I was going to make a new thread about this, but I think this is appropriate here. I found this forum a few days ago and have been looking through recent posts by users here. I love the "old internet" feel of this place. I think a forum is a much better medium for long topic discussion than more common forms of media we have today. This post is going to be about how I found this place and why I think discussions like these matter.
I've been someone who enjoys BDSM virtually my whole life. When I was a young boy I would watch cartoons, and any time bondage was depicted I would always be very intensely interested, but I tried to hide that because I didn't want anyone else to know my secret. What secret? I was too young to know! It wasn't until I became a teenager that these things began to make sense to me. From the moment I hit puberty I fantasized about women being bound and gagged, and sometimes of being in a scenario like that myself.
In addition to being a pervert I'm also an (aspiring) storyteller. I've written one or two novel length manuscripts that I never published, deciding after finishing that what I had to say wasn't important or that there wasn't any good reason to put it out there. I'm working on one now in which one of the main characters, a Catholic woman in her mid 20's has dreams about being crucified. Sometimes she imagines herself in the place of Jesus. Other times she imagines being among the rebels lead by Spartacus who were crucified along the Appian Way. She imagines the agony hanging by those nails under the hot sun, and the humiliation of being on display for anyone passing by. When she wakes back up in the 21st century she is ashamed of herself and thinks there is something wrong with her. She doesn't know why she has fantasies like this, but eventually she admits to herself that she wants to experience the same things they did. This will be important later.
A week or two ago I stumbled upon a photoset featuring fetish model Randy Moore which you can see part of below. In it she is bound, gagged, and led to a cross. She is bound to that cross and left to roast under the hot California sun. Something about this fascinated me. I wanted to know what was going through her mind during this. Was she in pain? Was she embarrassed to be stripped nude and put on display like that? I found that she did another similar set. In the first one her feet are flat on a platform, but in the second one she is up on the balls of her feet, which I'm sure made it much more challenging for her. I wanted to know more. I searched to see if others had done similar work, or if anyone had an account of being in a scene like that.
And that led me here.
When I found this forum I felt I was staring down a rabbit hole of strangeness, that if I continued that would be an admission to myself that I was really interested in crucifixion. That did not deter me for long. For me it had that "forbidden knowledge" allure and I knew I would not be able to keep myself away. It's not like there's anyone else I can talk to about this! So I dove in. I read the accounts of users on this forum who had actually been crucified. Why they did it and how they felt during and after. I read some of the short stories users wrote here including "In The Aftermath of the Crucifixion" by cire and "Kathrin's crux fantasies" among others. I was struck by the vivid detail they used to describe the experiences of everyone involved, from the executioners, to the onlookers, to the ones on the cross. I was especially struck by Kathrin's story in which a young woman from the near future volunteers herself as a test subject to be crucified. How she isn't being forced as part of a punishment but she goes willingly and even excitedly. How she wants the full experience, being stripped naked with real nails in her body. How she finds the experience so painful from the first moments but is determined to endure it and test her own limits. She even comes back afterwards and tells the researcher that not only does she want to do it again, but she wants to do it for longer, and she suggests other ways in which she could be crucified. I imagine that in a later session, after watching this poor girl endure this agony over and over that the man responsible for performing the crucifixion starts to grow attached to her, can't stand to watch her suffer anymore, and refuses to do it again. Much to her dismay no doubt!
I was relieved to have discovered the other weirdos. Maybe if I read through their posts I could gain a greater understand of why I, or anyone else would be interested in crucifixion. I thought about the stories I was writing and I realized that I was using the characters as a proxy for myself. It was easier to imagine someone else having the fantasy than myself! So why am I like this? Maybe it's a morbid fascination with methods of execution? What about the erotic aspect of it? What could be arousing about dying?
I recently came across an artist's depiction of the "Execution of the French Queen". In it Queen Marie Antoinette is bound up shibari style and transported to the guillotine to be executed. I can't understand the language, but I do know the historical context so I have an idea about what's being said here. What struck me about this wasn't just the not so subtle erotic aspect of Marie being bound up like this, but again I found this link between the erotic and between death. What is so arousing about execution happening in such a public way? When you see something like this do you identify with the onlookers, the executioners, or the executed? For my part I imagined myself as Marie, insisting that those condemned to die are entitled to their last words, walking up to the front of the platform, addressing the onlookers, telling them:
"I beg your forgiveness for whatever crimes I committed against you, and I pray that my death will give you some satisfaction. France is a beautiful country with wonderful people I am blessed to have known. May God bless you all, and long live France!"
The full work:
https://www.boundhub.com/albums/64741/execution-of-the-french-queen/
The artist's site, I think:
https://booth.pm/zh-cn/items/2227208
Would those onlookers feel satisfaction or shame for putting me to death? Would I face it bravely or would I beg for my life? Would I feel aroused being in a humiliating position like that? Bound in front of so many people? Maybe it's these questions that brought us to this place.
I'm intensely interested in people and I'd like to hear from you. What brought you here? Does what I'm saying sound familiar to you?
Thanks for reading,