I decided not to do a formal demo even before I heard that the recon booth would not have a stage.
This made this a lower stress year than 2011.
But I wanted to do something. Anything. I thought through the booths that I remembered from previous years. And I hit on the idea of doing something at the Dungeon Bed booth.
A day or two later a friend said that he was about to have one delivered. I do like to rehearse on actual equipment and this seemed to dovetail nicely.
There was some heartache when a rare manufacturing defect required returning a critical piece of his bed. So no rehearsal.
I did not discuss a demo with them before the start of IML.
I stopped by the Dungeon Bed booth Friday evening and asked whether I could bring a couple muscular boys to frolic together on the bed in jock straps, trying to deliberately undersell the boys and bondage. They encouraged me to come back anytime. I found out later that wildCuddler had already asked on my behalf. (I wonder what that conversations was like.)
The bed with a mattress seemed most likely. It was a queen sized bed with an air mattress. The air mattress was a little squishier than I would have liked and was about 4 inches short for the bed.
We can make this work.
I spent a chunk of the morning Sunday stroking myself and physically rehearsing positions to use at the demo later.
I got a text message that armypup86 had thrown out his back. His boyfriend atlGearPup took his place. With codytx we coordinated the color of our jock straps. I packed rope and restraints into a gear bag and wandered downstairs to the vendor mart.
I dropped my gear at the booth and wandered around a bit.
A muscular man with a puppet attached to his naked crotch at the steamworks booth kept shouting and jumping around. It was a little distracting.
atlGearPup and codytx and I stripped down to barefoot and jock straps. While the previous year I had worn boots, I didn't want to risk getting shoe polish on the red sheets.
I tied to restraints, since it seemd like speed might be preferable to purity of materials.
I put humane restraints on atlGearPup's wrists. I tied his wrists above his head.
I put fist mitts onto codytx's hands. I attached climbing webbing to the D-rings on the mitts. I tied his hands directly over his head.
I tied atlGearPup's ankles spread, leaving him spread as though to a cross, ready for flogging.
I tied codytx's legs extended and spread.
I shifted atlGearPup so that he was bent at the waist with his chest was pressed against the bed with feet still planted on the floor and arms spread.
I slid codytx from against the headboard to his back flat on the bed.
I got out my bare leather works miniature vegan flogger and used it to spank atlGearPup's butt.
I lifted codytx's legs into the air anchored to the top rail.
After a brief whispered discussion with atlGearPup he suggested putting them butt to butt. I untied atlGearPup's feet and he brought his legs underneath him and rested his thighs on codytx's thighs. I tied atlGearPup's ankles to the top rail.
I admitted to atlGearPup that I needed to create an ending to the scene. He jokingly suggested use of a stun gun.
I got out my 150k volt stun gun and my little devil.
I straddled atlGearPup and ran the little devil against the inside of codytx's thighs. Over the tight mesh jock strap I ran the little devil over his dick and balls. I repeated the same strokes on atlGearPup, getting loud noises when I shocked his perineum.
I used my stun gun on both codytx and atlGearPup's thighs. I thought this was about as good an ending as I was going to get.
I untied them both.
We took a handful of photos and gathered the gear and cleared out.
There were a few things I thought that I could have done better. My ropework was a little sloppy. Even on the climbing webbing I was using knots that hold better on rope. I should have used carabiners to not need to pull the rope through hard points.
I was told that my quick tying appeared somewhat frantic from a distance. I should have slowed down.
During the standing bondage I brought the ropes together to tie them off. This pulled them across atlGearPup's body. This would have made the position less useful for flogging. But by the time that I realized it was too late to redo the work.
The demo attracted the largest crowd that I had seen at the dungeon bed booth.
We were each given a free t-shirt for our participation.
With people's attention elsewhere the annoying man from the steam works booth stopped shouting.
I was proud of our involvement.
Many thanks to wildCuddler for allowing me to repost the pictures that he took.
