ever since i snuck into the adult bookstores at age 17, i was drawn to the dark eroticism of predicament bondage. the damsel in distress style never did it for me. i needed to see women in real predicaments and real distress. i needed to see in her eyes that she knew why she was bound, and she knew that if she didn’t escape what was going to happen. bondage, to me, is not only about the ways a woman can be bound and tormented thru the bondage itself, but what happens when she is bound. not an easy thing to find in film and video in conservative climate of the 1980s.
my producer of choice was the old house of milan 8mm and video series and magazines. it was dark, erotic, and the girls knew they were bound for sexual gratification of their captor. tight crotchropes, whipping and corporal punishment, nipple torment, creative positions, and the use of vibrators. and the scenes were believable. the girls looked like they were in trouble, because most of the time, in those positions, they were. and any scene that faded out with the girl tied with this huge back massager secured between their legs made me go off.

when hom sold out to calstar in the 80s (and the hard edge style was replaced by damsel in distress videos). i was left with a void that needed filled. european videos were too violent for me. damsel in distress did not look real. there were a few producers that did real play that i enjoyed, but most, mostly for legal reasons could not show real emotions in bondage.

through the 90s i studied video production, i spent 2 years in la, and did everything possible to learn and enter the bdsm lifestyle. it was always my dream to make the videos i was renting on almost a daily basis, and to find a way to recapture the look and feel if those old hom videos. while living in pittsburgh, on may 31, 1997, i shot my first video with a local lifestyler, elena. we played for almost 8 hours. i was hooked.

in the mid 90s i finally acquired my first computer and started to study the internet, and spent literally days downloading pictures from bondage picture scanners. through online chatting i met people that became the first internet bondage producers. i also met my first online playmate, lioness. during our relationship, lioness wanted to see what bondage modeling was all about. i escorted her to shoots in the ny/ nj area, meeting producers that were making content for their fast growing bondage web sites. around that time, i acquired the domain name 'thebondagechannel'. since i was into video more than looking at pictures, i had the vision of a video intensive web site. in the late 90s, bandwidth and video compression technology was in its infancy and only the most wealthy could afford that type of web site. i held off on the site. edited my first video using 2 vhs tape decks and sold it on my own free home page from my isp.

through the late 90s i continued playing with lioness, working on my bondage skills, experimenting. recording everything, even shooting a video or two with her. when a better job moved me to cleveland in 1998, i was chomping at the bit to start my site. i was seeing my producer friend's tying up some of the hottest girls and i needed to do that myself. in 2000, i made enough cash from my day job to place an ad in the local free paper's adult section. the response was far better than i ever expected. that ad gave me 5 models that loved being tied up. by the end of 2000, i had enough content and thru the help of good friend, producer dan hawke (www.danhawke.com), hired his webmaster, acquired my first server and opened tbc on dec 30, 2000.

tbc has gone thru many changes since its inception. most changes were made as i learned web mastering and could afford the technology. i used the best video and computer technology that i could afford. i did updates when i could and produced and sold dvds. one thing i always did was find models that truly got off on being tied up. i stayed away from many of the 'pros', though in my early videos i used my share of adult stars due to necessity. i quickly learned that my shoots were more intense, and the video much better, when the woman i was playing with truly was there for being tied up first, and the paycheck second. that’s why i am here and to this day i expect that attitude from my models.

the early years of tbc made many friends that are names in the industry. robert deane (www.bondagedamsels.com) and i talked about tying up girls back in pittsburgh before there were dot coms. he introduced me to gina rae michaels (www.bondagedesigns.com), who became, along with robert, of my first co-producers of content. i shot a lot of content for gina in 2001, and my vision of tbc started to move towards a multi-producer video intensive site. i recruited producers both established and new. master e joined in, robert and i shot a video with new , now superstar, bondage model christina carter (www.christinacaptured.com). i was contacted by sgt major derek victur (www.bondagebarrix.com) and became close friends. in 2002 sgt major videos were the majority of tbc’s updates. traveled the country with him, shooting content for him and for tbc video release. i introduced him to master rigger lew rubens (www.boundanddetermined.com) who taught him. his work caught the eye of hogtied.com, where he is now a regular guest rigger and star of many of the kink.com sites. i am proud of my 'brother' and his success in the bondage world. his work is the only other producer other than myself that remain on tbc.

