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25 march 2011
My baby’s got me in chains… and other alternatives to rope bondage
by: Mistress Erisiana Cherie
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Source: blogs.creativeloafing.com - blogs.creativeloafing.com - USA
USA- I appreciate the look of intricate rope bondage
, but not enough to have (so far) applied myself to learning how to do it. I know the basics and that’s enough. Knowing my personality I think it’s possible that my disinterest in rope bondage has much to do with it’s massive popularity in the BDSM scene right now. Anything that’s so much of a trend loses some appeal for me.But fortunately there are other bondage materials available. For instance, I am fairly skilled in the use of silk scarves and saris for bondage. I adore using silks for a number of reasons. For one thing, scarves are so lovely and colorful - a subbie tied up in silk can be such a pretty sight! And oh, the feeling of silk sliding across skin-it’s a fetish all by itself. Before I was old enough to understand what a “fetish” was, I would stick my bare arms into the racks of silk shirts at the mall just to enjoy that lovely slippery-warm feeling. And I will still take silk over leather, on myself or my submissive, any day.
My silk scarves are also very practical. I can pick them up for pennies at thrift stores and a big collection of scarves takes up a tiny amount of space in your house or luggage. Not to mention how innocuous a bundle of scarves looks on
airport security scanners! Finally, scarves do double duty as fashion accessories or (if you’re clever like me) they can even be made into garments in a pinch (On our second date I dressed my slave Tia in a skirt made of silk scarves).
But scarves of course are not the only alternative to rope. There’s also leather shackles & straps, duct tape, plastic wrap… I recently developed a taste for using ordinary metal chain bought from the hardware store for bondage purposes. I was surprised by how much I liked it; chains are awfully stereotypical after all. But the combination of tactile sensations (heavy, cold metal) and the sound of the chains clinking as my slave paraded around in them for my entertainment was a huge turn-on.
I know one fellow who loves being bound with veterinary wrap, which is a stretchy, tearable, rubberized material much like ace bandages. And heck, why not use ace bandages themselves for bondage? (Bonus fact: when BDSMers use ordinary materials like this for kinky purposes we call these items
pervertables.” And it’s not at all uncommon to see classes and workshops and even party games devoted to the subject!)
I suppose the object of all this meandering is to illustrate that “bondage” doesn’t have to involve rope. Like
so many other things, in the world of kinky sex, there is an endless variety of possibilities to choose from.
