Catch and Release...

Kudos to my friend Rita for this idea.  First a bit of explanation for...

Well probably for almost everyone.  "Catch and Release" refers to sport fishing -  I think mainly bass but I exist on the very last stop of the fish food chain so as far as I'm concerned the catching can be done with boomerangs, depth charges and machine guns, just bring me my salmon!

Ahem, sorry...  Any way "Catch and Release" is the practice of, well, catching the fish - there by putting a huge hole in its face, then releasing it to go on its merry, albeit hole faced, way.

Anyway Rita was telling me about an encounter with someone where she was trying to explain that "yes I'd really like it if you tied me up and did unspeakable things to me, but no I don't want to be your slave girl" and resorted to a sports metaphor telling her would be owner that "I'm sort of a catch and release submissive".

Fishing is technically a sport, right?

Anyway it's dead on accurate and so - with apologies to the ancient and honorable art of fishing...

And while I'm ranting...

For the love of Cthulu if you plan on selling me your wonderfully fancy RLV toy you might possibly want to consider setting the demo model in your shop so it doesn't slap me into total RLV lock down which - among other things - keeps me from clicking on the damn vendor!

Off to relog now, kthnxbai

Grrrrrr

Rant–verb (used without object)

I've been on a shopping spree - yay for me, right?

Well, no.  You see despite the fact that I'm buying pony gear and bondage equipment and latex clothing it seems lately as if all of the creators of this lovely stuff are unaware of the need for things to have the attachment point labeled for users of RLV.

Sure if it's a pony boot it's pretty easy to figure out what goes where and re-label it - or let Emerald relabel it for you.  But I've recently picked up a fairly hardcore bit of heavy rubber clothing which came with about 25 prim attachments which could be used in various combinations, and they're not labeled.  Even worse, they're no copy so I can't do what I normally wind up doing and make half a dozen copies of each  thing and try attaching it to all of the likely locations (assuming I can guess what "Left Bangle" should attach to).

And yes, I know I can turn RLVa off, log out log back in and simply "wear" them, and I think that there's even a way of doing so without having to log out.

But how difficult would it be for the creator to simply label them before boxing them up?

So the other day I was all trussed up and gagged and being taken on a tour of various hives of scum and villany when Ria and some friends caught up with us.  We got to chatting and at one point I said something to the effect of "I need a slower mouth or faster brains", which of course the gag turned to gibberish.  Since using IM is sort of cheating - and more importantly there were four of them not all of whom were on my friends list at the time - I tried "enunciating" each word by speaking them one word at a time. 

There were looks of confusion as I plodded through it, and for some reason by the time I got to the last word I was being flat out strident and yelled (as much as the gag would permit):

"Brains!  Brains brains brains!"

Which the gag garbled into "Blains!  Blains blains blains".

Naturally the first thought into my head was:

"Mutual LUSTS" - Great Name But What The Heck?

Mutual Lock Up Safe & Tight Society of Second Life (tm)

Do you like getting tied up?  

Are you a damsel without distress?  

An imperiled sidekick lacking peril?  

Well then we can help!  We're the Mutual Lock Up Safe & Tight Society, a group of SL residents who want to be...  Well, Locked Up Safe & Tight.  

The trouble with SL is that for every Dominant out there there are....  Oh I don't know, it seems like about a thousand submissives, which means lots of times we wind up gallivanting around SL, collars on open access, relays on auto-accept, and keys in locks in hopes that someone will do the polite thing and grab us.

Alas that doesn't always work either.  And when it does it sometimes brings up the secondary problem of "okay I'm tied up but they left and didn't set a timer and I'm the only one on the sim".  Unless we've got an isolation fetish that leads to a few fun minutes of worrying when they'll get back, then a few more minutes of working on our shopping lists for the super market, then safewording and cheating out of the restraints.

And believe it or not, we hate cheating out.

And thus was born The Mutual Lock Up Safe & Tight Society - or Mutual LUSTS.  Our co-founders met one sleepy afternoon in a cage at the Rubber Room and discovered that they both shared a love for rubber - not surprising given the location - and strict bondage.  And while self bondage is fun, having someone else around to sneakily cuff your elbows behind your back while you're shopping or suspend you from the ceiling is even better.

And of course if she gets to hang me from the ceiling, then I get to chain her spread eagle in the entryway.

So basically we're bondage buddies.  Several times a week we'll meet up covered to the point of borderline craziness in restraints gags gas masks and such.  I lock her restraints and set the timers and she locks mine and sets the timers for the same amount of time.  Then we roam around SL or go flirt at some of our hangout secure in the knowledge that in a moment or two one of us will giggle and snap shut the others cuffs or darken the lenses on her gas mask. 

The rules are simple:

USE THE TIMERS!  Well unless you don't want to, but remember this is a friendly society.  RL some times comes up and SL sometimes goes down and we don't want to leave our fellow LUSTSer's sitting there bored and helpless (yes, it's possible).  You can always add more time to the timer.  Trust me, I know :)

If someone ties you up, return the favor.  It's polite, fun and actually a little erotic to be mutually dependent on one another.  

Anyone wearing a Mutual LUSTS tag is in the mood to get tied up and will happily return the favor.  If you spot a member who's not wearing the tag at the moment better to check with them via IM first since they may be doing something that makes getting tied up inconvenient.  Yes I know how silly that sounded :)

Please do feel free to use group chat to meet with fellow LUSTSers.  But if you're looking to sell land promote a club or you just want "teh sexxorz" remember that we spend all our money on bondage gear so can't afford land, we're almost certainly chained to something so can't get to your club, and dude!  Work on the pick up skills some 'kay?

Have fun, be safe, and for heavens sake go get tied up!