at this point i should mention kc. she was my first full time bdsm girlfriend. she starred in videos even though she would have preferred to be behind the scenes. she loved the rope and the whip with a passion like mine. she helped me develop many business and personal relationships that i still have. even the end of our relationship was a learning experience for me, and her advice even at the end helped push tbc and myself to where it is now. she had to deal with me thru the stress of site growing pains, a full redesign of the site, moving from mostly a pay-per-view streaming site to a subscription site with streaming video, photos and clips, losing both our day jobs, and dealing with many models and producers. the perfect woman - totally the wrong time. thanks pet. i love you for everything you did for me.

as our relationship ended in 2004, i also realized (with kc's help) that i was not doing enough rigging and i was losing the focus on why i started tbc in the first place. i ended my business relationships with other producers and focused on making tbc all about the fantasies and perversions and bondage of david mack. i dubbed tbc 'the forced orgasms network' and worked on more creative positions, more intense bondage, more hard core play, and not only doing forced orgasms, but taking women past their orgasm limits, turning orgasm itself into torture.

up to this point i did everything for the site. i rigged, played, shot video, took photos. control freak that i was i never even had kc take pictures (duh). i set up 2 and sometimes 3 video cameras to capture my play as best as possible. to this day i use 2 cameras in studio shoots.

2005 brought development to tbc, the addition of model sherdian nicoll as my photographer started the increase in the quality of product that my subscribers have become accustomed to. i rarely shoot without a photographer. i also have the services of good friends paige turner and the badman (www.naughtyties.com) as primary photographer and videographer. the relationship continues today.

in 2006, i moved to tampa, florida for many reasons. the opportunity to work with many quality models and producers was a primary factor in bringing tbc to tampa. many women that love the lifestyle either live or travel here. um, the weather doesn't hurt either.

today, i am proud that thebondagechannel is a viable, quality web site that features real, intense, and consensual bdsm play. the site is a respected entity in the business. it has received critical acclaim and has a steadily growing fan base. tbc video reached a major milestone in 2007 as ‘tied n cumming 7’ starring christina carter received an avn nomination. it is a thrill to go into bookstores that i frequented in my earlier days and see my own videos on the shelves, along with all the beautiful bondage stars that i have had the chance to play with. tbc content is delivered over many different mediums. dvds are distributed thru bonvue enterprises. tbc has a clips4sale.com clips outlet, as well as a clips.com outlet for our bondage dildo play scenes. tbc video can be seen on digital pay per view sites sites as hotmovies.com and aebn.com.

i started tbc to realize the fantasies that i saw in my head that i did not see on my video or computer screens. though i do listen to subscriber comments and suggestions, anything that is shot for tbc is done to please one person – me. tbc will continue to seek out sexual women that enjoy, or fantasize about being bound and sexually controlled. i will continue to explore the orgasm limits of bondage models, from women that have never been tied to the most known names in bondage. i will work on new and more intense and devious predicaments for my pets. i will continue to do long , slow tease sessions, something that many video sites choose not to do. i appreciate the subtle tortures and feel that tbc can capture the long , slow, erotic slow tortures on video. i plan on incorporating more tickling scenes, using more female dommes and multiple girl scenes. i am looking into live streaming shows. i hope to make one happen in 2007.

what i can guarantee in the future for tbc is that i will improve video quality, make the site more user friendly, find new ways of distributing dvd quality content, and continue to make thebondagechannel a favorite destination of predicament bondage and forced orgasm fans.

-david mack