Saturday, 21 September 2013

Getting Fucked

Work has occupied so much of my time that I rarely have the time to meet other guys. And when it happens, I usually get so exhausted that I hold back on writing about these experiences on this blog. This story is a recall of what happened last weekend.

I have been chatting with several guys on Grindr, mostly just small chats to distract myself from the stress and boredom of work. When Saturday came, I was feeling extremely horny as I hadn't released myself for days. When I received an invitation from a bottom living near me, my cock head made the call that I should go and meet him.

The mistake that I had made was forgetting to request for his body photo or a full-length picture of him. He looked alright from his face picture hence I hopped on the cab to meet him. This guy stays in a penthouse with his private swimming pool at the top of a condominium. But when he opened the door, I was surprised to see someone twice the size of the person from his Grindr picture.

I was rather turn off and wanted to make excuses to go off but feeling horny I decided to stay on and fool around with him for a while. We did the usual foreplay but I made excuse that I was tired (which I really was) and slept instead of fucking him.

While he slept besides me, I made an excuse to go to the bathroom and sneaked my way out of his home and the gate of the condominium. Eventually he found me missing and shouted for me from his unit while I was leaving the building. Thankfully, a couple was alighting from a cab and I immediately jumped it and escaped.

Feeling traumatized by the whole experience, I logged it to Grindr to block him from sending me anymore messages. At this moment, I received a message from a muscular guy whom I had previously chatted with. He told me he was horny and since I seemed nearby, I should come and meet him.

He is a flex-top and previously he has promised to let me fuck him if we meet. So I told the cab driver to make a U-turn and drove few streets down to meet him. But when we met, he said he was in a mood to fuck and since he had a really hot body, I agreed to his request.

My heart beat fast as I had not been fucked for a long time. In fact I never enjoy being on the receiving end of the rod, and I do envy power bottoms who really enjoy my pounding. But the horny soul within me took over the control that day.

Inside his bedroom, he stripped off my singlet and started playing with my nipples. Immediately my cock grew rock hard. I wasn't wearing any underwear underneath my running shorts and my bulge was obvious. He slid his hand underneath my shorts and squeezed my hardon. He smiled and commented that I came prepared for the session with him.

Soon, my shorts were dropped and he had removed his clothes. We stood in the middle of his room enjoying the mutual nipple play. My cock jumped uncontrollably every time he tweaked my sensitive nipples. I was aroused and in heat.

He pushed me onto his bed and passed me a small bottle to sniff. As I inhaled, his mouth worked on my cock, sucking my ranging hardon while his hands gently caressing my nipples. He poked his finger into my ass and for the first time it felt really wonderful to be fingered by someone.

He continued to suck my nipples and I was on cloud nine. I didn't realised that he had already unrolled a condom and lubed up his cock until he lifted my legs up to penetrate me. My heart raced faster but I took another sniff from the bottle which calmed my nerves and relaxed my muscles. In a smooth movement, he poked through my tight hole and I didn't feel any pain at all.

He started slowly but soon he became more aggressive in his thrusting. My ass was not used to such pounding and I told him to slow down. Throughout the fucking he was playing with my nipples and stroking my cock, making sure I maintained hard while he was using my hole. I returned the favour by fondling his nipples as he rammed my ass.

We broke off the momentum and he told me to get into the doggie position. The porn of his computer was showing a clip of a bottom moaning in pleasure as the top in the video fucked him harder. My guy returned with some vodka coke which I drowned it down. Feeling high from the effect of the alcohol, my body relaxed.

The second penetration was smoother than the first time. His arms wrapped around my torso and pinched my nipples while he thrust his rod inside me. My cock was super hard and I felt myself jerking off to the rhythm of his cock fucking my hole. I was closed to orgasm and asked if I could relieved myself.

I thought he would grab my hands to prevent me from cumming. Surprisingly he was very encouraging and urged me to shoot my load while he increased the momentum and tensity of the fuck.

Within seconds, I was shooting thick, creamy white juice onto the towel underneath me. He pulled out from me and went into the washroom while I lie on his bed enjoying the afterglow.

Strangely, my hole felt empty after the fuck that night. When I told a fuck buddy, he said I was "in heat" and indeed I did crave for another good fucking over the next two days. But now, the magical effect has worn off and I am looking forward to pound a willing hole and to give him the cloud nine experience which that guy had bestowed to me that night. 

