A pierced librarian....whatever next....where will it all end? I really don't know, but this is my story so far.
About me: Born in 1948, which makes me...OK, so you do the math.
Eyes - Green.
Height - 5ft 9ins.
Weight - currently 154lbs (but trying to get it down).
Starsign - Libra: the sign of a balanced personality, hmmm.
Likes: Being nice to people. Beautiful golden sunsets. Cacti: the way they defy the odds of nature.
Chinese food. Feeling the need not to take anything too seriously.
A long soak in a hot tub. On-line shopping. Relaxing and doing nothing occasionally.
Sixties' music.
Oh - and BME, of course.
Favourite film of all time: Casablanca.
Dislikes: Whingers - 'If you can't cheer up, shut up'.
Cold wet winter days. Homophobia. Indecision. ISPs that cut out on you after two hours. Junk mail that's sent in an envelope saying "Important - This is not a circular". Machines that don't work like they're supposed to. Weak coffee.
Websites that say only 'Under construction'.
Cruelty to animals - remember, they were here first.
Quote: "Don't knock it till you've tried it."
Turn-ons: Big boots, high heels, black leather, skin-tight rubber, PVC, corsets... Mmmmmmm!
Turn-offs: BO: there's NO excuse for it - soap and deodorant are NOT that expensive.
Pet hate: Intolerance - 'If you don't like it don't do it, but don't tell everyone else they shouldn't like or do it either'.
Goal in life: Be happy - There are enough miserable ****s in the world without me adding to them.
My "library catalog":
In stock (in order of acquisition) - PA ring (now 5mm); paired standard lobe rings (currently at 4mm); septum (now with circular barbell); stomach tattoo; pubic piercing (titanium CBR) *RIP 18 Jan 2002*; centre tongue (2mm barbell); navel rings (only the inverse remains out of the pair); paired 21mm dia nipple rings (first two pairs both rejected); BME and Celtic Rings logo tattoos - matching pair on both outside shoulders; Madison (14ga CBR) *RIP 17 Mar 2002*; wrist bar (PTFE) done during the British Meet at Brighton - rejected, but only after 4 years; 'love handles' - paired D-ring surface piercings *RIP*; cartilage ring (left ear); tragus (right ear); nape (PTFE bar)*RIP*; second pair of nipple piercings (vertical barbells); second nape *RIP*; bridge; BMEboy tattoo (centre back); 16mm dia guiche (my third try at a guiche) *RIP 6 Jan 2002*; third nape *also RIP*; 'Cell' back rings - a set of 6 D-Rings (lasted around nine months); pair of spinal surface bars *RIP*; replacement pubic ring *RIP* and guiche *guiche RIP 13 Apr 2002 after only two weeks!*; replacement Madison (12ga CBR) *RIP*; smiley aka scrumper *RIP*: paired foreskin rings. Future additions: It's been some years now since I added anything new, or replaced anything. But that doesn't mean the urge may not strike again at any time! And I'll bet that that you thought that librarians were boring old ****ers!
My buddy pics: You're out of luck here: there aren't any. Why not? Not because I don't have any buddies - there are lots of really great people here on IAM. But I didn't want to put up a screenful of buddies just because everyone else's page has one. I like to be an individual, to do what's right for me - that's what BME is all about, really.... Just in case you were wondering.
My character: (And here I quote from the results of a psychometric test): "Happy in his own company. Prefers to make his own decisions. Co-operative and obliging. Avoids conflict. Modest. Even temperament. Non-emotional. Relaxed. Copes without being flustered. Concentrates on the big picture rather than the detail. Quite radical. A challenge rather than the conventional. Non-conformist. Disorganized. Spontaneous reactions. Solution-focussed. High expediency. Finds his own way of doing things. Confident intellectual. Generates interesting, practical ideas."
My chastity:
Ever wondered what it's like to be locked up in a chastity belt? You can read all about my chastity escapades in the IAM Chastity Forum
My corsets:
Yes - I wear a corset! My current favourite to be laced up in is my black 28" PVC one, which you can see along with my others in my Corset Collection gallery.
My counter:
Currently at: 23,331
- Thanks for stopping by: enjoy your visit!
Cool dude with shades None other than Rosco from the BME Kids' Club!
Bits and pieces
Locked up - me in Bondage!
Wearing leg irons: Relaxing in my new leg irons July 2009
Corset collection
In my 28" black PVC corset: This one feels really sexy to wear!
Fun stuff
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Down below
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Clothes closet
Cold Front: The brass monkey gets a T-Shirt
BBQ fun
London Meet - 28 June 2003: titanium_angel
Up front
Porn star revisited: My second try at a Madison: July 2002
Bit in the middle
Spinal bars: My paired spinal surface piercings - October 2001
To jab or not to jab?
2009/11/16 13:48 As I'd been half-expecting, the doctor's receptionist rang up to enquire whether I wanted a swine flu jab. I will admit I’m not a great fan of vaccinations. I grew up in the days before MMR jabs: they were just common childhood illnesses, you had a couple of weeks off school and that was that. I was quite ill with mumps, because I didn’t catch that till I was 11 or 12 I think.
I have on the other hand had a polio vaccination. I lived in Hong Kong for three years 1956-1959, at a time when polio was endemic, and I saw first-hand the damage it can do. And that was before the reliable vaccine which is used nowadays had been discovered. In that scenario the benefits of vaccination clearly outweighed the risks and was infinitely preferable to the attendant consequences of catching the disease.
