization came to me in a nanosecond that, never before had I beheld at first glance, this type of depth and compassion in a Top save fore that of my Daddy and my former Master.
In that realization, I near swooned in delight and relaxed into the flow of the preparations which began to take place. I was asked to remove all of my clothes, not that I had much on to start with, and to place my hair back, up and out of the way, which I did quite happily with the clips I already had in it from Daddy’s Whip Workshop.
Between them, they placed special fire retardant sheets of the massage table when my body was to lie, along with a pillow which was placed beneath my knees and chest. My sense of time evaporated as I, in my mind, presented my body on the sacrificial altar of Pele, the Goddess of Fire. Master Q proceeded very slowly at first, exploring my tolerance for heat and my autonomic responses to fire. I heard His exclamations of delight but in no wise can recite back a single statement which He made. At one particular point in time, I remember lying facedown upon my tummy and thinking, “Well, this is certainly different. I cannot see anything that is being done and I do not really have a sense of what is actually happening so what in the name of God am I supposed to be feeling while He is doing this to me?” From that thought and question, I quickly jumped to the conclusion that this was going to be dreadfully boring and felt, in that moment, that I could go to sleep during the whole process.
In truth, I did not experience the usual endorphin high which so often engulfs me during a Whip, Spanking, Needle or Rope Bondage Scene. The actual sensation of heat was very pleasurable and did not bother me much because of the lack of visual input to stimulate my brain into a fear response, so I just lay there in a kind of bemused and curious state.
In retrospect, even as I write this review, I now realize that my subconscious was responding on levels I was not even aware of and my body reacted accordingly by delivering it’s own peculiar mix of fight or flight hormones.
Through a warm, fuzzy haze, I heard Master Q tell me to roll over onto my back and as He kindled the flames upon my body, He commanded me to open my eyes. As I complied, I beheld a most glorious and evocative sight. A yellow tongue of liquid fire raced headlong from my thigh up to my knee! I squealed in enjoyment and, raising my left leg into the air with my toes pointed skyward, I begged Him to do it again. Laughing outrageously, He happily obliged. When Q began to play a dance of fire upon my feet, I thought I had died and gone to heaven, so deeply delicious and erotic were the sensations. It was in those moments that I began to go where only angels fear to tread. My body became alive with a motion that undulated with the movement of the fire.
Daddy told me after the Scene that Q was filled with joy and that it was obvious He also had entered an altered space. Together we were a symbiotic creation, moving in unison to the compelling nature of the power of fire. Daddy was so very fortunate to be able, not only to capture images of the extraordinary dance of fire on film, but He was invited by Q to actually participate, which He did with stunning competence and creative ability.
During the final stages of our Scene, Q placed the palm of my hand over His solar plexus and, upon placing a ball of fire in His own hand, placed it over mine. The effect was dramatic and deeply connective and by the time we finished, I was so aroused that I began begging for Daddy to drive His magical fingers deep into my Yoni and pleasure me with a G-Spot Massage. No one, not even I, knew what the results would be. Quite suddenly, an eruption from some hidden subterranean depth occurred, the likes of which surprised and pleasure both Q and all the people standing about watching (so I learned much later). Like an artesian well, Daddy provoked such a release of the Nectar of the Goddess that it flowed up, out and over my belly and fell cascading to the floor around His feet.
For Q, this was in His words, the hottest and most erotic and sensual Fire Scene which He had ever had the privilege to do. He had been inspired to do things which He had never done before because of the dynamics of the Scene and He also expressed deep gratitude at having been the witness to such a powerful female ejaculation, which to Him, was the icing on the cake.
I hold the belief that everything is perfect in my Universe and that I am doing exactly what I am supposed to be doing in the very moment I am doing it and this particular event was no different.
Although Fire Play is considered by many to be an extreme form of Edge Play containing elements of excitement and increased risk of danger, it was perfect for me to participate in and experience in that moment. I will always be deeply grateful to “Q”, a Master at Fire Play, for giving me the opportunity to taste His most talented expertise and for writing to me, a most beautifully written email, from which I am quoting a few sentences.
“Little One, our time together was the best experience I could hope for when I share my Fire Play. Your reactions inspired me. I still feel the thrill when I think about being with you. You and your Daddy gave me a wonderful gift that night when you gave yourself over to me. Your gift overflows to surrounding people and that is what first attracted me to your Whipping Scene. Your complete surrender and offering yourself to your Daddy is a beautiful living poem, flowing back and forth between you two. I was honored to become part of your gift as people came to watch us enjoy the flames together.”
Here it was, Sunday night and the final day of The Floating World Event in New Jersey. Daddy and I were preparing for his Whip Workshop, the last of three Presentations He was giving when He came over, pulled me in close to Him and casually asked me how I felt about “Fire Play”.
My instant response was, “Oh Daddy! You have known that ever since we saw that Fire Scene done by Ellwod at the 2006 Sagacity Birthday Bash in Victoria, I have been exceedingly curious about it! Why do You ask?”
He said, rather blandly, “Oh, just because I was thinking of taking a Class on it.” He then walked off and left me with the business of preparing Handouts for the Participants.
We were pleasantly surprised by how well this particular Class was attended, especially since it was the very last Class scheduled, being held from 10:30 PM until Midnight. We had the usual folks who were reluctant to leave, those who had more personal questions, those who wanted to seek further information and those who wanted a deeper, more intimate connection with the two of us, so by the time we cleared out, it was nearly half past Midnight.
“Daddy,” I asked as we gathered up our materials and exited the Class Room, “are we going to do a Scene tonight,” and He, being ever so succinct, turned to me and said, “Yes, Little One. ‘Q’ the Event Photographer is going to do a Fire Scene with you.”
Speechless, I gaped at Him in open mouthed wonder as I felt a deep, driving need surface like a Phoenix from the ashes. A need so primal and real that I have found myself throughout my life participating in high risk sports and adventures just to see it met and fulfilled. This was the adrenalin rush of being held on the ‘sweet edge of terror’, something akin to diving with and feeding sharks, which I have enjoyed immensely. The edge that is so far out there that it somehow merges with Universal Consciousness and I become ‘All That Is’.
Fear and excitement, which are basically the same experience in the body, bubbled furiously within me as we walked to the Fire Play Space. This was like a dream come true and I began asking Daddy a thousand questions at once, not one of which I remember, nor His answers.
He said, “Q was absolutely hot for you, Little One, and He asked me if He could do a Fire Scene with you. “Q” tells me that he has been learning about Fire since Boy Scouts and has using this element for decades with some of his close-up magic tricks, however it has only been during the last two years that he started using Fire in his Play Scenes.”
Daddy further found out that “Q” had learned this type of Fire Play primarily from Pyro Sadist, of Needle Play and Helen Fluterby, Member of TES who lives in NJ. He has attended many Workshops and had practiced on himself for weeks before he practiced on others. From the very first time he shared this with another person, he felt an immediate connection and response and was hooked! Whenever he can, he attends various Workshops to learn more about Fire Play and has even begun to develop some of his own techniques.
“Little One,” Daddy said, “I would never let Him near you if I did not feel that He could be trusted,” and I found myself even more excited than ever about the prospect of playing with a “Magician of Fire Play” because all my life I have loved magic and everything about it.
I was both bemused and once again amazed at His statement because I had no idea that this man was all that interested in me. Daddy did tell me though, that on Friday night when He did our Whip Scene, the Event Photographer went wild shooting us from every angle because He wanted to capture the raw passion, eroticism and sensuality which He saw vividly portrayed and unfolding before His eyes.
Quite frankly, I had not really been aware of His presence because by the time He evidently started, I was well past the “conscious awareness” of the comings and goings of the various Participants and Attendants. Throughout the course of the next day, we were inundated with a multitude of individuals wishing to share the expressions of their experience of our Scene and we both considered ourselves to be well blessed and in deep gratitude for this most positive and illuminating feedback which, once again, fed our souls and reaffirmed the vision of our mission in the lifestyle we honorably pursue.
