IML 2015 - Silverback Photoset #2

Silverback needed some help testing out his custom made sleep sack which had been newly reinforced by TynanFox. I was only too willing to oblige!

IML 2015 - Myself and GaggedAndBound Photoset

Silverback turned the tables on me and GaggedAndBound (who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time) at IML. Apologies that it's taken so long to post the photos!

IML 2015 - OtterlyAbsurd Photoset

I met the very lovely OtterlyAbsurd at IML and after years of chatting I was finally able to tie him up. Here are the photos:

IML 2015 - Silverback Photoset

A bit later than I had anticipated but here's the first of my photosets with the lovely Silverback. I had wanted to meet him for so long so not only was it a dream to finally tie him up but also to share a room with him the entire trip. Enjoy the photos below.

IML 2015

So my first International Mister Leather (IML) has been and gone. I flew out to Chicago with no idea what to expect. I had heard different things from different people so I thought I would wait to experience it myself. I got up at 3AM on Thursday morning to get to Heathrow airport and initially I arrived at the wrong terminal. After a little panic I caught the free transit train to Terminal 3 and checked in my luggage. I was nervous at first because I've never checked in a bag with "bondage goodies" in it before and was paranoid that it would get checked. To the best of my knowledge no-one ever checked my luggage on either flight.

After a long flight I arrived in Chicago. As the plane landed down I spoke to two British couples who were sitting ahead of me. They were connecting to a biker festival somewhere in Nashville, Tennessee and I told them I was going to a "gay leather and bondage festival" in Chicago. They joked saying that IML sounded like it would be more fun than what they were doing.

Once I was out of immigration and out of the airport I attempted to use the Chicago Transit system. The ticket machine would not accept my British card and so I had to pay using cash. What should have cost me $28 for a 7-day pass ended up costing me $40 because the machine did not give change. Not just that but my ticket did not work on the first attempt when trying to go through the barriers. I quickly learned how rude some people in Chicago are. To those people: go sit on a pole and swivel. You know who you are, you cunts. 

Once I reached Washington station I took the bus towards Water Tower and finally checked into my hotel. Thursday from that point on was a bit of a write off bar finding dinner at McDonalds. On the way there I met a fairly nice cop. I was led to believe there is no such thing in America so it was a pleasant surprise. After stuffing myself full of fast food I felt like I weighed about 400lbs so I headed back to my hotel and slept through the rest of the day. I woke up at about 4AM having slept for about 9 hours in total. Jet lag sucks! When I checked my recon messages I noticed I had a missed message from TynanFox asking whether I wanted to meet up. I was pretty disappointed I missed that opportunity but I don't think I would have been in much of a state to do much even if I was awake that night.

I had some time to kill before meeting Silverback who I was rooming with for the weekend. I went off to Lincoln Park Zoo and had a stroll around. It was a beautiful zoo but I was shocked by the fact they only have one animal per sanctuary. Most definitely animal cruelty. After returning and checking out of my Thursday hotel I still had some time to kill before Silverback was due to arrive and so I decided to go down to see the Sears Tower. Unfortunately they wanted to check my luggage (with all the fun stuff inside) so I decided to walk away and wait outside the hotel for Silverback.

On the way to the hotel I passed by the host hotel, the Congress Plaza, with all the leather men hanging out in front of it. Like a sea of people who all kind of looked identical. When Silverback finally arrived we dumped our bags and went out to explore the host hotel. The downstairs was a bit of a meat market but without any thing really happening. Everyone had already segregated into their little cliques and were checking their Recon/Grindr messages relentlessly instead of actually talking to each other.

We headed off in search of some 4-inch wide duct tape going to every store that could possibly sell it in Chicago. We ended up in a Home Depot quite a distance away from our hotel and even they did not have it. They also did not have the pallet wrap that Silverback was after. They did have a rather ugly selection of green tapes and wrap though. Eventually Silverback settled on smaller duct tape and found pallet wrap at a different store (I think it may have been Staples of all places). After that we had no idea where we were so we caught an Uber cab back to the hotel. It was my first experience of using an Uber cab. Our driver was very cool and even knew about IML. I'm sure he's driven a lot of leather guys around before.

Once we were back I dragged Silverback off to Chipotle. I have always heard so much about Chipotle and we don't have them in England so I had to try it. It was ok but obviously had nothing on the Mexican food I had in Los Angeles. I'd still love for a Chipotle to open up here in my town though!

After dinner Silverback and I headed back to our hotel room and engaged in the first of many bondage sessions that weekend. I tied him to a chair, then gagged him with a ball gag, before adding further layers of bandanas to finish off the gag. He was feisty and struggled a lot. He was starting to get loose, so I kept re-adjusting his bonds. Eventually I just sat there and watched whether he could escape. Unfortunately he could. The debate of the weekend soon became nylon vs natural rope. Nylon rope has a lot of give and you can pull slack in it if you struggle enough. Nylon rope has more friction and so the knots do not loosen.

