Advice: Predicament bondage
Advice: Predicament bondage
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Balzac's suggestions for predicament bondage
Cerys and I like the idea of predicament bondage, as we find the D/s aspect of it a big turn on. It is a very effective way for the top to demonstrate the control they have over the slave, and it is humiliating for the slave to have to struggle between two impossible positions watched by the master/mistress. Like a lot of fantasies though, the practical realities do often get in the way of how you imagine it will work. The biggest problem is that after a short while the bondage just gets too uncomfortable in either position and the sub drops out of subspace and starts thinking about using the safeword.
The approach we now take is to place the sub in the predicament for a short period of time interspaced with periods where they can rest in a reasonably comfortable position. We find this works as when the sub is resting they are focusing their mind on what is going to happen to them and how powerless they are. When they are in the predicament they know that their suffering will only last for a limited period.
I find that a TENS box is a great tool for predicament bondage as it provide an effective and simple way of creating a painful/humiliating sensation (we use bi-polar butt plugs)). In order to stop the current, the sub must open a switch to break the current. The art of predicament bondage is thinking up a suitably evil switching mechanism for the sub to operate. The simplest one we use is nipple clamps with weights and a pulley. To open the switch the sub must pull on the clamps and lift the weights off the ground. They then have a choice of being shocked or suspending the heavy weights from their nipples. The only real problem with this technique is that the pain caused by the nipple clamps can become too great even when the weights are not being lifted.
The other technique we use is to make the sub lift their body off a seat or support in such a way that they cannot hold the position for long and when they sit back down again they close a switch and shock themselves. We use scaffolding to construct a frame to bind the sub to, usually in a squatting position with a bar between their legs which they can rest their weight on. The pole becomes one electrode. When the current is on they have to lift themselves off the pole to break the current; the frame prevents them from raising their body more than a few centimetres.
The other issue is how to time the periods of rest for the sub. At present, we just manually switch off the TENS unit when we feel the sub has had about as much as they can take in the predicament. We are looking for a timed switch to do this automatically. We do a lot of long-term bondage and the aim is to incorporate predicament bondage techniques into this.
