Straight Jacket

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Sheepishly, Sally admitted that she planned to spend the entire duration of the party incapacitated in her new purchase. Because to fully realise the straitjacket’s detaining potential, she needed an accomplice to help her get well and truly restrained. Was there - she already knew that this question could only be answered in the negative, but asked it anyway – any chance at all that she could escape if she really had been abandoned here for good?

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With an air of resignation, Angela picked up the canvas garment and held it so that Sally could slip her arms into the sleeves. Razor wire still adorned the high fences and corrugated metal panels that sealed off the area, even though it was several years since the company that had previously owned the building had gone out of business. It would be easy for Christian readers to claim that the problems within the LGBT community and revealed by Todd are the inevitable consequences of rejecting God’s plan for sexuality. As soon as the theme for the Annual Spring Fancy Dress Party was announced, Sally knew who she was going to go as.Well, Sally had made the rather unusual decision to simply wear black tights, calf length black suede boots. With the speech inhibitor teased out, Amy worked her aching jaw muscles for a few seconds, while her potential liberator retrieved the bottle and began unscrewing the top. For the seeds of a solution had been planted in her mind the other day, and since that time she’d been mentally focussing on the pros and cons of this daring scheme, in the hope that she could fine tune the details, and with any luck bring her plan to fruition.

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The solution, therefore, is for LGBT people to seek freedom from their shame and for all people to pull together to change the hostile environment which inflicts shame on LGBT people. Rather, we should seek to step into that community and offer help, love, and care to those who are struggling.But she knew that she had to lure Jenny to the site she had all set up, otherwise the whole scheme would flounder before it had even begun. And if, as she hoped would someday come to pass, she managed to get involved with a crowd of like-minded individuals who enjoyed and practiced bondage for the sheer joy of it, wouldn’t she then be able to boast that she, out of all of them, was the only one who really understood exactly what it was like to be held in long term, incessant internment, content in the knowledge that release was only going to come after many days of unalterable solitary confinement? In the words of one of his friends: 'On paper you should be boring, but you're actually quite good fun. For it was, she found, far more constrictive and therefore inescapable than she could ever have imagined in her wildest dreams; the tightly clinging leather leaving her very little room for manoeuvre within its strict, all-enveloping embrace. So, if they take the message seriously and act immediately – and there’s no guarantee they will, given how overstretched they always claim they are, resource-wise - you could well be free by Wednesday evening.