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Locked Inside Yahoo group

by Michael Tremayne



     I started this group myself in July, 2005, but, as of mid-July, there are only very few members. You can find it at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LockedInside/, and I hope you will be interested to join it and post messages there.
     In fact, I am not quite ready yet to make serious attempts to publicize it and attract members, but I decided to see if I could start a group anyway, and I also wanted to reserve the name "Locked Inside" for it while I still could.
     So nothing has happened there yet. However, if you are interested in this topic, and you happen to be reading this, I would encourage you to join the group and to post messages. You can help make the group a success if you are willing to play an active part. However, if you feel you can't say much there while there are no members or few members (besides myself), then please join anyway and just wait until more people have joined, and consider joining in the activity then, if you find you can.

     I started this group in response to my discovery that the Suitcase Stories and Trunk Stories Yahoo groups no longer had a moderator. It seemed likely that this was due to the moderator falling victim to Yahoo's apparently frequent deletion of individuals' accounts, often for no obvious reason. In my experience, for a group to be without a moderator often sounds the death knell for a group, because it means that no-one can control it or change the settings or remove spammers, and so on.
     I also felt (as I still do) that it may not be such a good thing for there to be so many specialized Yahoo groups focusing on suitcases, lockers, trunks, cages (now deleted by Yahoo), bags, sacks, caskets, coffins, and so on. It seems to me that interest in such areas of confinement is far more limited than in more general aspects of bondage or B.D.S.M., and I don't think it's such a good idea for all these mailing lists to separate the limited audience into different groups of people, and presumably to encourage people to talk only (or at least mainly) about the one specialized form of confinement that the group is about. It seems to me that it might be more successful to have a more general group that covers all aspects of being contained or locked up, and to encourage people interested in any of them to join the one group and participate. This should work, it seems to me, especially bearing in mind that many of the same people belong to the multiple specialized groups anyway. I hope it will also result in more interesting and varied discussion resulting from the cross-fertilization of ideas and information from people of different interests in the confinement area. In contrast, I sometimes feel the very restricted groups, with their coterie of members who may be interested in only the one thing, do sometimes get a bit stale and inbred in their range of discussion.

     This was the idea behind my creation of this group. Of course, actually getting people to join, and then post messages, are quite different matters. With your interest and contribution, we can make this group a friendly and interesting place to discuss all matters confinement-related, whether it be techniques and methods, the advantages of different containers, choosing a container, safety aspects, medical aspects of confinement, issues of power and consent inherent in one person locking up another, fantasies, speculations, fictional stories - or whatever your imagination or experience can come up with.
     To give an idea of the range of topics I would like the groups to cover, I will reproduce below the introductory notice on the front page for the group:

     Do you have a secret (or maybe not-so-secret) longing to be helplessly locked up inside small containers? Have you ever got into a suitcase to see what it felt like, and found you enjoyed it? Have you ever been taken for a ride in the trunk of a car? Were you locked in a locker when you were at school? And did you want to experience these things again - and again?
     If so, it is likely you one of those very rare people with the apparently undocumented characteristic of claustrophilia, and this group is the place for you.
     I hope to attract here people who share this interest, and would like to encourage discussion of their common interest with like-minded people.
     Possible topics of discussion might include these aspects of confinement:

  * what containers you like to use, and why;
  * how you became interested;
  * incidents you have experienced or witnessed (either serious experimentation, or just fun pranks);
  * scenarios you would like to try out;
  * fictional stories by members on confinement themes;
  * exploration of the nature of claustrophilia or claustrophobia;
  * how to select a container, what factors or characteristics to look for;
  * methods or techniques for locking other people up - or *oneself* (and getting out again!);
  * is it more fun to be locked up, or to lock someone else up?
  * possible physical or medical dangers;
  * possible methods of emergency escape if something goes wrong;
  * psychological aspects or effects;
  * sexual/B.D.S.M. aspects (no general sexual references not related to the topic, though, please, or anything illegal);
  * long-term confinement and its effects (effects on the mind and body, sensory deprivation, possible out-of-body experiences, and the like);
  * contortionism and its techniques as they apply to getting inside very small containers.

     Have fun - I hope we can grow and enjoy interesting discussion in a friendly atmosphere.


Michael Tremayne.



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