Meet General Stratton!

He’s got a sick sense of humour and a sadistic streak to match!

If you attend Hellfire Club, you’ve probably at least seen General Stratton at our events. He can often be seen acting as a Dungeon Monitor, helping to keep the play space safe for everyone to play in.

General Stratton says he didn’t realize that he was kinky, but found himself gravitating towards activities that now, looking back, he recognizes as having a root in kink.  “When I was 15 or 16, my second serious girlfriend and I did a lot of horse play, wrestling, etc.  It would usually end with her pinned beneath me, or with me bending her over my knee.  We sort of naturally found our spots with me as the dominant one,” he says. “Of course, back then there wasn’t the internet as we know it today.  We just had something called a bulletin board, and if there were boards about kink they would have been hard to find, and even harder to use! I had no resources like Fetlife to learn from at that point, and I was too young to have joined any of the local groups if they had existed! It wasn’t until many years later when I came across (literally) a porn site that I recognized the things I used to do with her as kinky.”

Asked how he defines himself, General Stratton replies, “I classify myself as a Dominant or a sadist. I really cannot be a 24/7 Top. I have too many sides to me – vanilla mode, nerd mode, and the mode that makes my partner say ‘I can’t believe my Sir just did that’.  I switch modes depending on how I feel and what I feel is needed at the time.  I do, however, have a very strong nurturing mode that has come in handy with some of my exes. In fact, a few of them have joked that I should have a t-shirt made that declares me as the patron Saint of Crazy Chicks.  I’m still waiting for that t-shirt after all these years!”

“The most important thing I look for in a partner is a pulse.  It is far more fun if they are still alive!  After that I look for a willingness to listen & learn.  I think that even the brattiest of subs can be trained if they are willing to listen and learn.  This has a side effect of me often gravitating towards new people that are entering the lifestyle.  Usually this also means people younger than me.   I find they are information sponges, absorbing all the information more naturally.”

“There tends to be a 10+ year age difference between myself and my average girlfriend,” he says.  He explains that his approach is similar to the way some employers prefer to hire fresh graduates over more experienced prospects. In some cases, the employer needs to spend time and effort to ‘un-train’ the person, rather than simply starting to build from the most basic foundation.

Having had a number of years full of kinky adventure, I wondered what General Stratton’s favourite toy might be. “My Hitachi Magic Wand! I love the look on a person’s face the first time one is used on them. I found most people I have ‘inflicted’ it on during forced orgasm play, decide to buy one of their own within a month.”