Monday, 5 August 2013

Horny, Naughty Officer (Part 2)

Contributed by A Kinky LTA (NS)

It was the Tuesday after my reservist. Tired and horny from having consecutive DO duties, I send him a Whatsapp message to see if he was available to play. Luckily for me, he was! :) I arranged to meet up with him at a secluded office toilet; there was a shower cubicle that was spacious enough to hold the both of us and ample space to play. 

That evening, I got slightly delayed by my DO duty. The replacement officer came late for my handing over duties, so I rushed down to meet him. By the time we met, I was slightly sweaty, making me even more horny. When we entered the cubicle, I was in my Smart 4 and carrying my field pack, he commented that I looked like a recruit. Immediately I felt a sense of humiliation as he downgraded my officer rank and compare me to a newbie recruit. 

He gave me a blue pill. Pfizer, was written on the pill. In other words, it was a viagra. I took one and looked at him. He gave a straight-face nod and passed me some water which I swallowed it with the pill; it felt interesting to take the tablet as I have not tried it before - the colours around me felt more lively and my senses felt sharper. 

He blindfolded me with the black blindfold that I liked; and tied my hands above me to the beams above the cubicle, which exposed my armpits and chest to him. Then he unbuttoned my smart 4, stripping me ever so slowly, which made me moan slightly in desire and down below, my cock was growing bigger and bigger, trapped in the slacks. 

He played with my nipples, licking them - causing me to moan in desire again and again. After awhile, he removed the bonds on my hands overhead and tied it behind my back, and stripped my slacks down, exposing my crock hard cock. Putting a Tenga over it, he jerked it slowly, making sure that I do not cum accidentally, which only made me moan even more in ecstasy. 

Taking advantage of my horniness, he positioned his ass in front of me, and released me from my bonds behind my back. By now I was feeling extremely horny, I shoved my cock, back and fore into the Tenga, while he gripped it between his legs. It felt as if I was feeling his hole and the sensation made it feel so good. I fucked it mercilessly, while my hands attacked his nipples, making him moan in desire too. 

This continued for a few moments as we both moaned in ecstasy together, while making sure that our moans didn't become too loud that a security guard might chance upon us in the off chance. I pounded him like he was my fuck toy for the night; in and out, in and out. it wasn't long before he cummed on the floor, marking the cubicle as our personal territory. 

Our clothes were already drenched with sweat as it became my turn to wank. As I jerked off my cock, he attacked my nipples mercilessly, as a revenge for before. Within seconds, man-juice gushed out of my cock and sprayed all over the cubicle floor also. 

We washed up after that, and had dinner at a nearby eatery once again, and that's my part 2 to the kinky sex story. 

Regards,
A kinky LTA (NS)

Saturday, 13 July 2013

Horny, Naughty Officer (Part 1)

It had been a nasty week for me, stress from work coupled with negative comments about me spouting online. In need of a relief, I texted him and asked if he would be free to meet.

Me: What are you doing tonight?

Him: Nothing much.

Me: Do you want to meet later?

Him: Hehee.. What are we meeting for?

Me: Something naughty I suppose.

He drove over around 7 pm and fetched me from my office to my place where I packed up my gears. I took the chance to pack two different full face hood into my bag as well as a CB6000 cock cage which he always wanted to try. After packing, I changed into a set of singlet and shorts without underwear, tooked my stuff together with a set of my army uniform to meet him downstairs.

Throughout the journey, I was caressing his crotch while he attempted to stroke my thighs whenever we stopped at a red light. He had not come since Monday, after his return from a trip overseas. His balls felt full and heavy as I squeezed them gently.

We reached our destination which is a secluded office toilet, and both changed into our pixelated uniform. I took my time to change while staring at him stripped off his t-shirt to reveal his lean abs. I told him to keep his red lycra underwear on as it felt more sexy on him. We embraced each other after we were done.

I buried my nose into his neck. He smelled fantastic, a mixture of cologne and his manly scent. My hands moved along his back, feeling the smoothness of his lean body. He was an officer during National Service and we had been discussing this uniform session for a long time.

Taking out the two hoods from my bag, I gave him a choice between the synthetic leather hood or the spandex one which he had tried before. As a lover of full face hood, he naturally chose the black synthetic leather one this time. 

