Bio

Richard Volcane came into being as a self protective nom d’ bondage. Over the years, he has evolved into just what the other partner wanted and needed. There are as many Richard Volcane’s out there as there are corespondents and playmates. To some, he lives a life of James Bond globe-trotting glamour, to others, he is The Master, the guru from whom great knowledge and wisdom flows. Or the hot, cool photographer who always has 5-6 bound beauties mmmmmphing around his downtown loft. O’ the fantasy, the fantasy!

A deep, dark secret, I think I became a photographer so I could take bondage photos. My first experiments with a camera, did I photograph the dog, friends, the house, the car? No, I took self-portraits of my scarfed self reflected in the mirror. The processed prints were innocently intercepted by my father. While I died any number of a thousand deaths as he opened the envelope, to my unimagined relief, they were so terrible as to be unrecognizable both in person and location. ‘Boy, does this person have a lot to learn,’ he said. Boy, did I ever! ..... how to be even more devious, sneaky, and hide things better, drag my blanket, cover tracks.

Even as a child, cowboys and Indians age, (5-6-7?) I had accumulated a significant collections of bandannas, soft, soft, well worn, too many, more than any other kid on the block and that this was somehow wrong, not normal, something to be hidden. No idea where they came from, how I got them (or where they went).

Of all the influences of one encounters in growing up, the sense of hiding this dark secret - scarves, lingerie and bondage - that this secret, this compulsion was sick, perverted, terrible and wrong and, therefore, I was sick, perverted, terrible and wrong, was all pervasive. I look back on the years of lies, stories, deceit, abuse, manipulations, denials, guilt, fear, self-loathing with wonder that I have survived to today.

The point is that the journey from there to mature ‘adult’hood, has been an arduous one. There is, hopefully, an open honesty now, a directness of communication. There is little tolerance for game playing, being used, outside of mutually discussed/agreed upon scene boundaries/limits. There is a desire to be with people who understand, are non-judgmental, intelligent, playful, inventive, imaginative, you know, just your everyday super person.

For years, one role of Richard Volcane was to be a guide, a teacher, a support group of one to scarf bondagers. While I will never pass up the opportunity to get up on my soap box and proselytize, it’s time someone else took up the cause. I want to be with giving, caring, people, sharing what we love and love to do, in person or cyberspace.

So, the curtain is open, hard to ignore the man so used to pulling all the strings. We’ll take questions, general, personal, make believe...........

Oh, yes