captain21z wrote:Okay, you asked, and I'll tell you. There are NO safe ways to use bondage on your neck, period, unless you're being supervised (unless somebody is there with you at all times). Anybody who uses unsupervised self-bondage that involves looping something around their neck or stomach that isn't easily broken----anything that can constrict and inhibit or stop breathing-----is asking to die.
How right you are. I just got back from the fifth funeral I've attended in the last two years of a friend who fell asleep while wearing a necktie. I warned them and I warned them, but they just didn't listen. I've been trying to get the Consumer Product Safety Commission to look into it, but they just smile patronizingly. I think the neckwear manufacturer's lobby has bribed them all. I'm going to write my Congressman.
Let's get real here. When you eat, do you always make sure someone is around to perform the Heimlich maneuver on you? After all, by your own logic, if you eat unsupervised you are just asking to die. You could swallow something wrong and choke to death!
Nothing is 100% safe. You should be aware of the risks, but you should also have a realistic idea of the size of the risk. Going back to my first example, how many people do you really know who have died from falling asleep while wearing a tie? None? And yet a necktie can constrict! So logically, isn't a buckling leather collar even safer? Not 100% safe, but safer?
You can go through life worrying about how to eliminate every possible risk of dying. But it seems to me that you'd be living a life so devoid of fun that you might as well be dead. The question should not be, "Is this 100% safe?" but rather "Is this safe enough?"
I know that SuaveDragon said he (she?) doesn't own a collar, but a leather dog collar isn't that hard or expensive to come by. If you can't find one large enough, get two. Don't buckle it very tight; even with an inch of slack you can feel restrained. You could, for example, lie on a bed and use ropes to connect the leash loop to the bed somehow - again, not as tight as you can possibly make it, but so that the range of motion of your head is somewhat limited.c