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  A SERIOUS BONDAGE ADVENTURE

GALLERY: 424 / DATE: Oct 29 2021 / IMAGES: 176 / VIDEOS: 5

This 5-part video is from the archives and documents a three-day trip we made in 2012 while transporting a jail cell and other heavy gear from a storage locker to Yossie's 'Blacksteel Correctional Facility' in the remote hills of northern California. The adventure required eight men, a 3-ton rental truck, fork lift, pickup truck, and a straitjacket - which kept us amused during the long hours on the road.

This video is virtually unedited and highlights the fun we had - including our straitjacketed friend Bind in the back of the moving truck, driving through mud and fog at midnight, a phone call from President Obama, metal bondage experimentation, and channeling the comedian Rodney Dangerfield through our friend Chuck.

The tidbits of bondage during this trip was certainly fun, but the real enjoyment was the camaraderie between the guys. Some of them had not met until the beginning of the trip, and, even though some were gay and some were straight, the focus was transporting the steel gear and a bit of bondage along the way. We are lucky to have such good friends who are willing to lend a hand during our adventures. As usual, a good time was had by all.

There's a lot of conversation in this video, so if you don't want to hear it, just scroll forward to the next bondage part. This update includes 176 photos and 90 minutes of video in the old Windows Media format. If you have a problem playing these videos, try installing the free VLC Media Player.

  ODDS AND ENDS

GALLERY: 1177 / DATE: Oct 16 2021 / IMAGES: 29 / VIDEOS: 3

Hey everyone, I'm currently at Bind's jail in Hampton Iowa attending his year-end gathering of bondage people. Bind closes the jail at the end of October and heads back to Arizona to spend the winter with his partner. It's just too cold to spend the winter in Iowa with the snow when he could be enjoying the warm sun in Arizona.

This update consists of three videos. The first video is from Bind's website MenInChains.com and features some ice locks I gave him a while back. The ice locks were from Mr S but I'm not sure they sell them anymore. In any case, this video shows the ice locks being used to restrain Bind in his cage. The ice locks are attached to a pair of stainless steel wire hand mitts that a guy made for me years ago. The ice locks are primarily used for self-bondage, an activity that I don't encourage because it's so dangerous. However, in this video the ice locks are used under supervision which is a safer way to play.

For those who are unfamiliar with ice locks, the idea is that a metal cylinder is filled with water and frozen. The tube contains a metal rod that becomes captured in the ice, and the metal rod is connected to the bondage mitts. So, until the ice melts and the metal rod is released, you are stuck in your bondage position. The length of the ice lock cylinder and the amount of frozen water it contains determines the amount of time before you're released. There are various ice locks on the market today, mostly made of stainless steel so they don't rust. I remember some ice locks sold by MEO that were very well made and came in a few different sizes for different time durations. Some ice locks come with insulating jackets that slip over the cylinder which greatly increases their melt/release time. The insulation jacket slows the thawing of the ice. The only drawback to ice locks is that they're a bit messy because the thawed water drips out of the cylinder. As time goes by I see more self-bondage devices on the market. My only advice is to not do self-bondage by yourself because it's too dangerous. Lastly, I prefer electromagnets over ice locks!

The second video in this update is also from MenInChains.com and features the use of bungee tension straps made by DecerningSpecialist.com. These straps are quite strong and allow fun to be had by attaching them to your shackles so you can struggle and thrash about without hurting yourself. When you pull on the straps you feel like you might be able to escape, only you can't. They're especially fun when used in a spread-eagle bondage position. In this video they aren't used in a spread-eagle, but you can find other videos on this site that show the spread-eagle scenario. Search for the keywords 'tension straps' in the search window at the top-left of this page. I believe there are a few other manufactures of tension straps on the market now, but the original idea was from DecerningSpecialist.com. Check'em out on their website.

The third video in this update features a short video trailer made by my friend in Switzerland, HeavyRubberSlave. I was traveling with SFDom in Switzerland at the end of 2019 before the coronavirus pandemic, and we shot this cool video with Aski and HeavyRubberSlave. The video in this update is just a short eye-candy trailer containing short clips from the video we shot. If you want to see the full video, search for the keyword 'Aski' in the top-left search window on this page. Enjoy!

  MARK IN THE CELL

GALLERY: 1218 / DATE: Oct 5 2021 / IMAGES: 23 / VIDEOS: 2

Hey guys, just an update. I'm in Las Vegas visiting my friends at NoEscapeDungeon, and I'm getting my Pfizer booster shot today. For those who haven't got their shots, please, please get your shots. You owe it to yourself because if you get sick there's a good chance you will die in the hospital, and I don't want any of my bondage friends to suffer that outcome. Getting the shot is no big deal, even if you don't feel good the day after. I experienced that after my first shot, but it wasn't a big deal. Once you catch covid you're fucked, and it's too late to get the shot after you get sick. Just get your shots so you can continue to enjoy my bondage videos!

As you probably know, I'm still going back through and posting videos which I shot before the pandemic, and this is one of them. This video highlights me at Bind's jail a few years ago, being chained and locked in cell-3 which is the maximum security cell. It's the most exciting cell and everyone wants to spend time in it. I got a rubber hood from StudioGum with a mouth insert and nose tubes, and I wanted to be in the hood, chained to the wall in cell-3, and left for a while, which is what this video is about. However, as you will see, I encountered some problem with the hood early on, and I had to request that the hood be removed. The more I play with this good the more comfortable I get with it, but for me, panic is always near so I have to be careful.

In this video I use double police shackles on my wrists and ankles, and the leather cuff protectors from DecerningSpecialist.com. In addition, I have double rubber mitts over my hands before the shackles are locked on. These mitts are really exciting and also look very hot. They are from BlackStyle in Germany. I have multiple sets of these mitts in sizes small, medium and large. In this video I first put on the medium mitts, and then the large mitts are pulled on over them. The two layers make it totally impossible to feel anything and gives me an even stronger feeling of helplessness.

The cuff protectors are used on both my wrists and ankles. Since the protectors increase the diameter of my wrists and ankles, bigger police cuffs must be used. So, I use oversize police cuffs from HandcuffWarehouse.com. Oversize cuffs come in various sizes and chain lengths from various handcuff manufactures on the HandcuffWarehouse website. So, I have an assortment of oversize wrist and ankle cuffs to use with the cuff protectors. Recently I have seen other people starting to make and sell cuff protectors under different names. In any case, cuff protectors allow me to be restrained with police handcuffs and enjoy their feel without suffering the harshness of their metal. Cuff protectors are also great when used over rubber. One last thing, I ordered a pair of extra long cuff protectors to use over my boots, and extra big police shackles to fit over the cuff protectors. This seems like a lot of details and added expense, but it's worth it to be able to mix and match my bondage gear and experiences.

