Japanese Bondage – Complementary Techniques – Part I
Japanese bondage is a technique that is difficult to combine with other forms of erotic power exchange play. Because of the constant need for balance and the effective use of shiatsu pressure points some forms of play, such as whipping, will only work counterproductive. Your best bet is to stick to the proven complementary techniques, the Japanese have developed themselves.
- Precision Pain Impulses
- Candle wax drips: By dripping candle wax on specific areas, such as the breasts or the genital area, you can give “accents”, temporarily concentrating your subs attention to one specific area. This is frequently done after the bondage has lasted for quite a while, mainly as a “refreshing” technique. Some indicental drips are usually sufficient to get the required effect and attention.
- Candle wax designs: Quite often, as an “accent” as well as for aesthetic reasons, designs are drawn on the subs body using candle wax. They are usually symbols or just free hand designs with no particular meaning. It takes a very steady hand and quite a bit of experience to be able to do this and you may want to practise this before using it in a real scene.
- Candle wax pouring: A technique that brings about a crescendo of pain impulses is pouring candlewax in large amounts, creating a “hot” waterfall. This is not without risk. It is done bij melting one or more entire candles and pouring it onto the subs body. One has to make sure the fuses are taken out of the wax first and the way must not be too hot (test one or two drips on your own skin first!). The “burning” effect on the skin will last longer than the effect of individual drips, simply because it takes longer for wax to cool down.
- Clamp accents: Clamps can be used to give the same “accents”. In general clothes pins are used and usually not or not only on the obvious locations such as nipples and vagina, but on random spots on the skin, including lips, ears and armpits.
- Japanese rose: The Japanese rose is a very intense form of nipple play, done in the following way. Clothes pins are placed circular around the nipple. Experienced subs may even be able to handle two or three concentric rings of pins on the breasts. One or more rings will focus the concentration almost entirely on the nipple, where the final clamp or pin is placed.
- Removing clamps: The Japanese in general will built up a “garden of clamps” on the subs body. This may go as far as a hundred or more. The clamps are removed in different ways, depending on the result you want to achieve. If you want to create one big crescendo, they are rubbed off in one go. Alternatively (if your sub can handle this) you may also pick (or pull) them off one by one. Very experienced doms will sometimes use a riding crop to whip them off one by one.
The Japanese combine bondage with very precise techniques to apply very local, pinpointed pain impulses. The most common techniques for this purpose is the use of relatively mild impulses, such as the application of candle wax or clamps (frequently clothes pins).