I am Ted Shepherd, -- a man, past 21, native of Los Angeles, California, but driven out of my native state by crime, taxes, and crowding. Now living in two places: the Las Vegas area, Nevada, and in Pennsylvania, near Carlyle, U. S. A. Gay. My pictures feature male nudity and bondage. Please don't look if that would bother you. All my volunteers are adults. I intend my pictures for adults only. Thank you to all who have enjoyed my pictures as viewers, commenters, and participants. Added this clarification, 9/11/2022: Every picture I post here is my own property. None of them are downloaded from the internet. I have not given anyone permission to repost any of my pictures. When I see that someone has reposted one of my pictures, I ask him to delete that post. None of my pictures show infliction of pain. There are no whips or paddles or dildoes in my pictures or my life. I am explicit about this whenever someone comments that my helpless captive must now submit to painful punishment. I reject that completely. The point of my bondage pictures is that my volunteers have surrendered to me and my bondage equipment. To those who want physical punishment, I say to just pass me by. To those who want to experience physical bondage, maybe at my hands, I say not to fear infliction of pain. With me, a man can experience and enjoy surrender and bondage without fear. The most severe punishment I inflict on anyone happens if he whines. Then, I unlock him, throw his ungrateful ass out, and do not invite him back.

 

Update: 3-16-2021 I just now learned that flickr does not permit pictures "of a urinary nature". That was news to me. I quickly deleted about five pictures here that I had posted of a man relieving himself. If I have somehow overlooked another of these "offensive" photos, please let me know about it before flickr can delete my -account for non-compliance.

 

Views:

1,000,000 September, 2013;

3,000,000 April 2014;

5,000,000 October 2014.

10,000,000 August 2015

15,000,000 September 2016

20,000,000 February 2018

25,000,000 January 2019

30.000.000 November 2019

35,000,000 April, 2021 For various good reasons, I'm posting fewer pictures currently so the count of views is rising more slowly.

 

Update 7/20/2020. I wrote this on a friend's photo just now where the caption read "Breaking in the New Police Chief":

The man in uniform is not a policeman but a county sheriff. He is a Los Angeles County Sheriff, in fact, as his shoulder patch plainly reads. In any case, the picture probably does not show a criminal rape but a voluntary scene for porn purposes. I venture to guess that all three participants and the cameraman volunteered and enjoyed the encounter. Many viewers enjoy such pictures too according to the All-American tradition of rooting for the underdog, the underdog in this case being anyone usually subject to police authority. Of course, when you need police protection you are not going to call one of these cigar-smoking civilians, are you? (Possible response to me: "You just don't get porn. Realism is irrelevant. Only orgasm counts." My response to that then would be: I take it you have never taken any personal responsibility for maintaining peace and freedom. Degrading authority figures for cheap thrills is not in your long-run interest.)

  

Update, April, 2016. I block anyone whose pictures depict torture or murder. Maybe the authors expect us to see such pictures as merely symbolic or just erotic fantasy. I utterly reject that. For the record, again, no one in my pictures is in pain and no one loses blood and each of them volunteers, most of them repeatedly.

 

Addition, January,2017,

 

April 18, 1906 ©

 

The sages say "Bereavement gives you strength

And sorrow teaches you. They make you grow

More wise, benign, and stable till at length

You are more able to endure the blow."

 

They call my grief condign and claim to know

that I deserve my pain, as clerics bray.

They glibly prate that this day’s deepened woe

Means I’ll feel heightened joy another day.

 

An earthquake strikes a building by the bay.

The temblor makes fine marble facing fall.

The structure stands, still trembling from its sway,

Revealing steel supports within its wall.

 

The seers may mean well but they have it wrong.

I ache. The damage lasts and I’m less strong.

  

Addition, September, 2015

Stupid Cancer.

Some of us want a new house, a new car, a new mobile phone, a new boyfriend or girlfriend; some of us want to lose weight. Someone battling cancer wants just one thing -- to win the battle

 

97% of my friends won't re-post this, but 3% will; let us see who does. Please re-post this in honor of someone who lost this battle or for someone fighting it now.

