Scraps of Lust and Longing

When love is pain it can devour you, but you are never alone...
—Led Zeppelin

I've been writing about bondage for a long fucking time. In fact, I'm not sure exactly how long. I know that my first official rejection was for a bondage story Playgirl considered a little too S&M-y for their tastes. And that was more than two decades ago. But I've been penning bondage fantasies far longer than that. I can't help myself. I have to reach for a ballpoint and let the words out.

Why so divine, the pain of love...
—The Rolling Stones

Even after all these years, you'll still find scraps of paper in my pockets with scribbled memos in my illegible handwriting. Yes, I write myself bondage-inspired love notes that start stories, spark memories, suggest rendezvous.

Why does it hurt me like this?
—The Cure

My bondage-related collections include Bondage on a Budget, Cuffed, Best Bondage Erotica, Slave to Love, Hurts So Good, Love at First Sting, B is for Bondage, Pleasure Bound, Best Bondage Erotica Volume 2, and the upcoming Big Book of Bondage.

I can ease your pain...
—Pink Floyd



But after all these years, I believe I popped my cherry as a foreword writer for the luscious Shanna Germain's Bound by Lust. My safeword—I mean, foreword—reads like so many of those paper scraps, those naughty scribbles, pieced together, their ragged edges taped in order to try to make a bit of sense. A tiny sliver of sense out of the longing, the desire, the want and the need. Here's a tease:

The bondage part comes naturally to me. I want my hands cuffed. I want my eyes blindfolded. I want the slippery vinyl corset cinched in place around my slim waist. Did someone mention fishnet thigh highs and a pair of glossy black boots with a chrome zipper up the side? Forget having my number dialed—you’ve got me tattooed on your bicep.

What’s hotter than bondage?

That’s where the lust comes in. See, being tied up by someone who knows every nuance of what I like tops everything I’ve ever done. (And those who have been playing along at home for the last two decades know that I’ve done a lot.)

Sure, there are the sudden attraction aficionados who prefer a rough night with a stranger. Nothing wrong with that. But I want something more. I want to be with a man who understands how to take me right up to the precipice of pleasure, who will promise every night to push on my inner boundaries with his big, rough hands. I want him to display his tools of pain and sweetness and make me plead:

Oh, god. Yes. Please. Yes.

Do you agree? Do you want that, too? Check out Shanna's collection for nineteen stories that will fulfill your craving.

For more musings on bondage, here is a post I did back in 2009 for my Fetish Friday series (which I really ought to resurrect someday). And for the next stop on the "Bound by Lust" tour, check out Allison Wonderland @ Nikki Magennis' pad tomorrow.

XXX,
Alison

Oh now don't worry
I like it when you hurt me
—Ringside