As we continued toward “my appointed destiny”, which I by then, had begun to call this serendipitous event, images, thoughts and questions raced through my mind. Feelings of doom, death and fiery destruction rose unbidden from my subconscious. How was I supposed to prepare for something I barely knew anything about? How was I supposed to respond? What would be required of me from this new Master? My body was alive and pulsating with a growing excitement and I felt as though I would faint dead away right there on the spot as my Daddy placed me into the enfolding arms of “Master Q”.
Having no idea what to expect and trusting my Daddy completely in His choice of who He allows to Top me, I permitted myself the infinite pleasure of literally falling into and under the spell of ‘Q’, whose deep brown eyes appeared like bottomless pits of dark carnality and unexpressed passion. His gentle sensitivity calmed me at once; however the felt influence of His arcane talent completely and utterly mystified me. In my own inner knowingness and conscious awareness, the realization came to me in a nanosecond that, never before had I beheld at first glance, this type of depth and compassion in a Top save fore that of my Daddy and my former Master.
In that realization, I near swooned in delight and relaxed into the flow of the preparations which began to take place. I was asked to remove all of my clothes, not that I had much on to start with, and to place my hair back, up and out of the way, which I did quite happily with the clips I already had in it from Daddy’s Whip Workshop.
Between them, they placed special fire retardant sheets of the massage table when my body was to lie, along with a pillow which was placed beneath my knees and chest. My sense of time evaporated as I, in my mind, presented my body on the sacrificial altar of Pele, the Goddess of Fire. Master Q proceeded very slowly at first, exploring my tolerance for heat and my autonomic responses to fire. I heard His exclamations of delight but in no wise can recite back a single statement which He made. At one particular point in time, I remember lying facedown upon my tummy and thinking, “Well, this is certainly different. I cannot see anything that is being done and I do not really have a sense of what is actually happening so what in the name of God am I supposed to be feeling while He is doing this to me?” From that thought and question, I quickly jumped to the conclusion that this was going to be dreadfully boring and felt, in that moment, that I could go to sleep during the whole process.
In truth, I did not experience the usual endorphin high which so often engulfs me during a Whip, Spanking, Needle or Rope Bondage Scene. The actual sensation of heat was very pleasurable and did not bother me much because of the lack of visual input to stimulate my brain into a fear response, so I just lay there in a kind of bemused and curious state.
In retrospect, even as I write this review, I now realize that my subconscious was responding on levels I was not even aware of and my body reacted accordingly by delivering it’s own peculiar mix of fight or flight hormones.
Through a warm, fuzzy haze, I heard Master Q tell me to roll over onto my back and as He kindled the flames upon my body, He commanded me to open my eyes. As I complied, I beheld a most glorious and evocative sight. A yellow tongue of liquid fire raced headlong from my thigh up to my knee! I squealed in enjoyment and, raising my left leg into the air with my toes pointed skyward, I begged Him to do it again. Laughing outrageously, He happily obliged. When Q began to play a dance of fire upon my feet, I thought I had died and gone to heaven, so deeply delicious and erotic were the sensations. It was in those moments that I began to go where only angels fear to tread. My body became alive with a motion that undulated with the movement of the fire.
Daddy told me after the Scene that Q was filled with joy and that it was obvious He also had entered an altered space. Together we were a symbiotic creation, moving in unison to the compelling nature of the power of fire. Daddy was so very fortunate to be able, not only to capture images of the extraordinary dance of fire on film, but He was invited by Q to actually participate, which He did with stunning competence and creative ability.
During the final stages of our Scene, Q placed the palm of my hand over His solar plexus and, upon placing a ball of fire in His own hand, placed it over mine. The effect was dramatic and deeply connective and by the time we finished, I was so aroused that I began begging for Daddy to drive His magical fingers deep into my Yoni and pleasure me with a G-Spot Massage. No one, not even I, knew what the results would be. Quite suddenly, an eruption from some hidden subterranean depth occurred, the likes of which surprised and pleasure both Q and all the people standing about watching (so I learned much later). Like an artesian well, Daddy provoked such a release of the Nectar of the Goddess that it flowed up, out and over my belly and fell cascading to the floor around His feet.
For Q, this was in His words, the hottest and most erotic and sensual Fire Scene which He had ever had the privilege to do. He had been inspired to do things which He had never done before because of the dynamics of the Scene and He also expressed deep gratitude at having been the witness to such a powerful female ejaculation, which to Him, was the icing on the cake.
I hold the belief that everything is perfect in my Universe and that I am doing exactly what I am supposed to be doing in the very moment I am doing it and this particular event was no different.
Although Fire Play is considered by many to be an extreme form of Edge Play containing elements of excitement and increased risk of danger, it was perfect for me to participate in and experience in that moment. I will always be deeply grateful to “Q”, a Master at Fire Play, for giving me the opportunity to taste His most talented expertise and for writing to me, a most beautifully written email, from which I am quoting a few sentences.
“Little One, our time together was the best experience I could hope for when I share my Fire Play. Your reactions inspired me. I still feel the thrill when I think about being with you. You and your Daddy gave me a wonderful gift that night when you gave yourself over to me. Your gift overflows to surrounding people and that is what first attracted me to your Whipping Scene. Your complete surrender and offering yourself to your Daddy is a beautiful living poem, flowing back and forth between you two. I was honored to become part of your gift as people came to watch us enjoy the flames together.”
Return From the East Coast
I am just now beginning to settle back in from our Trip to Floating World and the East Coast. There are many stories to tell and feelings to express and it will take me a little time and several postings to reveal all of them.
The Floating World is about more than presenting and attending Workshops. It is also about meeting and forming new friends with a deep connection that continues to echo in my thoughts and heart throughout the days and nights since our departure.
The Event itself was huge, with about one thousand participants and one hundred and fifty Workshops being presented from 10:00 AM to Midnight, from Friday through Sunday night. My Friday, Intermediate/Advanced Whip Workshop was from 8:00 to 10:30 PM, the Sunday Spanking Workshop was 2:00 to 3:30 PM and the Beginning Whip Workshop was 10:00 PM to Midnight on Sunday. I am happy to say that all of them were well attended. What was very rewarding for me was to notice that many of the people from each class came to attend my next one because they enjoyed my teaching style and learned new and interesting things from what I was presenting.
Little One and I were treated like Royalty by Natasha and all the FW Staff. They printed reams of material for my Workshop Handouts only mentioning briefly that they were printing more for my Classes than for any other Presenter. I do like to have handouts that are almost self explanatory books that will clearly remind the Participants of what we covered in class because I want them to pay attention to the Workshop and not bother to take notes. Interestingly enough, on the Personal Evaluation Forms, many comments are made about the value of these Handouts.
One of the first things I noticed upon entering the FW Registration Area was a large poster encouraging people to buy raffle tickets for an hour of Private Instruction with Jay Wiseman or Jonn Ireland and the money raised went to the Ashbury Aids Support Group. The winner of my raffle went to “Ms M”, a Female Brooklyn Switch. She wanted to win so much that she bought twenty dollars worth of tickets and made the comment to Little One that it was the best investment she ever made for her continuing education in the art of the Singetail. I felt happy and grateful that she experienced tremendous progress during out session.
Many of the photos of the event and trip require a little touch up in Photoshop but here are a few to start off with. These are of Little One and myself taken in the FW Dungeon during our Friday Night Scene, and also during my Whip Workshop and Spanking Workshop by our friend, Fire Play Expert and Photographer "Q", of "Full-Exposure.com". (More about him later).
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Spanking Workshop
Whip Workshops
The Floating World is about more than presenting and attending Workshops. It is also about meeting and forming new friends with a deep connection that continues to echo in my thoughts and heart throughout the days and nights since our departure.
The Event itself was huge, with about one thousand participants and one hundred and fifty Workshops being presented from 10:00 AM to Midnight, from Friday through Sunday night. My Friday, Intermediate/Advanced Whip Workshop was from 8:00 to 10:30 PM, the Sunday Spanking Workshop was 2:00 to 3:30 PM and the Beginning Whip Workshop was 10:00 PM to Midnight on Sunday. I am happy to say that all of them were well attended. What was very rewarding for me was to notice that many of the people from each class came to attend my next one because they enjoyed my teaching style and learned new and interesting things from what I was presenting.
