Episode 6 - Shirtless Rob

Join Shirtless Rob and hear his stories about how he found his kink and where this has taken him this year already 

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:05

Today I'm sitting down in with shirtless Rob. Now you've seen him on social media all around the UK, often shirtless, often just in a pair of shorts. He's told to do this. He's got people that tell him to do this, and he travels everywhere doing this. So let's find out why. Let's find out his kinks and let's see what he's wearing today.

SPEAKER_01 0:24

Welcome back to the King of Purchase podcast. I am joined by Shirtless Rob. How are you? Thank you. Thank you for traveling to see me in London.

SPEAKER_02 0:33

Thank you.

SPEAKER_01 0:33

And you're here today, brave and cold, and this is how you've arrived.

SPEAKER_02 0:37

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 0:40

You break the brain. So just for those audio listeners, Rob is in the uh Barcelona football t-shirt and your Adidas retro star shorts, would you say? Yeah, Santa Retro Star shorts.

SPEAKER_02 0:52

They they were new out last year, and I got her, and they are pretty much getting towards the old style 80s China shorts.

SPEAKER_01 1:00

Yeah, and this is this is it, you haven't come with anything else. This is and this is actually quite a lot of players you weren't.

SPEAKER_02 1:06

Yeah, yes, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:08

It's more than I I'm I'm as from my username, which is everywhere, it my thing is being shut us, and it's it's a it's a random thing. And how did you find some like your kink obviously is is your kink the sportswear? Is your pink the uh exhibitionism?

SPEAKER_02 1:28

It's kind of like a mixture of everything, lots of things to be honest with you. So it's it's definitely the shiny shorts because I mean it all started in school, and we had blue shiny umbrella shorts. Yeah, that was that was our our um our PE kit and and normally a white t-shirt go with it, and that's how it was in the school PE. Yeah, um so but it is it is it's weird. I I don't know if it is exhibitionism or not. Um it's hard to get your head around because uh I'll I'll tell you how it started off. Um I was in school and I was a swimmer at school, yeah. And I I was I was a good swimmer, I used to get trophies and all sorts, and uh but I was really shy. I would never take my t-shirt off. I'd never I I hated keep a thing or skin. Yeah, I'd wear shorts, but for some reason I'd never take my cup off. Hated it. Yeah, and uh, but I was fine swimming, which is weird. Uh and then I was going to the through, and you had to change in the training room and then walk to the through, and it's a long walk, so you put your trainers on to get there. And then a a P teacher came out and said, Where are you going? And I was like, Well, I'm going swimming, it's training. He said, No, we've got to go and do the cross-country run thing. Right. And I'm like, Well, then we're going to get changed. He went, nope, goes you are. And literally, I'm there amongst 30 other kids doing this cross-country run, which is not kind, it was in the middle of a city. So you stood there. I'm the only one in a pair of shorts and trainers with no shirt on amongst all these kids. And we've got to run across Portsmouth for about five miles or three miles, three, three miles to do this through all the streets. And literally, I'm like, because I never took my shirt off, like I was given no choice. I said, This is what you're doing, you know. Oh god, it was amazing. Yeah, and and it was a mixture of things that it felt like I'd been told to do it, so I was like, I was forced to do it, I had no choice. Yeah, I was I was like, it was freedom, and it was humiliation in there as well, you know. So everybody was like, I mean, I was bullied a bit of school or a lot, uh, and so kids would like the nick out of me. Um you've got you've got no shirt and all that in. Um, but that was part of it, in that's kind of how it's done. Yeah, and then do anything about it for years, but I knew that was that was the thing. That was like, oh my god, you know, I like the idea of not having the choice, someone saying you've got you've got to do this, and uh or or you know, or accidentally losing a t-shirt or something like that, yeah. And uh and so I so I don't know if it's exhibitioning is or not, if it's not my choice. If it's not your choice, you'll be in touch.

