Stories of Tie Up Games

For me, it was seeing Aladdin and Prince Phillip tied and gagged in their respective Disney movies. As a kid, I didn't understand why I was so drawn to these scenes, but they live rent-free in my mind to this day.

It was even better a few years later when I saw Elizabeth Hurley tied and gagged in "My Favorite Martian".

Aladdin for me too but also Ransom.

I was a kid in the 1970s. Re-runs of shows like Batman, The Wild, Wild West, Superman, and others on weekday afternoons after school. Bruce Wayne, Jim West, and Jimmy Olsen would get bound and gagged every few episodes. At night, cop shows like Hawaii 5-0 had guys tied up and gagged every so often.

Of course, there were books and comics, too. The Hardy Boys featured one or the other brother getting the treatment. And I remember one comic cover with Spiderman all wrapped up in rope and dangling from the ceiling or a crane with Kingpin laughing beneath him.

The first thing I remember is the serial "Corky and White Shadow" on the old Mickey Mouse Club. Corky (played by Darlene Gillespie) was tied up by the bad guy.

Cartoons, with Daphne, Penelope Pitstop and April O'Neil.

Then movies. Like "(terror at the) Opera"

Can't remember exactly but would probably be early 90s cartoons or comics. Disney and Looney Tunes ones probably and other sources.

I've shared this elsewhere on the board, but "The Rescuers Down Under" was my first exposure to the concept of kidnapping, and there were two tie up scenes in there that I got a lot of milage out of. Alladin, and Oliver And Company, and an episode of Adventures In Odyssey, and Last Chance Detectives were next. Not to mention the Accidental Detectives book series.

And all of these were before I turned 6!

As a young lad, it was the Cuckoo Clock Caper episode of Inspector Gadget. Penny's struggles and mmphs in that episode were top-notch and definitely caused my bondage awakening as a little boy.

I'll never remember it exactly, but the earliest I definitely remember were cartoons, especially Ninja Turtles (the 1987 cartoon, probably the most famous version of them--I didn't know until fairly recently there was still actually relatively recent TMNT stuff being made). April O'Neil infamously got kidnapped and tied up multiple times. Occasionally other characters would as well. Other cartoons and sometimes books had an influence as well, and may have come earlier, but Ninja Turtles is the earliest one I can definitively say.

I can, and think I have, give a rough outline of the media which influenced my bondage interest throughout my life. Multiple other things already discussed here influenced me as well (Aladdin, Hardy Boys jumped out at me).

I could write an essay. As a late 90s kid seeing Jessica Alba in the show Flipper made me realize that girls werent gross but where quite pretty. I was a very little boy who still didnt understand what TUGs or bondage even was, but Jessica Alba, even as a young starlet, made a little boy pay attention. She was a damsel I think 4 times in that show, one of the better DiD shows is the one where she and two others are kidnapped and tied against a pole. I could do an essay as she's become probably the best DiD in mainstream history. Flipper is likely what got me into TUGs and DiD. Honestly that show, the way it was set up, could have had many more DiD scenes and Im happy to chat about it with anyone

Watching Scooby Doo and seeing Daphne bound and gagged triggered something in my young mind. I really liked it and wanted to be bound and gagged like her. She was the genesis but April O'Neil and to a lesser extent Lois Lane also had a major influence on me.

he old westerns and TV crime dramas where the heroine got tied up. There was only TV(initially only two channels here) and Cinema back then

Ah yes, I have already answered that here: viewtopic.php?p=182483#p182483

JAG episode Brig Break.

It was Aladdin for me too! Funny enough when I was really young and watching it I actually didn’t like that part because it made me feel “weird” when I saw it and was too young to understand exactly what it was

Penny from "Inspector Gadget" as well as April O'Neil. Penny got captured in several different ways and put into peril, and when I was a kid I wanted to be her.

The first that comes to mind is the scene in Home Alone 3 when Alice duct tapes Ms Hess to a chair. It's still one of my favourite bondage scenes in any media.

