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SELF-APPLIED RESTRAINT

From the original 46,500 word story titled
'HOUDINI CONNECTIONS' by Jim Stewart

(For introduction to the character and situation see MORE)

   


SECOND SITTING

(EXCERPT 1855 words)

Married-with-kids British fire-fighter A.J. 'Chunky' Proctor is learning more about what sort of games are played by a group of men.

In the photo-studio cum playroom Chunky, still wearing his heavy fire-fighters kit sits strapped to a chair (and gagged for the first time ever) watching video recordings of previous events at 'The Inner Man'.

A new video sequence begins ...

... A bloke in army cammos looking self-consciously at the camera. This was no actor. He looked like a Squaddie, a roughish weather-beaten face and the army gear was obviously well used. The camera tilted down to look at beat-up high combat boots and then drifted back up to the slightly anxious but otherwise determined face. He was sorting some equipment and arranging it in readiness on a table.

Chunky watched as he selected an assortment of straps and padlocks and laid them methodically on a stretcher-like table top. Standing behind it he indicated for the camera, ankle straps already fixed to the surface and knee straps either side of a padded board that ran the length of the table but not the complete width. Metal grille bars showed down each side of the table; obviously designed for lashing to or strapping to. Chunky thought it looked like a great board for bondage. In close-up, hands checked over the waiting straps and padlocks ... the key from each was removed methodically and put into a little plastic envelope ... and this was suddenly thrown towards the camera. What was going on, Chunky wondered as he watched, fascinated?

The camera was following the army type as he reviewed other equipment laid out and ready. A rugged-looking face mask or hood lay on the table with separate eye and mouth covers next to it. Not the usual sleek, soft sort of hood; thickish natural tan leather looked oiled and stained and well used ... a serious piece of equipment ... hand made, thought Chunky. Close to it lay ... something else ... a pair of boxers gum shields. The camera was following the lining up of this inventory. Changes of camera angle made Chunky suddenly aware that at least two cameras were going to cover the event. He congratulated himself ... because he was beginning to recognise the procedures.

The guy now seemed ready to start. He picked up a wide leather belt and fitted it over his army waist belt, buckling it tight. There were solid 'D' rings at either side and when it was buckled, the camera was shown that a padlock was being fitted to lock it on. The camera zoomed in on the closing lock. Next, the demonstrator began to buckle wide leather wrist restraints carefully onto himself over each cuff of his cammo jacket. He made sure they were snug and couldn't be slipped out of. A small padlock was added to each. Chunky knew he was watching a meticulous and well-planned ritual. Next, a matching wide leather collar was taken up ... but, change of plan, this was laid down again alongside the row of waiting padlocks on the table-top ... three more small and quite a few substantial larger ones ... at least ten Chunky counted before the camera cut away to a curiously shaped strap wider at one end than the other and about eight inches long.

Unbuttoning the flies of his cammo pants Chunky watched dispassionately as the guy hauled out a sizeable cock. The camera zoomed in for a close-up as hands manoeuvred the strap around the top of the ball-sack and then somehow threaded it into itself until the wide end circled the scrotum and the narrower end wrapped around the wider strap and buckled. To Chunky, even in his tied-up, gagged, hooded and totally powerless state ... it seem to be a very odd thing for somebody to do to them self. He watched the hands adjust the strap and tighten it another notch. Hairy balls bulged below it and the semi-limp but heavy cock lolling above. Two small 'D' rings on either side of the scrotum strap had what looked like a boot lace linking them. Chunky's mind was somehow switched off but he was in no position to do anything but continue to watch as a small padlock was added.
The second camera cut away to register the serious-looking face of the guy as he now prepared the next phase: he was carefully bedding boxers gum shields into his mouth. Then the leather hood was picked up and carefully settled over his head. The sleeves of the cammo combat jacket (now with a leather restraint locked around each cuff) were bulky, and to reach the back lacing of the hood looked like a laborious and tiring process; a labour of love, Chunky decided. He was aware that the camera had not moved to show the fingers as they tightened the laces, and it was a very slow process. Not exactly action-packed TV thought Chunky ... but he was experiencing a new feeling ... watching an enthusiast ... an artist ... a dedicated player of a sophisticated game.
He watched and waited as the tough stained leather gradually moulded itself to the face, stretching and tightening as the eye holes and wide mouth hole began to squeeze the skin until it bulged slightly from the holes. The struggling fingers suddenly stopped and arms lowered for a rest ... and Chunky sensed a change of thought as the figure groped with now limited vision for the mouth-cover on the table. Several robust metal snap fasteners soon secured it in position over the mouth-hole, trapping the gum shields firmly in place. The eye cover was next, but he'd picked it up and tucked into the top pocket of his combat jacket for use later.