As I said above, I'm currently in Las Vegas at NoEscapeDungeon. From here, I'll head back to Iowa to visit my Bind at MenInChains.com at his historic jail. I have shipped my time-release electromagnet bars to the jail where we will test them again. In a previous video we discovered that the magnets weren't strong enough to hold BoyBlake, so I shipped the magnets back to San Francisco and installed stronger magnets. Ultimately I might discover that I have to use bigger electro-magnets, but we'll see how this test goes. Stay Tuned!

  SLAVE STORAGE

GALLERY: 1240 / DATE: Sep 23 2021 / IMAGES: 59 / VIDEOS: 1

This is another fun video featuring SFDom and his hot submissive Mr Kristofer Weston. Kristofer is popular bondage model who has been featured on many bondage websites as well as the Mr S retail website. Mr Kristofer has been involved in the San Francisco leather for years and can be found on all the major social media sites including Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, Instagram, and OnlyFans. I think he has a blog and podcast as well. What a popular guy!

This video was shot fairly recently, which was a joy after more than a year of covid lockdown. I still think we have a long way to go with the virus, but hopefully this video will bring some joy to all of us bondage fans worldwide. The first thing about this video is the idea of someone being kept in bondage in the basement. I'm a switch, so I can appreciate slave storage from either the Top or Bottom perspective.

Many of you have seen SFDom in his classic Top role, dishing it out to helpless guys in bondage. This video is no different. SFDom loves to top and edge guys, and I feel safe in saying that he could do it all day long and never get tired. He's played with Mr Kristofer many times before, and as you will see they have a smooth interaction and play style.

Mr Kristofer is a big strong guy, so ultra-heavy wrist and ankle shackles are needed to keep him in his place. I found a flat plywood wall in SFDom's basement that that looked right for mounting ultra-heavy eye bolts, so I drilled some holes and screwed them in. The shackles themselves are from Parus-Leder in Germany. They have a nice selection of chains and shackles, and if you buy something tell the owner Arek that you got his store name from this website.

You can find other videos on this website featuring Kristofer by doing a search for his name in the search window at the top-left of this page. Like many of us, Kristofer is hooked on bondage and can't seem to get enough of it. He told us that he hadn’t had much bondage since the virus pandemic, and as you can see, his boner indicates that he liked it. A special thanks to both SFDom and Mr Kristofer Weston for a really great video as we all emerge from this global lockdown. Please get your vaccine shots and continue to wear your mask as we're still in the grip of this pandemic!

  SWITZERLAND IN DECEMBER - PART 31

GALLERY: 1232 / DATE: Sep 12 2021 / IMAGES: 31 / VIDEOS: 1

This is the final video of the Switzerland In December series. We took this 2-week trip to Switzerland in December of 2019 and had a great time meeting all the guys you see in the videos. Not long after we returned, the corona virus too off in March 2020 and we haven't done any overseas traveling since.

The main focus of our Switzerland trip was to hang out with friend RubNGum, who runs the retail website BlackStore.com (not to be confused with BlackStyle.de. RubNGum owns a lot of gear and a cool studio where he plays, shoots videos for his website, and takes photos for his retail website. RubNGum is a 'gear head' much like the rest of us. He's obsessed with having one of everything which makes his studio a really fun place to play.

In this video we see Lukas Tyler in head-to-toe rubber and strapped down to RubNGum’s fuck bench. As I recall, this bench is made by StyleFetish.de. We have seen this piece of gear in earlier videos in this series, and this is the last glimpse for now. Many rubber men have a fantasy of being bound and fucked by an anonymous rubber gimp. You're a rubber covered subject, and you have been strapped down to this fuck bench against your will. The steel cuffs and rubber straps hold you in a secured and vulnerable position. There's absolutely nothing you can do as a rubber clad male approaches with his rubber covered member protruding erect and ready to penetrate your ass. No amount of howling, struggling or whimpering will change your predicament. After the gimp is satisfied with fucking your hole, he turns the job over to a motorized fucking machine which continues to fuck you and never gets tired.

The next scene features a fan of this website who met up with us at RugNGum's studio after SFDom invited him. He didn't want to show his face so he remained hooded in all of the videos we shot. Before he left, he wanted to try the rotating cross with SFDom in charge of the vibrator. During the scene the cross rotated one full revolution but during the second rotation it stopped working and left our friend stuck at 90 degrees. RubNGum was out of the building, so after a bit of discussion we all got together and held our friend while others unbuckled all the straps and freed him from the cross. It turned out that once RubNGum returned we figured out that the cross was hung up on a power cord which prevented it from turning any farther than 90 degrees. Once we disentangled the power cord the cross worked fine. As you can imagine, this would have been a BIG problem is nobody was around to help rescue our friend.

After the rotating cross emergency, I wanted to try the bondage chair while I was wearing a full-enclosure rubber suit which I had just purchased from Hans-Peter a few days before. Hans-Peter is the owner of StudioGum and if you look back in this series of videos you will see him. He's a pleasant and knowledgeable German guy who purchased the StudioGum business from the original owner 10 years ago. The exciting addition to this chair are the leather hand mitts, which are modeled after the original Humane Restraint mitts first made years ago. The other unique addition to this chair is the eye and nose shield. Although it was fun, I wasn't as excited about this piece. I'm not sure what the nose fitting was for except to attach a hose and feed popper smell to the subject in the chair. Poppers aren't my thing, but as you can see in the video this chair is amazing. It was built by a guy in Germany who goes by the name 'SelfBondageChair' on Fetlife. Look him up if you want one of these chairs. I think he's still accepting orders for them. Tell him Mark from SeriousMaleBondage sent you!

The last scene in this video is of Lukas Tyler in a StudioGum rubber hood and straitjacket. His partner DungeonDaddy attaches suspension cuffs over his shoes and attaches the cuffs to a suspension bar connected to an overhear hoist. With the push of a button Lukas is hauled into the air upside-down. It turns out that the chains between the suspension cuffs and the suspension bar were too long, so Lukas' head was still touching the floor, so the guys had to lower him back down and shorten the chains. Once that was done Lukas was able to hang upside-down with a few inches of clearance between his head and the floor. A lot of guys want to try being in bondage and hung upside-down, including Lukas. He was in pretty good physical shape, so he was able to tolerate it, but after a few minutes he wanted down. That's OK, he got to try it out. During this whole suspension scene I was still tightly restrained in the bondage chair unable to see anything.

This ends our Switzerland series. We are looking forward to visiting Switzerland again, with a stop in Germany, as soon as we feel it's safe to travel. Our tentative plan is travel again in March of 2022 but we will have to see how the virus is by then. Meanwhile, a special thanks to all the guys who were in this video series, and to RubNGum and his business BlackStore.com, and to Hans-Peter at StudioGum. You can find the other videos of this series by searching for the word 'Switzerland' in the search box in the upper-left corner of this page. Enjoy!

