Dear Vanessa, it's been 8 very long days since you've been away from your wonderful thread and this is very much felt. Every now and then I open my computer and go straight to see if you're back again, but nothing, the emptiness grows more and more and I feel a little guilty about all this because after my note on the bondage in which you performed, the harmony between all of us has visibly dissolved. I'm very sorry for all this but unfortunately sometimes I get caught up in the emotion and I can't control myself. But there's a reason for everything and I'd like to explain it to you quickly. About 12 years ago I was in North Africa (in Libya) and I was collaborating with Le Monde on a journalistic investigation on the many illegal immigrants who from Central Africa try to reach Europe. What we saw and documented was incredible and unfortunately there was nothing we could do except take pictures and escape before the militiamen returned. In this context we found some rooms in a building used for the collection and sorting of illegal immigrants but it seemed much more like a prison than anything else, it was located in the hinterland of Zuara, inside there were mountains of dirt and few clothes of those poor people but in some rooms we found dirty beds with sheets full of blood. On one of these beds there was still the body of a young woman tied up on which a horde not of men but of animals had vented their worst instincts reducing her to the brink of death. Our efforts to save her were in vain after a few hours that we had taken her to a field hospital she died. All this happened a long time ago but unfortunately it is what still happens all over the world where there is no respect for human beings. Obviously these past experiences have left me with a very deep wound and for this reason I cannot see images of violence on those perfect and adorable beings that are women. That said, if you and Richard want to try your hand at bondage photos, you are free to do so, it is very clear that you are just having fun, but I would not want among the hundreds of thousands of your admirers to hide an animal that can take advantage of his girlfriend. That said, I want to apologize to you again and I hope to see you again very soon in our living room to tell each other about our most beautiful adventures. Amiche