Once he was hooded, I pinned him against the wall and slowly unbuttoned the shirt of his uniform. I proceeded to suck on one of his nipples while I pinched on the other. His hands reached for my shirt and began undressing me and playing with my nipples too. 

Pulling his hands away from my nipples, I tied them behind his back while I knelt down to undo his flyer. By now his crotch was already wet. His precum stains were obvious. I buried my face into his bulge and rubbed my nose against his shaft while I nibbled on the base of his shaft and played with his low-hanging balls. 

After half an hour of playing with his crotch and nipples with a vibrator, I untied him and pulled down his red lycra briefs. There was a web formed by his precum and his cock continued to leak strings of Cowper's fluid.

I helped him to remove the hood and replaced it with the spandex hood, which was more breathable. I ordered him to suck my cock. He hesitated for a moment but carried on with my instruction to lick and suck my dick. After he had finished sucking, I placed a ball gag over his mouth since I won't be needing his oral service anymore.

Grabbing his dick I squeezed it hard until it began to soften. I fixed the ring part of the CB6000 around the base of his shaft and continued pinching on his hardon until it was deflated. With his cock semi-erected, I forced it into the cock cage and locked it. 

Once I made sure there was no way he could escape from the cock cage, I released his wrists from bondage and guided him to feel the plastic case enveloping his semi-hard cock. I took his other hands and made him feel my hardon, giving him a mindfuck and a mental agony of not being able to jerk off.  

I went back to my bag and took out the pair of nipple clamps and attached them to his nipples. I watched him moaned in pleasure and torture as I turned on the vibrator to work on his nipples till they became sore. 

His cock struggled to get hard but the plastic casing restricted it. I tugged on his nipples and slowly pulled it off his chest causing him to groan. Grabbing this opportunity, I licked on his sore nipples while he wriggled in helplessness. 

Releasing him from the wrist cuffs, I guided his hands to pinch my nipples while I jerked off my cock. He began pinching harder which made me stroked myself faster and eventually I managed to shoot a huge load onto his abs. 

He was feeling extremely horny for having not relief himself for 5 days and my constant teasing over the past 90 minutes made him even more sexually aroused. I released him from the cock cage to edge him but he was begging to be allowed to cum. 

Feeling tired from my orgasm earlier, I removed the wrist cuffs and gave him 30 seconds to ejaculate otherwise I would cage up his cock for the weekend. As I counted down he stroked himself faster while my fingers pinched his nipples. 

Before I could finished counting, he shot a massive load forming puddle of semen on the floor. And he continued to stroke himself until he drained the final drops of juice from his balls. 

It was 10pm when we finished the session. We washed up and headed to a nearby eatery for some refreshment. 

Over dinner, I told him about the negative comments about me on Twitter over the past days. As my Twitter follower, he told me not to be bother by the gossips as those people who know me in real life knows what kind of person I am. 

To me, I feel that many times people confused my online personality with who I'm really now.  And I wonder if those people who sprout negativity about me had really done their reference check or do they just listen to haters such as my ex-boyfriend. And there has to be a reason why I broke off with my ex-boyfriend, right? 

The internet is a free world but it doesn't mean we should not be responsible for what we say. I'm ready to move on and I hope that my haters will eventually find peace within themselves. 

Monday, 1 July 2013

After One Week in Chastity

"Hello. Will you be free to meet tonight instead?" he sent me a message on that weekday afternoon. "I'll come with a locked dick, you can have the key for the night. Maybe you can tease me first to get me all horny before polishing my dick."

As our conversation continued, I found out that he loves to be caressed all over. He enjoyed the touch of hands fondling him, arousing him sexually. He confessed that he had self-locked his cock for a week and was feeling extremely horny and really in need of a good dick head polishing before shooting his load all over.

That night, I met him underneath my apartment building. As my family was still awake, we took a walk around the nearby sports complex. When no one was looking, I reached downwards and grabbed his bulge and felt the hard plastic cock cage firmly protecting him from my invasion.

Once we reached the safety zone of my flat, he surrendered his key to me. As I went off to the kitchen to fix a drink, he stripped off his tight-fitting T-shirt and berms to change into a skimpy black running shorts. He had cut away the inner lining of the shorts, so it's more arousing when I groped his crotch.

