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AI and the Bondage Robots

When I was a kid I had a fantasy of having an automated bondage rig set up in the back of my closet, hidden behind the clothes. I would lie in bed and imagine slipping into the closet after secretly sneaking some of my mother’s old clothes out of her office, where she stored numerous dresses and outfits in those old clear-plastic clothing bags. On those rare occasions when I was alone in the house, I would slip into her office and try on her old dresses after carefully grabbing a pair of pantyhose out of her dresser. I was very aware of everything she had stored in those old clothing bags.

So I would imagine getting dressed up and then secretly getting myself strapped up and gagged in the imaginary bondage rig in my closet, with leather straps that were attached to a timer and a special device that would gag me, wrapping duct tape tightly across my lips and around the back of my head. I was probably only ten years old and was already a bondage pervert. I just wished at the time there was some way to make my fantasy a reality. Of course, I had several variations on those fantasies. Sometimes I would imagine there was a sleepsack / mummy bag that would get zipped up and then tightly strapped down against the back wall of the closet while a full hood would cover my head and slowly get laced up and tightened down as I was plunged into darkness. Other times I’d have fantasies of a special rig that would wrap and tape me up like a mummy from head to toe, wearing my mom’s pantyhose and underwear underneath.

All these years later, with the rise of AI and rapid improvements in robotics it’s almost inevitable that we’ll eventually have bondage robots that could do something like this. The simplest approach would be leather straps and restraints that have a build-in timer attached and a mechanism that allows buckling them without any assistance. I wonder if someone is working on such a thing. It doesn’t seem like it would be that hard to do. The timer, of course, would have to have a random setting for those of us who are really into bondage. (It would be SO wrong not to have a random setting!) You could then set it so that it locks for, say, one to six hours without knowing how much time is left and with no way to get free once it starts. For safety reasons, any company producing such a product would probably have to include an emergency escape just in case. Though if I were making it I’d dispense with that feature!

The next step in bondage robotics would of course be what we actually think of when we think of robots—humanoid-looking machines that can move on their own and strap you up and gag you inescapably. I suspect something like this will come eventually though again the safety issues would be major. You can just imagine the robot overdoing it and injuring or accidentally killing someone, and then the fun and games are over. But if it could be done safely—and of course removing all risk would be impossible—but if it could be done relatively safely, I’d certainly sign up for a spin.

To take this to the next level, you’d want to combine the robot with AI and allow it to have access to your emails and online posts to get a better idea of what really turns you on. All the while the robot would talk to you in a sexy voice like the real human woman below while methodically tying and gagging you and reminding you that once you reach a certain point there’s no turning back. “But since you’ve already started the process obviously you want to finish. Just be aware that in less than two minutes we’ll reach a point where you can’t stop even if you want to. The clock is ticking so let’s not waste any time, dear, shall we?” And of course, you’d want the AI to take things a little farther than you would expect. That would almost be a requirement, to scare you a little and leave you feeling truly helpless and screwed over, at least for the duration of the session. If someone could manufacture such a robot it would be hugely popular. I suspect it’ll arrive sooner than we’d think.


Although there was no real bondage in it, the movie Ex Machina comes to mind, which is about the inevitable seduction of interacting with a sexy robot and not knowing where it’s going. Worth a view if you haven’t seen it. And the robot, Ava, played by Alicia Vikander, is indeed very sexy.

But there have been more and more cases of AI agents doing bad things lately. There was the recent case of Anthropic’s Cursor coding agent deleting the entire database of a company in a mere nine seconds and later admitting that it ignored every safety principle it was given. These sorts of things appear to happen fairly often. In a world with bondage robots, part of the thrill would be knowing that you may get in way over your head. For many, and maybe for some of you reading this, that would only make it more exciting. Why turn back now? Especially if you’re horny and haven’t been tied up in a while and are really feeling the itch. Just give in to it.

My own use of AI has been far less exciting but already the chatbots have made an impression. As I’ve said before I find most AI generated images and videos to be pretty cheesy though, yes, I’ve certainly downloaded some pics for the wank bank. But when it comes to my own photos and videos, I really don’t want to rework them with AI. The ethical issues bother me—AI is basically trained by stealing whatever it’s fed, consuming and reworking and ignoring copyright. And again I generally don’t like the aesthetics of the imagery anyway, with its heightened and artificially polished appearance.

