B.E.S.T. slave Training

Bondage Overview and Basic Guide

Bondage is about taking control if you are s dominant and loosing control or letting go of control if you are a submissive (slave). Bondage can render a feeling of helplessness to the tied participant.

For many this feeling of helplessness and knowing the other party can do as they will to their body is a huge turn on. For some it is an emotional release that is very calming and restful while some struggle against the binding to feeel the loss of control.

Bondage is a very useful tool that a Master should learn. It is not necessary to learn the complicated and time consuming Japanese rope bondage techniques to do a competent job of restricting your slave. Japanese rope bondage often takes hours because it is a process of building on layer after layer of ropes. Good results can often be achieved with a basic knowledge of ropes, a few knots, safety precautions and a good imagination.

Also good general bondage can be done with the use of leather wrist and ankle cuffs. It’s much quicker and can be just as secure as ropes. It also takes less skill and is safer for beginners.

Bondage can be used for erotic stimulation, punishment, discipline training, or humiliation. It provides a real life example to the slave of her Master’s ownership of her body, time and space. She is completely at his mercy while bound and remains so until he decides to release her.

Good bondage can be obtained with the knowledge of only a few simple knots and hitches. The basic knots are the square or reef knot and the bowline knot. Both are cover under the knot section of this website. A link is provided below.

Bondage for restraint:

Bondage for pleasure and discipline training -- Generally, this type of bondage should be very restrictive in nature. The less movement available to the slave, the better.

Bondage for punishment -- This type of bondage should be less restrictive. The slave should be placed in a position that, over time, becomes increasingly more uncomfortable. Also, boredom is a useful element to incorporate into this type of bondage. Simple examples are:

1. Tying a slave to a pole or beam while standing and leaving her legs untied and not blindfolding her. It provides a very limited means of movement, but will get very uncomfortable over time. Not having a blindfold will also make it harder for her to drift off into her thoughts and ignore the punishment. Time is an important element of this punishment.
2. Putting her on her knees and tying her hands above her head with her ankles tied to her waist is very effective. This does not allow the slave to stand but she can still move some. Being bound, bored, alone and uncomfortable is a good teaching tool. This type of bondage also becomes painful over time,

Restrictive bondage is done in one of two ways; 1) symmetric or 2) a-symmetric bondage. A simple example of symmetric bondage is tying her hands together and her feet together. This is symmetric in that both sides of the body and her limbs are tied in the same way. Symmetric bondage is the best way to allow a slave to be calm and at peace while drifting into subspace. If meditation is your goal, then use symmetric bondage.

A-symmetric bondage is usually more difficult for her. The mind tends to react to a-symmetric bondage differently than symmetric bondage because it is less peaceful and harder to adjust to. It is also a good punishment bondage. An example of a-symmetric bondage is tying one arm behind her back, one arm above her head, one leg straight and one leg bent. Some forms of a-symmetric can be a real mindfuck.

Often blindfolds, gags, butt plugs and other toys are used in combination with bondage.

Before using intense bondage with an inexperienced submissive, it is often necessary to do some training bondage first. This can include light bondage and bondage for a short periods of time.

Example of A-symmetric bondage

Some different ways that are used to bind a slave:

1. limit movement but it don't immobilize. (Handcuffs, Leg Irons, and some straight-Jacket)
2. binding body limbs to each other or the the torso (tie legs together or arms to body).
3. spreading parts of the body apart using a device. Often called tieing a slave dowm. (tie legs apart to bed post or spreader bar). A slave can be standing or laying dowm with this type of bondage.
4. Using special bondage furniture or other regular furniture to ties the body to. (such as chairs or St. Andrew's cross).
5. suspension sondage - suspending the body in the air by attaching the ropes to eyehooks in the ceiling or a bondage frame.
6. wraping the body with saran wrap or cling film. This is often called mummification or cocooning.
7. vacuum pump that removed air from a container and restricts slave's movement.
8. verbal bondage - The slave is only told to not move and can't until the order is recended.

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