This profile is over a decade old, and since profile updates are a hit-or-miss operation these days, I've decided to expand and clarify via the journal instead.

I've been described as a ridge runner, and while I'm definitely some kind of hill person or another, that isn't the whole story.  Over the last decade plus of living, I have become a lot more aware of both who I am and what I want from life.  While I have both a submissive and dominant side, and thus am most accurately described as a switch, I very rarely switch with a given person.  When I'm getting to know someone, I tend to either develop feelings one way or the other.  As a very general guideline, I'm inclined to feel more dominant towards people younger than me and submissive towards folks ten or more years my senior, but relative life experience warps that.  While I respect those who have submitted to me, I cannot submit to anyone else who I don't feel somewhat deferential to.  I have gotten a bit bisexual over the years, too, and I'm far more likely to submit than dominate other males.

I'm still a bondage nerd.  I can't even begin to guess how much BDSM gear I've acquired or made over my lifetime, but it's a pretty fair collection and always growing.  I'd really like to do more outdoor bondage, more covert public bondage, and try a bit of erotic/BDSM photography at some point.  I'm not hyper-sexual, and enjoy BDSM with or without overt sexuality.  I have enjoyed some very platonic kink experiences.  I always try to adapt to the needs and preferences of people I play with.

I'm casting a fairly wide net, but I'm not really pushing for anything in particular.  I would especially like to make kink-positive friends to share ideas, and if any play or relationships come from this profile, that's great, too.  I live in a rural area where finding others who do what we do is tricky, so any flavor of agreeable human contact is a win.

If anything serious comes from this profile, there are a few non-negotiables you should know about, too.  I live an agrarian lifestyle, so if we spend any real time together in person, you're going to have to be okay being around machinery, livestock, sawdust, and all the dirty stuff that goes with it.  If you want to get farm-kink dirty, that's fine,  but that means throwing hay bales in the barn or carrying firewood in legirons.  I work too much, so clingy folks need not apply.  While it is my job to put your mind at ease about submitting to me if we play, it isn't my job to fix your insecurities and anxieties.  There are plenty of adult human beings in my life who I have had to parent, I don't need more.  I have a soft spot for strong, independent women, especially ones who like surrendering that independence under specific, negotiated circumstances.  It's also worth noting that strict monogamy isn't an impossibility, but I'm not inclined toward it, and I have zero tolerance for petty jealousy and the games that go with it.