Little One and I were treated like Royalty by Natasha and all the FW Staff. They printed reams of material for my Workshop Handouts only mentioning briefly that they were printing more for my Classes than for any other Presenter. I do like to have handouts that are almost self explanatory books that will clearly remind the Participants of what we covered in class because I want them to pay attention to the Workshop and not bother to take notes. Interestingly enough, on the Personal Evaluation Forms, many comments are made about the value of these Handouts.
One of the first things I noticed upon entering the FW Registration Area was a large poster encouraging people to buy raffle tickets for an hour of Private Instruction with Jay Wiseman or Jonn Ireland and the money raised went to the Ashbury Aids Support Group. The winner of my raffle went to “Ms M”, a Female Brooklyn Switch. She wanted to win so much that she bought twenty dollars worth of tickets and made the comment to Little One that it was the best investment she ever made for her continuing education in the art of the Singetail. I felt happy and grateful that she experienced tremendous progress during out session.
Many of the photos of the event and trip require a little touch up in Photoshop but here are a few to start off with. These are of Little One and myself taken in the FW Dungeon during our Friday Night Scene, and also during my Whip Workshop and Spanking Workshop by our friend, Fire Play Expert and Photographer "Q", of "Full-Exposure.com". (More about him later).
Spanking Workshop
Whip Workshops
Floating World
On Thursday, Little One and I are leaving for “The Floating World” Event in New Jersey, from the 15th to 17th August, 2008. I will be teaching three Workshops; a Beginning and an Intermediate /Advanced Whip Workshop, as well as a Spanking Workshop. There will be eighty Presenters and about one hundred and fifty Workshops. WOW!!! I will also be raffling off one hour of Personal Whip Instruction to benefit Floating World and the Center in Ashbury Park Aids Support Group.
We are very excited and pleased to be participating in FW and after the Event, we will be traveling to the Big Apple to visit with Aaron, Little One’s son, who owns the Hot Nude Yoga Studio. He is also Presenting a Workshop at FW called "Sensuality, Freedom and Yoga"
While in NYC we hope to visit with a few Kinksters and play at Paddles. I will give you a full report when we return.
Link to an Article on Floating World in Japan
Bondage and Impact Play
I did a scene with Lil’ One the other evening while she wore a beautiful antique Kimono, which she had acquired in a tiny store over in Langley on Whidbey Island, Washington, while we were out on my Harley for a ride. While we were at that little shop, I also bought a Haori, which is a mid-length light coat that was traditionally worn by men over Kimonos to keep the actual Kimono from being exposed to the elements. Made of silk, it is delicately embossed with a variety of colors which show up in different lighting situations and it seemed only natural to use my Haori in the Japanese Rope Bondage Scene I had planned. Our dear friend, Dr. Glen from the Center, consented to photograph the entire Scene for us and we were thrilled with the shots.
I enjoy Japanese Rope Bondage, however I almost always prefer to combine it with impact or wax play. Of course, if I had used hot wax it would have made a very big mess to clean off of the ropes and I also did not want to damage Little One’s Kimono, so instead I brought out my Floggers and Whips.
In this particular Scene, I also used my cut down Kendo Sword to fit the Japanese Theme. The Sword acts like a cross between a cane and a paddle, makes a nice noise and hurts like Hell. I like the way it feels in my hand, the sounds it makes on her body when I hit her and since it seems natural and ancient, it places me mentally, in a preindustrial subconscious timeframe.
When a person is bound and I apply painful stimulus, I always have to tune in closely to how they are processing the pain. Most bottoms move at least a little to help them deal with the stimulus however, they are unable to move very much when they are tied up. I usually don’t lay it on as heavily in this situation however, readers can easily see by Lil’ One’s reaction that "something is going on for her".
In these types of situations, I strongly suggest that you encourage your bound bottom to breath deeply, not hold their breath and to attempt to turn their pain into an ‘erotic experience’.
My Experience of "In The Woods"
“In The Woods”was an excellent, relaxing and enjoyable experience. Make certain that you write it on the calendar for next year as one of your must attend Kink events for 2009. The staff was very helpful and friendly, and connected to everyone in a personal way. They worked very hard to make certain that all of us were happy and comfortable.
The Workshops were the highest caliber possible and I admire and respect each and every one of the Presenters.
We didn’t have time to attend Lee Harrington’s or Maria Shadoes Workshops but were able to talk with and spend a little time with each one of them.
In The Woods July 25th - 27th, 2008
“IN THE WOODS” July 25th to 27th, 2008 – Kink Event Bellingham, Washington
There is still time to sign up for ITW. You can also attend for one day if you have limited time or money. I have included information on the Workshops and Schedule and hope to see you there.
ITW 2008 – Workshops
Jay Wiseman
Hogtie Seminar
The hogtie can be an extremely immobilizing form of bondage. Depending on how it is applied, its intensity can range from very mild to very edgy. Jay Wiseman will present a program on various hogtie techniques, ranging from the most tame to extreme. Jay will cover the bondage techniques, the risks and safety practices, and perform a demonstration of the various types of hogties. This will be followed by ample practice time under Jay’s guidance.
Principles and Techniques of Predicament Bondage
What is the essence of a predicament? What are the four basic types of predicaments? How does motivational psychology apply to predicament bondage? What are the unique hazards and benefits? Come learn the principles of predicament bondage, including a live demonstration of each type of predicament!
BDSM Social Games
Interactive social games can be an excellent way to grow, to learn more about others, and to create a sense of group and community. Jay Wiseman will discuss, and attendees will have a chance to participate in, demonstrations of a number of social games that can range from very mild to very edgy. Games to be discussed and/or demonstrated will include Fishbowl, The Dom/sub Dating Game,I've Got a Secret, and the potentially edgy Truth or Dare(featuring Jay's infamous "wuss" rules).
Lee Harrington
Pain is Inevitable, Suffering is Optional: Techniques for Erotic Pain Processing
Each of us processes pain and intense sensation in different ways. Some of us scream, some go silent, and some laugh with glee. Some focus on the connection we have with our partners and go stoic, while others dance, write and squirm to let the pain come out through movement. From distracting ourselves with other thoughts or body inputs, to breathing techniques we will discuss how different individuals process pain and how to increase your own effectiveness in transmuting pain into pleasure, suffering, or erotic connection.
Encase, Rip, Wrap and Transform: Clothing Bondage Made Easy
Spontaneous ties created from a converted tee shirt. Full encasement fetish scenes for just a few dollars using three pairs of pantyhose. Turning your boots into bondage mitts for human puppies. Let’s examine the whys of using clothing as bondage, from take down scenes to object fetishism and much more, then look at how to convert a variety of clothes into tools of bondage delight. Learn how to make blindfolds, hoods, gags, arm sleeves, mitts, straight jackets, wrist cuffs, sex-assisting devices, mummy bags, strap on harnesses, water torture devices, and so much more out of what we likely already have in our closets! Please bring a pair of underwear (or take them off in class), socks, and a destroyable tee shirt and pair of pantyhose if you want to play along!
Foot Fetishism, Worship and Torture
The foot has been known throughout history to be an item of desire- whether fetishized in the form of high heels or foot binding, submissives begging to give their mistress a pedicure, or an erotic masseuse reaching the genitals by way of the feet. But feet are not just for bottoms to play with. Bastinado (foot beating) was a common practice in dungeons of old, and the gay leather icon of the strong Daddy adoring the boy who is licking his boot is still strong. Why to feet tantalize us? How can we worship them? How can we abuse them? Let’s look at heels, arches, toes (clad in hosiery, socks or bare), the gentle curve of the ankle… and see where this delicious fetish can take us as a Top, bottom, Dominant or submissive.
Getting to Hot: Safety, Communication and Negotiation
Communication is all about safe words and health issues, right? Wrong! Let's get back to what communication is really about- making your relationships in and out of rope hot by getting into each other's heads and really learning to share our fantasies, fears, desires, and needs. Let's talk about getting our desires met, exploring our passions, how to share the scary things, how to not make your bottom feel like shit when they can't hold a bondage pose, sex, the mysterious creature known as aftercare (and what about pre-care?), intimacy, and so much more.