The scene from childs play where chucky had tied up and gagged Andy. That scene did something to me…

For me it was a combination of

Peter Parros in Knight Rider "Knight of the Rising Sun" - multiple scenes, even;
Lane McCray and several hot extras in the European video for La Bouche's "Be My Lover" tied upside down and gagged;
and - for some reason printed in one of our history books - this:

I remember when I was 5 or 6, seeing the beginning of a movie where a woman was tied to a cinder block and cleave gagged in a canoe. I don't know the name of it, but it has definitely stuck with me almost 40 years later.
That and being raised by a single mom, there was always soap operas or Lifetime movies on and they usually featured some sort of damsel in distress

Amberbound wrote: 3 weeks ago It was Aladdin for me too! Funny enough when I was really young and watching it I actually didn’t like that part because it made me feel “weird” when I saw it and was too young to understand exactly what it was

We watched it in school once, in the library. Maybe at the end of a semester, or I'm getting it mixed up with Raiders of the Lost Ark, which I know for a fact I watched at the end of a semester when work was done in one class. It would've been about 30 years ago, my memory's not what it used to be. Anyway, I remember that scene coming up with Aladdin getting chained and gagged and trying to pay close attention without making it obvious I was and being sure someone would notice my extra interest in the scene. Of course, nobody did. Now I wonder if anyone else also paid more attention to that scene and I just didn't notice.

I’m actually hugely surprised to see no one mention Small Soldiers. Absolutely phenomenal scene with a young Kirsten Dunst bound and gagged by a group of sentient Barbie dolls, stuff gagged with a sock, then later with duct tape. Lots of struggling, screaming, gag talk, and cutesy dialogue. It was a lighthearted kid-friendly movie yet somehow managed to pull off what is still to this day one of the most exciting bondage scenes I’ve ever seen, not to mention how long the scene goes on for. There’s also two other bondage scenes in the movie, one of a truck driver bound and gagged with duct tape wrapped around his head and his hands cocooned to his steering wheel, and one of a boy tied and cleavegagged in a closet in pajamas, whining through his gag helplessly as his older sister (Dunst) errantly tosses her coat over his face and closes the closet door, completely oblivious. As a young boy I dreamed of being in a similar situation. It’s an absolute treasure of a movie, and it still gets me amped up to this day

Oooh! Seconded on the Small Soldiers! The scene with the boy in the closet especially. I remember it made me feel “weird” - then later i imagine his sister ignoring him and throwing her coat on him on purpose!
Then as my “interests” evolved (quickly!) i found myself wishing the boy was in dunst’s spot and tied up by the barbies and gagged with one of his sister’s discarded socks…

Yeah… that movie definitely got my fantasy-engine started at a young age

For me it's hard to tell, as my very earliest clear memory of my entire life is of a Christmas party, when I was 4 going on 5, asking all my cousins to tie me up and finally getting tied up by one of them. Whether that was inspired by anything I saw in media earlier in life, or if my TUGdar was always on and i naturally gravitated to watching shows like Batman, I cannot tell, and have stopped trying to figure it out, 54 years later, now.

It is truly a "which came first, the chicken or the egg?" idiomatic question for me; if I had to pick, I'd say in my case it's actually interest in bondage that is the egg, that grew and was fed by media depictions I sought out.

Growing up in the early 90’s my earliest memories of being turned on my bondage came from a few sources (hard to know which was first or most significant)
-1987 TMNT. The episode April Foolish sticks out most clearly in my mind when April is gagged by Shredder and right before she says, “I sure hope that’s clean.” We had it on VHS and I rewound that scene hundreds of times.

-Wishbone, Slobbery Hound. Lisa GG’s struggling and mmmphing into the gag was nearly heart stopping for me as a kid. Whenever that played on tv my heart would start pounding with excitement as I knew that scene was coming up. That’s also a scene we watched in the library at school where I had to act casual when it came up. When I rediscovered that scene online on YouTube in college I was so grateful. With social media I also got to find Lisa GG online and read what she posts and see what she’s up to today knowing she had a small but significant impact on my childhood and the childhood of many boys (and girls) in a way she likely will never know.

-Inspector Gadget, Coo Coo Clock Caper and Greenfinger. Two scenes I recorded as a kid that I circled back to all the time. The mmmphing in Coo Coo Clock and the struggling to remove the gag were seared into my mind. The full body shot of Penny tied to the chair at the end of the scene with the gag on her mouth was probably my favorite single shot.

Charlie’s Angels, Angel Hunt and Magic Fire. My Mom watched Charlie’s Angels often in the mornings and I remember the scene where Tiffany gets kidnapped and we see the first in focus shot of her gagged mouth moving the needle for me when I was little as well as Kate Jackson chair tied and gagged in Magic Fire. I think they stood out because it was powerful women getting tied up. Later in life Marathon Angels is my favorite scene, but I don’t recall seeing that one as a kid.