Readers sexual orientation, Poll Results

So the latest poll has wrapped up where I was looking to identify my target demographic on the blog, heterosexuals, bisexuals, or homosexuals.  Thank you for participating; the results are below:

Straight	48 (42%)
Gay	49 (43%)
Bisexual	15 (13%)

Votes so far: 112
Poll closed 

I have to admit I'm surprised by the amount of heterosexuals who view this blog, especially since I've been posting more photos of myself in bondage in the past year or so and the content featuring any women has been pretty limited.  But with results like these I don't think I'll be changing the content on the blog anytime soon.

Sleepingbagfan

If there's one thing I love discovering on flickr it's sleeping bag bondage.  Some great shots on Sleepingbagfan's photostream; most notably featuring bondage in a Selk Bag and an older model of the Marmot Couloir EQ (at first glance I thought it was an REI Sub Kilo).  Fantastic bondage!

Goodnight downsuit slave

Peter started by lacing up the sensory deprivation hood over my head, I was naked under the Marmot 8000M and already very horny, but once I realized I was going to be locked in a strait jacket along with the downsuit and hood I knew I would be locked up like this for the long haul. I was slowly guided toward the futon where I sat and was soon corrected; I would be lying down. Next leather ankle restraints were fastened to each ankle and then chained to the frame, another chain was looped through the straps of the strait jacket and secured to the opposite end. I could barely move and struggled to writhe around in my prison, only sweat, smothering down, darkness, the thick stench of leather and muffled noises to keep me company. It was bliss while I tested my bindings, my dick throbbing with each strain against my sweaty prison but as Peter left me to my own devices for longer and longer the bondage started to change.

The pressure from the straps on the hood was beginning to be overwhelming, I could feel a tension headache taking hold, my jaw ached, and the bridge of my nose was feeling raw. Even when Peter adjusted the straps on the hood it still felt like I was being strangled by the leather, the headache just getting worse and worse. But when Peter would tease me, play with my cock, the pain would go away. Suddenly my headache would be gone and the only thing on my mind was cumming, once he stopped my dick would throb for a minute or two before things started to settle back down. The panic resuming all over again, a cycle that repeated on and on.

I'm all to familiar with the feeling; like when you're bundled in layers of gear and finally cum, all you want to do is claw your way out from the gear and take a minute to breath.  With the right motivation I can push through it, and within a few minutes find myself horny and ready to go again, ready to endure more.  But while wearing this hood? Not a chance.  I began to panic, I needed out, I couldn't breath.  But once I was free, I craved more.

Peter's birthday present

Even though Peter's birthday was in April, I only got a chance to give him his present this weekend on my latest trip into New York City... I figured a sensory deprivation hood would make up for the last terrible gift I gave him.  You can expect to see a lot more of this hood in the future.

Sleeping Bags & Hammocks

I suppose I'm not the first one to consider the kinky qualities of a sleeping bag hammock, but there's some seriously good options on the market these days that I think need mentioning.  If you're a fan of camping, bondage, and sleeping bags you may seriously want to consider buying one of these.


THE HIGH PEAK PANDA HAMMOCK:

It's a synthetic fill, mummy sleeping bag, rated to -12°C; probably comfortable enough to sleep through a summer night but probably a bit warm to spend floating between a pair of trees in the summer sun.  The coolest part about the Panda Hammock is the built-in 2-part hammock, you just add a rope to either end and you're suspended for the evening.  Just add ratchet straps, duct tape, or rope and you have yourself a kinky suspension scene straight out of the box.


THE GRAND TRUNK HAMMOCK COMPATIBLE SLEEPING BAG:

This is a different breed of sleeping bag hammock.  Instead of being ready right out of the box for suspension the Hammock Compatible Sleeping Bag is intended for use with a hammock.  On it's own it's a synthetic fill, mummy sleeping bag, rated to 0°C; so it will be a much more comfortable sleep trussed up in this.  The bag has been manufactured with a zipper at the feet and hood of the bag intended for a hammock to be slipped through.  So instead of the insulation of the bag being squashed against the floor of the hammock and giving you chills all throughout the night, the sleeping bag wraps around the outside of the hammock keeping you toasty warm.


THE SPEER PEAPOD:

A hammock peapod is more like a sleeping bag for the outside of your hammock.  It's intended to wrap around everything with the same end result as the Grand Trunk Hammock Compatible Sleeping Bag; preventing the insulation of the bag from being compressed against the hammock.  It's a 900-fill down insulated bag as opposed to a synthetic fill (yey) and is rated for around -7°C.  I can just imagine the sweaty fun to be had lying back in a sleeping bag in a hammock only to have the Peapod zipped around me and a mile of saran wrap and duct tape to follow.  It's going to be a long night under the stars!