As far as *ordinary* flu and swine flu are concerned, I’d rather take my chances and try and develop some sort of natural immunity if I can – or at least let my immune system deal with it perhaps with the aid of anti-inflammatories if need be. I've seen arguments recently both for and against, and before I go any further let me freely admit that my own view is coloured by the perceptions I have of vaccinations built up over the years. To my mind the polio equation I've cited above is quite different where the vaccination carries risks, however small (and I don't personally see autism as one of them), balanced against a possible infection from which the vast majority of otherwise healthy people of my age are reported to recover relatively easily. The latest figures, I see, put the number of deaths in England from swine flu at 124, not all of which are directly attributable to the disease. It's a far cry from the epidemic of Black Death proportions which was being prophesied when the first cases were reported in Mexico.
I think consenting adults should make their own informed choice balancing the risks against the consequences and not feel pressurized into deciding one way or the other.
2009/11/12 16:40 A few moments ago, I achieved the distinction of doing my 25,000th experience review for BME - equating to an average of something like eight or nine a day in the nine years since the system first started in November 2001. Coincidentally that's about the rate at which they're now being submitted, meaning I review virtually everybody's, a far cry from the heady days of 2004, when 9081 experiences were posted to the site at the rate of 24 a day not counting the rejections - and it was a full-time job just to keep up with them!
I'm still learning, still enjoying it.... and still amazed by the number of authors who ignore even the most basic rules of punctuation spelling and grammar. Keep 'em coming!
And another theory which will doubtless be discredited in six months' time
IN THE NEWS
2009/11/08 15:54 Today, I read with interest a new report advances the theory that "Children brought up according to "tough love" principles are more successful in life". Really? As I think I've mentioned before, I had my fair share of smacks as a child, usually administered by my mother whose customary phrase "Hold your noise or I'll give you something to cry about" was invariably enough to silence whatever temper tantrum I was about to put on public display. And it worked. I knew where I stood: I knew what I was and wasn't allowed to do, and what I could and couldn't get away with - and I was well into my teens I think before I successfully challenged the basic "rules". Whether I was breast-fed as an infant I have absolutely no idea, and I have now neither the means nor the desire to find out.
All this, the report claims, goes towards "building character" - qualities such as application, self-regulation and empathy. I'm not at all certain I had any of those character qualities as a kid, and I can still visualize the comment I saw written on one of my junior school reports from when I was about eight: "can work quickly if prodded, but if not is inclined to daydream"! Perhaps I was too busy having empathy for something else to pay attention in class?
The report, like so many others before it, appears to assume that character building is a 'good thing'. If the resultant character is a likeable one, I wouldn't necessarily quarrel with that. Conspicuous by its absence, I see, is any mention of the word 'happy'. I count myself fortunate in having had a happy childhood, and a happy adult life. But then my parents didn't have a load of think tank reports telling them how to bring me up all the time.
2009/11/07 11:45 After struggling for absolutely ages with a defective mouse (the left button was getting more and more erratic and wouldn't actually do anything first time when I 'clicked' with it) I succumbed and bought a new one. I couldn't be bothered with the aggravation of finding and installing new drivers, and apart from its erratic clicking habits it was a nice one to use, so I went for a straightforward replacement of the old one. It's an Intellimouse Explorer 4.0, and apparently I'm not the only one who's experienced the same problem with it!
I got round to doing the swap earlier this morning, and now that I've got one that works properly first time, I simply cannot understand how I put up with the old one for so long. I have to say that I'm not altogether fond of mice at the best of times: in fact I nearly always use a keyboard shortcut if there is one - which may well be a throwback to my days of the good old Sinclair Spectrum, before mice were even a twinkle in a cat's eye. Ahh...those were the days!
2009/11/05 21:51 Which was the title of my very first entry, nine years ago tonight, on Guy Fawkes Night 2000. There's nothing intentionally symbolic about the choice of date, incidentally: it was just that it had been about three weeks or so I think since IAM had first started and it took me that long to make my mind up about whether to try my hand at a page. I'd never kept a diary of any description, nor opened myself or my mods up to any form of public inspection, so I wasn't at all sure it was a good idea, but it seemed like fun. And it was.
I'm not going to even attempt to select a few entries as some sort of "edited highlights": I wouldn't describe anything as particularly representative of the last nine years anyway. Some of what I've written was happy, some sad, some trivial, some irreverent, some introspective and some almost narcissistic. But above all it's represented what I was thinking and feeling at the time I wrote it. I've edited on many occasions for spelling and grammar where on re-reading it I felt the meaning was ambiguous, but I've never actually deleted anything.
Looking back at those first few tentative entries, I concentrated virtually exclusively on mod-related topics. It wasn't until much later that I felt confident enough to start revealing more about myself as a person, and even so, that's been a fairly gradual process. But I like to think the bouncy positive style I started off with has set the tone for most of what's followed. The entries have certainly got longer, which may or may not be a good thing, and in so doing it's becoming in some respects more of a proper blog. It's hardly creating anything for posterity, but I still reckon that recording my own small snapshots of the last nine years is something of an achievement, and certainly one I never expected to turn out in the way it has. Let's see what the next nine have in store?