  SELF BONDAGE ELECTROMAGNETS PART-7

GALLERY: 1242 / DATE: Aug 31 2021 / IMAGES: 41 / VIDEOS: 2

Hey you guys, remember to get vaccinated and wear your mask. This Delta virus is spreading like wildfire. It's going to be around for a long time. I'm holding off on traveling because of the virus, so I'm editing and posting videos from my archive of unused videos. I have tons of videos you guys have never seen before. We have tentative plans to travel to the UK, Germany and Switzerland in March of 2022, but that traveling is dependent on the virus situation.

In any case, this update shows my continuing fascination with self-bondage using electromagnets. As Bind and I have said before, and I'll repeat it again, self-bondage is extremely dangerous, and we do not recommend doing it. However, it's a hot fantasy that I think about all the time. I'm at a point in my life where I have the time and resources to build gear that I've always thought about, and the electromagnets are one of the things I have wanted to explore.

This update features some self-bondage tests that Bind and I did with the first two electromagnets I assembled. The first test shows how Bind could lock himself in his cement crypt and not be able to get out until the electromagnet released the keys. During this scene you will see that once Bind locked himself in, he accidently left the key chain out of his reach. Yikes! This is just one example of how easily things can go wrong during self-bondage play. If Bind was alone and nobody was within earshot to hear his calls for help, he would have been totally fucked.

In the second scene, Bind locks himself into a standing spread-eagle position with a metal helmet. This is a really hot fantasy that I think about a lot. To me, this is the pure essence of serious and strenuous self-bondage. It doesn't get much better than this for a fantasy. Imagine doing this late at night when nobody is around. There's a storm raging outside with heavy lightening, thunder and rain. For some reason this thought really turns me on. I hope you enjoy this update as much as I do. I love building and filming stuff like this. I've fantasized about putting myself in serious heavy bondage since I was a kid. Maybe it was a way for me to escape from my daily life. Who knows. In any case, for me, scenes like this are really hot. A special thanks to Bind for demonstrating the self-bondage in this video, and to Rick at DungeonDelights.com for supplying the wrist shackles and ankle spreader bar.

NOTICE - Self-bondage and time-release bondage is extremely dangerous. This video is for entertainment purposes only, and should not be used as a suggestion or guide on how to do bondage play. If you play with self-bondage or time-release bondage, do so at your own risk. Accidents can easily happen as a result of sexual arousal interfering with your ability to think clearly and assess danger.

  MORE ODDS AND ENDS

GALLERY: 1236 / DATE: Aug 20 2021 / IMAGES: 91 / VIDEOS: 2

Every once in a while I need to go back through the video shoots we have done and pick up all the clips that weren't long enough to make an update with by themselves. Some clips aren't interesting enough to use, and others are pretty great. It's like a pot-luck dinner, you don't know what's being served for dinner, you just show up and eat.

This update contains a 2-part video totaling 60 minutes. The first scene shows me cutting off a plaster arm and leg cast from Bind. The reason we made these casts is to send them to our friend Manuel at RubberWerk.com in Germany. From these casts he will make positive castings which represent Bind's arms and legs, and from the positive casts he will make metal bondage gloves and boots. Cool eh? But you never know how this project will turn out until it's done. Let’s keep our fingers crossed that what Manuel makes will be totally cool and exciting. I know that cutting off the plaster casts isn't all that exciting to watch, but when we get the metal gloves and boots, you'll know how they were made. Naturally, if this project works I want a pair for myself!

Next, I am restrained in the 'Louis Chair' made by our friend Louis. I have shown this chair in previous videos, but here's another video clip of it. Frankly, I think this chair is really hot and I'd like to spend more time in it, maybe overnight. I like gear like this chair. It's so secure, but comfortable. As you probably know, the wrist stock is locked with an electromagnet which is connected to a timer. So, if the timer is set for, say, 6 hours, I can't escape from the chair until the 6 hours are up. So, if I went into the chair at midnight, I would be released at 6am the following morning. How hot is that?

The next clip is from the swimming pool at NoEscapeDungeon.com in Las Vegas. This was a fun afternoon wearing rubber in the pool with Lukas Tyler and Boy Blake. If you have never tried wearing rubber in a pool you are really missing a great experience. It's just fun to feel the water seep into your rubber suit and gloves. It's a unique sensory experience. Lukas Tyler is wearing a one-piece 1.8mm StudioGum rubber suit, Boy Blake is wearing a rubber tight torso suit and a 4mm super-thick molded StudioGum hood. I'm in a standard light-weight surf suit and show a StudioGum molded latex hood with nose tubes. Fun!

Then we have a few shots of a massive project to relocate all the NoEscapeDungeon.com gear from the basement to the second floor. The owner of the dungeon needed the space in the basement for a home theater, so we moved all the gear and split it up between two adjacent bedrooms. The only thing that's disappointing about this is that we haven't visited Las Vegas much because of the virus, and now the Delta virus is further hampering our travel. In any case, the two new dungeon rooms are turning out great, and we will do more work on them in the future including building a padded room in one of the big walk-in closets. That would be really cool. Over the last 6 years, starting with the padded cell at EdgeDungeon.com, there have been other padded cells built around the world, so we have a lot of examples in which to base the Las Vegas room on. It's so exciting to have friends who have the space and financial resources to build padded cells. When I was younger in my 20's these things were only fantasies, we used to talk about. Now I have three friends who have built padded rooms, and the Las Vegas room would be the fourth. The first three are at the EdgeDungeon.com, Bind's place in Hampton Iowa at MenInChains.com, and my new friend Yohan555 on Twitter in Germany. Where will the next one be? It’s about time we quit talking about padded rooms and actually build them!

The next clip is me showing a 4mm amber heavy rubber StudioGum hood with nose tubes. Not much to say about the hood except that it's really exciting and I hope to get a lot more use out of it! These super heavy hoods are amazing, but if they don't fit your face correctly you can't stay in them very long because of pain and fatigue. Thick rubber doesn't give, so if it dowesn't fit your right it won't mold around your face properly. Speaking of StudioGum, they just opened a retail store near Frankfurt in Germany. So, you can actually go and try on hoods until you find one that you like. They make hoods in like 8 or 10 different sizes, but you really need to try on thick hoods to make sure it's a fit that you can last in for a while. Their retail store is a dream come true!

Then we see ZoidBerg in my 4mm heavy latex straitjacket from BlackStore.com, chained up in one of Bind's jail cells. He's wearing a neoprene face zip hood. He looks really hot! ZoidBerg is new to our group of bondage players at Bind's place and I'm sure we will see more of him in the future.

