How well do you have to know and trust someone before you'll allow yourself to be 'cuffed or tied up? Does it depend upon your location maybe, club for instance, or at your own home? I know there are many different scenarios, but I'd like to hear your own take on the subject whether based on experiences or otherwise.
I was having this exact conversation last night with a couple (from another site) who are relatively new to swinging and into a bit of BDSM. They were concerned that they just don't seem to be getting either right and meets never turn out as intended.
They had arranged a BDSM meet with a couple the night before, who they had chatted to a couple of times but this was their first meet. They left having done things they had never intended to do and weren't best pleased about.
My personal opinion is that BDSM as a whole has so many different strands to it that you can never just arrange a meet and expect to get what you personally want from it. You put yourself in such a vulnerable position that you need to know the person you are with and more importantly, they need to know you, know what you want, what you don't want and where your limits are.
This is the reason why I would need to have a good prior relationship with anyone I was going to play with in this way.