SPEAKER_01 4:24

So did you feel obviously when you then grew up and came out and found your your thing and for shorts, etc. Did that was it hard then to find somebody to fulfill that position to how did you get into the so I think I was lucky to honestly, depending on how lucky you want, like depending on how you knew it, because in early days of the internet, this is 1999, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 4:49

Uh that I don't I can't even remember what kind of group it was or something online, and I got chatting to this guy called Dave, don't remember his surname, don't remember he was in Pimugby, but he was an ex-army guy, and uh we were chatting online about sports kit and stuff, and he got to learn about this idea that I liked being told to to do shirtless stuff. Yeah, and anyway, we'd been chatting for about six months, and then we said, Oh, let's meet for a drink and a chat. So I turned up at his tub January the second, 1999, it was uh and we I met him in the car park, and he says, Defancy skipping the drink and going for a challenge. I'm like, Yeah, okay, and he went, okay, then slip the shorts, get him a car, leave your clothes. Just like that. And I'm like, and I'm I'm like, like an idiot, yeah, okay. You know, what the hell am I doing? Uh it's January and it's cold, and it's like, and so and it all we did was we drove around town and he dropped me somewhere. He said, Okay, I'm gonna be like he showed me on the map, or or I'm gonna be down there, and then I'd have to get from that A to B. And then at one point he he said, like, I'm hungry, go and get me some something to eat in the shop, you know. Unliter I had shorts and trainers on. Yeah, uh, I think I had a hat on as well, you know, we were poor walking on the feet, and just he kept doing like busier places, and and so it was just getting more and more, you know, um full on as it went on, you know. Yeah, um, and then that so he got me into it that way, really. Uh and it's just that whole idea of not having a choice, you know, okay, this is what you're wearing, go and um and that's now stuck with you like really my thing is that whole idea of you know having to do it.

SPEAKER_01 6:49

So do you do you go out in your shorts in everyday life, or are you is this just your kink and that do you keep that completely separate into your private life, or is it do you like what do you take it into work? Like do you wear them under your trousers, or is it something that I know a lot of people do that with sports gear, like they'll wear it under their everyday uniform?

SPEAKER_02 7:11

Yeah, so uh it's always very much a separate thing. I would never like my it was my kink, and although I sometimes went shutless and stuff on my own accord, yeah, it wasn't that often. And then COVID came along and I started running, and I had this thing in my head if I'm gonna run, I may as well do it like shirtless. Yeah, and so I started doing part run, and it took me about three or four months before I had the courage to do it shutless yeah, because nobody else did. I'm like, I'm all this is it's allowed to know, and uh and now I I do every part run, yeah, every Saturday morning, you know, and I'm known for it. Uh I now talk about so I I I've got a job where I'm quite well known amongst a certain group of people, yeah um around the world, bizarre, and I've become much more open about that.

SPEAKER_03 8:06

Right.

SPEAKER_02 8:06

And so I was interviewed on a podcast and I spoke, I talked about how and and it I realize it's a thing about build building confidence, yeah. And yeah, and uh there's I read a book which is all about getting comfortable or being uncomfortable, yeah, and it's to put yourself out there and to not care what other people think about you, which is a huge thing because this is about worrying what other people think about you, and so this is like a step, and um getting used to that and starting to tell people about you know, I like wearing shirtless stuff.

SPEAKER_01 8:37

I don't tell them about all the kings, but no, and that was gonna be one of my questions, actually, is when you are out shirtless or have been told to go out shirtless, say you're in the centre of London and you were just in a pair of shorts and nothing else. Is that liberating but also quite scary? Like, do you find people like staring at you constantly? Petrifying. I did one in November.

SPEAKER_02 9:00

Uh, and I mean that I had a photographer with me, he he wanted to do a photo project, yeah, and there were pictures of people just what you know, what on earth, you know. I I had one a few years ago, and I was in Covent Garden, yeah, and I was one you know, um wandering along near jewelry lane theater, uh Theta Royal, and this woman came up and hit me with a handbag. And my mate was there and said, What did what must you do? It was August. It was raining, but it was August, so it wasn't cold. No. And it's like, I could have been just out for a run. And she came in.

SPEAKER_01 9:38

Is that I was gonna say, do you get experience any like banter's not the word, but any hate from it or shouting or anything like that? Really hate.

SPEAKER_02 9:48

I I get yeah, I get funny looks, I get comments like or you maybe forgotten something.

SPEAKER_03 9:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 9:54

Or or you get both, are you cold or are you hot?

SPEAKER_03 9:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 10:00

Yeah. Um so yeah, I do get the comments, but that's I think that's all part of it. And you've learned to deal with that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's all part of it doesn't matter, does it?

SPEAKER_01 10:11

Yeah, it's it's learning to deal with that. And when it comes to the being told to travel in or where such and such, is that is that do you have like one person that tells you to do that, or have you gotten met a like a group of friends or group of masters or group of what how how does that work?

SPEAKER_02 10:29

Uh I have had like I suppose masters or or don don people say yeah, so never really knows them as a master, but um but uh it's anybody and any, yeah, uh yeah, whoever really and is that a sexual thing as well?

