TheRubberGeek

TheRubberGeek

Rubber1st is now The Rubber Geek

A few years ago, I changed my online handle in most places from ‘rubber1st’ to ‘therubbergeek’ as I feel that it reflects my persona better. I came up with the ‘rubber1st’ name about 15 years ago and it had served me well, but it’s time to move on. This

Expectations

Let’s face it, one of the reasons we have profiles on the dating apps and sites is for the dopamine hit of getting that notification that someone ‘cruised’ or ‘swiped’ or messaged us. However, for some reason, there appears to be no sense of decency or respect on gay

MIR 2012: Recap

My first Mr. International Rubber weekend was quite an experience to remember. I’ve been wanting to attend it ever since I first heard of it many years ago. This year, due to changes to my original travel plans, and the encouragement of my partner, I was finally able to

MIR 2012: Arrival

After an epic 24 hour trek around the world, I’ve just arrived in Chicago tonight. Feeling tired, dirty and hungry, I made my way straight to the hotel to check in, since it was nearly 11:30pm, I asked reception if there’s anything open for food and was

The Ugly Truth About the Bareback Brotherhood

I came across the #BBBH hashtag on the posts and bios of some guys who follow me on Twitter, and I didn’t think much of it at first. One day, curiosity got the better of me and I decided to investigate. What I found turned out to be shocking

My Rubber Gear Collection

I bought my very first piece of rubber gear about 8-9 years ago, and since then I've bought quite a few things. Here's a photo gallery of the things I have in my collection. Sadly, a few of them don't fit anymore and I

Revived

So, I’ve let this blog rot and it has been years since the last post back when it was originally hosted on Blogger. I’ve imported all my blog posts from the old site into WordPress on this domain now. Surprisingly, I still sometimes get feedback and messages about

Vacuum Packing

A Japanese artist has made a couple of projects titled “Vacuum Packing!” and “Vacuum Packing! Heartbeat“, which as it’s name suggests, involves vacuum packing a person completely in rubber, in suspension. While vac racks/beds are known for rubber fetish uses, this is the first time I’ve seen

The Aneros

Some months back, someone told me about the Aneros and so I looked it up and reading about it intrigued me, so yesterday I went out and bought one. It was rather expensive for a ‘toy’ but from the testimonials and reviews on other sites, it seems to work as

Coming Out

3rd August 2005 – The fateful day that I finally spilt the beans. My mom had been visiting and staying with me, and the week before, she had met S at a dinner I had organized. In the following days, while just chatting to her, she kept mentioning that some of

The Year That Was

Wow. What a year it has been. A big year of growth and transformation for me. Death and rebirth. At the time I started this blog, I was in an emotional flux, and only starting to explore my rubber fetish in earnest. I’ve since acquired some rubber gear, enough

Merry Christmas!

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy (and rubbery) New Year. Be safe this holiday season!

Gas Mask

I’ve recently bought a gas mask from ebay. Although initially I never really thought of gas masks being sexy or horny, as I’ve chatted with fellow rubberists and hearing their experiences of incorporating a gas mask into their play, the idea warmed on me. I first tried on

Leggings from Invincible

My latest rubber purchase was a pair of leggings from Invincible Rubber. They were having a sale in August and offering a significant discount on their wares. I was quite concerned about the sizing and had shot a few emails to them with my measurements and I got a prompt

Redemption Melbourne

Wow, what a weekend. Last Saturday there was a dance party called Redemption, themed ‘Spartacus’ for the Melbourne Leather Festival. Dress code called for leather, or fetish-wear like rubber, pvc or uniforms. I went with S in full rubber, me in my rubber t-shirt and his rubber jeans, and i

Escapism

After a disappointing work-related meeting today, I’ve dipped again. Now I have additional things to worry about, job-wise. On the advice of my best online rubber buddy, (yes, you!), I put on my rubber shirt. My fetish life is my escape from the real world. A chance to clear

Rollercoasters

This last couple of weeks have proven to be a mental and emotional rollercoaster ride for me. So many things have been going through my head. It all started with that fateful trip to Club80. That really was the one that opened up Pandora’s Box. It’s the first

A Perfect Day

Sunday started off as a pretty normal, uneventful day. Just relaxing and lazing around the house, going online and chatting with a few buds. Mid-afternoon, I got a PM (private message) from someone (whom I’ll refer henceforth as “S”) who’s in Melbourne too. We got onto MSN and

My Rubber T-shirt

My order from Reactor arrived today! I got the email from them last friday saying they had mailed it out that very afternoon. I was hoping, but not really expecting it to arrive today, but I still checked my mailbox every couple of hours and imagine my surprise when there

Cruising

Last night I took a big step in my self-exploration. I made my first trip to a gay cruising venue here in Melbourne called Club80. Lets rewind back to two days prior, when I got a message from someone on WorldRubberMen inviting me to meet him at Club80 on Saturday

My first order

A few days ago I gave in, and placed an order for a zippered rubber short-sleeve t-shirt from Reactor Rubberwear in Sydney. The deal-sweetener was the free shipping till the end of the month, but seeing as they are (relatively) local, it wouldn’t have been much anyway, I think.

Gas masks

I must admit I was never really interested in gas masks as a fetish, and when you don’t ‘get it’ you wonder why it’s such a turn-on for some people. Only recently through some of my new online friends’ descriptions and persuasion, I’ve gotten mildly interested in

Invincible Catalogue

Today I got a pleasant surprise in the mailbox. The catalogue I had ordered from Invincible Rubber had arrived. It only took 3-4 days coming from the UK and I was suitably impressed! The catalogue itself is beautiful in full colour and that hot stud seen on their site is

Upsetting

My unsettled emotions turned into anger and grief today and I think I’ve pissed a few people off, most of all Jeremy who’s been really patient with me all this while. The first thing was that Jeremy and I were chatting about what was said in yesterday’s

Hot gear

Just so I won’t forget this link to a guy’s photo album: http://www.kinkycities.com/members/vandelayboi