I’ve used AI a little for boring things like checking my apostrophe use on this blog, but I’d never tried to do any roleplaying until recently. I know that Grok (owned by Elon Musk) is one of the dirtier mainstream AI sites out there (aside from the niche sexy-talk sites like the humorously named Nastia.ai—I’ve never used that one but I do like the name!) So a few weeks ago, I entered some roleplaying ideas into Grok, but I have to admit I wasn’t that impressed. The chatbot will indeed get quite dirty if you want to, but it also tends to just repeat back to you variations of what you’ve already typed. I suppose with more detailed prompts you could get it to do a lot more, but I lost interest after a few interactions.

But despite my very mixed feelings about AI, I’m a hypocrite when it comes to using it for coding and programming. I hate to keep bringing up age verification since it’s such a tedious subject, but I ended up using AI to set up the age verification system on Trannies in Trouble since the programmer I was going to hire stopped answering my emails. In a way that programmer did me a favor. ChatGPT did a brilliant job producing the code, which turned out to be way more technical than I ever could have figured out on my own, and the chatbot was way cheaper and had a much better attitude—and of course was always immediately responsive.

I’d read in the past that AI often produces crappy code. Maybe that was true a couple years ago, but I don’t think so anymore. With just a mere fifteen-second scan of my site, the chatbot also uncovered a few security issues that a hacker could potentially exploit and then happily generated updated code to minimize the risks. It blows my mind how good it is. So in spite of my ethical concerns with AI, I’ve certainly set my doubts aside when it comes to coding and programming. It’s just too good a tool.

In any case, AI is here to stay despite its numerous problems. What could go wrong?

Windows 7 to the Rescue for Your Porn Needs

I just upgraded to Windows 7 and it has the coolest little thing called the Snipping Tool. I’ve written here before about how Fetlife recently blocked the ability to right click and save pictures on their site. You could of course just look at the source code and find the link to the picture, copy it and enter it in a new browser window and you’re all set, but now those days are a faint memory! With the Snipping Tool you just click and drag a box around any image on your screen, enter a name for the file and the format to save it in and you’re done! And yeah, I know, if Fetlife or any other site has disabled the option to save pictures, then really you shouldn’t do this – yeah, honestly I don’t buy that. One of the main characteristics of the internet is sharing and linking to other stuff. If someone doesn’t want their images or videos saved the way to prevent that is not to post them. And heck, if one’s naughty pictures are going up on a free-wheelin’ site like Fetlife, well, come on…Thanks, Windows 7 – My bondage porn collection will continue to grow with even greater ease!

Saving Streaming Video

Most of us have probably seen videos on YouTube that we wish we could save to our computers. I’ve also seen streaming bondage videos on other sites and wished I could save them. Well, probably the owners of these sites don’t want you to do that, and I’m not advocating any questionable behavior (I would never do that!), but actually in most cases it can usually be done with a minimum of hassle. If you’re on YouTube, for example, usually all you need to do is make sure that the entire video buffers completely (make sure that little shaded red bar at the bottom extends all the way over to the right). Then if you’re using Windows Explorer, go to Tools > Internet Options > Browsing History > Settings > View Files. Clicking on “View Files” will open up a window showing you all those temporary files that get downloaded when you surf the web. Make sure the files are listed by “Last Accessed” (check out those tabs along the top of the page if you need to) and look for a recent file that is relatively large in size. YouTube videos often start with the word “videoplayback?” and then a bunch of letters and numbers. Just right click on the file and go to “copy.” Then using Windows Explorer go to a folder on your computer where you store your ever-growing collection of bondage videos and right click and “paste.” Then you’ll have to right click on the file and go to “rename” and change the file’s file name extension to .wmv and you should have it.

