Try Anything Once

“I’ll try anything once”, is my motto. And I think it’s a good philosophy of life. After all, how can you know if something is good or bad if you haven’t tried it? I think we should give everyone and everything a chance. If it doesn’t work, you don’t lose much, and if it does, then your life becomes a little bit better.

Sometimes, my friends make jokes about these ideas of mine. They ask me if I’ll do this and that, you know, crazy or uncomfortable things, and my answer is always the same: “I’ll try anything once”. This means, of course, that I’ve kissed a man, jumped into the cage of an orangutan, and slapped a police officer in the nape. And I must admit those proved to be quite unpleasant experiences. On the other hand, it also means that I’ve had a threesome and a foursome, that I’ve swam in the back of a dolphin, and that I offered myself as a volunteer to take pictures of the crater of a volcano from a helicopter. And that’s not a bad record, if you ask me.

There’s a reason I’m telling you this. When I was in college, there was this beautiful girl, Samantha, who was nobody’s friend. We all wondered why she would isolate herself.

Then, one day, she approached me and explained to me that she was a kinky person. She had suffered a lot of bullying for being “weird” and “sick”. And she had only come to me because she had heard about my motto and thought that only an open-minded person like me would understand her.

Since I’ll try anything once, I agreed to play bottom for her —she had also been bullied for being a female rigger. By the time we finished, she was crying with gratitude, and we had a nice intimate moment together.

This is my Shibari story.