Zoid is in the next clip showing Bind in a latex sleepsack being strapped down and wheeled into the cement crypt. This is so intense. Later, Bind is pulled out and wheeled into the other room where he's put into the padded cell where he can't hurt himself.

I hope you enjoy this collection of odds and ends. Every time I spend a week or more in a location to film bondage, I end up with a lot of short clips which I call 'Odds and Ends'. In Hollywood, these kinds of miscellaneous clips end up 'on the cutting room floor' which are never to be seen again. Enjoy!

  INTO THE BASEMENT

GALLERY: 1239 / DATE: Aug 11 2021 / IMAGES: 23 / VIDEOS: 1

Because of the recent uptick of the Delta virus worldwide, we have decided to delay our trip to Switzerland and Germany. We were looking at going later this year, but that just seems too risky and we don't want to add to the worsening pandemic. So, we are looking at traveling in March of 2022 instead. Meanwhile, please get your vaccine shot and continue to wear your mask!

We were recently given the opportunity to work with the popular bondage model Mr. Kristofer. Kristofer has been around gay porn and the San Francisco leather scene for years, and, to the best of my knowledge he plays as a switch. You can find him on Twitter, Tumblr, OnlyFans, JustForFans and Facebook as Kristofer Weston. Every time we've shot a video with Kristofer he's been a bondage slave, so we'll need to ask him to Top in some of our future videos.

In this update, SFDom has Mr. Kristofer tied up in heavy chains and shackles in his basement. In addition, Kristofer is in a Mr S leather straitjacket and a new piece of gear called 'Spreader Pants'. This unique and bizarre harness is from BestFixSystems in Germany. I saw this harness appear in the fetish scene years ago, and at the time it was mainly used by people who do adult baby play. However, over time various models and colors of the spreader pants became available and attracted the bondage crowd. The spreader pants lock on with Segufix posts which make them more interesting for bondage scenes. As more time passed, photos began to appear of straitjackets used with spreader pants, and now the pants are starting to go mainstream.

These pants can be ordered with a center bar that can hold dildos and vibrators. In this video SFDom uses a butt-plug in Mr Kristofer which is attached to the center bar of the spreader pants. The bar can be moved around the opening of the pants for holding dildos, plugs and vibrators for both male and female play.

This is a fun video featuring the spreader pants, leather straitjacket, and ultra-heavy ankle shackles from Parus-Leder in Munich Germany. Check out their large assortment of heavy metal bondage gear. A special thanks to both Mr Kristofer and SFDom for their play in this video. They both had a good time, and so did I as the photographer. Enjoy!

  LOCK-AWAY BOX PROJECT

GALLERY: 1237 / DATE: Aug 4 2021 / IMAGES: 35 / VIDEOS: 1

This is a fun video from our friends Yohan555 and Serwus4 in Germany. Both of these guys are on Twitter under the same names. We were going to visit Germany and Switzerland later this year, but with the spread of the Delta virus we canceled our trip. As a result, these guys sent us this video which features a 'Lock-Away Box' which they built in one weekend. Great job you guys. We look forward to visiting you in the future.

There seems to be a lot of people building isolation boxes these days. Yohan builds a lot of his own gear including a jail cell, padded cell, isolation cell, electromagnet self-bondage chair, electromagnet self-bondage coffin box, and more gear which I can't remember. Check out his Twitter photos. Yohan is very handy with power tools and building bondage stuff. As JG-Leathers would say "horniness is the mother of invention". This is so true.

Yohan is playing a lot these days, which you can see on his Twitter feed. He holds down a full-time day job so I'm impressed with how much play he can fit in. A special thanks to both Yohan555 and his friend Serwus4 for sending us this video. Hopefully we will visit these guys in 2022 and shoot a lot of videos to share with everyone. Enjoy!

  SWITZERLAND IN DECEMBER - PART 29-30

GALLERY: 1231 / DATE: Aug 2 2021 / IMAGES: 64 / VIDEOS: 2

It looks like we might be entering a new global wave with the Delta virus. Please get vaccinated and wear your mask. The breakthrough cases of vaccinated people contracting the virus is concerning. Lets all hang in there.

We are getting close to the end of this series of Switzerland videos. I have been talking with our friends in Switzerland and Germany about another visit, but the new Delta virus is making us nervous. As a result, we have decided to delay another trip until 2022. This is very disappointing but its better to be safe than sorry. In any case, the 2-part video in this update features some cool gear including a rubber hood from RubbersFinest which includes a breathing mask, 4 hoses, and a shoulder aroma bag. As many of us know, the smell of natural rubber is erotic and sensual, and smelling this heady aroma from the shoulder smell bag is a fantastic and satasfying experience for your senses. This aroma bag is a great idea. Our friend from HeavyRubberSlave.com looks like an alien creature in this unique gear. RubbersFinest makes some cool and unique gear.

Another cool scene in this update features our friend DungeonDaddy from NoEscapeDungeon.com. He's in an inflatable rubber suit from StudioGum and then suspended in a cool leather body harness. I'm not sure where the body harness came from. Maybe it's available on BlackStore.com, but I'm not sure. The harness has a pair of leather helpless mitts attached to each side which is really cool as well. To top it off he's outfitted with a heavy posture collar and heavy rubber hood, then they are exchanged for a red RubbersFinest hood. What a great experience.

Lastly, our friend from HeavyRubberSlave.com shows us his home made dual-hose bubbler bottle backpack. This is a fun setup which he wears out to fetish parties. He explains that this setup makes him feel totally isolated from the outside world at the parties. I suppose that if he had ear plugs inserted he would feel even more isolated. As I've said before, a special thanks to everyone in these fun videos including StudioGum, BlackStore and RubbersFinest. Enjoy!

  SELF BONDAGE ELECTROMAGNETS PART-6

GALLERY: 1234 / DATE: Jul 22 2021 / IMAGES: 25 / VIDEOS: 1

Hey guys, please get your vaccination and continue to wear your mask. We aren't out of this pandemic yet. The delta variant is spreading like wildfire. On another note, I just finished 7 weeks of jury duty here in San Francisco. Felony robbery and first degree murder. The unfortunate part was that the defendant was 19, a well-meaning young man who hung out with the wrong guy and got caught up in a robbery. The bullet ricocheted and killed someone. The moral of the story is don't hang out with people you don't trust, and don't mess with guns.

This is a continuing update on my experiments with electromagnets and bondage. This particular invention consists of two steel tubes that serve as spreader bars, and four electromagnets. The idea is that you can be held in a spread eagle with the wrist and ankle cuffs held by the magnets. I love building stuff like this. I've been thinking about this stuff since I was a kid. The four electromagnets are hooked to a timer control box so that you will be released when the time is up. How hot is that?