Jonn Ireland
Beginning through Advanced Whip Workshop
This is a hands on Beginning through Advanced Whip Workshop so please bring your whips, it is presented by Jonn Ireland, www.sensualwhipping.com of Seattle. You will learn and practice various techniques and also how to choose and buy a whip.. You will see how to use a Bullwhip for wraps and hard strikes to add spice to your Scene, several different ways to throw a Signal Whip, advanced areas to strike the body, positions to use in a Scene when you do not have a rack or a cross, techniques for limited space (like a bedroom), bondage and whips, using two whips, one in each hand for specific techniques including “9 and 3”, Cross Cracking forehand and backhand, Florentine and others. Whip techniques can vary from light wraps to brushing skin with the whip tips and using the whip tip for cracks off and then on the skin, each one producing different effects on the bottom and being used in different places as the Scene progresses. The scene can vary in intensity from gentle stroking to fiery rain and onto painful, red welted stripes, depending on the intent and skill of the Top and the interests and limits of the bottom. Every Scene can have an intensity rating of ten whether the whip is used for gentle brushing or as a hard crack cutting the skin. A deeply powerful connection between the Top and bottom can occur at every level. Each technique will be demonstrated on Jonn's submissive so that everyone can see how particular skills are applied in a Scene and used directly on the body. "Whip Technique" is one thing, "Scene Set-Up and Development" is quite another and both aspects are important for an enjoyable and even profound experience. Specific information will be provided on how to set up a good "beginning, middle, and end" for any Whip Scene as well as techniques to help you read a bottom and develop a strategy to bring the bottom to a euphoric endorphin high.
Spanking Workshop
Spanking can always be turned into much more than a “Warm Up” and reactions to spanking can vary wildly from aversion to adoration. Spanking can help foster a deeper level of connection, intimacy and eroticism with your partner and can even constitute a “Scene” in its own right. Negotiation, planning and techniques specific for spanking, with a little intuition, are some of the elements that will make your “Spanking Scene” really fly. In my “Spanking Workshop”, we will discuss ideas, techniques, tools, psychological elements and also have time for a little practice in the art of “Spanking”.
David Edwards
Temporary Branding
David has been in the BDSM community for over 10 years and has a passion for instruction in various arenas including needles, temporary piercing, fire play, flogging, and violet wands and in this instance, Temporary Branding. He has given workshops, classes and personal instruction in both the West Sound and Seattle areas. This is the time for creative expression, a little (or more) pain, be as simple or complicated as your dreams can take you and put it in “print.” Topics to be covered will be safety, tools of the trade and fabrication thereof, design limitations and work arounds and a demonstration of techniques. There will be plenty of supplies for those who would like to try the techniques following the presentation. Please note that “temporary” is relative and based on skin type, the body’s healing ability and technique used, these brands can last a week to several years.
Maria Shadoes
Bondage for Sex!!!
Geared mainly for either M/f or a Male bottom receiving anally
This is my favorite class! Generally I'll try to find a willing female who will let me put her in these sexually suggestive positions and 'demonstrate' how the positions are best worked and the slight modifications and techniques that make them special. Volunteers? The WAY that you handle the ropes can create a romantic scene - or a disciplinary scene - in this class we'll concentrate on the former. Most people think of having sex with their partner tied up and they usually think of the spread eagle bed tie. It's a winner but there are a few problems with it (what if you have no bed posts?, the tightly pulled limbs align the hips all wrong for penetration...) and the same thing over and over begs for some variety. I'll teach you how to overcome the bed tie problems and how to make that position oh-so-much-better with just two more quick ropes. I have some other great positions that you don't have to be a yoga master to use, although it seldom hurts if you ARE! Wrist to Ankle, Frog-Ties and more. I also have a couple of rope tricks that will amaze you and create sensations that I guarantee your bottoms haven't felt before. I'll also show you how to tie the Hitachi Magic Wand into place. If you don't know what a Hitachi Magic Wand is - you NEED this class! This is a highly interactive class, although without actual intercourse happening. I do expect participation and will nag a bit if you just come to watch - beware!
Uncomfortable Bondage - AKA - The Bondage IS the Scene
In this class I'll be teaching the parts of bondage that are always the most painful. I think it is a HUGE asset to me that I was a bondage bottom in probably a thousand ties or more and so I am, usually, able to tell a bottom before or during the tie where they can expect the worst pain. Somehow, knowing that something is supposed to hurt like hell, makes it easier to accept the pain. We'll learn how to tie the elbows together behind the back -which is one of the aesthetically hottest looking ties there is. Everyone's elbows do not go together, actually very few people are that limber but we'll get them as close to together as each bottom can/wants to manage - and if that is a foot apart it is the same pain level, technique and difficulties as a more flexible person with their elbows completely touching. The tie is virtually the same and I'll tell you how to know how far to push, how to make the distance between the elbows shorten over time and how to make the tie last longer every time. Then we'll learn the strapado, where the wrists are tied together behind the back and then pulled upward, wrenching the shoulders and/or forcing the bottom to bend. We'll do some 'quick tie' techniques, which are useful when doing abduction scenes but are among the most painful and possibly damaging and I'll tell you why that is. This class wouldn't be complete without a tight crotchrope - so we'll plan on starting there. The topics we'll cover will include tingling, discoloration of limbs, lack of movement, numbness, nauseous, lightheadedness, fainting and what to do and what not to do for these things and when not to push bondage pain. We'll also learn several quick, painful ties that can be used as a punishment and touch on predicament bondage which is a form of bondage where the bondage hurts if they do this - but it hurts somewhere else if they DON'T do it. We'll discuss why it's generally not a good idea to add other forms of torture to this type of bondage unless you have lots of experience playing this way together.
Boss Bondage
Temporary Body Piercing
Are you a fan of play piercing, but have wanted to take it to a new level? Then this class is for you. This class combines elements of both body piercing and play piercing together. Basically we will be using body piercing needles and body jewelry to put in jewelry that's meant to stay in for a short term like traditional play piercing. We will be teaching how to start with a mixture of a clean and sterile setup. The proper tools and techniques of piercing deeper than play piercing normally requires, along with jewelry insertion removal and aftercare. Consider this body piercing without the commitment. All supplies for this class have been generously donated by In the Woods and playpiercingkits.com. This class will be limited to a maximum of 40 people, with 20 people being piercers, and 20 people being pierced, so sign up early otherwise it's first come first serve. BossBondage is a licensed body piercer who has been piercing since 1995, and will guide everyone through the process step by step.
Introduction to western Shibari: crotch, chest and body harnesses, and what to do with them.
What is Shibari? That's a debate that still continues. Some say Shibari can only be performed by the Japanese, some say it's any bondage that's influenced by there style of bondage. No matter your definition, Shibari, or Japanese rope bondage, is a beautiful and powerful style of rope play. So what is Western Shibari? I don't know about You but I have never had the opportunity to tie up a 4'9" 95 pound professional Japanese bondage model. I have spent the last several years doing bondage on a wide variety of sizes and shapes on both Men and Woman. All who have an even wider range of health issues, flexibility issues, experience levels and conceptions and misconceptions about what Shibari is. This class is simply about taking some of the great images we associate with "Shibari" and applying them to the people we bind in real life. We will be covering safety, a few knots, some positioning, and how to put it all together to create a fun scene from beginning to end. This class will be focusing on the basics of rope harnesses, on the chest, crotch and other areas of the body, and how to combine them with Your rope play. Please bring at least two or three 30 foot lengths of 6mm hemp, and two 15 foot lengths of 6mm hemp, or the closest You have to that. There will be limited rope on hand to borrow, Other rope will work, but Hemp is best. If you want to learn more about hemp rope, stop by The BossBondage.com vending booth and talk to Boss about why hemp is so great for bondage
Bondage contest
Join BossBondage in the dungeon Sunday at 2:00pm for the annual In The Woods Bondage contest. The contest is open to everyone of all skill levels. and can include any kind of bondage work from mild to wild, from floor work to suspension, western to Japanese styles. There will be prizes from In The Woods and BossBondage.com given out in two categories. Best overall bondage, given to the couple who does the best overall bondage scene, as judged by BossBondage, winner of the 2006 bondage contest. And Boss's choice award for the couple that has either the most creative bondage or the most fun doing it. If you are not part of a couple, this is a great way to come get some rope play in, we will do our best to match people up. The rules for the bondage contest are very relaxed, just come on into the dungeon and have some fun doing bondage, and You might win a prize.
