EXPERIMENTS
IN ENDURANCE
Chapter
Nine:
Proposal for a Project
Dear //////
Great to receive
your letter. Yes, if you think I could contribute something to your
seminar on LONG TERM CONFINEMENT SCENES it will certainly brighten
up my trip to the USA in June. Not sure exactly what I can contribute,
though. You have done similar workshops without outside help, and your
article from way-back on the Psychology of Captivity (See footnote
) covers the subject pretty thoroughly. You know what I feel about
pretend imprisonment situations - that was well covered in my Boredom
in bondage ... and that little essay didn't go down well with people
who like playing jail cell games. For the record let me re-state the
core of that argument:-
Simulated
Imprisonment.
1)
Straight forward in-jail scenes, to be realistic involve long periods
of tedium. I know you have many tricks for keeping a Military Brig scenario
bubbling along but this demands constant input from the keepers ...
and is consequently, unrealistic.
2) However long
the sustained scene is planned to go on, it must have been agreed to
some extent with the prisoner to take time off from the real world.
So he's mentally secure in the knowledge that it will end within a predictable
timescale. So the experience is less stressful than in a real hostage
or kidnap situation.
3) Whatever prior
agreements were reached, if the detainee changes his mind part-way through
and demands release, to keep him against his will becomes a crime irrespective
of any prior agreement ... unless a legal contract can not only be devised
BUT DEFENDED IN COURT if necessary.
My general
input to your Workshop.
You
and your henchmen are already adept at the Interrogation/Resistance
to Torture type tests. (Incidentally, I was very intrigued by your recent
weekend Training Course on Interrogation Techniques. Would like to have
been an observer at the practical sessions. Is there video or a written
report?)
In June I'd prefer
you to decide which if any area my contribution might cover. One aspect
we might discuss is how general jail cell situations are seriously intensified
when restraints are added. Not just manacles and chains, but when strait-jackets,
head-bags, bodybags and sacks and strap-down stretchers are unexpectedly
introduced; these produce much quicker effect of helplessness on non-bondage
oriented detainees". It's something we could discuss. Give me
a call. However, if you would like to get away slightly from the pretend
capture/willing imprisonment scenario I'm working on something that
might throw a lot of different switches.
Under
Wraps
This
is a Project I've been working towards for quite a while. I already
mentioned to you about wanting to get some video footage of long term
physical restraint sessions. This may be outside the scope of your presentation
for June - but I know it's something we'd both enjoy working on ...
and you certainly know several people who'd be eager to participate
if the sessions were set up efficiently.
Basic premise is
that most Bondage photos or commercial video footage are of people
only recently tied, wrapped or strapped. I'm interested
in the subtle variations of body language and the progression of psychological/physical
changes which happen when the human body has been restrained for different
lengths of time. My plan is to establish a standardised static camera
set-up and session format in which suitable volunteers would be roped,
strapped or taped and just left to deal with the situation. Once the
subject stops being aware of the camera and putting on any sort of performance
it could be very interesting raw footage. Not most people's idea of
exciting videos but I'm also interested in developing some new video
editing techniques.
Certainly the sessions
wouldn't be uneventful. As you know, even relatively short periods of
immobilisation can have unexpected effects. Very unpredictable. The
most determined-to-stay-cool-and-survive tough customers suddenly get
violent panic attacks. Alternatively a transformation from initially
feisty into docile acceptance is more usual. The bondage Glow as Richard
Hunter calls that smile you often see when you unwrap somebody after
a long session in immobilising sensory deprivation. Again, the problem
of initially willing victims who Then change their minds comes up. Maybe
I've solved this.
Willing
Volunteers.
For
UNDER WRAPS I've devised an advertisement and am in the process of
drafting a Briefing Document and Agreement Form. In addition to this
I enclose here details of an INDUCTION INTERVIEW which in itself might
produce a lot of interesting video footage. During this on-camera question
and answer sequence every prospective candidate for a long-term restraint
session will sit facing the camera and not only verbally agree to a
range of possibilities (which he has previously agreed to on paper),
but be asked to re-state on camera that he is prepared to accept a point
at which any future change of heart on his part will be denied by force
if necessary.
This interview will,
if nothing else, produce some very tense and dramatic video footage;
very similar to the sequence in Scenario for a Leather Fantasy
when the guy who wants to experience bondage for the first time is made
to ask for, in detail, everything that is going to happen ... right
up to the moment when he is made to ask for the hood and gag which will
prevent him from any further ability to say No. Very tense and very
hot to watch! I guess the tape would also be sufficient legal evidence
that the experiment was entered into willingly, including the surrender
of consent clause.
Even if what I'm
planning is not appropriate for your June event, I think I shall be
ready to launch a few experimental sessions around that time. Please
read the attached and give me a call.
With all good wishes.
In
the book, the full text of the INDUCTION
INTERVIEW follows. For the web site this has been stored as a
separate file
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