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TBT: Bound and Gagged magazine

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Those of us who were around before the Internet will no doubt remember Bound and gagged magazine.

Bound and Gagged magazineIn its glory days, it was by far the best resource for anyone into male bondage of any kind. Not only were the stories and photographs stimulating, but the personal ads allowed like-minded men to connect with one another. I remember watching the mailbox for each new issue, which I always read from cover to cover. This magazine certainly shaped my own coming out into bondage, and it facilitated meetings with many others, including my first kinky relationship.

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Bound and Gagged issue 15 Looking at the covers of some of these issues certainly brings back great memories. I was featured in one of the issues with a story and pictures. (It is one of the issues pictured above).

Those who are interested in looking back at Bound and Gagged can visit the website of Bob Wingate, editor of Bound and Gagged. Click here.

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Vintage bondage porn

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Does anybody remember Drummer magazine? It was hot as fuck.

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Before the Internet, there was an extensive selection of scene-related publications, mainly published in the 1970s to the 1990s. These magazines included DungeonMaster, Checkmate, Metropolitan Slave, Manhood Rituals, MACH, Manifest Reader (my personal favorite!), the Zeus Inferno albums and other Zeus one-offs, most of Larry Townsend series, the Robert Payne series — and of course the crowning achievement of them all — Drummer!

And then came Bound and Gagged magazine — and my whole life changed because I knew I had to move to New York City.

 

 

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Bound and Gagged magazine will not be re-launched after all. But you can still purchase vintage mags and vids …

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… or you can go ahead and buy the whole company. Bob Wingate, the man who started it all way back in the late 1980s, explains it all here.

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Click to find out how you can purchase hard copies of the magazines and DVDs pictured above.

 

Bound and Gagged magazine was a HUGE influence for me and countless others.  The magazines are definitely collector’s items — so get yours while you still can.

 

 

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Bondage porn before the Internet

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Those of you who are regular readers of this site know that I am a huge fan of gay bondage porn.  Especially bondage STORIES!  That’s right, I just can’t get enough of really well-written bondage fiction — stories like Trust Us, Waiting for Ross, Danny in the Dorm and The Roommate, and even novels like Brig.

Here’s another thing: While I am not an old man, I am no spring chicken either.  I’m old enough to know what the world was like before cell phones and before cable TV.  There were three channels and if you wanted to see something else you had to get up and turn the knob.

The Internet?  When I was growing up nobody knew what it was.  If you wanted porn, you had to buy MAGAZINES in X-rated stores.  In the American Midwest, where I grew up, there were no gay adult bookstores.  You had to go to the straight “XXX” bookstore, located in a bad neighborhood downtown, and walk to the back, where they had a small section of gay porn mags with titles like Honcho and Inches. But there wasn’t much in the way of gay male kink.

Later, when I was in college, I discovered a little digest called Manscape, and also Drummer magazine, which opened up a whole new world for me. Fuck it was great.  I could read about all sorts of twisted ideas for gay male bondage sex.  When Bound and Gagged magazine came out it, was the greatest thing ever.  Another one of my favorites was Manifest Reader (pictured above).

 

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GMSMA NewsLink

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!NewsLink49-50Before I had this website, waaaaaay back a long time ago, I was a member of Gay Male SM Activists (GMSMA), a New York City-based organization. GMSMA aimed to promote safe, sane and consensual SM through three “pillars” — education, activism and social activities. Sadly, GMSMA closed up shop a few years back. (To read about that, click here.)

I was editor of NewsLink, the newsletter for GMSMA, for about five years, and I was recently going through some boxes of old stuff and I came across a bunch of old issues. Here is a sampling:

NewsLink_inside_JocksSM NewsLink_inside_TattooJourney_cover NewsLink_inside_TattooJourney_inside NewsLink45 NewsLink56I did not want to throw my extra copies away, so Hilton over at Purple Passion here in NYC graciously agreed to distribute them. You can stop by Purple Passion, located at 211 West 20th Street just west of 7th Avenues in Manhattan, and pick up a copy.

While you;re at it, you might want to buy something, because they are having a huge sale this week. They also have a very large stock of vintage magazines available for really cheap.

Click the box below for the Purple Passion website:

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If you stop in, be sure to tell them that Metalbond sent you!

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Bound And Gagged magazine

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These images are from the vast library of material available from Bob Wingate, editor and publisher of the great Bound And Gagged magazine:

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I remember when I first started getting Bound and Gagged magazine in the mail. It was digest-sized and arrived every other month in a plain brown envelope. Getting a new issue was an EVENT for me. This was before the Internet. I was living in Texas at the time, and I would read each issue, cover to cover, including all the personal ads. It was very exciting.

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Eventually the magazine got full sized, and then they later added color pictures.

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One of the many things I remember reading about on the pages of Bound And Gagged magazine was that there was a CLUB in New York City where you could go and get tied up! Fucking hot! So, when I moved to New York in 1992, I went to the New York Bondage Club as soon as I could, and guess who I met there? Bound And Gagged photographer James Bond, accompanied by Bound And Gagged editor Bob Wingate!!!

The two of them stripped me naked, blindfolded me and tied me down to a floating bondage table, where I was jerked off for the next three hours by lots of different, anonymous men! What an initiation.

I had lunch last week with Bob, and I told him this story. He of course does not remember this meeting, but for me it was a huge event at the time.

Through the Bound And Gagged personal ads I later met Alan, and we hit it off famously and remain friends to this day.

Thank heavens for Bound And Gagged!

Bob tells me that the Bound And Gagged crew will be taking a booth at this year’s IML event in Chicago, so watch for him there. You can also see more of the Bound And Gagged archives, including stories and tons and tons of pictures, at Bob Wingate’s Blog. You can also purchase back issues (hard copies) of the magazine by clicking here. Get them while they still last, as these back issues are quickly becoming rare collectors items.