It had to have been around 2004. I was still developing in terms of my own sexuality and what I knew that I liked. So far, I knew that was women in their underwear. I can't remember how, but I ended up on a website called
Writings of Leviticus. It had two types of stories, Bondage, and Enforced nudity. It was here that I found a comic strip story involving a maid whose dress was sucked up by an evil vacuum The artist, Biker. Seeing the maid's black uniform sucked off her body, leaving her in panties and a garter belt left me aroused in a way i had not experienced. From that day, I had a name for what kink that turned me on the most, it was not just women in their underwear, it was women left embarrassed after losing their clothes. Enforced nudity, or embarrassed nude females was the internet rabbit hole that would have a lasting impact on my life, going from just a fetish to my own exploration in the kink community and finally an erotica writer. Throughout that time, one person I would continue to see, whose work I continue to admire is Biker. This was such a great interview and I appreciated how vulnerable Biker was willing to be in answering my questions. Being that ENF is a non-consensual genre, I too had struggled with writing these stories and so I appreciate the reflection that Biker has when he makes his own artwork. Enjoy!

Autobiography
The pseudonym "Biker" was adopted by me back in 1997 as a
net name for an ENF forum called Byron's Stripped naked forum. It's
long gone now but birthed several like-minded forums of that genre,
including Indian Outlaw's Stripping Naked Discussion Board, which is
still running to this day! I'd spend many a happy hour there reading the
stories and such and then one day someone posted a comment saying it
was a shame no one did ENF photos shoots or even drew artwork along
those lines. I'd been drawing this sort of thing since my teens so I
sorta stepped into that gap when I posted my very first Jenny drawing in
March of that year from a story I had written, which, as it happens,
was also my first ever written story. That was my first artistic step on
this path.
However, the first real step began waaaay back in 1975
when I was a 13 year schoolboy with a crush on my geography teacher. One
fateful day she happened to be walking down a flight of stairs towards
me and the wind whipped open her denim buttoned skirt, showing me a
gorgeous expanse of her left thigh. I was blown away by that sight, and
it was the catalyst that started me down this route. When I got home
from school, I tried to draw what I had seen but sadly I wasn't able to
do that moment any justice whatsoever. However, I did find I didn't have
to replicate it because I could draw ANY scenario I wanted to. And
that's how it all started for me.
I wish I could say it's been an
easy path, but guilt and dark thoughts that I was somehow perverted
wracked me for years, that is until I got online and found out there
were others like me, and along the way I learned that my stuff was so
pathetically tame in comparison. That discovery was very liberating.
I'm
now 57 and married to my very own pin-up who is also the love of my
life (she knows what I draw and is totally supportive of it). We live in
a small cabin in the woods (with wifi) in rural Normandy, France. I'm a
carpenter by trade but nowadays I'm fortunate enough to be able to make
a modest living from my artwork. Something I never dreamed of being
able to do. Funny old world, eh?
Q -How long have you been doing sketches?
A
- For as long as I can remember I've been drawing. As a child, my
mother would encourage my brother and I to amuse ourselves by drawing
and I'd create a cross section of fantastical islands with secret
military bases built into the mountain side with underwater submarine
pens. I'd spend hours doing this. So drawing had always been a big part
of my childhood. It also kept me out from under mum's feet. Clever lady.
Q - When did you first discover embarrassed nude females as a fetish and what made it resonate with you?
A
- It's not so much the nude aspect that gets me, it's her simply losing
some of her clothes or unintentionally showing off too much skin that
does it. Like Daleksupreme's (DS) Q&A answer, Benny Hill has to be right
up there at the top of the list for influences, and there was always an
innocence about the sketches Benny Hill did. He was the proverbial
schoolboy, with humour to match, and there was no harm or malice towards
the damsel in distress, not even implied. Like DS, I later discovered
Carrie in the Mayfair magazine, but unlike DS, I prefered Don
Lawrences's version of Carrie. Don Lawrence also drew The Trigan Empire
as well as Storm. Heroic characters and not a bit like Carrie but the
artwork was amazing! I love looking at good artwork and his was
exceptional. There was another character who appeared in a daily comic
strip in The Daily Mirror (UK newspaper) called Amanda. I fell in love
with her and would use those drawings as the basis for my own
scribblings.
What made it resonate? Maybe seeing my geography
teacher's silky thigh that day and her frantic need to cover it back up
before any other hormone-fueled teenage schoolboys saw it. I'm convinced
that there is a certain moment in a person's life when they become
hard-wired to a certain "thing", whether it's a particular fetish,
hobby, passion or lifestyle. Others glide over those moments while
others might settle upon them and make their home there. Mine was seeing
an unintentionally exposed thigh... I've been a leg man ever since.
Q - What inspired you to draw ENF?
A
- Ever read a book or comic or seen a film when the damsel gets into a
situation and the writer/artist/director chooses a safe option to allow
her an escape, but your immature schoolboy humour wished they'd gone
along a more "naughty" route and said damsel loses her skirt in the
process? THAT'S what inspired me to draw ENF. Disatisfaction at how a
scene ended when it could have been sooo much better.