He stood with his back leaning against the wall. I walked over, wrapped my arms around his lean, toned bod and reached his bums. His butt was like a firm bubble, soft to touch but firm. He reciprocated and placed his arms around my torso. 

I took the blindfold and covered his eyes, and secured the leather cuffs around his wrists before locking them behind his back. The image of him in the helpless position was enough to send blood gushing into my dick. My cock was hard as I began to touch him all over his body.

Grabbing his arms, I positioned him facing the door and secured his hands to the door straps above his head. In the vulnerable position, I lifted his shorts to form a V, exposing his white, bubble butt. I put on a pair of gloves and ran my hands all over his tight torso. 

I stood behind him and pulled his head backwards to arch his body. I toyed with his nipples by pinching them. By now, there was a wet patch on the front of his skimpy shorts. He kept on leaking precum as I manhandled and fondled him. 

Releasing him from the straps above, I told him to touch his own dick but all he could feel was the hard plastic and his dick had swollen up to fill every inch of space inside the chastity device. Once I had fun mindfucking him, I grabbed his wrists and secured them above his head once more. 

With his front facing me, I pulled down his shorts to reveal his locked dick. I put on another pair of gloves and caressed him all over, paying more attention to his abs and inner thighs. His cock was throbbing as I gently stroked his thighs. 

After I was done fondling him, I repositioned him into a sitting position with his hands by the side of the chair and strapped the rope around the middle part of his torso. His mouth was covered with duct tape. But his dick continued to be rock hard inside the plastic cage. 

Turning on the vibrator, I placed it underneath his balls. Immediately, he started groaning and moaning. I moved the vibrator slowly upwards to stimulate his cock trapped inside the hard plastic. He was leaking precum uncontrollably. I guessed he might have regretted agreeing to be edged after not cumming for a week.  

I let the vibration ran through his cock. He was moaning as I experimented with the different intensity of the vibrator. 

Releasing him from the chair, I made him stand beside the door as I prepared the bed for the next scene. Once the bed was ready, I guided him with baby steps then pushed him onto the bed. He spread out his arms anticipating to be bound in a spread-eagle position.

In his helpless state, I became to nibble and bite on his nipples. He told him that his nipples are not very sensitive but clearly he was feeling aroused when I was sucking and licking his tits. He moaned as I alternated between his left and right nipples.

At the same time, I was rubbing my finger at the opening of his hole. Gently, I massaged his anus until my lubed up index finger was able to slowly penetrated through his tight ass. He moaned in pleasure as my finger stimulated his prostate. Next I picked up the Aneros and poked the prostate massager in.

I removed his cock cage. By now it was wet with his precum. I grabbed some lube and mixed it with his precum to edge him. In fact he was already on the edge as I polished his dickhead.

After an hour of intense dickhead polishing, I released him and went to bed as I was feeling very tired too. Throughout the night, his ass was plugged.

He woke me up in the middle of the night and begged for me to edge him as he was feeling extremely horny. In my half-awake stage, I played with his dick for a while, tied his wrist with a simple knot and went back to sleep.

But when I was sleeping, he managed to slip his hands through the simple knot. Consumed by his horniness, he was unable to control and he wanked off without my permission.

In the morning, he confessed that he had cummed. Normally he would have lost the mood to play, but after being in the cock cage for a week, he was feeling super horny and begged me to touch his cock again.

I secured him back in the spreadeagle position and foreplayed by caressing all over his body. Within seconds his cock was hard again. I poured some lube onto his dick and began to polish his dickhead. He wriggled and struggled as I constantly placed him between the edge of orgasm and sexual frustration.

I would pause for him to take a 10 seconds break then returned back to polish his cock for 10 minutes. I threatened to cage him back if he misbehaved or dare to cum again without permission.

He begged to cum and I made him agree to let me fuck him as a pre-condition for his orgasm. Reluctantly he agreed and told me to put on a condom. His ass was very tight and he had not been fucked for a long time. My fingers worked their way through until his ass was more receptive.

Positioning my cock at his hole, I thrusted my dick in. He screamed as tried to force my cock in. I caressed his body and sucked on his nipples to make him relax. Bit by bit, I was able to inch my dick in and to fuck him in a gentle manner.

His ass was tight and I wasn't able to get my full 5.5 inches in. After 10 minutes of fucking, I pulled out and inserted Aneros in to stimulate his prostate. I continued to work on his dick for the next hour.

