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The “B” in BDSM stands for bondage, an activity that thousands if not millions of people enjoy as part of their sex life and, sometimes, as part of their normal life. You can find out more about BDSM here. If you’re looking for a way to spice up your sex life, bondage might just be it, and it doesn’t have to be as scary as you might think.
What Is Bondage?
In short, bondage is a a type of erotic play where someone is restrained. Typically, one person, called the top, restrains the bottom. Although bondage and the closely-related BDSM might seem as though the bottom isn’t willing, consent is extremely important. The parties have agreed to play these roles, and the bottom has the power to halt or slow play as it happens.
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Media often depicts women in the role of the bottom, but this doesn’t have to be the case. You can dominate your partner (detailed guide here), or the two of you can switch things up.
What makes bondage so enticing? For some people the appeal of power is obviously enticing, especially if they lack control in their everyday lives. On the other hand, someone who often has to be in charge can relax by placing power in another person’s hands for the night. Plus, someone who is bound and blindfolded can get shivers while waiting for their partner to do whatever they choose. For many, it just feels much kinkier when compared to regular vanilla sex (by the way, you’ll find more kinky sex tips here)
Bondage fantasies are common, and you’ve come to the right place if you’re ever had them! What bondage is good for is providing physical sensations, even pain, that can be either cathartic or erotically pleasurable or both.
Bondage can also be scary for you, but you can try some elements without making it a lifestyle or engaging in extreme bondage. It’s all about what you’re comfortable with, which means you should only engage in these scenarios with someone whom you trust.
Here are a few common items you can use when enjoying a little bondage with your man.
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- Leather/fabric cuffs
- Collars and leashes
- Shackles and chains
- Anal hooks
- Handcuffs – furry or metal
- Rope
- Tape – bondage tape only sticks to itself
- Slings
- Ankle spreaders
- Cock and ball cages and devices (chastity devices)
- Nipple and clit clamps
- Bondage mittens and arm binders
- Cages, St. Andrew’s crosses and other suspension
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These are just a few of the implements that you’ll come across when shopping for bondage gear. Rest assured that you don’t need a secret dungeon to enjoy bondage, even though some of the items on this list are pretty extreme…and expensive!
Add a couple items to your toy box, and you’re good to go. We especially like under-the-bed style restraints, which turn any bed into a bondage platform.
Bondage tape and furry cuffs also make great starting points. Many sex toy retailers also offer beginner bondage kits that will help you and your partner ease your way into a new world that can be quite nerve wracking. Don’t worry, though, because it can also be quite titillating!
But bondage isn’t just limited to tying up your limbs or body….
Restraint of your other senses also counts.
- For example, a gag that prevents you from speaking or making any noises counts as a form of bondage.
- Headphones or earplugs can decrease your sense of hearing,
- And you can even get creative to overwhelm sense of smell or touch.
- Similarly, many people who enjoy bondage like being blindfolded, which adds an exciting element of a anticipation to the bedroom.
- Hoods are an even more extreme form of head bondage.
- Finally, you can consider mental bondage. Rather than physically binding someone, you’ll require your partner to stay in a position by sheer will power.
- Alternatively, lightly binding with something easily broken such as paper streamers can really put someone’s will power to the test!
What About Some DIY Bondage?
You can empty your nest egg quickly if you go on a shopping spree for all things leather and stainless steel. Fortunately, savvy bondage practitioners have come up with some cost-effective ways to get your rocks off.
- Use saran wrap to bind someone. Plastic wrap is easily cut when you need to get free. It’s also cheap and doesn’t restrict blood flow if used properly. Using silk ties and scarves is a bad idea because you can cut off circulation!
- Use clothespins in place of clamps.
- Use spatulas, rulers or paint sticks as makeshift paddles.
- Sleeping masks can be used as blindfolds.
- A backward robe with arms tied behind your bottom provides upper-body bondage.
- Create your own flogger by wrapping tendrils of fabric or leather around a handle.
- Make your own O-ring gag with a simple O-ring from the hardware store, nylon and snaps.
- Belts make great spanking implements.
- And never underestimate the potential in a length of rope, just don’t tie it too tightly.
Bondage and Safety
Safety is of utmost importance when it comes to bondage with your partner and self bondage. It’s important to remember safety when restraining senses such as hearing, which is so important to communication. For example, you won’t be able to let your partner know if you need to stop or slow down when you’re wearing any sort of a gag. For this reason, many kinksters have developed methods of alert when words aren’t an option.
Two popular options include tapping the bed or surface that you’re on and dropping a ball to indicate distress.
