female, object

It first learned about bondage and fetish when it was in college.  Or rather, it must have known something about such topics before that, and with hindsight it can think of things it did when it was much younger that probably foreshadowed its later interests, but college is when it first started any exploration.  It was a "late bloomer" with little interest in dating or sex or even kissing, but in college there was a little more social pressure to participate in such things.  Its earliest experiments with anything related to BDSM was actually from the dominant side of things.  It was briefly dating a guy who wanted to be tied up, so it obliged.  It knew by then it had some interest in bondage, and maybe being the one in control was appealing as a way to balance out its disinterest or even fear of sexual acts.  It was a bit of a disaster though - it can look back on it and laugh.  Thankfully the guy had a good time, but it didn't find the experience as fulfilling as it expected.

After another year or so it moved out of the dorms and had its first solo apartment.  It realized it had privacy and could not only surf internet sites without fear of discovery by roommates, but even try some things out in person.  By then had found issues of Marquis and Skin Two and a compilation book of John Willie artwork in an alternative comics store.  It thinks those were its first exposures to latex fetishism and bondage, particularly hoods.  It was very curious about encasement but since it was a student on a fixed budget, a full suit was not really feasible.  It decided that if it could only afford one piece, it should aim for the most effective item and figured that if its head was encased, that would provide the most bang for its buck.  So it bought its first hood.  

It was a cheap molded hood, probably from ebay, in transparent latex.  It assumed it would be see through and thus it bought one without eyeholes, not realizing the hood had no holes at all.  It was able to cut some nose holes, miraculously not tearing anything.  It couldn't see well out of the hood (it has terrible eyesight without glasses, and the latex was relatively thick).  The feeling of it was amazing though.  It spent a lot of time in that hood, just fantasizing about how it would feel to be locked into it, and how it would feel if the rest of its body was similarly covered.  It was a long while before it bought much more latex besides gloves and some really ill-fitting molded panties, but it did start to acquire more hoods.  To make up for the lack of full enclosure, it managed to acquire a cheap lot of electrical tape, and discovered that it could self-mummify by wrapping the tape over layered pantyhose.  It experimented with wrapping its hands (one at a time), and gagging itself by stuffing some cutoff ends of the pantyhose into its mouth and sealing them in with tape.  It even made a sort of hobble skirt out of the tape and wore it out to a party (thank goodness for art school and having a lot of goth friends to encourage this sort of thing).

It started to seek out more online pornography in the form of stories and images online that talked about bondage, fetish, and D/s.  It felt arousal reading and viewing these, and when bound or hooded, and eventually tried masturbation for the first time.  Thus it had its first orgasm while hooded, gagged, and restrained.  It has never had one without these elements in place.

At some point it started its own little website, with some stories of its own and images it found online, through which it met a couple like-minded people that it could chat with.  Then it got a webcam and would show its hooded self to the people on the other end of the screen.  They were always impressed by the fact that its usual hood had only noseholes, especially since the noseholes were small and thanks to the low resolution cameras of the time, they were hard to even see.  It found that it liked to display itself gagged or hooded while interacting with people who appreciated this.  It made it feel useful and it was happy to provide entertainment in this way.

Eventually its online wanderings led it to Insex and House of Gord,  where it learned about objectification and started to understand a bit more about some of its desires and fantasies, and was provided the seed material to start making new ones.