Michael Visger - TBA
Robin Friedman – TBA
Kelly – Fireplay
Kelly - Fisting
Schedule
Thursday
9 – 11pm - Meet & Greet - Sponsored by KnightStorm Films & Juliet Heart - Main Tent - Refreshments Provided
Friday
3 – 5pm - Beginning through Advanced Whips - Jonn Ireland
5 – 6:30pm - Potluck dinner and Betty Desire Show
6:30 – 8pm - BDSM Social Games - Jay Wiseman
8 – 9:30pm - Encase, Rip, Wrap and Transform: Clothing Bondage Made Easy - Lee Harrington
9:30 - Dungeon Opens
Saturday
10 – 11:30am - Foot Fetishism, Worship and Torture - Lee Harrington / Bondage for Sex - Maria Shadoes
11:30 – 1pm - Kinky Cake Walk & Lunch
1 – 2:30pm - Temporary Branding - Dave Edwards / TBA - Michael Visger
2:30 – 4pm - TBA - Robin Freidman / Fisting Demo - Kelly
4 – 5:30pm - Spanking - Jonn Ireland/ Introduction to western Shibari: crotch, chest and body harnesses, and what to do with them - Boss Bondage
5:30 – 6:30pm - Dinner
6:30 – 8pm - Principles and Techniques of Predicament Bondage -Jay Wiseman / Pain is Inevitable, Suffering is Optional: Techniques for Erotic Pain Processing - Lee Harrington
8 – 10pm - Fireplay demo – Kelly and Pamela
10:00 pm - Dungeon Opens and the 2nd Annual ITW Fetish Ball
Sunday
10 – 11:30am - Temporary Body Piercing - Boss Bondage/TBA – Michael
11:30am -2:00 pm - Wrap-up & Lunch
2 – 4pm - Hogties - Jay Wiseman/ Uncomfortable Bondage - AKA - The Bondage IS the Scene - Maria Shadoes
4 – 5:30pm - Getting to Hot: Safety, Communication and Negotiation - Lee Harrington/ Bondage Contest - Boss Bonadage
5:30pm - Dungeon Opens
There is still time to sign up for ITW. You can also attend for one day if you have limited time or money. I have included information on the Workshops and Schedule and hope to see you there.
ITW 2008 – Workshops
Jay Wiseman
Hogtie Seminar
The hogtie can be an extremely immobilizing form of bondage. Depending on how it is applied, its intensity can range from very mild to very edgy. Jay Wiseman will present a program on various hogtie techniques, ranging from the most tame to extreme. Jay will cover the bondage techniques, the risks and safety practices, and perform a demonstration of the various types of hogties. This will be followed by ample practice time under Jay’s guidance.
Principles and Techniques of Predicament Bondage
What is the essence of a predicament? What are the four basic types of predicaments? How does motivational psychology apply to predicament bondage? What are the unique hazards and benefits? Come learn the principles of predicament bondage, including a live demonstration of each type of predicament!
BDSM Social Games
Interactive social games can be an excellent way to grow, to learn more about others, and to create a sense of group and community. Jay Wiseman will discuss, and attendees will have a chance to participate in, demonstrations of a number of social games that can range from very mild to very edgy. Games to be discussed and/or demonstrated will include Fishbowl, The Dom/sub Dating Game,I've Got a Secret, and the potentially edgy Truth or Dare(featuring Jay's infamous "wuss" rules).
Lee Harrington
Pain is Inevitable, Suffering is Optional: Techniques for Erotic Pain Processing
Each of us processes pain and intense sensation in different ways. Some of us scream, some go silent, and some laugh with glee. Some focus on the connection we have with our partners and go stoic, while others dance, write and squirm to let the pain come out through movement. From distracting ourselves with other thoughts or body inputs, to breathing techniques we will discuss how different individuals process pain and how to increase your own effectiveness in transmuting pain into pleasure, suffering, or erotic connection.
Encase, Rip, Wrap and Transform: Clothing Bondage Made Easy
Spontaneous ties created from a converted tee shirt. Full encasement fetish scenes for just a few dollars using three pairs of pantyhose. Turning your boots into bondage mitts for human puppies. Let’s examine the whys of using clothing as bondage, from take down scenes to object fetishism and much more, then look at how to convert a variety of clothes into tools of bondage delight. Learn how to make blindfolds, hoods, gags, arm sleeves, mitts, straight jackets, wrist cuffs, sex-assisting devices, mummy bags, strap on harnesses, water torture devices, and so much more out of what we likely already have in our closets! Please bring a pair of underwear (or take them off in class), socks, and a destroyable tee shirt and pair of pantyhose if you want to play along!
Foot Fetishism, Worship and Torture
The foot has been known throughout history to be an item of desire- whether fetishized in the form of high heels or foot binding, submissives begging to give their mistress a pedicure, or an erotic masseuse reaching the genitals by way of the feet. But feet are not just for bottoms to play with. Bastinado (foot beating) was a common practice in dungeons of old, and the gay leather icon of the strong Daddy adoring the boy who is licking his boot is still strong. Why to feet tantalize us? How can we worship them? How can we abuse them? Let’s look at heels, arches, toes (clad in hosiery, socks or bare), the gentle curve of the ankle… and see where this delicious fetish can take us as a Top, bottom, Dominant or submissive.
Getting to Hot: Safety, Communication and Negotiation
Communication is all about safe words and health issues, right? Wrong! Let's get back to what communication is really about- making your relationships in and out of rope hot by getting into each other's heads and really learning to share our fantasies, fears, desires, and needs. Let's talk about getting our desires met, exploring our passions, how to share the scary things, how to not make your bottom feel like shit when they can't hold a bondage pose, sex, the mysterious creature known as aftercare (and what about pre-care?), intimacy, and so much more.
Jonn Ireland
Beginning through Advanced Whip Workshop
This is a hands on Beginning through Advanced Whip Workshop so please bring your whips, it is presented by Jonn Ireland, www.sensualwhipping.com of Seattle. You will learn and practice various techniques and also how to choose and buy a whip.. You will see how to use a Bullwhip for wraps and hard strikes to add spice to your Scene, several different ways to throw a Signal Whip, advanced areas to strike the body, positions to use in a Scene when you do not have a rack or a cross, techniques for limited space (like a bedroom), bondage and whips, using two whips, one in each hand for specific techniques including “9 and 3”, Cross Cracking forehand and backhand, Florentine and others. Whip techniques can vary from light wraps to brushing skin with the whip tips and using the whip tip for cracks off and then on the skin, each one producing different effects on the bottom and being used in different places as the Scene progresses. The scene can vary in intensity from gentle stroking to fiery rain and onto painful, red welted stripes, depending on the intent and skill of the Top and the interests and limits of the bottom. Every Scene can have an intensity rating of ten whether the whip is used for gentle brushing or as a hard crack cutting the skin. A deeply powerful connection between the Top and bottom can occur at every level. Each technique will be demonstrated on Jonn's submissive so that everyone can see how particular skills are applied in a Scene and used directly on the body. "Whip Technique" is one thing, "Scene Set-Up and Development" is quite another and both aspects are important for an enjoyable and even profound experience. Specific information will be provided on how to set up a good "beginning, middle, and end" for any Whip Scene as well as techniques to help you read a bottom and develop a strategy to bring the bottom to a euphoric endorphin high.
Spanking Workshop
Spanking can always be turned into much more than a “Warm Up” and reactions to spanking can vary wildly from aversion to adoration. Spanking can help foster a deeper level of connection, intimacy and eroticism with your partner and can even constitute a “Scene” in its own right. Negotiation, planning and techniques specific for spanking, with a little intuition, are some of the elements that will make your “Spanking Scene” really fly. In my “Spanking Workshop”, we will discuss ideas, techniques, tools, psychological elements and also have time for a little practice in the art of “Spanking”.