 

Update, September, 2013. I have recently deleted contacts, friend, and family here where the photo streams consist entirely or mostly of women or transvestites or hermaphrodites. I bear them no animosity but I do not want to look at their pictures. There are no women or effeminate men in my social life, my sex life, my fantasies, my dreams, or my pictures. No offense; life is short and I'm spending my time where my interests lie. Recently, I have blocked some people whose photo streams do not interest me. I would have merely taken them off my list of contacts but that feature is not working now. I had to block them to keep from seeing their uninteresting pictures.

 

Update, October, 2013.

For the record: Some of my pictures show a man in restraints that hold him in a stressful position. In no case did the duration of this uncomfortable stress turn the event into torture. For that, I am glad. This painlessness disappoints both sadists and masochists. For that too, I am glad.

 

BLUF 3123.

 

All my flickr photos are public for access but private in ownership; all of them are mine alone with none taken from the internet. If you cannot see my photos, you probably have "SafeSearch" set to ON in your Flickr account. If you want to see 18+ content, you need to turn SafeSearch to OFF. To do that, go into "your account", choose "privacy & permissions" and turn OFF the SafeSearch feature.

 

I have recently deleted from my contact list various people whose photo streams are mostly women, or men in women's clothing, or men undergoing torture. I will not willingly look at such pictures. They do not offend me but they do not please me either. They waste my time. There is a lot of bondage in my pictures, all male, but no one is in pain or feeling humiliated.

 

I am not a law enforcement officer and do not claim to be one currently. All my captives are volunteers. They are not the victims of kidnap, or assault, or wrongful restraint, confinement, or imprisonment, however much they might want that coercion.

 

Once more, for the record and to avoid any possible misunderstanding, no one inflicts pain or verbal abuse on any of the men in my pictures. Further, every one of them is a volunteer. None are victims of kidnapping though some ask for that too. It is not my purpose in restraining a man to make him hold still for physical or verbal abuse. I have no interest in abusing the men who wear my restraints. I have too much respect for humanity in general and these men in particular to abuse them. If someone enters a comment advising me to harm my captives, I will block that person.

 

Here is a comment I added to one of my pictures when this subject came up before:

 

I understand that some people crave punishment. I choose not to work (or, as some say, play) with them. The men who come under my control do so voluntarily. I am not a sadist or a kidnapper or a guilt-slinger. I believe in supporting and encouraging a man's self-respect through positive reinforcement only. The bondage I give a man is fun and erotic for us both while demonstrating who is in charge without hurting him. Further, it is a powerful form of male bonding, giving and receiving that trust and surrender. We former members of military services understand that a man can be proud of his ability to take and give orders, his position in a hierarchy, and the genuine respect he feels for the man over him or under him.

One of the services I prefer to get from a man in my service is being my bodyguard -- armed. I also want him to be my regular companion at the shooting range and in the gym. It makes no sense to me to think of beating or berating a man in the morning and then asking him to serve as my armed protector in the afternoon. In fact, if someone beat me, I would bear a murderous grudge and I think many people are like me. The trainers at Sea World accomplish what they want with killer whales through positive reinforcement only. A man would be a damn fool to beat a killer whale. Look at the size of these guys and their teeth:

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I have set the safety level of every single one of my pictures as Restricted. I don't want to waste my time thinking which ones might be suitable for Mrs. Grundy. It's more than that, though. If someone is offended by any one of my pictures, I don't want that person to see any of my pictures. Life is short and sweet.

 

ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ

 

Steel bondage top, well-equipped, experienced, safe, sane, living near Las Vegas. 18++ age, male. Military and law enforcement experience. Preference for muscular or trim men, also former or current military men and LEOs and their admirers and look-alikes. No whips, flogging, hot wax, dildos, FF, ws, scat, women, children, animals, humiliation, or verbal abuse. Instead, plenty of steel bondage, sweaty workouts in the gym, and the bond that develops between me and a man who recognizes my trustworthiness and gives up his physical power to me and my steel for a while or for life.

 

Please look at the pictures as I have ordered them in the sets. That way, they form a sequence in time with comments that make more sense in order.

