Category: behind-the-scenes

Harnessed and Cuffed

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Not tied to anything, but helpless to fightback or remove my gag!

December 15 was a very mild day (about 25C) after the rain stopped. I took advantage of the day to set up some outdoor bondage scenes and get some photos. I didn’t shoot any video of the first scene, but I did manage to capture some video of the scene where my genitals were cuffed to the tree behind me.

In all of the scenes, my wrists were cuffed behind my back and the cuffs were tied into a strict hip harness, tied around and across my genitals. With my wrists cuffed that way, I was defenseless. I was also gagged so I could not cry out for help.

In the first scene, my genitals were cuffed to a tree in front of me. The cuff around my genitals was also hooked into the harness so there was no way to slip out of it. My ankles were bound and my neck was tied to a tree behind me to keep me pulling on the cuff around my genitals.

Scroll down to see a short video from the second scene. Also, several of the closeups in the gallery are from the second scene.

I didn’t get any pictures of the third scene, although I did get some video (not shown). In that scene, my genitals were lashed to the tree with the cord that was used for my hip harness. That did give my arms a bit more freedom, but it was a much tighter and more limiting genital tie. Sorry, I don’t have any images.

New Clip: Self Bondage Instruction

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I got this idea for how to tie my arms behind my back and I set out to shoot a short video of me, tying it on myself. It was the first time I had done the complete tie and I didn’t get it quite right, so I decided the next day to try it again. The second day I did a much better job of tying it, but looking at the video revealed some more improvements I could make. So, two days later I went back out to make a 3rd attempt at essentially the same tie.

I think the 3rd attempt was pretty good, but I’m going to try some improvements in the future. For now, I edited the three attempts (mostly the final attempt) into a 17 minute video that features about 7 minutes of tying instruction. The other 10 minutes is an earnest and hopeless struggle to escape. I was unable to escape any of the 3 attempts, so, in that regard, they were all a success. I just made the bondage neater and more secure with each attempt.

I also used a different hip harness on each attempt. All of the harness were designed to crush or otherwise penalize my balls when I pulled back against them. In the first attempt, I was wearing tight jeans, so the ropes were all over the top. In the second one, I tied a steel handcuff that was clamped around my genitals into the harness so it would not come off as I struggled to get free. In the final harness, I had my genitals captured and split by the rope harness and my wrists were also secured to the harness in back. Here is a link to the full video in my clip store: Self Bondage Instruction in 3 Takes

New Clip: Self Bondage in I&B Hot Pants

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Ishtar & Brute, that is! My clothing fetish is getting the best of me. Previously, I did some posing in my custom fitted hot pants, but I was pining to get tied up in them. Different fabrics and designs feel different when I tie something around my genitals and tug on them, while they are inside the garment. The way I tie myself also makes a difference. Today I started with handcuffs around my cock and balls and I ended with a 1/4″ (6mm) soft nylon rope.

One of my goals for my video was to get a really high quality recording with the focus on my new hot pants. The angles are pretty tight and parts of me are often cut off. However, I think I captured the essence of the bondage and I changed it up, several times. Because I wanted to keep things moving, I didn’t use any timers or get myself into any inescapable predicaments. I always had the keys within reach so I could set myself free and rearrange things a bit.

I think the end result was pretty good. I enjoyed editing it and I also found it pretty exciting to watch. Of course, I have a thing for the shiny black, leather-look briefs. I feel like those briefs are something like Conan the Barbarian might have worn. I need to find some medieval looking upper body “armor” to complete the wardrobe.

Clip Link: Self Bondage in I&B Hot Pants, 2022-11-11 (Teaser video is below)

Free Multi-Scene Bondage Short

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This short is composed from clips we’ve shot in the past 2 weeks. None of them have been released for sale. The opening two scenes find me tied to a log that has holes drilled in it. With my genitals tied to one and and my ankles tied to the other end, with the knot out of reach, combined with my wrists handcuffed behind my legs and/or around the log, I’m pretty much stuck. Add to that an up-line that hoists me up by the end of the log to which my genitals are tied, and I’m in quite a predicament.