David Edwards
Temporary Branding
David has been in the BDSM community for over 10 years and has a passion for instruction in various arenas including needles, temporary piercing, fire play, flogging, and violet wands and in this instance, Temporary Branding. He has given workshops, classes and personal instruction in both the West Sound and Seattle areas. This is the time for creative expression, a little (or more) pain, be as simple or complicated as your dreams can take you and put it in “print.” Topics to be covered will be safety, tools of the trade and fabrication thereof, design limitations and work arounds and a demonstration of techniques. There will be plenty of supplies for those who would like to try the techniques following the presentation. Please note that “temporary” is relative and based on skin type, the body’s healing ability and technique used, these brands can last a week to several years.
Maria Shadoes
Bondage for Sex!!!
Geared mainly for either M/f or a Male bottom receiving anally
This is my favorite class! Generally I'll try to find a willing female who will let me put her in these sexually suggestive positions and 'demonstrate' how the positions are best worked and the slight modifications and techniques that make them special. Volunteers? The WAY that you handle the ropes can create a romantic scene - or a disciplinary scene - in this class we'll concentrate on the former. Most people think of having sex with their partner tied up and they usually think of the spread eagle bed tie. It's a winner but there are a few problems with it (what if you have no bed posts?, the tightly pulled limbs align the hips all wrong for penetration...) and the same thing over and over begs for some variety. I'll teach you how to overcome the bed tie problems and how to make that position oh-so-much-better with just two more quick ropes. I have some other great positions that you don't have to be a yoga master to use, although it seldom hurts if you ARE! Wrist to Ankle, Frog-Ties and more. I also have a couple of rope tricks that will amaze you and create sensations that I guarantee your bottoms haven't felt before. I'll also show you how to tie the Hitachi Magic Wand into place. If you don't know what a Hitachi Magic Wand is - you NEED this class! This is a highly interactive class, although without actual intercourse happening. I do expect participation and will nag a bit if you just come to watch - beware!
Uncomfortable Bondage - AKA - The Bondage IS the Scene
In this class I'll be teaching the parts of bondage that are always the most painful. I think it is a HUGE asset to me that I was a bondage bottom in probably a thousand ties or more and so I am, usually, able to tell a bottom before or during the tie where they can expect the worst pain. Somehow, knowing that something is supposed to hurt like hell, makes it easier to accept the pain. We'll learn how to tie the elbows together behind the back -which is one of the aesthetically hottest looking ties there is. Everyone's elbows do not go together, actually very few people are that limber but we'll get them as close to together as each bottom can/wants to manage - and if that is a foot apart it is the same pain level, technique and difficulties as a more flexible person with their elbows completely touching. The tie is virtually the same and I'll tell you how to know how far to push, how to make the distance between the elbows shorten over time and how to make the tie last longer every time. Then we'll learn the strapado, where the wrists are tied together behind the back and then pulled upward, wrenching the shoulders and/or forcing the bottom to bend. We'll do some 'quick tie' techniques, which are useful when doing abduction scenes but are among the most painful and possibly damaging and I'll tell you why that is. This class wouldn't be complete without a tight crotchrope - so we'll plan on starting there. The topics we'll cover will include tingling, discoloration of limbs, lack of movement, numbness, nauseous, lightheadedness, fainting and what to do and what not to do for these things and when not to push bondage pain. We'll also learn several quick, painful ties that can be used as a punishment and touch on predicament bondage which is a form of bondage where the bondage hurts if they do this - but it hurts somewhere else if they DON'T do it. We'll discuss why it's generally not a good idea to add other forms of torture to this type of bondage unless you have lots of experience playing this way together.
Boss Bondage
Temporary Body Piercing
Are you a fan of play piercing, but have wanted to take it to a new level? Then this class is for you. This class combines elements of both body piercing and play piercing together. Basically we will be using body piercing needles and body jewelry to put in jewelry that's meant to stay in for a short term like traditional play piercing. We will be teaching how to start with a mixture of a clean and sterile setup. The proper tools and techniques of piercing deeper than play piercing normally requires, along with jewelry insertion removal and aftercare. Consider this body piercing without the commitment. All supplies for this class have been generously donated by In the Woods and playpiercingkits.com. This class will be limited to a maximum of 40 people, with 20 people being piercers, and 20 people being pierced, so sign up early otherwise it's first come first serve. BossBondage is a licensed body piercer who has been piercing since 1995, and will guide everyone through the process step by step.
Introduction to western Shibari: crotch, chest and body harnesses, and what to do with them.
What is Shibari? That's a debate that still continues. Some say Shibari can only be performed by the Japanese, some say it's any bondage that's influenced by there style of bondage. No matter your definition, Shibari, or Japanese rope bondage, is a beautiful and powerful style of rope play. So what is Western Shibari? I don't know about You but I have never had the opportunity to tie up a 4'9" 95 pound professional Japanese bondage model. I have spent the last several years doing bondage on a wide variety of sizes and shapes on both Men and Woman. All who have an even wider range of health issues, flexibility issues, experience levels and conceptions and misconceptions about what Shibari is. This class is simply about taking some of the great images we associate with "Shibari" and applying them to the people we bind in real life. We will be covering safety, a few knots, some positioning, and how to put it all together to create a fun scene from beginning to end. This class will be focusing on the basics of rope harnesses, on the chest, crotch and other areas of the body, and how to combine them with Your rope play. Please bring at least two or three 30 foot lengths of 6mm hemp, and two 15 foot lengths of 6mm hemp, or the closest You have to that. There will be limited rope on hand to borrow, Other rope will work, but Hemp is best. If you want to learn more about hemp rope, stop by The BossBondage.com vending booth and talk to Boss about why hemp is so great for bondage
Bondage contest
Join BossBondage in the dungeon Sunday at 2:00pm for the annual In The Woods Bondage contest. The contest is open to everyone of all skill levels. and can include any kind of bondage work from mild to wild, from floor work to suspension, western to Japanese styles. There will be prizes from In The Woods and BossBondage.com given out in two categories. Best overall bondage, given to the couple who does the best overall bondage scene, as judged by BossBondage, winner of the 2006 bondage contest. And Boss's choice award for the couple that has either the most creative bondage or the most fun doing it. If you are not part of a couple, this is a great way to come get some rope play in, we will do our best to match people up. The rules for the bondage contest are very relaxed, just come on into the dungeon and have some fun doing bondage, and You might win a prize.
Michael Visger - TBA
Robin Friedman – TBA
Kelly – Fireplay
Kelly - Fisting
Schedule
Thursday
9 – 11pm - Meet & Greet - Sponsored by KnightStorm Films & Juliet Heart - Main Tent - Refreshments Provided
Friday
3 – 5pm - Beginning through Advanced Whips - Jonn Ireland
5 – 6:30pm - Potluck dinner and Betty Desire Show
6:30 – 8pm - BDSM Social Games - Jay Wiseman
8 – 9:30pm - Encase, Rip, Wrap and Transform: Clothing Bondage Made Easy - Lee Harrington
9:30 - Dungeon Opens
Saturday
10 – 11:30am - Foot Fetishism, Worship and Torture - Lee Harrington / Bondage for Sex - Maria Shadoes
11:30 – 1pm - Kinky Cake Walk & Lunch
1 – 2:30pm - Temporary Branding - Dave Edwards / TBA - Michael Visger
2:30 – 4pm - TBA - Robin Freidman / Fisting Demo - Kelly
4 – 5:30pm - Spanking - Jonn Ireland/ Introduction to western Shibari: crotch, chest and body harnesses, and what to do with them - Boss Bondage
5:30 – 6:30pm - Dinner
6:30 – 8pm - Principles and Techniques of Predicament Bondage -Jay Wiseman / Pain is Inevitable, Suffering is Optional: Techniques for Erotic Pain Processing - Lee Harrington
8 – 10pm - Fireplay demo – Kelly and Pamela
10:00 pm - Dungeon Opens and the 2nd Annual ITW Fetish Ball
Sunday
10 – 11:30am - Temporary Body Piercing - Boss Bondage/TBA – Michael
11:30am -2:00 pm - Wrap-up & Lunch
2 – 4pm - Hogties - Jay Wiseman/ Uncomfortable Bondage - AKA - The Bondage IS the Scene - Maria Shadoes
4 – 5:30pm - Getting to Hot: Safety, Communication and Negotiation - Lee Harrington/ Bondage Contest - Boss Bonadage
5:30pm - Dungeon Opens
Little One's Experience
My submissive "Little One" has written a very expressive and personal story of one of our scenes and I thought that you would enjoy it too.
