How often do you see hogties this stringent combined with well-applied cleave gags on TV or in the movies? Almost never, that's how often.There's a Yahoo group called "Bondage In Everyday Life" (henceforth, biel) which features women tied up and gagged in the course of, well, just goofing around, images collected from various sites around the Web that don't have anything to do with sexual bondage. It's not sexual bondage, it's not damsel in distress stuff, it's just people goofing off.
You can visit it at this link.There used to be a biel website but it vanished and I lost track of it a couple of years ago, but recently Pofoz gave me the link to its present form. I went and checked it out, and was forcibly struck by some aspects of it.
Remember, this isn't sexual bondage. The people engaged in it would probably laugh and say they were "being kinky" in some instances, but it's far, far away from :::Darth Vader-style heavy breathing:::
sexual bondage foreplay! The people involved, both tie-er uppers and tied-downers, are grinning and mugging because the whole thing is just a hoot to them.
A few things struck me forcibly when I looked at the biel pics again. I was really impressed by how stringent much of the bondage was. Sure, there were some of ties that looked like they could be shrugged out of in two seconds flat, and gags that would fall off if not carefully held in place, but the vast majority looked like they'd take some real struggling to get out of them, and in quite a few the woman clearly wouldn't get out until she was released.
When tape was applied, it was applied tightly and smoothly to legs, wrists and mouth. Rope was almost wrapped many times tightly around wrists, torso, legs, etc. In fact, there were several women who were practically mummy-wrapped with tape, rope and plastic wrap.
But what was really striking were the positions the women were tied in. There were quite a few comfy chair ties, but they were matched if not outnumbered by the more stringent ties: the traditional hogties (a LOT of traditional hogties) the front hogties, and most unusual, a lot of wrist-ankle ties.
About the only wrist-ankle tie in mainstream is from a 1992 TV movie called "The Fear Inside." I don't know why it's so rare, except it does tend to make the actress stick her butt way out in a way that can be seen as pretty darned sexual. The biel bondagettes don't seem to be concerned. See: just a hoot.
Overall, the bondage on the biel group is MUCH more stringent than what you see in mainstream TV. Much, much more stringent. The positions are much more varied and much more, um, effective than mainstream bondage imagery.
(I was also surprised by how much of the bondage is girl-on-girl stuff. Maybe guys were snapping the pics, but not every time.)
I think this is precisely because the biel folk are just playing around. They aren't concerned about what the bondage might look like. If it looks kinky, then "Yay, kinky!" If it looks goofy, then "Yay, goofy!" Because they don't worry about whether or not what they're doing looks like sexual bondage, they're willing to do tie-ups that would fit very easily on those commercial bondage sites that specialize in clothed women in bondage.
The implication of all this is what I find most interesting: there are a lot of people out there whose EXPERIENCE of bondage goes far beyond what you see on mainstream. They're much less likely to be spooked by strong bondage imagery in mainstream media than you might think.
Interesting.
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