SPEAKER_01 10:48

Like is that it's not just for the experience, is that a sexual thing as well for both of you? Yeah, I I guess so.

SPEAKER_02 10:54

I mean, I know in the past, I guess Dave used to like the fact that he was in control, he had all this uh you know ability to to put me through some uh various challenges. I think he's to enjoy enjoy the control and stuff like that. So I think people would would like that control, yeah. I think people do.

SPEAKER_03 11:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 11:16

Um, and I know I know a a chap who has done it to me and he he gets a thrill from it. Yeah, he really, he really it's weird because it's I always think it's very strange because I'm often on my own and they're not seeing me, and it's like it's like then they're not actually seeing it happen. Um sometimes I've had them follow me around and watch from a distance or yeah, or stuff like that. And it's it's um it it's very I do feel guilty sometimes that that they're not involved in it more, but but then sometimes it's it's better that I'm gonna be. That's what they want, isn't it?

SPEAKER_01 11:55

And I saw this um the last couple of weeks that you've done um I suppose it's a collaboration with where somebody has told you to go and find a spot and lock yourself up. Yeah, that was in the cold, freezing cold, wasn't it?

SPEAKER_02 12:09

I know that was crazy. It was like the third time I've met this this this guy. We're we're good, we've become good friends. Uh and literally I was I had to I was dropped somewhere at a four-mile walk, and he'd he'd left. I had a map and everything. And this is the four-mile work just in short. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh on a Sunday in January. So it was about eight degrees. Yeah. Uh but that again that's part of it for me.

SPEAKER_03 12:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 12:36

Um, and uh I he'd mark this place on his ordinance survey map, and I get there and he'd put reflective tape pointing me to a quick place. Got to this tree, and there was like uh some chains around the tree, and there's a collar, and it he told me the instructions there, told me to sit on this log and put this collar around and lock it and tape these legs together. So I'm locking the stuff and no idea how long I'm gonna be here. No, and then hang off some stuff. And how long were you there? Uh about I think it was about an hour and a half. I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 13:15

Completely alone.

SPEAKER_02 13:15

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. He was hiding under the leaves there. Yeah. And uh so it's all very safe and everything.

SPEAKER_03 13:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 13:23

Um, but uh yeah, but then at one point he came out and he chained the next lock for uh and locked a timer on it. Right. And uh and but he had a hood on, so I couldn't see him. Yeah. And uh and then he disappeared, and so I was just sat there not knowing how long this lock's gonna be on for, and what and then suddenly it goes click, and then I know I've got to get from there to where he's gonna pick me up, which is another four-mile walk.

SPEAKER_01 13:51

And that was untied, like was completely set up back to what it was. Yeah, and then was that the end of it, or was it that was pretty much the end of it, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 14:00

It's it's rarely is there any sexual gratification. I I mean I I enjoy the build-up for it, and I enjoy the aftermath. Often when it's happening, I'm like terrified and yeah, but you enjoy that too as well. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I like being pushed and challenged and uh yeah.

SPEAKER_03 14:20

Is there anything um in Quise that you really want to try?

SPEAKER_02 14:26

I've been quite lucky, I've done quite a lot. I I just I think I want to really push the idea of uh like having a bare minimum for longer and longer, you know. Uh like I've done I've done it overnights and I've done uh like 24 hours and maybe like further. I I've been dropped one place and had to walk 18 miles to another place. Uh and that was across Central London. Um, so I'm not saying further, but it like challenges up. Yeah, push and just see how far you can you can take this, you know. Uh it's it's just about being put in that uncomfortable position. Yeah. And I'm not saying I'm getting used to it, but but a sudden, I mean, part one is now I don't even think about it. Yeah, first I was like I was like terrified, but now it's it's normal, yeah, and it's almost expected. So it's running that next next step to how how far can you?

SPEAKER_01 15:28

And is there any gear that you're is on your wish list and or anything? I mean, obviously you're more into the older school stuff, so it's harder. So people that don't know where to find that, then that obviously that's a lot of that is unvinted in places like that, isn't it? Not really coming back.

SPEAKER_02 15:44

I'm always looking for old unburied shorts, but trouble is they cost can cost hundreds of pounds. No, I've still got my my old ones to look after. Uh I like treasure them, you know, they only come out on special occasions. And and I have to bought these these ones out, yeah, which are I think pretty good.