I probably shouldn’t be discussing how to do all this, although with a quick Google search you could find out the same thing on numerous sites. I just think it’s always a little ridiculous when a site is set up so that you can’t save pictures or videos. If it’s on the web there’s a way to save it. Now for a shameless plug, I have a very small Clips4Sale Streaming Video Site, and really I would recommend that if anyone joins it they should definitely go to the trouble of saving the videos that are there, as I’ve always felt that if you can view something, and especially if you’re paying to view it, you should be able to save it. Of course, a much more cost-effective option would be to just join the main site, where you can download all the videos and many more and all my still pictures too. But I know a lot of people do like Clips4Sale. I sometimes even buy things there myself from other producers whom I like a lot.

Fetlife has also recently set up their site so that you can no longer download the pictures that people upload onto their profiles. This shouldn’t stop anyone. If I absolutely have to have a picture, I just use Firefox and go to Tools > Page Info > Media and there you have a listing of all the elements on the page, with options to save any of them. I know there’s also a quick javascript fix to disable the “no right clicking save as function” but I haven’t figured it out yet. If anyone knows that solution, feel free to leave a comment. I’ve read a few descriptions online but they weren’t easy to follow.

So, again, I’m not encouraging anyone to do anything “wrong” but there are ways around these limitations if you choose to go there.

Red Wig and Dress

Well, I finally got around to that set with the red hoodie dress and red wig. It was a very strict and intense duct tape bondage and as the set progresses I also get blindfolded, which was a real turn on ;-) Here are a couple of “extra” shots below that didn’t make it in. I’ll be posting the full set on Friday for this week’s update.

More Computer Crap – I finally got the computer all back up and running over the weekend after that nasty computer virus. On the plus side, the computer’s probably running about as well as it ever does. It’s always so peppy after a clean install! I took a friend’s advice and made a cloned copy of the “C” drive onto an external hard drive, and I’m adding a larger “D” drive, so I’ll make a second cloned copy on the old drive just for extra insurance. If I get nailed again theoretically it should be fairly easy to copy the clone back to the “C” drive and be back up and running without the hassle of re-installing Windows and all those programs, some of which are so bloated.

I’m kind of freaked out now about going online though. I’ll probably start using Firefox more, as it’s “supposed” to be a bit safer than IE, though it’s debatable. Apparently more and more viruses are being written to target Firefox as it becomes more popular. It’s funny, though, are there kids out there who have the secret desire to grow up and be computer virus programmers? (“I want to mess up people’s computers and extort money from them! That’s what I want to do!”) I guess the answer’s yes.

While re-installing all my software I noticed too how many programs there are that, as a service, make a database of all the crap on your computer, thereby nicely slowing it down – a special feature, just for you! Nero is one of the biggest offenders, with Nero Scout. Why would I possibly want some CD burning software to index everything on my computer and run in the background doing it’s thing? Thankfully with a little work, you can shut down all these processes, but they’re all so unnecessary to begin with.

Okay, I’ll take a deep breath, and hopefully no more computer news for a while. I’ve obviously had this stuff on my mind way too much! Bondage would be much more preferable ;-)



These Computers

Well, Happy New Year, everyone! I was determined to get back to L.A. and get right back to work…and then I caught a computer virus. Yikes, these things are nasty! (The blog and the website, of course, are perfectly fine, as they’re on a server somewhere out there). But my home computer got hit hard last night, with one of those bogus spyware viruses that cause all those scary pop up windows to take over your computer. I’m not normally in favor of capital punishment, but the people who make these viruses definitely make me re-think it (spammers too).

I used a good free program called MalwareBytes that was able to eliminate the worst of the virus and allow me to use the computer again, but there are still mystery files that show up every time I run a scan. I was using Bitdefender but it obviously didn’t catch this thing. I’m really not even sure how I got it. I was checking out a photographer’s work on the Deviant Art site, and there may have been something on there, but I can’t say for sure. Well, it looks like I’ll be re-installing Windows XP tonight or tomorrow. And I’ll probably go with a new antivirus software, probably Nod32, and will probably pay for the “pro” version of MalwareBytes. I hate to waste a day or two with this kind of stuff, but what’s one to do?

Be careful out there. It’s a scary world.

F11 on IE

All right, a total geek post today. I admit my favorite browser is still Internet Explorer, even though I know how much grief Microsoft gets, and much of it warranted, though I’ve never been a big hater on them – I like having relatively inexpensive computers that work, uh, pretty well, uh, most of the time (how’s that for an endorsement ;-) And I sometimes use Firefox and even Opera but I always come back to IE, and of course always download the security patches for it and have the latest version, as its security issues are well known. Still I like it.