The next scene is from my “Winched Tight” photoshoot. It was the only video we captured that day, and we did it at the very end of our shoot. The final scene is hard to describe. My balls are lashed to a tree and my wrists are being pulled back behind me. I suppose it’s worth mentioning that I am gagged in all of these scenes.

Just watch the video, and you’ll understand …

Noodling on the Spider Web

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In case you hadn’t heard, I made a steel spider web some years back. I decided to dig it out of storage and hang it up between some trees in the woods. As with any new structure that I put up, it takes me a while to figure out how best to use it for bondage. This clip shows a few short cuts from my experimentation on the web. As usual, I must keep the freebies short and low quality to conserve bandwidth. I might put a longer, full HD version in my clip store.

New Compilation Clip

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This clip is a compilation of out-takes in which I (John Marsh) was struggling in bondage. Usually, I was alone in self-bondage and had to overcome some unexpected obstacle to escape. I was surprised, when I put this together, how many times I’ve been on the cusp of disaster … while also on camera. There have been some serious bondage fails that I’d already published, so those were not included in this clip. For the most part, this should be all new footage, but there may be some familiar scenes, since these bits are mostly taken from the out-takes from some of my precarious bondage predicaments.

I enjoyed putting this video together and I hope you’ll enjoy watching it. It has a few muddy scenes, it has lots of outdoor scenes and some indoor scenes. The clips span a period of about 5 years. My only quality complaint is that the only audio I had for some clips was from the GoPro and it’s not very good. None of the audio is terrible.

Store link: Self Bondage Struggles

Self Bondage Failure

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Somehow, I allowed myself to get distracted enough that I stowed my keys in my gear case, well out of reach, before cuffing my wrists in locking cuffs to a chain that was stretched between two trees. My ankles were chained to my thighs and my genitals were chained to a stout tree root. I also had my ball gag locked on, for good measure.

When my release popped, my right wrist was supposed to be free enough to reach the keys, but the keys were to my right, about 4 feet away, and my left wrist was chained to the tree opposite the keys. Also, my right wrist was still cuffed to that chain, which also limited my reach. I could not straighten my legs or free my genitals, because those were also padlocked. For a little while, I was sure I was screwed.

In order to free myself, first I had to snag a nearby camera tripod with the free end of the chain. That took many attempts because there was a sapling that kept intercepting my chain so I couldn’t get it to wrap around the tripod leg, and the movement of my right arm was limited because it was still locked to the chain.

I did, finally, get the tripod within reach, but that was just a stepping stone to the final goal of pulling my gear case close enough for me to retrieve the keys. I had to use the tripod to coax the heavy case that held the keys towards me; inch by inch. You wouldn’t think it would be that hard, but the case was just barely within reach so I had to lift the fully extended tripod, holding onto just the very end of it with one hand.

During the entire struggle, my cock and balls were still chained to that root.

I recorded the entire debacle on video, and I made the video available on FetLife (I had my PornHub channel deleted).

  • Immediately after I was “released”
  • After much struggling to drag the case closer
  • Wrestling the tripod, in spite of my limited mobility

New Gadget

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I just published a video that was a test run of a new gadget I built for shooting my videos. When I’m shooting alone, which is most of the time, I generally set up 2-4 cameras so I can show different points of view in the final edit. The problem is that all of the cameras are stationary, which can get kind of boring. So, I created a camera stabilizer that can move the camera around with 4 degrees of freedom. The camera can pan right and left, tilt up and down and move up, down, right and left.

So, today I shot my first real test with it. I have some improvements planned, but I was anxious to give it a real-world test. The one problem that is obvious is the camera passing in front of a light. That wasn’t something I expected, but it is easy to avoid, and a camera doesn’t block as much light as a human camera operator. 🙂