SPEAKER_03 16:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 16:04

Um, so I really like these. These are my I've wear these at part one and the occasional other thing. So I was just always looking for the new like shorts and things.

SPEAKER_01 16:15

I think there is a market there as well. And I think that's where some of the sportswear brands, especially in the kink scene, need to maybe focus their attention a little bit more. Like the old school Adidas Chili stuff is now making a big comeback again. It's always been a problem now, it's making a comeback again, and the shiny stuff again. But I think if they go old school, that's where I I there's definitely a call for like shiny stuff.

SPEAKER_02 16:39

I've got I've got a friend who he's he's he's uh straight married, uh and I I collect football shirts, and I didn't realize that he has a couple of football shirts, he's sports ball. I like that football shirt. That's what he said, yeah. I really like the shiny stuff. Oh my gosh, oh my god, and this is coming from my straight mate. Yeah, that's weird. So there is a call for it, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 17:07

Not just in the game world, but no, in general. In general, you know, it's football kids another side to your dress up and kink as well.

SPEAKER_02 17:14

That's yeah, I think it there is a kink to it, but it's it's it's just a collection. I I I love football shirts. Yeah, I've got like 120 something. On the wrapped and in the in the all hung up there, yeah, and some are stored in boxes, but yeah, I've I I just I just love them and collect them. I like colour. I just like bright colour codes and football shirts, do it for me, you know.

SPEAKER_01 17:43

It's uh and I know like after doing this podcast, there's lots of lots of kinks kind of blend into one another. So like you could be a sports gear that goes into rubber, etc., and chastity and all that kind of stuff. Is that anything there that you would always want to go into? I try I do chastity a bit.

SPEAKER_02 18:01

Uh sometimes I I see the shorts and the trainers as kind of like a uniform.

SPEAKER_03 18:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 18:06

And part of that uniform can be chastity as well.

SPEAKER_03 18:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 18:09

Uh, because it kind of like gets you in that headspace of you're under control.

SPEAKER_01 18:14

And um, so that that that is something that happens occasionally. And is that something that you put yourself through, or is that something that this other person or Dom would say you're going to chastity for today?

SPEAKER_02 18:26

Or uh it can be both. Yeah. So I quite often put it myself in it to help me get in that headspace.

SPEAKER_03 18:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 18:32

I find it if I'm in Chastity, I'm more likely to follow the orders and I'll find things easier to do. Um it just gets me in that headspace type thing.

SPEAKER_03 18:44

Uh but equally, if someone said you need to be, then I would be, you know, it's and what's the longest you've done in Chastity?

SPEAKER_02 18:52

Uh I did lockdown quite a lot. So that's what I I got into it in 2019, and then I I think I did lockdown for a a few months.

SPEAKER_03 19:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 19:04

Uh I had to build up to it, but then lockdown came along, and I was like, let's see how long we can do, you know. So I think I did from about March through to about June July time.

SPEAKER_01 19:15

And still did every day locked and hardware and everything. Yeah, on the on that time.

SPEAKER_02 19:20

So I that's when I was thinking um yeah, but yeah, I did I did I I that's when I started running, so so um I I kind of did it all all together and yeah, yeah. So so that was that was my entry into chassis, really.

SPEAKER_01 19:34

And that I suppose that blends well with the having somebody tell you what to do as well, and it blends well into that.

SPEAKER_03 19:40

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 19:41

So what if you were looking to go another direction or looking for somebody to help, what where would you look for that? If somebody was thinking that they're similar interests to you, like how do you find how do you find your kids? How do you find people to talk to? Did you do like anything online?

SPEAKER_02 19:57

Yeah, it's all online. So I mean, I met Dave through some random early forum, I think it was, I can't remember. Um, and uh now I mean I've got my Instagram, I've got uh it's not a huge but I've got a small following on Instagram. Yeah. Uh I've got um I'm on various social things, you know. I've I've got profiles on like things like Twitter and Twitter and so on, you know. Uh and uh there are various groups as well, like on Reddit there's a shirtless lifestyle group, and on Facebook there's a shirtless running group, and I chat to other people. And I and and I try and uh encourage people as well to to do shirtless stuff. But a lot of people in the same boat where they're like shy to do it and they want the encouragement, you know. Yeah, I've kind of like gone down the route of I'm being told to do it, where some people just need the encouragement to do it.

SPEAKER_01 20:55

Well, you're body conscious first of all, and then you just become non-body conscious, and yeah, it doesn't really matter because what we all realize as well is that not all many of us are not six-pack muscle hunts. Oh god, a normal person, normal body normal person.