It was almost 10am in the morning, I gave him the permission to cum. It must have been one of the best intense orgasm for him as he shot fireworks of cum all over his body. Even though his nipples, dick and ass were sore like fuck, I think there'll be a second session with him.

Friday, 10 May 2013

Kinky Sex Story 3

In celebration of my birthday week, I launched a Kinky Sex Story contest on my Twitter. Winner gets to walk away with one TENGA 3D or TENGA Egg of his choice. Winners will be notified via email by 14 May 2012. 

This is the submission from tinycockboi: 

I have a horny cock and I jerk off every day. I can't control it and I can't stop touching it.

I'm on holidays now with my friends and awake due to my horny hard-on. RIght now I have let it out and jerk off while the other guys are asleep. I think about your writings as I write this. As I wrote & jerked off I was almost caught by a friend, guess it was due to the light from my phone. 


I had been jerking off in camp or in holidays at night when the guys were asleep. And I just got myself a CB-series cock cage but it doesn't seem to help, cause I would get so horny being locked up in it so I often unlocked it, jerk off & cum.

Kinky Sex Story 2 (Part 2)

In celebration of my birthday week, I launched a Kinky Sex Story contest on my Twitter. Winner gets to walk away with one TENGA 3D or TENGA Egg of his choice. Winners will be notified via email by 14 May 2012. 

This is the Part 2 submission from Ed: 


Reaching home, the first thing I did was to rush to the bathroom. As I stripped and bath myself, it is hard not to notice the extra device on the naked body of mine from tonight onwards. This thought got me hard instantly. As my dick grew, I found my hard dick pretty much constrained within the cage and I could feel my dick being bounded tightly. That got me even more aroused with my hand naturally reaching out to my dick. Hard plastic. "Oh man. I want to wank so badly now," my mind screamed out. 

I took special care for the device down below, washing it thoroughly. I got out of the bathroom feeling fresh as my new life began. Indeed, my life would be a different now. Over the next few days, I found out that I could no longer stand up to pee without peeing on myself, I could no longer lie flat down on my stomach in bed, I could no longer go out without taking extra attention on whether the cage was too obvious, I could no longer relieve my dick when I felt really horny in the middle of the night. Life had changed and I was slowly adapting myself to the changes. As much as I hate changes, I love the fact that I am caged and I feel aroused almost every other waking moment.

Not all were smooth-sailing, some problems crop up. I realised that I could actually take out the shaft of my dick when I soaped myself one night during bath, even though my balls were still trapped. Although, I wouldn't be able to wank in that state but the fact that my dick could not be entirely bounded saddened me. I blame it on the size of my dick - too small compared to chastity cage which seemed to be made for Western males.

We met up again and he changed the cock ring to a size smaller, this created another problem. Pain set in on the night when the change took place. I endured the pain through the night and met him again in the morning the next day. He decided to take it off for me but the deal was still on; that I could not wank for a week.

I kept my promise. On the condition that he released me from the cage earlier, I offered myself for him to play with on the last two days of the chastity period. It was a weekend and he had a place for some bondage and teasing session on both days. I thought it would be the best way for me to pay back for the early release.

On Saturday, I met up with him. He brought me to a flat. I was ordered to take off my shoes and clothes, blindfolded and left in just my piece of underwear. I was be pretty prominent to anyone who passed by, they were able to see me from outside through the window. He made me squatted down as I undressed and crawled across the house with a blindfold into a room while yelling verbal orders. That's kinda hot, I thought.

I was settled down onto a chair and as soon as I sat down I felt gears bounded me to the chair. Just as I waited, I felt intense vibration on my dick and my horniness level shot up instantly. As it went on, I was afraid that I might cum and he stopped for break. Unaware to what was happening around me, I felt my foreskin pull down and dick head being lubricated. Before I knew it, he started polishing my dick head with increasing intensity. I felt that I could almost died as this went on for almost the whole session. He released me from the chair at some point but the dick polish did not stopped.

This time, I was tied standing up with hands and leg spread out while he carry on. I could't help it and I hugged him. I went crazy, really crazy. I couldn't decide whether it was torture or pleasure. The feeling was unbearable but yet it felt so wonderful. I was sure this pure dick polishing took up an hour or so. He sensed that I could no longer take it anymore, so he brought me to shower. My mind was totally off, I couldn't seem to think anymore. He dressed me up and brought me out for a rest.

