torek, 15. februar 2011

Unusual BDSM toys

I started this blog to write about some of most unusual bdsm toys. Maybe they are not so unusual to bdsm community, but they are a little different and unknown to the rest of the world.

But first, let's talk about bdsm, because many people have wrong picture what bdsm is all about. Bdsm is compound acronym, derived from the terms bondage and discipline (b&d), dominance and submission (d&s), sadism and masochism (s&m).

As you can see, bdsm includes a wide spectrum of activities, forms of interpersonal relationship, and district sub-cultures. This are not some sick games played by bunch of disturbed people. Most of activities and relationships within a bdsm context are characterized by the fact that the participants usually take on complementary, but unequal roles, thus the idea of consent of both the partners becomes essential. This is the normal kind of bdsm and is meant to be fun and vivid life style. But in some cases you will find people taking this too far.

Let's talk about most common bdsm toys that we are all familiar with. First in line is whip. Who never heard about whips before? Bdsm culture uses many different kind of whips and floggers (and other spanking devices). In same category as whips, you can also find floggers, paddles, slappers, crops, canes and ticklers. Unlike in real slave times, whips, floggers, paddles,... are normally not used to really hurt submissive. In most cases submissive will have a little red skin or marks, that usually go away in matter of couple of hours (except in case of extrime bdsm).

Other well known bdsm toy is ball gag. You can probably remember Bruce Willis wearing ball gag in Pulp fiction movie. Remember that red ball in his mouth with leather straps around his head? Well, this is basic ball gag. You can find many other kind of ball gags too, like ring gag (a.k.a. open mouth gag), penis gag (a.k.a. pecker gag), bit gag and medical gags. Many think that they are used to keep submissive quiet, but that is not the only purpose. Ball gags are manly use to humiliate submissive. Ball gag can make submissive drool uncontrolling. That can be very humiliating to submissive and even arousing for some masters or mistresses.

This is all for today. Next time I'll be talking about couple of bdsm sub-cultures and about sex toys they use. Until then, play safe.