SPEAKER_02 21:09

I think that half the battle is for me, is I mean, I'm not I'm not skinny or anything like that, and I've got lumps all over, you know. Um I don't take my shirt off the show off. It's just nothing to do with it. Yeah, it's about taking a shot of them, being comfortable with how you look.

SPEAKER_03 21:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 21:26

And if someone doesn't like the way you look, that's their problem.

SPEAKER_01 21:28

Yeah. It's it's the best way to look at it. I think no matter what the king, I think that's a really good way to look at it, is that it's like we're not there to be judged with with an open community that's we we don't judge anybody in it.

SPEAKER_02 21:41

I I remember the first time I did part one shirt, it was Christmas Day, and I thought um a lot of people do it, do it uh in Pantar guests, like address the reindeers and all sorts of things. And I thought I'm going to wear red shorts, a Santa hat, I'm gonna put toots all around my and around my hat and around my ankle. Yeah. And this guy walking along who goes button looks at me, mate, that's claft. I'm like, oh, you know, it just gives you that burst of like, oh, it's alright. Yeah. And it's just sometimes having that bit of yeah, that one thing to go, oh, okay. This is alright.

SPEAKER_01 22:21

Yeah. And being in the social circle, well, the social media world now, I suppose, with your Instagram following and stuff. And are you finding that more people are like you and more people are into the similar things as you coming forward? Most people look at me and go, You're insane.

SPEAKER_02 22:39

Especially with the cold stuff. I mean, I I've spent years building up my tolerance to cold, I floom in the sea four times a week. Uh, and uh I try and keep that you know uh tolerance to cold built up. Um and that most people, and I totally get it, hate the cold. Yeah, and and I I used to hate cold, and that is the main thing I get is oh my god, I can't believe you do it. You know, when I post the old picture of me swimming on my normal Facebook, I get like work colleagues that you're saying what you do. Yeah, but they're getting to know me for that now. It's like you know, it it it makes you feel amazing.

SPEAKER_01 23:19

It does make you feel amazing. So what what do we see coming for shirtless roll for 2026?

SPEAKER_02 23:24

If I keep going, I'll I mean I'll I'm I I'm gonna keep going. I I'll I was talking to someone this afternoon. Uh I I want to go on a like a holiday, yeah, like a camping holiday and just not take a shirt with me at all or something like that, you know. In this country? Yeah, mate, probably, yeah, yeah. Uh I haven't worked out how to do it abroad yet. Yeah, because you need you'd need a shirt to get on the plane or yeah. Um but uh but I know it's too easy being in like someone like Malik at the same time. Yeah, well the norm, then it's it's not it's not like it is. So I think you know, I I did a a camping trip a while ago, a couple of years ago, uh, and that was very doable. So I think it's something else like that would be uh just to just to put it's pushing yourself out there and not having the shirt with you, so you're basically stuck like that.

SPEAKER_01 24:16

Yeah, you've got to deal with whatever happens. You've got no choice, that is, yeah, the rules. Yeah, and is there anybody in the kink world as such that you really want to work with or would like to collab with? I have no idea. Good question.

SPEAKER_02 24:32

Uh yeah, I I see so many faces pop up and think, oh yeah, but I just I just enjoy doing what I'm doing. I mean if if I ever meet anybody, anyone want to do anything or work together, and that'd be great, but but um I just yeah, I'm just happy doing what I'm doing and uh keep going, really.

SPEAKER_01 24:55

Yeah, you're doing it well. I I know it's a I'm a bit it's all a bit mad and ring, but yeah, it's uh Well, we're looking forward to seeing the Instagram grow, and we're looking forward to seeing what you do for 2026, and hopefully we'll see you on a camping holiday. A little bit more of these um notes left places that this this surrendering is such a maybe that route, and who knows? Who knows what's going to be out there for Shirtless Rob in 2026? So, yeah. But thank you so much for coming on my podcast. It's really, really it's nice to chat to somebody completely different that we like there's not many of you on it, but I think that's like an important thing.

unknown 25:35

Good.

SPEAKER_01 25:35

Well, thank you for inviting me. It's be it's being nice to yeah, talk about it. So tune in, people, if you want to um see Shirtless Rob or like even follow him and find out where where he's gonna be, or even ask him to go and do something. I'm sure they can connect with you on the right platforms, can't they? Absolutely. You've got it here first. Thank you.