For now, he still needed to see, Chunky knew ... to achieve his elaborate self-imprisonment. Chunky had began to savour the slow and deliberate procedure. Renewed effort with the back lacing of the hood systematically stretched it still tighter over the face as the camera lovingly recorded the effect from the front ... and the effort that was going into the process. Chunky now knew that this tape was about carefully planned, meticulously carried out ... self-bondage.
Lacing now complete, in spite of quite limited vision the wearer next tucked the hood under the collar of his army jacket, pulling the collar upright and closing Velcro around the neck of the hood. Next he found the lockable leather collar on the table top. Looking directly into the camera he circled his neck with the wide strip of leather that also had 'D' rings on either side. Having buckled it snugly, the head and neck were almost rigid, so groping for one of the remaining small padlock to secure it took time ... once achieved, the leather strap plus jacket collar plus hood were all inescapably locked on. A final check ensured that the 'D' rings were symmetrical at either side of collar and waist belt.
The remaining group of locks was his next objective. A camera cut to a close-up of neatly laid-out line of padlocks, larger and sturdier than those used for the leather strap buckles. Groping hands found these because he could no longer look down, and five went into each side pocket of the beat-up cammo jacket. Now, with seriously reduced head movement and limited vision, the ankle and knee straps on the table top were once again checked. Other fixing points on the table at waist and collar level were also confirmed as being where they were needed. Chunky noticed for the first time a wide strap fixed to the table at approximately chest level ... and also a small pillow at the head end. 'Damn, this is quite a performance', he thought.

A final detail in the elaborate process was to check that a chain hanging over the centre of the table top, (the purpose of which Chunky could not yet imagine) was hanging at the required height. All checked, the masked and booted army guy carefully climbed up and sat on the table. It took stomach muscles for him to sit forward and buckle his two booted ankles wide apart into the waiting straps at one end. No padlocks, Chunky noted, as knees were next strapped and buckled tight to the table top.

What followed became something of a blur for Chunky! From a pocket another bootlace appeared. It was used to link the scrotum strap to the chain hanging above the table. As the body lay back experimentally, the line tightened ... but not enough to satisfy this artist in self-bondage ... so he sat up again and pulled the lace tighter until the scrotum was hauled away from the open flies at a tortured angle. Lying back again the cammo-suited masochist / sensualist checked the position of his collar and chest in relation to waiting table anchor points, and then produced the eye-cover from his pocket and snapped it firmly to the hood removing all sight. Now the chest strap; groped for, buckled, tightened ... and the remaining small padlock found to secure himself so he could no longer sit up. From his pockets a pair of large padlocks emerged to lock the 'D' rings at the sides of his waist belt to the table top ... and two more to commit his neck to irrevocable immobility.

Chunky sat mesmerised by the now sightless, gagged and locked down ankle to neck figure on the TV screen. The camera closed in on the still free hands as they fumbled for the lace that linked the scrotum to the overhead chain ... and then ruthlessly tighten it a few more inches ... until the ball sack was pulled upwards and away from body. The cock stiffened visibly as the self-imposed predicament became more challenging ... and Chunky's cock stiffened at the sight.

A final groping into the pockets of the cammo jacket produced two more sturdy padlocks and Chunky wondered what was left for the self-imposed prisoner. Single handedly the Expert found the 'D' ring on the opposite side of his locked-on waist belt and after a bit of a struggle not only fastened his leather wrist restraint to it ... but snapped the padlock shut. The camera switched to the other side of the body in anticipation of the remaining free hand repeating the difficult process ... which it did only with considerable effort; blindly fiddling the padlock until the second arm was inescapably attached across his chest to his waist belt, strait-jacket fashion. Chunky remembered the keys, tossed away so casually towards the camera. The performance was over ... but the scene had not begun. Body anchored down, balls strung up, arms crossed ... everything locked and ... vulnerable ... surrendered.

Two cameras continued to savour the predicament, zooming gently out and zooming in on tethered tortured now rampant cock, helpless hands, widespread boots and sightless muteness behind thick stained leather. Chunky stared breathless after watching this elaborately slow self-imposed deliberate surrender to ... what ... to who ... for how long?

END EXCERPT Second sitting (9) - the sequence continues with a sequence of ARRIVALS (10)
as players come to 'The Inner Man' to play their own prefferred games.

 



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1 - INTRODUCING LEADING FIRE-FIGHTER PROCTOR = where he is 'at'
2 -
HANDCUFFS AND MORE = a range of cuffs described and demonstrated
3 -
HANDCUFF EXPERIENCE = first time into a pair of handcuffs
4 - SOLID CENTRE HANDCUFFS =
an efficient control device efficiently used
5 - TEAMWORK = shared experience and team involvement
6 - MANACLED = metal and chain in the hands of an expert
7 -
Q & A SESSION = getting to know you
8 - SHOWTIME = video footage of games men play at 'The Inner Man'

11 - ARMY GAMES = heavy action in army gear
12 -
BAGGED = an efficient restraint sack efficiently applied
13 - DE-BRIEFING = as far as the story goes (or is it?)

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