New York Bondage Club
Whether you are a longtime resident of Gotham or just visiting for the weekend, the place for guys like us on Sunday nights is the New York Bondage Club
If you have never been, trust me: It’s definitely worth checking out.
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S/M training course for novices starts in January
Hey fellas, a lot of you ask me from time to time about where you can learn more about s/m. A great place to start, if you are located in New York City, is a special, six-session “Novices in S/M” course, to be held starting in January.
Here are the details:
TES (The Eulenspiegel Society)
is sponsoring the
Men’s Group Series for NOVICES in S/M
beginning January 11, 2015
THIS COURSE IS ONLY OFFERED ONCE A YEAR!
For the 26th year, Gil will conduct a course consisting of six four-hour S/M workshops for both “Tops” and “bottoms” who have little or no experience (or who simply want to brush up on their skills). It is open to men who are at least 19 years of age, and is limited to 24 attendees maximum. You do not have to be gay or a TES member, but attendees must feel comfortable being nude at times (sessions 3, 4, 5 and 6) and working with other men. Everyone participates as both top and bottom, as they demonstrate and workshop everything in a way that is enjoyable and fun, but educational.
Among the areas covered will be basic bondage, spanking and flogging, tit and genitorture, rope harnesses, things that pinch, mummification and electricity (see the schedule below). The course meets every other Sunday afternoon from 3-7 pm, beginning January 11. There is a one-time fee of $40 for TES members or $50 for non-members that covers all the supplies, notes and refreshments for the course.
Here is the schedule and topics:
Jan. 11, 2015: Intro to S/M; Being a Good Top/bottom; Basic Rope Bondage
Jan. 25, 2015: Spanking and Flogging; handout: Caning
Feb. 8, 2015: Gags/Blindfolds; Tit Play & Genitorture (including Abrasion & Bruising)
Feb. 22. 2015: Rope Harnesses; Things That Pinch; Orchestrating the Scene (& Role Play and Fantasies)
March 8, 2015: Mummification
March 22, 2015: Basic Electricity for Pleasure; Round Table Discussion
For more information or to apply, contact Gil at novices2015@yahoo.com, and leave your name and phone number. Gil will get back to you quickly.
Only those officially signed up for the course may attend, and no new people are added after Session 2. It is not a “pick-and-choose” course, so do not apply unless you can attend most of the sessions (check with Gil about other attendance requirements). The workshops are held at Gil’s home in the West Village in New York City. If you are interested, make contact as soon as possible to reserve a place.
Photo Credit: Bound Gods
Do you have what it takes to be Mr. Eagle 2015?
Brooklyn performance artist renting out his jail cell
Coming to NYC? You can stay in a JAIL CELL in Brooklyn! That’s right! Artist Miao Jiaxin has installed a metal jail cell in his apartment, and you can book a stay of two to five days!
It’s $1 per day and you have to follow his rules. You have to stay locked in from 9 am to noon each day with no internet.
Details on the artist’s Facebook page.
Local news report here.
The artist’s official website here.
Independence Day at the Eagle NYC
Gay Pride 2014
Here are some shots from earlier today of the Gay Pride Parade in New York City. The leather contingent looked great this year!
For me, watching the guy from the Eagle NYC in the leather jock and kneepads, who was being a total pig, crawling around on all fours in front of an NYPD officer, was the highlight of the day for me. Also Superman doing pushups.
Visit the NYC Eagle after this Sunday’s Pride Parade
Happy gay pride everybody!
After the parade, you can hang out with the leather guys over at the NYC Eagle
Metalbond 4.0
Welcome to the newly re-designed Metalbond site. Do you like it? I must give a big thank you to tallglassofoj for his professional web development services. This new look marks the fourth iteration of the Metalbond site. And I am so glad to have this fresh look online, just in time for this weekend’s Folsom Street East block party here in NYC, where Metalbond will be one of the official exhibitors! If you live in NYC or are visiting, be sure to stop by on West 27th Street between 11 and 4 tomorrow, Sunday, June 22, 2014, and say hello in person (more on that below).
I started Metalbond on May 18, 2003, to be exact, on Blogspot, which was the forerunner to Blogger. That original site is still online. Way back then, a friend and play buddy at the time, LTHR EDGE, was doing a project in which he wanted to get 100 people to start blogs, so I figured what the heck and started one of my own, under his encouragement. It was text-only, more of a journal really. Here is what that original site looked like:
Then in 2009, I got more serious about things and started up a new site, hosted by the (now-defunct) Thumblogger free service, complete with lots of pictures and external links. Kristofer Weston, aka Mr. Kristofer, helped me out quite a lot back then, to get started. Sadly, Thumblogger vanished a few years back, but if you go to the WaybackMachine and search for metalbond.thumblogger.com, you can still see that old site, which is surprisingly intact. This is what my old Thumblogger site looked like:
Fortunately, by the time Thumblogger vanished, I had already migrated to paid web hosting, where I have been ever since. It has been a lot of fun running this website as a “side project” (I work full-time). Looking at my back-end dashboard just now, I see that I there are currently more than 2,400 postings here, including more than 340 stories. That’s a lot of jackoff material, ain’t it?
But it’s fun. And through this website, I’ve had the opportunity to meet lots of great guys and have some very cool adventures, including multiple visits to Serious Male Bondage, where I got to be featured in some of their photo shoots and videos. Mark of Serious Male Bondage has been a huge help to me over the years, offering tons of advice and encouragement. Another highlight for me, made possible by Mark, was getting to meet and interview Van Darkholme of Kink.com in person at the Armory in San Francisco. I also got to meet Bind of Men In Chains, and Richard Hunter of Mr S, and Ruff of Ruff’s Stuff, among many, many others. Last year, I was featured in a podcast over at the No Safe Word website, which was great fun, as well. (I haven’t met that crazy pervert Marknorth yet, or Rbbrstorage, but hopefully someday.)
So that brings us to New York City’s Leather Pride Weekend 2014, and Folsom Street East.
I was at the very first Folsom Street East. And the second. And the third … and way too many for me to remember. I was a bootblack back then, and I still have pictures somewhere of me doing that. Folsom Street East was founded by GMSMA, an organization I was involved with at the time. Back then the block party was on West 13th Street, in front of the LURE. Of course now the event is in Chelsea, near the NYC Eagle.
So, be sure to stop by the official MetalbondNYC table at Folsom Street East and say hello. A few of my bondage buddies, including Pisslurper, will be there. We’ll be giving away free T-shirts, which were graciously provided by Master Mike. And we will have some handcuffs and other locking metal gear to try on, if you are brave enough (just ask). And I’m also going to try to do some live blogging from the event, as well. It should be fun. You’ll want to look for the guys in the orange prison jumpsuits.