Little One's Experience
I float in a space somewhere between heaven and hell. I want more, but the words will not come to my lips. Even though I move my mouth to speak, nothing comes out. Nobody can hear me or understand me, except for my Whip Master.
He has flogged the flesh on my body until the very breath has been driven from my lungs. Shocking my senses, He has used His Cat O’ Nine Tails on every part of my body including, of all things, my feet. He strikes at them mercilessly and, even though I turn and twist one, then the other into all kinds of various positions, He finds His mark skillfully and easily.
I climb the Lattice Frame to the highest point, pulling my feet up under me, in the vain hope of escaping the fiery tips of His evil whip. Precariously perched upon the wooden frame like a giant bird, the Whip Master will not to be deterred, and begins to flog the parts of my feet which are not protected by the wood itself. As I squat there and shift madly from foot to foot, while attempting to use my body to shield my extremities, tongues of fire lick at the tender skin on the soles of my feet and I realize that there is not a single thing I can do to escape His Will.
I cry out piteously in my new found pain and begin to kick out madly at my tormenter and no, it is not my Daddy that I see as my tormenter, it is the thing He holds in His hands that is the enemy. My efforts however, prove fruitless and I begin, in an endorphin filled haze, to navigate my body down to the lower levels of the frame and yet, even in my retreat, He does not stop His continuing reign of terror upon me.
I drop heavily to floor, panting from the exertion of my flight and gaze in wonder at the image He presents, for surely I think, He must have some small measure of compassion reserved in His heart for His Little Girl. But au contraire! He carefully places the Cat O’ Nine Tails back into His Whip Case and reaches instead for His matched pair of Red and Black Signal Whips with the stiff and heavy braided handles and, with a mere shake of His head which makes the sweat soaked, damp, strawberry, blond curls swing about His face in a most provocative way, and a commanding, directive look from His azure colored eyes, I turn my body to the rack and present my well muscled ass cheeks to Him.
Some tiny part in me seriously questions my sanity and asks, “What are you doing here? This is not a walk in the park or a swim in a tropical ocean. This is real and this is pain personified!”
I acknowledge the voice and am vividly reminded of Paul Atreides “Fear Mantra in Dune”. I deeply identify with it and ride the sweet edge of terror my Whip Master evokes from within me. I allow myself to be carried by the bliss of surrendering to my Daddy, knowing that my ultimate submission is immensely pleasing to Him and that He is in that very moment in the process of fulfilling the exploration of His deepest and darkest desires. The ecstasy of this realization carries me forward and I bend willing to His direction.
Almost instantly, I feel the sensuous touch of my Whip Master’s double handed Florentine Strokes and fold my body over into a forward bend, where my hair falls down and brushes the floor gently and my forearms rest beneath my hair. My being screams aloud for this “Whip Massage” to last forever and my Daddy, who knows my deepest longings, happily obliges, but only for so long as He wishes. As I allow myself to be carried away in the hypnotic trancelike effects of the stinging manipulation of my muscles and skin by the tips of the two Whips, I sense that the strokes are getting heavier and that He is hitting harder. This causes me to draw myself up the rack, hand over hand until I am dancing about and ready to climb the rack again to escape His ministrations.
Elements of time become inconsequential and one minute begins to melt into another. I feel as though I am in a bubble where only I and my Tormentor exist. I suddenly hear the unmistakable crack of His Bull Whip and I am instantly alert, or at least as alert as my almost drug induced state will permit. I have a love hate relationship with His Bull Whip because it carries me further into the outer reaches of my consciousness than any other mechanism He has at His disposal and well He knows this.
The artistic ability my Daddy displays with this particular implement is legendary and I am like a blank canvas ready to be painted with a whole palette of wild and unimaginable colors. He it is that will shape the design and it is He alone that will decide when His masterpiece is complete. And so it is. He begins. The sting and the pain of the Bull Whip is unimaginable and I am brought to my hands and knees before Him on more than several occasions, falling on my face and kissing His boots while begging for His mercy.
He is not moved and, reaching for my hair, gathers it up in His hand and drags me back to the rack, commanding my obedience. He is like a wild creature, with the scent of His prey in His nostrils. I recognize the look as I gaze upon His countenance. I have no recourse. I choose submission and surrender my heart to Him.
I hear the Bull Whip, alternately cracking in the air and hitting my body. I groan aloud and hug the rack, praying for its solace but receiving nothing from it. My strength alone comes from within and Daddy approaches me with an offering of water for my parched lips and dehydrated body. As He holds the bottle for me and pours its life giving liquid down my throat, I experience a profound urge to express my yearning for the taste of my own blood and hold up two fingers before His eyes. In our non-verbal state, we completely and utterly understand one another and I hear Him say, “Okay, Little One. Two more…are you ready?”
Turning to leave me there, immersed in my own journey, He does not really wait for me to answer because He sees into my very soul and the very next thing I hear is another crack of His Whip with the tip of it barely brushing my skin. He says something but I cannot really take what He says into my understanding and before I know it, He hits me harder than He has ever hit me before. I scream aloud, expressing the pain such as a mortally wounded animal might do and once again fall to my knees. Through a red mist, I look up at Him standing there in all His glory, and know instantly that my Whip Master is not yet done with me. I once more crawl up the rack and wait for Him to begin again, which He does without another thought. Yet again, the air is split asunder and the tip tenderly touches my skin at least another three or four times then, suddenly, from out of nowhere and with no warning, my Daddy lays, what seems like, an even harder lash across the other buttock and, quite dramatically and unexpectedly, He is there beside me, enfolding me in His arms, caressing me and pulling me from the rack, all the while whispering to me that I am “perfect, absolutely perfect”. I can scarce believe my ears because all I can think about is that, in my viewpoint, I was a “perfect baby” and that I howled in a manner like I never had before.
Carefully and tenderly, my Whip Master places a pillow under my head and then wraps me up like a giant burrito in His warm, fuzzy blanket and leaves me to float in a warm, crimson haze of bliss where I am supremely peaceful and profoundly blessed to have experienced such exquisite sensations from the hands of a Master.
Little One's Experience
I float in a space somewhere between heaven and hell. I want more, but the words will not come to my lips. Even though I move my mouth to speak, nothing comes out. Nobody can hear me or understand me, except for my Whip Master.
He has flogged the flesh on my body until the very breath has been driven from my lungs. Shocking my senses, He has used His Cat O’ Nine Tails on every part of my body including, of all things, my feet. He strikes at them mercilessly and, even though I turn and twist one, then the other into all kinds of various positions, He finds His mark skillfully and easily.
I climb the Lattice Frame to the highest point, pulling my feet up under me, in the vain hope of escaping the fiery tips of His evil whip. Precariously perched upon the wooden frame like a giant bird, the Whip Master will not to be deterred, and begins to flog the parts of my feet which are not protected by the wood itself. As I squat there and shift madly from foot to foot, while attempting to use my body to shield my extremities, tongues of fire lick at the tender skin on the soles of my feet and I realize that there is not a single thing I can do to escape His Will.
I cry out piteously in my new found pain and begin to kick out madly at my tormenter and no, it is not my Daddy that I see as my tormenter, it is the thing He holds in His hands that is the enemy. My efforts however, prove fruitless and I begin, in an endorphin filled haze, to navigate my body down to the lower levels of the frame and yet, even in my retreat, He does not stop His continuing reign of terror upon me.
I drop heavily to floor, panting from the exertion of my flight and gaze in wonder at the image He presents, for surely I think, He must have some small measure of compassion reserved in His heart for His Little Girl. But au contraire! He carefully places the Cat O’ Nine Tails back into His Whip Case and reaches instead for His matched pair of Red and Black Signal Whips with the stiff and heavy braided handles and, with a mere shake of His head which makes the sweat soaked, damp, strawberry, blond curls swing about His face in a most provocative way, and a commanding, directive look from His azure colored eyes, I turn my body to the rack and present my well muscled ass cheeks to Him.
Some tiny part in me seriously questions my sanity and asks, “What are you doing here? This is not a walk in the park or a swim in a tropical ocean. This is real and this is pain personified!”
