Of Lips And Gags

"She's ready for her close-up Mr. Demille." Chloe Camille convincingly demonstrates the way bright red lipstick can work with a red ballgag. Notice the way her lips wrap naturally around the ballgag, making it all look like a single natural unit. Dynomite!
Image Source: Kink.com shoot 10443, Halloween starring Chloe Camille.
While perusing a number of eminent websites in pursuit of my intellectual studies, I noticed something rather striking: very few of the artsy bondage kinda sites have any idea what gags are all about, as they almost never use them.

Come to think of it, a lot of hardcore bondage sites tend to neglect gags, using them rarely, or not effectively. The pic above shows what gags are all about ... controlling the sub's mouth. In the case of a ring gag, it's propping the mouth open, allowing things to be shoved rapidly in and out of it. In the case of your more commonplace ball gag, it's filling the mouth, letting the sub know that even as her top is working her pussy, her mouth is still under his control, not hers.

It's also about the softly muffled cries of passion that get out from under a gag, and the way a string of drool trails down the chin, a visible reminder of the sub's helplessness. Sure, it contorts the sub's face a bit, but that's just another aspect of her helplessness. Her very expression is controlled by her top. The sub's mouth is for kissing and licking and oral sex, and when not in use for those purposes, is quite properly bound and put away for such uses later.

If you think about it in those terms instead of going "Eeeew, gag!" you might just up your game a notch or two, art bondage people. I'm not saying that this is my taste and everybody's taste ought to be like mine, I'm writing this because I think a lot of bondage/sub-top/master-slave/up-down/whoopsi-doodle type folks might just find themselves enjoying gags a lot more of they put a little thought into what they are really all about.

And come to think of it, there ARE art bondage people, a lot of them. What the hell? What happened to bondage's ultra-skeeviness? I feel another post coming on!

The gag that says, "My lips are yours to use as you please, and when you please." And just look at how those red lips accentuate that spider gag while it's spread her mouth wide for whatever. By which I mean a cock, of course. And we can't ignore the way the model's huge, beautiful wide-open brown eyes work with her beautiful wide-open mouth. So we won't! 
Image Source: A reverse image search using a number of search sites turned up one hit, a site called Scroller which is a repository of sexy images, which cited as its source a subreddit that I used to curate, which means it's a pic I found on the Interwebs somewhere. There was no useful information about the picture on Scroller, and no other hits for the pic came up on Tineye, Yandex, Baidu, Alamy, and Shutterstock as well as Google reverse image, which is the search engine that found the image on Scroller. So I have no idea where this image originated. Drop me a line if you do!

An illustrative lost opportunity. This is bondage model Tatti Russo in a shoot for (gazes at watermark) Fucking Dungeon.  Will you look at those gorgeous lips of hers, so beautifully highlighted by that red, red lipstick? Of course you will, how could you not? Can you imagine how gorgeous those lips would look wrapped around a ballgag or a ring gag? I bet you can, I sure can. However apparently the same photographer who managed to take this shot could not. Because...

You don't have to imagine because here's Tatti in the same photoshoot wearing the same lipstick but with a ball gag strapped into her mouth.  And she does look gorgeous. Just not nearly as gorgeous as in the image above. I think it's two things: the lighting is much harsher in this image, making her skin look paler and her lipstick look paler, too. More importantly, her lips are pulled back over her teeth, making her lips look less full. Of course having a ballgag in her mouth will make a woman's lips stretch, too. I don't think that's what is happening here, though. I think it's just that no one thought about the possibilities here. Letting her lips relax into a more natural shape would let them be the full lips that they are. I could be wrong, my thinking is purely hypothetical here, but I think my thoughts explain the images well.

And here's gorgeous bondage model Nicotine making my point. Her lips are stretched back, but not so far back that they don't look full and gorgeous against that gag. And that red lipstick works beautifully with the ballgag. Damn.Imagine if her lips had been posed like Chloe Camille's lips.

Image source: kink.com shoot 6716 starring Nicotine and Clair Adams.

Here's Nicotine from the same video, sans ballgag. Absolutely gorgeous lips, just like Tatti, in fact, both are flat-out gorgeous in these shoots. Imagine what could have been if the photographer had tried to get the full effect of those lips wrapped around a ballgag, like Chloe's were. Woulda been spectacular.