I remember
watching a TV show back in the late 70's called The New Avengers
featuring Joanna Lumley as Purdey. One episode had her running around
London wearing only silky pajamas whilst escaping from thugs with guns.
In one scene she's cornered in a shop and posed as a shop maniquinn
hoping they wouldn't spot her... until her pajama bottoms fell down
around her ankles. That was one of the rare moments a TV script went
along the lines I wanted it to go. So Purdey hiked up her jimjams and
proceeded to knock the crap out of the thug, then miracles of miracles
her bottoms fell down AGAIN. I was on the edge of my seat by now...
until she took the belt out of the unconscious thug's trousers and used
it to hold up her own. I felt cheated at that solution. So near.. yet so
far. My own version would have had her running around the rest of the
show bottomless, possibly without her underwear too.

So I drew ENF because no one else was doing the stuff I wanted to read/see/watch.
Q
- There are many fun embarrassing situations to tell stories with, how
do you come up with fresh ideas to avoid rehashing old ideas?
A -
I guess I never really grew out of that schoolboy type humour. So
whenever I watch a DVD or read a story and said damsel escapes with her
clothes intact, I dream about what could have happened and go down that
route. There's also nothing wrong with rehashing old ideas - Just file
off the serial numbers and make them your own.
I've been drawing
this stuff and posting it online since 1997 and I follow a lot of
artists on DeviantArt and many other online sources that inspire me for
either a one page gag, or sometimes a whole multi-page story. For
example, over at my website (http://www.bikersplacetwo.com/page01.html) I'm currently working
on a story featuring Ashley. What started as a simple one-page cartoon
is now up to page 26. This story was inspired by my webmaster, Torben,
who wrote a short story of just a couple of paragraphs, but it opened
the floodgates for an idea and it took off. I'm just hanging on and
enjoying the ride with it. Ashley's scooter broke down at the roadside
so she resorted to flashing the passing traffic in the hope that some
kindly knight in shining armour might stop and assist her. But she got
arrested instead by a big blonde lady cop who isn't taking any lip from
her. Once that snowball starts rolling and gaining momentum it's easy to
nudge it in the direction I want it to go. I have several more pages to
go with this, another 15 at least.
Q- You've been a popular
artist in the ENF scene before spaces like DeviantArt were created to
host its art. What have you noticed about the genre's growing popularity
and why do you suppose it isn't a "mainstream" fetish?
Funnily
enough I HAVE noticed the popularity of the ENF genre. When people start
faving a drawing of mine and add it to a folder titled "Damsels in
Distress" or "ENF", I realize that there is a genre there that is
expanding. Years ago such a folder was a rare find indeed, so it's great
to see so much more artwork and photography of this theme out there.
Why it's not a more mainstream fetish I don't know. Maybe the younger
generations need to have more Benny Hill in their lives? But each to his
own, I suppose.
I remember once reading a fetish someone had for
seeing a hint of petticoat peeping out from under a hemline, another was
for women wearing glasses. I'm rather envious of those folk, because
it's something so common they get to see it almost daily. Me, I have to
wait for a breeze in the right direction and a passing geography
teacher. I do hope the trend for more ENF continues, it's a light
subject and not at all nasty like certain other more dark fetishes.
Again, each to their own.
Q- ENF seems to have been used in a
lot of British humor sketches. What do you suppose has been the origin
for this style of comedy?
A - Saucy Seaside postcards has got to
be a huge influence on those originators back in the day, the busty
blonde in the tight dress popping a button or two fuels the imagination
far more than any porn centrefold with her legs up behind her ears ever
did... at least for me. Imagination is everything. The Carry On films
did a lot to encourage this saucy humour and growing up in the 70's and
what was on TV at the time influenced a whole generation. In my opinion,
if you can mix humour and sexiness into something then you're
on a good path. People basically want to laugh and if it gets them a bit
steamy as well, then so much the better.
Q- I also struggled with shame and guilt when I got interested in ENF. Which leads me to ask how you moved past your guilt?
I honestly think the "guilt" is a VERY healthy aspect in this fetish, it
means we actually care about the characters we create and it shows a
certain respect for and who they represent. A woman. If all we did is
put them through hell and not bat an eyelid, that says a lot about the
psyche of the author I think. Sorry if that sounds a bit judgy. I do
look at ENF photos and artwork and if, to my eyes, there's even an
element of cruelty in the content it puts me right off, which is why I
suppose I put such a healthy dollop of humour into my artwork.
Short
answer. Getting over any guilt is a personal journey, but for me
finding I wasn't alone in this fetish was the biggest step and then
finding the content of my own drawings wasn't as bad as some was the
second.
Look for Biker's art on his
website or his
Deviant Art page .