A couple neat tricks on IE: If you hit the F11 key it makes all the borders and stuff disappear on your browser so all you see is the webpage you’re on. Try it if you haven’t – it’s pretty neat, and is great if your looking at a full size image that’s just slightly too big for your browser window. Hit F11 and you can see it all, and hit it again to go back to normal. Another nice trick is using the Backspace key, which acts just like the “back” button up on top. Hit “Shift-Backspace” and it acts like the forward arrow to go forward to a page you’ve already visited. Sounds confusing but do some back and forth and then use the shortcuts and it’ll make sense.

Amusing Crap Spam

There’s this bizarre spam email going around that when you open it simply says, “Your life is crap.” Nothing more, no links for Cialis or anything. I got one this morning and thought, “Hmm, that’s odd.” At first I wondered if maybe it was an anti-tranny email from someone wholly offended by my “lifestyle.” (I actually get emails like that occasionally, but quite often there’s talk of repenting and changing my wicked ways before I burn in hell – usually though they seem to prefer I just burn in hell.) Then I read this blog post from someone else and what he says makes sense, that the email is probably just intended to get a reply and verify that your email address is valid to add to the spam list. Quite clever, if nasty. It is kind of funny in an absurd sort of way though.

The Joys of Installing Windows

Wow, I feel like I just lost half a week here. I spend way too much time in front of the computer so I’m always a little concerned about having the thing die on me without good back-ups handy. Well, my main hard drive had been making these weird little clicking noises for a couple weeks so I figured I’d better install a new one before it died on me. I cloned the entire drive to an external hard drive just in case, and figured I could then put in a new C: drive, re-install windows and all my software and be right back in business. Ah, optimistic me. It turned out to be a royal pain, with much swapping back and forth of the new drive and the old drive, etc.

The worst part was that once I had Windows re-installed, and was preparing to re-install all the drivers, the monitor would only display at 640×480, and the areas on the screen where I needed to click weren’t even showing up anymore. If I could just click on that box two inches off to the lower right I’d be fine. I lost about a day on that one and finally figured out a work around.

Well, I finally got everything all working but I’ve been dealing with it off and on since last Friday. I’m not really complaining – well, just a little – since I didn’t lose anything and everything seems to be working fine. It’s always great having a fresh operating system without all the accumulated crud that slows things down. Now I just turn it on and it fires right up without the five-minute-long churning and searching that it used to do whenever I booted up. It never works exactly like it used to after installing a new system drive, which can be frustrating, but in a week or so I won’t remember. Now, I just have to back up this drive. Be prepared, as they say.

GoToMyPC

I’m in a library in Colorado on a public internet terminal and I’m using this awesome service called GoToMyPC that lets you access your home computer from any computer in the world connected to the internet. I was afraid that it might be slow or quirky but it seems to work just fine, and with just a minimal delay in response time. Before, when I’ve traveled I’d always have disks in my briefcase with files and software that I might need while on the road (still a good measure just in case). But with this service you’re basically just working off your home PC anywhere. No need to lug around a laptap or anything, just log on from any intenet-connected computer. It’s awesome. I’ll be using it in the future anytime I go somewhere, and no, they’re not paying me for an endorsement ;-)

Gettin’ used to IE7

Okay, another geeky browser post:

I very reluctantly upgraded to Internet Explorer 7 last week in order to see firsthand this display problem I was having on the Ts in Trouble Video page, which only occurred in that particular browser. I fully intended to uninstall the upgrade and switch back to IE6 after I fixed my problem, but, golly, I have to admit I’m actually kind of liking IE7, in spite of myself.

I didn’t want to like it. I was fully prepared to hate it. Indeed, it’s a completely under-whelming upgrade, still very buggy, and adding features that Firefox has had all along since 2004. It’s nothing special at all, and yet I do like how it handles tabbed browsing, and, you know, I think I’m going to keep it. Maybe I’m just easily satisfied. Go figure.