I acknowledge the voice and am vividly reminded of Paul Atreides “Fear Mantra in Dune”. I deeply identify with it and ride the sweet edge of terror my Whip Master evokes from within me. I allow myself to be carried by the bliss of surrendering to my Daddy, knowing that my ultimate submission is immensely pleasing to Him and that He is in that very moment in the process of fulfilling the exploration of His deepest and darkest desires. The ecstasy of this realization carries me forward and I bend willing to His direction.
Almost instantly, I feel the sensuous touch of my Whip Master’s double handed Florentine Strokes and fold my body over into a forward bend, where my hair falls down and brushes the floor gently and my forearms rest beneath my hair. My being screams aloud for this “Whip Massage” to last forever and my Daddy, who knows my deepest longings, happily obliges, but only for so long as He wishes. As I allow myself to be carried away in the hypnotic trancelike effects of the stinging manipulation of my muscles and skin by the tips of the two Whips, I sense that the strokes are getting heavier and that He is hitting harder. This causes me to draw myself up the rack, hand over hand until I am dancing about and ready to climb the rack again to escape His ministrations.
Elements of time become inconsequential and one minute begins to melt into another. I feel as though I am in a bubble where only I and my Tormentor exist. I suddenly hear the unmistakable crack of His Bull Whip and I am instantly alert, or at least as alert as my almost drug induced state will permit. I have a love hate relationship with His Bull Whip because it carries me further into the outer reaches of my consciousness than any other mechanism He has at His disposal and well He knows this.
The artistic ability my Daddy displays with this particular implement is legendary and I am like a blank canvas ready to be painted with a whole palette of wild and unimaginable colors. He it is that will shape the design and it is He alone that will decide when His masterpiece is complete. And so it is. He begins. The sting and the pain of the Bull Whip is unimaginable and I am brought to my hands and knees before Him on more than several occasions, falling on my face and kissing His boots while begging for His mercy.
He is not moved and, reaching for my hair, gathers it up in His hand and drags me back to the rack, commanding my obedience. He is like a wild creature, with the scent of His prey in His nostrils. I recognize the look as I gaze upon His countenance. I have no recourse. I choose submission and surrender my heart to Him.
I hear the Bull Whip, alternately cracking in the air and hitting my body. I groan aloud and hug the rack, praying for its solace but receiving nothing from it. My strength alone comes from within and Daddy approaches me with an offering of water for my parched lips and dehydrated body. As He holds the bottle for me and pours its life giving liquid down my throat, I experience a profound urge to express my yearning for the taste of my own blood and hold up two fingers before His eyes. In our non-verbal state, we completely and utterly understand one another and I hear Him say, “Okay, Little One. Two more…are you ready?”
Turning to leave me there, immersed in my own journey, He does not really wait for me to answer because He sees into my very soul and the very next thing I hear is another crack of His Whip with the tip of it barely brushing my skin. He says something but I cannot really take what He says into my understanding and before I know it, He hits me harder than He has ever hit me before. I scream aloud, expressing the pain such as a mortally wounded animal might do and once again fall to my knees. Through a red mist, I look up at Him standing there in all His glory, and know instantly that my Whip Master is not yet done with me. I once more crawl up the rack and wait for Him to begin again, which He does without another thought. Yet again, the air is split asunder and the tip tenderly touches my skin at least another three or four times then, suddenly, from out of nowhere and with no warning, my Daddy lays, what seems like, an even harder lash across the other buttock and, quite dramatically and unexpectedly, He is there beside me, enfolding me in His arms, caressing me and pulling me from the rack, all the while whispering to me that I am “perfect, absolutely perfect”. I can scarce believe my ears because all I can think about is that, in my viewpoint, I was a “perfect baby” and that I howled in a manner like I never had before.
Carefully and tenderly, my Whip Master places a pillow under my head and then wraps me up like a giant burrito in His warm, fuzzy blanket and leaves me to float in a warm, crimson haze of bliss where I am supremely peaceful and profoundly blessed to have experienced such exquisite sensations from the hands of a Master.
Floating World
I am absolutely thrilled to announce that I have been formally invited to Present three different Workshops at “Floating World” held from August 15-17, 2008 in Newark, New Jersey, which is one of the largest Kink Events in existence. There are eighty Presenters making over one hundred and fifty-three Workshops available for the vast number of people expected to attend. This is the second year of “Floating World” and many of the hotels surrounding the venue are now completely booked. Please click on the “Floating World” hyperlink to learn more about this extraordinary event.
I am offering a “Beginning Whip Workshop”, “Intermediate/Advanced Whip Workshop” and a “Spanking Workshop” and, with just over six weeks left to prepare for a Coast to Coast flight along with making sure that I have all the materials I need for three Workshops, I am beginning to realize what a complex task this will be.
I am also very excited about the prospect of finally meeting Little One’s son, Aaron, who will also be presenting the workshop “Sensuality, Freedom and Yoga Workshop” at Floating World. Aaron, the Founder of Hot Nude Yoga in New York City, is a dynamic and gifted man who teaches Yoga on a world wide level and, to have both Mother and Son at the same Kink Event is truly amazing.
Because Newark, N.J. is practically on top on New York City we will spend a few days seeing the sights. Since I have never actually visited the Big Apple in my entire life I feel delighted to be exploring and discovering the largest city in America with Little One and her son. In fact, my Little Girl is bouncing off the walls in her excitement and I can hardly keep her contained.
In addition to the enjoyment of meeting a lot of the East Coast Kinksters at Floating World, we have plans to visit Paddles NYC to attend their big Mid Week Play Party and you can be sure that I will tell you all about my experiences
Photo of Little One and Aaron:
I am offering a “Beginning Whip Workshop”, “Intermediate/Advanced Whip Workshop” and a “Spanking Workshop” and, with just over six weeks left to prepare for a Coast to Coast flight along with making sure that I have all the materials I need for three Workshops, I am beginning to realize what a complex task this will be.
I am also very excited about the prospect of finally meeting Little One’s son, Aaron, who will also be presenting the workshop “Sensuality, Freedom and Yoga Workshop” at Floating World. Aaron, the Founder of Hot Nude Yoga in New York City, is a dynamic and gifted man who teaches Yoga on a world wide level and, to have both Mother and Son at the same Kink Event is truly amazing.
Because Newark, N.J. is practically on top on New York City we will spend a few days seeing the sights. Since I have never actually visited the Big Apple in my entire life I feel delighted to be exploring and discovering the largest city in America with Little One and her son. In fact, my Little Girl is bouncing off the walls in her excitement and I can hardly keep her contained.
In addition to the enjoyment of meeting a lot of the East Coast Kinksters at Floating World, we have plans to visit Paddles NYC to attend their big Mid Week Play Party and you can be sure that I will tell you all about my experiences
Photo of Little One and Aaron:
Barn Bondage Scene
I am always open to doing a scene in a new, interesting location. “Little One” has this small Barn in the back of her property. No one else goes into the area, well on one side near the Barn is the 75 year old neighbor’s property, but he never goes out there. She had the idea to play there and cleaned up the area for us.
I like to use my Twisted Monk ropes whenever possible and the 10’ X 20’ U shaped open front barn wasn’t clean enough to do a whip scene; so bondage and sex seemed like a great idea for a scene. It’s nice to find an unassuming cowgirl in a barn tending to the critters and take advantage of her.
After we played for an hour the 75 year old neighbor decided to go into his very outback area near the barn to use his weed trimmer fifty feet from the barn. By releasing the line connecting her from the roof beam I lowered her to the ground out of the sight of the neighbor who hadn’t noticed us, and continued to take advantage of the cowgirl in distress.
I like to use my Twisted Monk ropes whenever possible and the 10’ X 20’ U shaped open front barn wasn’t clean enough to do a whip scene; so bondage and sex seemed like a great idea for a scene. It’s nice to find an unassuming cowgirl in a barn tending to the critters and take advantage of her.
After we played for an hour the 75 year old neighbor decided to go into his very outback area near the barn to use his weed trimmer fifty feet from the barn. By releasing the line connecting her from the roof beam I lowered her to the ground out of the sight of the neighbor who hadn’t noticed us, and continued to take advantage of the cowgirl in distress.