Overnight Bondage

Whenever Peter and I get together we like to throw around some ideas for bondage or play sessions, some trips are a bit more vanilla than others, and Peter has overall been more of a master/slave mood the past few months which has had me exploring a lot of new kinks and interests.  As for me I'm still mostly submissive and thinking of horny ways to get tied up without a chance in the world of escaping, so I thought it would be fun to revisit a scene we did back in November and extend it overnight.  Since I was pretty snug, comfortable, and relaxed while strait jacketed, mummified, and geared up, I figured it'd be pretty easy to doze off in the Rab Neutrino Endurance as opposed to the bulky North Face Himalayan... but how wrong I was.

After being wrapped up in saran wrap and duct taped to the chair with the air conditioning cranked up as far as it would go and a window cracked open just for good measure I quickly realized this whole thing was going to be a no-go.  I was so excited all week to spend the night tied up but in just a few short minutes I was already sweating like a pig, maybe this new jacket must be really good at insulating? But somehow I don't think that was it. On the Thursday the air conditioning was keeping the room nice and chilled, but for some reason by Friday night the vent was blasting out heat despite the thermostat reading 16ºC and the window wasn't letting in any cold air.  After managing to doze off once or twice I quickly snapped awake to a very uncomfortable sweat and a panic, I was overheating and had no idea how long I had been tied up for or how much longer I had to go through the night.  As it turns out I hadn't been napping for long, when Peter finally untied me only an hour or so had actually passed.

Rab Neutrino Endurance

I took advantage of a late winter sale occurring at Eastern Mountain Sports and picked up a Rab Neutrino Endurance for a decent price. I remember years back when I was first browsing down gear that Rab was one of those European companies that I could only drool at from afar, I never thought I'd actually end up owning one of these things! Unfortunately the timing on my purchase was all wrong.

I decided to buy the jacket a couple of days before Peter was coming up to visit, I knew very well that the jacket wouldn't arrive in time for him to bring it up on the trip so we never even planned for it. But it was the first time I've ever seen a UPS tracking number say "shipment delivered ahead of schedule", now under normal circumstances I'd be thrilled however in this case I was actually kind of miffed, since it arrived mere hours after he had already departed for Canada. But alas a month later I would get my grubby hands on my new coat.  In the meantime Peter would return home from his visit to Canada and share with me his opinions of the Neutrino, mostly about how; "...it's a great jacket to wear..." "...it's a super horny jacket..." etc.

So fast-forward a month and Peter was visiting Canada once again, this time with the Rab Neutrino packed snugly in his bag.  Finally I get a chance to come up with my own impressions of the jacket.  The inside liner is a very silky Pertex Quantum material, I haven't actually gotten a chance to wear anything made with Quantum before so the Neutrino is my first exposure to it (I know some members on Down Club go absolutely apeshit over Pertex Quantum), I personally think the liner on the Eastern Mountain Sports Helios has the edge on it.  The shell is a completely different fabric, a bit more coarse, a lot less silky, water resistant, Pertex Endurance fabric; not the most sexy thing to caress but does a good job of not being flashy on the outside while hiding a very horny interior.

The only complaint I have regarding the Neutrino is that I have some trouble with the zipper, at first I thought it might just be because the waterproof zipper seam was creating more resistance but upon closer inspection I realized that the zipper is on the wrong side?  The zipper tab is on the left hand side of the jacket instead of the right hand side, isn't that weird? I had always heard that only women's jackets had a left hand zipper but after doing a bit of detective work discovered it's more of a regional thing.  At any rate the zipper vexes me, I'm terribly vexed.

I was initially a bit worried about the length of the jacket.  When I realized that the only difference between the Rab Neutrino Endurance and the Rab Neutrino Plus was the length I got the idea stuck in my head that I was going to be stuck with another Mountain Hardwear Sub Zero SL, a jacket that doesn't quite fit just as nicely as I'd like 99% of the time.  Fortunately the Neutrino doesn't have this problem, it's a fairly standard jacket cut and I'm pretty pleased with it overall.

If you read a lot of my gear reviews you'll probably notice I often complain about fleece lined pockets in jackets.  The Neutrino doesn't fool around, Rab lined the pockets with Quantum as well, an excellent choice!

Unfortunately I never got the opportunity to wear it out in the wild yet, when it was cold enough Peter had me wearing the Marmot Stockholm around town and by the time he left the weather has been nothing but unpredictable, so I have no idea how it actually holds up in the cold.  I know from a bit of bondage that I experienced that I was getting pretty sweaty, pretty fast, so I guess brownie points for the Neutrino on the warmth front.