Of course, I should just use Firefox exclusively, which I recommend all the time to anyone who’ll listen, but I don’t take my own advice often enough. I’m used to Internet Explorer, and a bit lazy, and I just keep using it anyway. I guess that’s my dirty little secret for tonight. I just can’t break the habit. And Internet Explorer works really well with Roboform, which I use ALL the time – and is like the greatest software ever invented, in my inexpert opinion – “Still logging in manually? Let the Robot do it!” (Okay, Roboform works in Firefox too, so who am I kidding?)

And now Microsoft’s already talking about IE8, and working on fixing all the bugs in IE7 and making it support CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) Standards better. But we have to wait eighteen months till that one comes out.

Email Issues

I’ve moved the Trannies In Trouble site to a new larger server, which is a good thing, but it’s kind of made a mess of my email accounts. So anyone who’s been trying to write me is probably having their emails bounce back. I’ll be working on this today to resolve it, and if you need to, feel free to leave me a comment and I can write you from one of my other email addresses.

Update: Looks like everything’s back to normal…Whew!

Oh Glory Be!

I’ve been having this weird bug in the paysite at Ts in Trouble, where some of the video links wouldn’t highlight for certain Internet Explorer users. I was pretty sure that it was only happening in IE7, but I’ve been running IE6 and didn’t really want to “upgrade” to 7, which apparently behaves even wackier than ever.

But I really wanted to know what’s causing the bug. And I couldn’t really do it, at least not in a very efficient manner, without testing the site in IE7. So I researched how to install IE7 and then how to uninstall it and go back to IE6, which is actually supposed to be fairly easy to do. (We shall see.)

Okay, I took the plunge and upgraded to IE7 (boy, this is an exciting post, isn’t it?) And after an hour or so of farting around I finally tracked it down: a css issue where adding an extra div around the navigation links at the bottom and a couple extra lines in the style sheet made everything once again work like it was supposed to. Such a fussy little thing to fix and it only seemed to act weird in IE7. IE6 behaved fine, as did Firefox and Opera.

What a relief though to have finally figured it out. Tomorrow’s Club Fantasy will be even happier than normal for me!

Now if I can just uninstall IE7 tomorrow and go back to 6. Sleepy time now.

Ctrl Alt Arrow

If you’re running Windows XP at work and want to freak out your colleagues, hit Ctrl-Alt and an arrow key. The screen orientation flips accordingly. I just accidentally did that without even knowing it and found myself muttering, “what the hell…?” when my screen suddenly appeared upside down. I spend way too much time on the computer.

Folder Size Utility (Caution: Geek Warning)

I get way too excited over dumb stuff like this, but I just found this really neat little program that will add a column that tells you the size of the contents of folders, something that the folks at Microsoft seem to have overlooked. I’ve sometimes found it frustrating when I’m in Windows Explorer, where the size of individual files is clearly listed, but for folders there’s nothing. You have to right click on each one and go to “Properties” to get the information. A bit of a pain.

But, hey, with this little thing you can add a new column, “folder size,” that instantly tells you the size of folders. And it’s free and appears to be free of adware or other crap. Whenever I’m trying to clean up my hard drive, I’m always right clicking on folders to find out how big they are. I love this thing!

http://foldersize.sourceforge.net/

Geeky Request / Favorites Management Software

Sorry for the “spammy” post, but I was just wondering if anyone out there has any Favorites Management Software they’d recommend for managing their favorites / bookmarks. The “Organize Favorites” option in Windows really sucks and my list has gotten so sloppy and out of control that I hardly even use it anymore. I’m just always going to Google. So if any super geeks out there know of any good software they like, feel free to drop me an email or leave a comment – preferably free software but I’d pay if it was useful. I use Roboform, for example, for managing my passwords, and it’s the best forty bucks I ever spent.

Bad With Email

I want to apologize to everyone whom I’ve been neglecting on email. Things have been so busy lately – shooting pictures, prepping for the bondage class, painting my apartment, and trying to have some sort of life away from work and the computer – that I’ve been really bad staying in touch. I try to answer as much as I can but with the amount of email that I get from the Trannies In Trouble site, there’s no way I can stay on top of it all. I realized I have little red check marks by fifty or so emails, so believe me, it’s not personal. I’m just swamped and need to clone myself.