We decided to go cruise around the host hotel again to see if anything had changed. Silverback recognised some people he had been speaking to, including a giant Canadian lumberjack who never came over in the end. Eventually we ran into Slade Lycan in the lobby. We had a good chat and he had his chloroform in his bag but was waiting for someone to turn up. Eventually a guy turned up that he said was his room mate. Silverback and I both recognised the guy from somewhere but we couldn't place where from. Later that weekend he messaged me on Growlr and I realised we had been speaking previously. Unfortunately he wasn't a bondage guy as much as he was a bareback kinda guy. Shame since he was really cute but that's a major no-no for me.

Later that night our third roomie, GaggedAndBound (GAB) turned up but we were all pretty tired at that point so just went to sleep. In the morning we went out for breakfast. The place we were initially going to eat had a thirty minute wait and so we went round the corner to the place next door. I was happy since they served an American *cough* English *cough* breakfast and there were hot bears to oggle. After breakfast we went around the park before heading back to the hotel. Here we engaged in some more bondage. This time with Silverback tying up both me and GAB. We were both hogtied and heavily gagged, in different ways. We had to work together to try and get free but even that was not enough. Eventually Silverback cut us loose.

At this point we all went off and did our own different things. Silverback went off to get knocked out and kidnapped by Slade. GAB went off to get tied up by RetroRope. I was trying to meet up with a cute cigar guy who was staying in our hotel but he was being flakey. I won't lie I was pretty frustrated at this point. My Recon had gone dead by this point so I just decided to do some more site seeing and buy some more supplies. Unfortunately the sponges I bought came pre-packaged with some cleaning chemical embedded into them which rendered them useless. 

Silverback came back to the hotel first and we headed off to explore the host hotel again. There we ran into OtterlyAbsurd and his boyfriend. It was nice to actually see someone I recognised. We invited them to our hotel and later that night they did turn up. Before that Dave returned from his escapades and we went out to get authentic deep dish pizza. It was great but a little too much to stomach in one sitting so we put the left overs in the fridge. Not long after that OtterlyAbsurd and his boyfriend turned up at our hotel room. Silverback ended up having his way with both of them whilst GAB and I watched and joined in with some tickle torture from time to time.

Near the end of that session TynanFox turned up at our room and sat down with a beer whilst the madness was still going on. I had never really been in a bondage situation where there were so many people around before. It got weirder still as Slade turned up and we had a bonafide bondage party going on. TynanFox ended up mummified and gagged on the bed. It was all very surreal but very cool to experience. Certainly an experience to check off the bucket list and now I would know how to go about organising a bondage party in the future (who's up for that British guys?) After all the bondage was over we all sat around and talked about bondage related stuff like our pet peeves and funny stories/incidents that have happened to us all. Unfortunately what was said and discussed will stay in that room.

Sunday rolled around and after breakfast GAB disappeared for most of the day to do some site seeing. Silverback took his leather sleep sack that he had hand made up to Tynan's stall in the leather market for some much needed repairs to the buckles. Once he was back he lent me his market wrist band and I went around to explore. There were some interesting things happening. Guys just openly with their dicks out getting measured for cock rings, mattresses for sale with restraints built into them and a lot of guys walking around with puppy tails hanging out of their exposed arses. I did gain a new found appreciation for how hard the leather vendors work in creating their products and the fine lines of the profits they made.

Back at the hotel room I decided to help Silverback test out his new and improved sleep sack. I zipped him in and then tied it up. It was much sturdier and he couldn't escape from it. I then proceeded to tape up his mouth and paddle him with his riding crop. At one point I just wanted to watch him struggle. I turned on the TV and Glee was on. It turned out that Glee was a better form of S&M than anything I could have inflicted on Silverback.

Not long after I had let Silverback out of his sleep sack OtterlyAbsurd and his boyfriend came over again. This time only OtterlyAbsurd was tied up by me. There was something fun about him being the only one tied up in a room of four people. We all took turns in tickling and tormenting him. He was getting it from all ends! He gave it a big struggle but could not break free. This pretty much ended the bondage for the weekend. There were a few other guys I tried to meet up with but they flaked out on me. I did have an open invite for Tynan to come back and have me tie him up but with my early flight and him working until late it was not meant to be. The invitation is still open for next year Tynan :)

I had to get an early night and sleep, whilst Silverback went off to meet Slade for a final kidnap session. I slept through until my alarm went off at 4AM with GAB handing me my phone from his bed! After showering and charging my phone I was off out the door and onto the dark streets of Chicago. A nice security guard near Chicago library showed me where Jackson subway station was and so I was able to catch the blue line train directly to O'Hare airport. I had the best flight home and the cute flight attendant and I were eye fucking and flirting in about as professional a way as possible :). I was chatting to a young American kid who said he was on his way to London for the first time to join an English band. A wild adventure so I gave him all the advice I could think of to help him survive in London, particularly at night when the tube was closed.

Overall it was a great weekend. I wish I had spent more time in Chicago to do more site seeing and I wish I hadn't wasted so much time on flakey people. However these are valuable lessons to learn for next time.

I'd also like to thank Silverback and GAB for being amazing room mates. You guys totally helped shape the experience for me! Hopefully I will be back next year. More pictures will follow soon...

IML 2015

Just a quick update to let you know that I will be attending IML 2015 this year in Chicago. I'm pretty excited from the stories I have been told by Matt. Hopefully it will live up to expectations. If you are going and want to meet up and play I suggest you start getting to know me now since I won't play with any one I've just met. It should be a gagtastic weekend!