The only problem, which you will see in the video, is that the electromagnets need to be more powerful. The magnets were rated at 95 pounds of strength which wasn't enough to hold our Boy Blake. So, I ordered replacement magnets with 200+ pounds of force which should fix the problem. The video in this update shows our first tests. I'll install the replacement magnets and shoot another video showing the results of the second test. Keep your fingers crossed!

NOTICE - Self-bondage and time-release bondage is extremely dangerous. This video is for entertainment purposes only, and should not be used as a suggestion or guide on how to do bondage play. If you play with self-bondage or time-release bondage, do so at your own risk. Accidents can easily happen as a result of sexual arousal interfering with your ability to think clearly and assess danger.

  ODDS AND ENDS

GALLERY: 1233 / DATE: Jul 12 2021 / IMAGES: 85 / VIDEOS: 3

This is a fun video filled with various bondage scenes which were shot recently as the covid vaccine is being distributed. The rule was that everyone in this video had been vaccinated. For those who have not been vaccinated, I urge you to get your shots. We will not be able to open up our society until everyone is vaccinated.

The one thing new in this update are the stainless-steel nose clamps. These clamps are from Axsmar in Germany and open up another demission to bondage play and helplessness. Although we show these nose clamps and a bit of play with them, it won't be until my next visit to Bind's jail before we really use them with some serious bondage. That said, you'll be able to see their possibilities in this video.

As I've said before, it's a pleasure to get together with these guys to play. It's such a pleasure to hang out with like-minded bondage guys and play for days on end. This is a far cry from earlier days of my life when I was in the closet about my interest in bondage.

A few other things to mention. The wide steel wrist cuffs in this video are from our friend Rick at DungeonDelights, and the police ankle shackles used on the guy in the black motorcycle gear are called 'oversize' or 'boot cuffs'. These cuffs are bigger than standard ankle cuffs, which allow them to be closed over his motorcycle boots. I got these oversize cuffs from HandcuffWarehouse. The super heavy rubber straitjacket is from BlackStore, and the super heavy rubber hood is from StudioGum. The arms-inside  canvas straitjacket is from Maxcita, on his website it's called the 'Insideout Straitjacket'. Enjoy!

  ODDS AND ENDS

GALLERY: 1224 / DATE: Jul 2 2021 / IMAGES: 22 / VIDEOS: 1

This update contains a few fun video clips featuring Bind in the 4mm ultra-heavy rubber straitjacket, and me in the electromagnet self-bondage chair. I am especially attracted to the sight of Bind wearing all black rubber in his padded cell simply because it looks so kinky. In this video we find Bind in head-to-toe black rubber in his own padded cell. As I have mentioned before, the 4mm rubber straitjacket is from BlackStore.com. I purchased this medium size straitjacket along with a small size straitjacket on our trip to Switzerland at the end of 2019 right before the covid-19 pandemic. One of the things I continue say to anyone who will listen is that when you see a piece of gear you like you should buy it immediately. Do not wait, and do not decide to order one later, because there may not be a later. I'm not sure, but I think the German guy who makes these heavy straitjackets for BlackStore.com does so in his garage. So, at any time he could get hit by a bus and stop making them, and that would be the end of his straitjackets. Here's an example - I was thinking about ordering a super heavy rubber suit from MD Latex, but now, as of July 2021, his website says that he is closed. Check it out: MD-Latex.eu. So, there you go! MD Latex was a one-man garage operation as well. Bummer! I waited too long and now it's too late.

The second video clip in this update is me in the electromagnet self-bondage chair. Bind and I are both in love with this chair. When we first got the chair from our friend Louis it needed a lot of work. But now it works great and is super-hot. Bind and I will probably do some more work on it. I love the fact that you can lock yourself into the chair. I fantasize about waiting until bedtime, and then instead of retiring to my bedroom I go to the basement and lock myself into this chair for the night, with the timer set for 8 hours. Once I'm restrained in the chair, I have no idea how much time has passed, and I'm forced to wait until the timer releases me sometime the following morning. As a matter of fact, as I'm reviewing this video and writing this text, I had to stop and jerk off because my fantasy is so fucking hot. My fantasies usually come to mind around bedtime, and I get myself all turned on by thinking about being restrained for the night, when I’m forced to endure the bondage and try to get some sleep. I hope you enjoy reading about my fantasies as much as I do dreaming them up. Enjoy!

  HOT HARD HAT AND FRIENDS - PART 3 AND 4

GALLERY: 1228 / DATE: Jun 19 2021 / IMAGES: 109 / VIDEOS: 2

This is part 3 and 4 of my recent visit to HotHardHat's house in New Jersey. We had all been vaccinated so we felt comfortable hanging out together. I think this is the first travel and video I've shot since the big lockdown. This was just a small group of kinky guys getting together for a little bondage fun and comradery. I was feeling great about hanging out with everyone as I was getting pretty lonely staying at home for so long.

First, our host HotHardHat showed us a cool rubber gas-mask hood which he got on eBay. It's a special piece of military gear with an actual latex rubber hood which was dated 2015 and used in the Iraq War. HotHardHat said it was closely modeled after a British gasmask. It has lots of wires, tubes and hoses. At the beginning of this video HotHardHat is wearing the gasmask, and we put him in a heavy rubber straitjacket and tucked the rubber cowling of the hood under the jacket. This was a medium size 4mm heavy rubber straitjacket from BlackStore.com. I own a small size as well, but I didn't bring it because it would have pushed my luggage over the weight limit. HotHardHat is primarily a hazmat guy. He has a large selection of suits, some of which he brought to Bind's jail to be used in his Appleville series of videos a few years ago.

The next part of this video shows me donning my rubbers and spending time in HotHardHat's isolation box in his basement. This is a fantastic box which he had built a few years ago. The guy who built it did a great job. The foam padding is really thick. It's different than the box I built because it doesn't have small fans which circulate the air from the outside. So, when you’re in HotHardHat's box you need to wear a gas-mask which allows you to inhale fresh air from outside. If you were inside the box without the gasmask you would be rebreathing your own exhale and soon run out of oxygen. The rubber suit I was wearing came from HydroGlove.com in Arizona. This website has been around for years, and originally catered to the diving community. However, they sold a lot of their rubber suits to kinksters as well. The business eventually changed hands and was sold to a guy in Arizona by the name of Chuck. When Chuck moved all the rubber manufacturing gear to Arizona, he ran into some problems with the dipped latex now curing correctly. This was because the temperatures there are so hot in the summer. But Chuck finally got the problem under control. As you may know, the latex rubber gear we regularly purchase is either made of sheet latex which is glued together, or it's dip molded by repeatedly dipping a mold (like a plastic or ceramic head or hands) into a big vat of liquid latex until the right thickness is achieved. So you can imagine that super hot summers in Arizona could affect the way the liquid latex dries.