 

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I have found the procedure for turning SafeSearch OFF to be awkward. Maybe that is intentional. I tire of figuring it out, over and over again, for new contacts. So I have written it down here for the record:

My index page is here: www.flickr.com/photos/52514764@N07/sets/

When you get to my index page, you may get a message saying I have no sets. That could be either because you have not first logged on, or maybe you have flickr's censor (called SafeSearch) set to ON. All of my pictures are obscene, at least in intent, and I have marked them accordingly. To turn the censor OFF, you need these steps:

 

First, be sure you have an account with yahoo.com. There is no cost for this.

 

Then, go to flickr.com and sign in with your yahoo account

information. This is free too.

Just under the flickr logo, the line reads Home . . . You . . .

Organize & Create . . .

Mouse on the arrow just to the right of You. A menu comes up.

 

Near the bottom of that menu is the expression Your Account. Mouse on that.

 

Another screen will come up. Near the top is a line with the

expression Privacy & Permissions. Mouse on that expression.

 

When the new screen comes up, scroll down until you see this near the bottom:

 

Content filters

 

Search settings

SafeSearch: Off (If it says On for you now, set it to Off.)

Content type: All

 

Let me know if you have trouble with this.

 

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A site called thisgardenisillegal says this about me, and the description fits:

"You stand up for what you believe in, even if it gets in the way of what other people think. You are proud of yourself and your accomplishments and you enjoy letting people know that. As a Scot might put it, Ah canna stop."

 

I am a Canna

What Flower Are You?

 

I added this comment to a picture at flickr. I have copied it here because its edgy nature may result in its deletion where I posted it originally.

I don't like it when cops lose their authority. We depend on them to protect us from chaos. It's likely, of course, that the man playing cop in these pictures is an actor rather than a sworn peace officer. I'm aware of the All American custom of rooting for the underdog. From that point of view, it is gratifying to see someone who once wielded power now himself powerless. That reduces the authority of law enforcement officers in general, and thus the safety of us all. It is not in our self-interest to indulge this attack on authority even if it is just fantasy (as I think it is.).

I expect that some of you will advise me to lighten up and just enjoy the spectacle. In response to that advice, I'd remind people of items like this from today's news, May 2, 2013:

Joanne Chesimard, a left-wing militant who shot a state trooper on the New Jersey Turnpike 40 years ago today, has become the first woman on the FBI's list of Most Wanted Terrorists. . . . "Joanne Chesimard is a domestic terrorist who murdered a law enforcement officer execution-style," said Aaron Ford, special agent in charge of the FBI's Newark Division."

I cannot forget that trooper's murder long enough to enjoy fantasies of cop bondage. If my comments spoil your fun, that's fine with me.

 

How to remove a member from a group if that member does not fit in:

If someone was added to your group by mistake or they're not fitting in, you can remove them.

Mouse over You | select Groups.

Click on the group you administer.

Click the Administration tab.

Click Manage your Members.

Click the Members tab.

Click Remove beside the member you're removing.

Click Remove again to confirm.

 

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Excerpt from help page:

 

Look at a particular member's photos in my group

 

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alphabet soup studio / lenore locken says:

 

Maybe I'm blind, but I just can't find a solution to this. I have hundreds of members in one my groups -- I would like to look at the contributions to the group individually, by member. The reason is that I have found certain people have posted several inappropriate photos, which I've deleted, but before I go so far as to ban them, I'd like to see all their contributions to the group. Is there any way I can do that?

8:38PM, 14 May 2016 PDT

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ColleenM is a group administrator ColleenM says:

 

Yes, it's fairly simple.

 

Click on their buddy icon

Click on "message", which starts a Flickrmail message

In the address bar of that message page copy everything to the right of the to= part of the address.

 

Go to the group pool page

In the address bar for that page, at the end of the address, type / ( a forward slash) and then paste the Flickr ID xxxxxxxxxx@N0x

That should display all the photos in the pool that have been added by that account.

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alphabet soup studio / lenore locken says:

Thank you -- worked great! That was exactly what I needed to know :-)

16 months ago