This was the end of Day 1, I knew clearly it was not the end. There is still a second round tomorrow.

The second day was seemingly shorter but it doesn't seem less. I was not spared from the dick teasing and polishing but my ass was involved this time as well. He placed me on the edge of the bed, brought my legs up to my chest, exposing my ass to him and for his viewing only. With extra care, he applied the shaving cream and made my little ass shaven smooth and clean.

Then I felt some device inserted into my ass and the next moment what I felt was mind blowing. I felt intense vibration in my ass as he switches it on. He was there hugging me as I struggled through (as I hardly had any fun that involves anal). Gosh, he fucked my mind yet again.

After that my dick head was polished again, it was another intense session that lasted pretty long. We ended off with him jerking me. Finally a proper wank! However, I could no longer feel the sensation due to the intense dick polishing earlier. I could sense his exhaustion, so I offered to jerk myself off and he agreed. Yeah, finally I could grab my own dick to wank. Although it took me a while, I managed to blow my load all over my abs. Since I was still blindfolded, I couldn't see how much cum there was but he told me it was a lot. "Massive," he said.

With that load off my dick, it also marked the end of the chastity period. After some cleaning up, he sent me back home as we chatted leisurely along the way. We both agreed that if we ever play the next time, I should try getting lock up in a metal cage (which he had ordered but yet to arrive). I'm sure a metal dick cage would definitely be a level up for me.

Stepping off the car this time, being able to feel my own dick with my hands, feeling satisfied and relieved. This is exactly what I love.

Wednesday, 8 May 2013

Kinky Sex Story 2 (Part 1)

In celebration of my birthday week, I've launched a Kinky Sex Story contest on my Twitter. Fans and followers are welcome to submit their entries to erectionary@gmail.com. Winner gets to walk away with one TENGA 3D or TENGA Egg of his choice. Closing date has been extended to 10 May 2012. Winners will be notified via email by 14 May 2012. 

This is a submission from Ed: 

It all started from a Recon message sent by him. Initially I was not really interested in playing with him (as he was much into discipline and workouts) but we had one thing in common:chastity. Back then, chastity was something I was rather keen but had yet dare to try on myself. As we chatted along, he made me felt really comfortable and safe and that actually convinced me to give it a try. He promised he would drive down to unlock for me if I want to give up and not forcing it through on me. That give me the assurance. We set a time on a late night few days after, he told me that he would drive down to meet me but on the condition that I could not wank from the moment we confirmed our meet up. I did as told.

The night arrived. I was very horny from all the kinky discussions and reading of chastity blogs over that past few days. When we finally met, I was dressed in PT kit as he had requested and we went off to the nearby park. It took me quite a while to actually get comfortable with him as I was feeling nervous. It's my first chastity play after all. He got me started with some runs and workouts to get me sweating (because he loved forced workouts) before he began anything. We got back in the car immediately after, with me sweating, he drove me off to another location. Every now and then as he drove, his hands would freely reach out to caress with my dick while I obediently kept my hands to the sides of the seat so that my dick was totally accessible for him. Just as he was getting my mind and body aroused, we soon reached somewhere quiet and I knew, there laid the real deal.

He brought out the cage at last! I was horny and getting very excited. It seemed so naturally that my shorts and underwear went down not long after. I watched as my dick was handled by him. He slowly got the parts assembled together. He showed me the lock and told me the one-week agreement would commence as soon as he put it on me. If I want to back off, I better tell me him now. I replied with a nod and told him to carry on. 

He locked it. It was done. My dick was locked. He told me to try and get my dick out of the cage. I tried but I couldn't. It was obvious the lock had secured the cage. What drove my mind crazy was when he told me to touch my dick. Yes, with the cage on. Obviously he was laughing as I attempt to touch my cock but all I could feel was just a hard plastic cage covering my manhood. I could no longer feel my dick. Mind-fucked, I thought.

Being left with a horny dick and an insane mind, he drove me back happily with the keys held in his hand. At the exact moment he got me to step out of his car, I had to touch what I had down below again. Plastic was all I felt. I thought to myself, "What the hell have I done?" but deep inside, I knew, I loved this feeling.

This was just the beginning..