After showing the isolation box, Pup Havok is put in a stainless steel skull helmet which is anchored to the ceiling and restrained in a leather harness. This is a very cool helmet which belongs to our friend Wired4Fun. We have shown this helmet many times before on this website. After a while Pup Havok is moved upstairs to the kitchen while still in the helmet. Wired4Fun tells us that his helmet was custom made, formed around a solid plaster positive of his head.

Next, WiredForFun shows us a fantastic anatomical rubber hood he got on eBay from a guy called 'Rubber Reactor 2.0'. I would love to have a hood like this, but the Rubber Reactor guy doesn't seem to be around anymore. This is an example of the rule I tell everyone - if you see or try on an exciting kinky toy and you like it, you better buy it because you may never get another like it! Once Wired4Fun was in his anatomical hood we put him in the heavy rubber straitjacket. I didn't think his arms would fit, but we with some work were able to get him in. We brought Wired back into the kitchen when I got the idea that we should shoot a quick little video of him sitting at the small table in the breakfast nook. This looked so hilarious, and we all had a good laugh.

The last item we looked at was a super heavy stainless steel collar that Wired had brought with him. The collar is made by SwedishCollar.com and is a work of art. Wired4Fun gives us a demonstration of the collar and its special magnet key. Eventually he put on his anatomical rubber hood again, and then puts the collar on. What a sight. Very hot. I’m glad travel is opening up so we can have more kinky get-togethers like this!

  PSYCHO SJ BONDAGE PROJECTS

GALLERY: 1235 / DATE: Jun 15 2021 / IMAGES: 202 / VIDEOS: 1

The video clips and still images in this update were sent to us by our German friend PsychoSJ (on FetLife and Twitter). The imagery features two pieces of stainless-steel bondage gear that he and his friend Fesselschnecke (on FetLife) built. Fesselschnecke used a CAD (computer aided design) system to design the gear, then used a regular bandsaw and TIG welder to make the bondage chair, and a CNC (computer controlled) laser cutter to make the vertical bondage stand parts. Is that cool or what? The first piece is a bondage transport chair that's modeled after similar chairs used in law enforcement. The second piece is a vertical bondage device which PsychoSJ calls the 'Bishop Stand'. This stand was modeled after drawings made by the popular bondage artist from the 1970's called 'The Bishop', and similar designs made by Jeff at HouseOfGord. You can see some of the Bishop drawings by doing a Google image search for Bishop bondage drawings. The Bishop was known for the technical detail in his drawings because he had worked in the Detroit auto industry as a technical illustrator, long before computers.

PsychoSJ and I have been communicating during the pandemic lockdown, but have not yet met in person. Maybe we will meet later this year as the vaccines are distributed. PsychoSJ sent me these video clips and still images which I edited together in this video.

Like many of us, Psycho has been interested in bondage since he was a kid. As I said above, he's on FetLife and Twitter as PsychoSJ, and his primary interest is straitjackets (currently owns 11) and elbow bondage, which you can see is part of his new Bishop Stand. He sometimes sleeps while restrained in Segufix or a sleepsack, and his longest time in bondage is around 10 hours. PsychoSJ says he's heteroflexible.

These days I see more bondage gear on the market made with computer technology. My first encounter with CNC milled bondage gear was years ago from Martin of Cuff24.com. Martin might have been the first guy to use CNC to make his gear. Here’s a webpage I created years ago showing everything Martin had made on his CNC mill: CLICK HERE. And here's an article about Martin titled Master of Metal. Now, years later, I see copies of Martin's gear made by various people around the world, including China.

One of the cool parts of PsychoSJ's Transport Chair are the quick tightening straps. All of his black polyurethane straps mate with one-way stainless-steel cinching buckles which are welded onto the frame of the chair, so, there's no locks and keys or leather buckle straps. All of his polyurethane straps can be quickly pulled up snug around any size person. You can see this demonstrated in the video. This is pretty cool, effective and efficient! In addition, the straps can be easily removed from their round steel anchor posts for cleaning. You can see a few quick shots of these anchor posts in the video. All of the straps were made by PsychoSJ's friend Katinka_I on FetLife. If you are going to build similar bondage projects, you can ask her to sew up some straps for you. The stainless-steel self-locking cinch buckles can be purchased HERE, and the orange tubes which cover his hands shown in one of the videos is from RIPP Restraints.

Also, notice PsychoSJ has incorporated a 5-way racing harness latch which can be seen lying against his lower stomach. This round latch locks together the two shoulder straps, the two waist straps, and a single crotch strap. Once the 5 straps are pulled up snugly, the lever on the round latch can be turned and the latch will quickly release all five straps at once. These 5-way racing harnesses are used in racing cars to allow the driver to be released very quickly, and they work well on bondage chairs to! PsychoSJ's entire chair is made of stainless steel, which is notoriously hard to work with but doesn't rust or damage easily. My hat's off to the PsychoSJ's friend Fesselschnecke (Fetlife) who did all the CAD design and metalwork.

PsychoSJ and his two friends did a great job on these two bondage projects, and I can't wait to see what they come up with next. Enjoy!

  SWITZERLAND IN DECEMBER - PART 28

GALLERY: 1227 / DATE: Jun 11 2021 / IMAGES: 30 / VIDEOS: 1

Here's another glimpse into the fun we had in Switzerland in 2019 before the virus hit. This video features three different heavy rubber suits from StudioGum. The first is the GA-4 HazMat suit, which has an improved zipper that runs from the waist, up the side of the chest and over the side of the head. This is a vast improvement from the original version which had the zipper up the back.

This new GA-4 suit requires you to wear a gasmask which connects to a passthrough port in the front of the suit. This allows you to breathe outside air. So you inhale outside air, and exhale into the suit. And if you connect an exhale hose to your gasmask you can connect it to a second passthrough port on the side of the face of the suit, allowing your exhaled air to escape without entering the suit. For those who are attracted to hazmat play and rubber, this suit is for you!

The guys strapped our friend Michael down to the bondage table in the GA-4 suit, and I must say that he looked really hot once he was fully restrained. As usual, as I'm writing this, I wish I was in his place! This suit has a built-in penis sheath, and SFDom spent a bit of time getting Michael's cock into it because Michael is wearing a full heavy rubber suit underneath the GA-4 hazmat suit. The penis sheath is a hot addition to the GA-4 suit. Penis sheaths feel so weird and bizarre because your cock in a rubber suit of its own. And, with a little lube or pre-cum inside the sheath, it feels so good that you can't stop playing with yourself.