This isn’t the only element of safety that one has to consider when it comes to bondage. While you might be turned on by the risks that bondage presents, you can also do a lot of damage to yourself or your partner if you do it wrong. In rare cases, people have died as a result of their bondage. Here are a couple of safety tips to consider:
- Use a safe word so that you can indicate if you need to slow or stop
- Do not tie up a person with silk or other materials that can restrict and cut off blood flow
- Keep a pair of scissors within reach to quick release the bound person from his or her ties
- Keys for cuffs should always remain within reach for the same reason
- If incorporating impact play, do not aim for the kidneys or other organs
- Keep all electricity below the waist
- Any person who is tied should be accompanied by another person – always
- Never engage in foreplay with someone whom you do not trust
The last point touches on just how important trust and communication is when it comes to bondage. When you’re tied up, your partner has the potential to do real harm. If they ignore your safe word, bind you without your permission or push your limits, you could face real psychological and physical harm. Take it slow, especially when you’re a beginner. For both partners, these new experiences can be overwhelming.
It’s a good idea to plan out your bondage scene beforehand and discuss it afterward. For intense scenes, the bottom or submissive, may need special attention in the form of hydration, cuddles and gentle talking. This is commonly referred to as “after care” by those within the BDSM scene.
Bondage As a Lifestyle?
So far, we’ve talked about bondage as being part of your sex life. Indeed, it can be, and it can bring your sex to another level whether you’re single or committed. But elements of bondage and BDSM are a lifestyle to some people, and they don’t just exist inside the bedroom. For these couples, the roles of top or Dominant and bottom or submissive never end. These situations typically involve service and protocol, which you can incorporate into the bedroom but certainly don’t have to. Perhaps just making sex a little more exciting is your goal…if that’s the case, then these intense sex ideas should help.
For people who live bondage or BDSM as a lifestyle, the drive to always submit or be in control may be connected to their identity and the way they experience the world. In some instances, the desire to try or live bondage can be a deal-breaker when it comes to relationships. For example, a woman who realizes she is submissive may ask her partner to go along with her desires, but if he doesn’t actually have dominant traits, neither of them will really get what they want. (more tips on being a submissive here)
One of the advantages of bedroom bondage, as it’s sometimes called, is the ability to try out both roles. One or both of you could like taking control, and the opposite might also be true. In BDSM culture, people who play both roles are known as a switch, but in the bedroom you and your partner might simply be comfortable being the top or bottom at different times. What bondage is to the next couple might be different from what it is for you and your partner.
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If you’re not quite comfortable enough to try bondage on your own, you could enjoy some bondage porn with your partner. This is also a good way to get ideas if you’re not quite sure where to start with everything. However, some people just don’t get the appeal of bondage, and that’s true, too. Perhaps you’ll find yourself in a position where you try something new in the future, but there’s definitely nothing wrong with regular vanilla sex, either!
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Arid says
Sean,
This was a fun read, as usual! 🙂 However, I feel you left out some very important safety rules that must always be followed, especially when using rope or anything else that binds…
1.rope play in & of itself (just like breath play) is not safe, both parties should be well researched in what they are about to do especially if both are novice. Never assume.
2. Knowing the physical condition/medical history of the bottom; questions sholud be asked about neck, back, shoulder surgeries, breast implants, circulation, respiratory &/or nerve issues.
3. Never should either party be under the influence of alcohol or drugs, first true consent cannot be granted, second it could quickly turn into a medical situation
4. Never put rope around the front of the neck, should be obvious but if one isn’t familiar, could end badly
There is so much more I could go into, I’d rather submit links to places where I’ve done my research… I am still the novice, though have been practicing some self tie applications. These sites reiterate a lot of the same things when it comes to safety and bondage, some offer additional information or links for further research, the last is a tutorial on ties. I hope anyone with interest in rope bondage will take heed & do their own research before jumping into a bondage scene unprepared!
http://www.japaneseropeart.com/RopeArt/tutorials.html
http://www.guiltied.com/cc/eng/safety/index.html
http://www.ropeconnections.com/kind-bondage-rope-best-bondage/
http://www.theduchy.com/
Sean Jameson says
Thank you so much for this Arid!
paul baker says
Never tied a woman up but i have been bound and gagged by women a lot for hours on end
A Bach says
I would really enjoy not having any no control over my holes. Tie, gaged and blindfolded
Anjlaina michelle says
I always thought that restraining your partner is the most erotic thing and by reading this gave me more confident about the whole kinky part of sex so I really love reading your website and I really love the idea being more adventurous because when you know what you want you should have it because desire is something you can’t let uncheck because you should be able to re create your fantasies with your partner you trust. And thank you for giving these kinds of good advise to have a better sex life.