The second suit in this video is inflatable, as demonstrated by our friend Lukas Tyler. This suit has four recessed ports which serve to inflate the four quadrants; upper-left, upper-right, lower-left and lower-right. One of the cool improvements StudioGum in the last few years was to recess those inflation ports. Once the suit was inflated, the guys pull an inflatable hood over Lukas' head and blow it up with a rubber bulb inflater. This inflatable hood looks totally great with the suit. Next comes a new kind of helpless glove with an inflatable ball glued to the palm and fingers of each hand. Once you are wearing both gloves, with each ball inflated, there's nothing you can do with your hands. You are totally helpless and unable to use your fingers in any way. These gloves are so fantastic! Lastly, a pair of black boots were put on Lukas, finishing off his look. What an awesome sight! It would be fun to throw Lukas in a swimming pool and watch him float and flail around.

I'm not sure what to call the third suit. I guess it's another version of a hazmat suit constructed with red rubber. It's design built around an Israeli gasmask with an air-tight dive suit zipper and cock sheath. This configuration shows two inhale hoses connected to the suit so that our friend RubNGum is inhaling air from inside the suit. There's a pass-through port so the outside air can enter the suit, and RubNGum's exhale air inflates a pair of rubber balloons. This is a great setup for people who like breath control and heavy rubber. You can see how the red suit is collapsed around RubNGum's body because he's inhaling the air from inside the suit. Fun!

A special thanks to all the guys in this video, and to StudioGum for supplying the gear, and RubNGum for supplying his studio. Check out RubNGum’s retail store BlackStore.com. We all had a good time and look forward to another Switzerland trip after the pandemic when it's easy to travel again. Enjoy!

  SELF BONDAGE ELECTROMAGNETS PART-5

GALLERY: 1223 / DATE: May 31 2021 / IMAGES: 28 / VIDEOS: 1

I'm losing track of how many videos I've posted about this self-bondage electromagnet bondage chair, but here's another. I have many ideas about using electromagnets for bondage, so stay tuned for more videos on the subject.

The video in this update features a self-bondage chair made by our friend Louis. Earlier versions of this chair were shown in Louis' home workshop. Louis eventually lost interest in the chair and passed it along to Bind and I. We replaced the cushions, gave it a paint job, and reworked the electrical timers. I must say, in the beginning Bind wasn't all that interested in the chair, but after we cleaned it up he seems to be very excited about it. When I reworked the timers, I installed a pair of 60-minute timers because that's all I had at the time. But, 60 minutes isn't a long enough time for most of us, so during my last visit to Bind's jail I replaced them with 12-hour timers. For me, 4 hours is about as long I can stay in bondage, so the new 12 hour timers will cover that.

The first scene in this video shows Bind in the chair with the older 60-minute timers. I must say, Bind looked really hot in the chair, especially with the steel helmet suspended from overhead. Once Bind was fully restrained in the chair, I set the timer on my phone for 50 minutes. We setup a two-way baby monitor so we could hear Bind, then we left the room and went upstairs.

Bind is the kind of guy who likes bondage teasing. Once he's locked up, he loves for people to add more bondage or time to his predicament. So, when the timer on my phone was up, we went back down to the basement and spun the timer to a full hour again. Haha! We did this two or three times just to frustrate Bind, and he loved every minute of it.

Next, it was my turn to try the chair. I would have worn my StudioGum heavy rubber suit, but the rubber around the wrists is too thick and as a result the stocks on the chair can't be fully closed and locked. So, I used my old sweats, leather boots, rubber ball mitts and a thick rubber hood, both from BlackStyle. One problem with Bind's playroom is that it's too hot or too cold, so I always need to be prepared with sweats. I can either wear the sweats by themselves, or wear full rubber, or wear full rubber and the sweats on top. This allows me to enjoy long-term bondage in a variety of different temperatures. In this case we had a small electric heather going in the room 24x7 so the temperature was tolerable in my sweats.

I had a heavy metal collar locked around my neck which was connected to an overhead steel 'X' and then to the ceiling joists. This combination of gear was very exciting to me, and, as I'm reviewing the video and writing this text I had to stop and jerk off. I was fantasizing about being left in the chair overnight, and that the door to the room was also on a timer so that nobody could enter the room until morning. As a result, I was left in this bondage predicament overnight, not knowing when morning would come and the time would be up. How hot is that?

I hope you enjoy the visuals in this video. A special thanks to our friend Louis for building the chair, as well as loaning it to us. All the time and energy he put into the chair is bringing enjoyment to us all!

  HOT HARD HAT AND FRIENDS - PART 1 AND 2

GALLERY: 1226 / DATE: May 20 2021 / IMAGES: 92 / VIDEOS: 2

Corona Virus Update - My friends and I have all been vaccinated, so I decided to do a short trip to NoEscapeDungeon in Las Vegas, MenInChains in Hampton Iowa, and HotHardHat in New Jersey. My airplane flights were full, with everyone wearing masks. The friends I visited on this trip would only hang out with people who have been vaccinated, so I felt safe. As a result, I feel comfortable enough to start shooting videos again. And, once Europe opens up, I'll be traveling to Germany to shoot with my rubber and bondage friends. So get your vaccination, continue to wear your mask, and stay tuned for new videos this year!

This update features a cute video shot while visiting HotHardHat in New Jersey last week. He invited me to attend a private 'bondage fest' he was having at his house. The fest was a celebration of the vaccine and the ability to get together after a year of lockdown.

Although there was only five of us, we spent a few days playing, talking, eating, and enjoying some adult beverages. The first scene of the bondage fest was conducted by our friend Wired4Fun, who mummified two of the guys in colorful vet wrap. If you are unfamiliar with vet wrap mummification, this is a great video to get the details on vet wrap and how to wrap your submissive safely. Although the wrap in this video is fairly lite, it can be made heavier by adding more layers. It's clear that Wired4Fun has done this colorful mummification many times before and has some great information which he shares with us during the process. Naturally, fun was had by all.

Our host was HotHardHat on FetLife and Recon. He loves heavy rubber, hazmat suits, gas masks, multiple layer cocooning, and being stuck in hot and sweaty bondage. He's appeared in videos on this website and MenInChains. HotHardHat introduced me to the ultra-heavy 4mm rubber suits from MD Latex. He also owns an awesome isolation box which he keeps in his basement, which we will see in upcoming parts of this video. A special thanks to HotHardHat and his guests for the camaraderie and bondage play, as well as being in this video. Enjoy!

  BONDAGE TABLE BY BDG SALES

GALLERY: 1188 / DATE: May 9 2021 / IMAGES: 29 / VIDEOS: 2

Okay you guys. I am starting to travel again, and things are starting to open up. I got my two Pfizer shots, and I am on a trip that includes my friends at NoEscapeDungeon in Las Vegas, Bind at MenInChains in Hampton Iowa, and HotHardHat (on FetLife) in New Jersey. I'm flying on United and the flights are full. So get your shots, continue to wear your mask, and we'll be doing great by the end of this year.

This is a fun video we shot at Edge Dungeon a few years ago. As I may have mentioned, California has had a slew of fires because of drought and as a result the Edge Dungeon almost burnt down last year. The fire burnt three houses and the trees and shrubs around the jail, but it did not catch the jail on fire. There is a security camera system at the jail with cameras in each cell and a camera on the parking outside. The system captured one of the houses burning down along with the surrounding trees, and you could see red hot embers swirling around in the wind that the forest fire generated, but luckily, for some reason, the jail survived. I had imagined the jail burning to the ground, and all that was left were the cement jail cells, the steel jail bar doors, and the heavy steel Dungeon Bed. This would have been a very striking photo which would have been on the front page of all the newspapers. The caption would have read something like "private residential jail exposed during California wildfires". Can you see this on the front page of the New York Times? Lol!

Anyway, this video features a bondage table that was made by BDG Sales. This business was run by Dick and Tony, and was located in a small town in Pennsylvania. Their business sold all kinds of e-stim and bondage gear, some of which they manufactured themselves including the bondage table used in this video. Unfortunately, both Dick and Tony passed away a few years apart from each other, and their business is no longer operational. I was fortunate enough to shoot some videos of them a few years before they passed which I will post on this website in the future. Dick and Tony owned two versions of the famous Academy Chairs which I also captured in the video.

The video in this update features Bind, StrapWizard, DungeonDaddy and Dart_Tech. The BDG Sales bondage table is still at the EdgeDungeon, however the Dungeon is still closed as the owner clears the burnt houses and land around the jail. It will re- open again in a few years after some of the houses are rebuilt. Meanwhile, enjoy this video and be glad the Dungeon survived!

  STUDIO GUM VISIT - VIENNA AUSTRIA 2007

GALLERY: 1210 / DATE: May 2 2021 / IMAGES: 88

This update, which contains still photos only, is a rare look into Johannes Moller, the original owner of StudioGum in Vienna Austria. StudioGum has been the leader in creating heavy rubber suits and hoods, and although there's a growing number of heavy rubber suppliers on the Internet, StudioGum remains the gold standard. I was fortunate to have visited Johannes and his workshop in 2007 when I was traveling with my German friends Pupett and Matthias from Pupett.com. At the time, the Pupett website was quite popular with heterosexual fetishists worldwide. The website featured all the latest fetish gear including rubber, bondage and chastity. So, naturally my Pupett friends had close relationships with all the popular fetish manufactures in Europe including StudioGum. As a result, they provided me the opportunity to meet Johannes and take these photos.

Johannes was a private guy and didn't want to show his face in photos. Also, he spoke German, so our communication was limited to the translation provided by my Pupett friends. His workshop was in the basement of an old building on a side street in Vienna. The thrill for me was being in Vienna and experiencing the history and mystique of European fetish. For the western world, fetish interests were first enacted, nurtured and developed in Europe. I'm no historian, but in my lifetime, I have seen many European businesses evolve and nurture the collective fetishists of today. Such businesses include the AtomAge rubber magazine, Jim Stewart and his Fetters bondage business, Secret magazine, Little Shoe Box custom fetish footwear. These businesses are born and thrive, bringing new gear and ideas to the world-wide community, then they disappear, and a new fetish business rises up to take its place. As a side note, China is starting to manufacture basic rubber and bondage gear, and in 20 years they will have refined their products, developed new ones, and come out of the closet to express their own unique fetish interests.

Johannes StudioGum workshop was rather sparse. This is because the main part of his heavy rubber manufacturing was in the back of the shop behind closed doors. This is the same for all rubber businesses. The actual creation of flat rubber sheeting and heavy rubber hoods is a secret process. All latex rubber comes as a liquid in big heavy 55-gallon barrels. It's up to the business to add their own brew of secret chemicals to the liquid latex to adjust its texture and color. Then the liquid latex is poured onto large flat surfaces where it dries and becomes flat sheets of latex. This is an extremely expensive, space consuming, messy and tricky process. Every business that manufactures its own latex sheeting goes out of its way to protect its proprietary processes, including StudioGum's owner Johannes. In addition, very few rubber manufactures specialize in molded rubber hoods. The process requires using various size models of mannequin human heads which are dipped into the liquid latex, then dried and dipped again and again until achieving the required thickness. This is a time-taking process that can't be rushed and requires a lot of experience to prevent the rubber from running, dripping and drying unevenly. Once the rubber reaches the desired thickness and is completely dry, the rubber hood is carefully peeled off the mannequin head and cut for the addition of zippers, eye holes, etc. So, Johannes wouldn't show us his secret back room where all the magic happens. However, he asked me through translation if I would like to see his gasmask collection. My Pupett friends and I all said yes. We had no idea what we were about to see.

Johannes led us out the back door of his workshop and into the back alley. Europeans are familiar with the age of their buildings but walking through the back allies of centauries’ old buildings oozing with history of WW-II and before was really striking to me. We entered the back door of another old building, walked down the hallway and stopped in front of a locked door. I think this was an apartment building and the door we were facing was the entrance to a ground floor unit. Johannes unlocked the door and we entered what I can only describe as a gasmask museum. As you will see in the photos, there were literally hundreds of gasmasks covering the walls. There were three rooms filled with gasmasks and associated paraphernalia, diagrams, breathing filters, rubber hoses. There were gasmasks for children and horses from WW-I, and high-tech gasmasks for jet pilots.

As Johannes showed us around his museum, he spoke German to my friends, explaining the history of the gasmasks and where he got them. I could tell that he was quite proud of his unique accomplishment. Indeed, our minds were totally blown. Then it occurred to me - this guy had probably been attracted to rubber and gasmasks since he was a kid and experienced WW-II. It takes a special person with a personal fetish drive to create a business like StudioGum. Who else would dream up the bizarre heavy rubber hoods and suits he creates? As my friend JG-Leathers would say "horniness is the mother of invention". This is so true, and Johannes is an excellent example.

Since my visit with Johannes in 2007, he sold the business to Hans-Peter, another rubber guy in Germany. The story of Hans-Peter and the purchase of StudioGum is told in the text description of the update titled 'Switzerland In December Part 25-26-27'. Johannes sold his business and retired but passed away a few years later. So Hans-Peter, the new owner, now carries the sacred knowledge of heavy rubber manufacturing, and carries the torch forward for all of us who enjoy wearing heavy rubber.

I hope you enjoy the vintage photos of Johannes' gasmask museum. I'm so glad I was able to photograph his collection before he passed away. I understand that nobody stepped forward to buy the collection, so the museum was dismantled and divided up between interested parties. These photos may be the only complete set that exist. NOTE - the photo viewing in the gallery is not very intuitive. There are 80 or so photos spread across three pages, so make sure you view all three pages to see all the photos. A special thanks to my friends Pupett and Matthias for this unique experience. Enjoy!
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