The best self bondage system (In my opinion) and an amazing first real bondage experience.
I'm putting this here because there is a some subtle suggestions but there is nothing remotely overt in this.
He guys so this is my first true story on this site tho I have written one or two fictional ones in the past. Until now I have never really been tied up before, at least not in a way that has been inescapable. I’ve been playing around with self bondage for years. Having been raised as an avid outdoorsman I’m quite good with knots and rope, but having never had someone to tie me up, I have been limited to self bondage and the obvious restrictions it imposes. I built an Ice lock that works reasonably well but I have always been able to find a way out before the ice melts. My objective for years was to experience being bound inescapably for an extended period of time, I wanted to experience this “sense of relaxation” that people talked about, but after about 10-15min (more like after doing what people often tie themselves up to do) I would always get tired of it, or think of something I would have to do, and inevitably find a way to escape. Usually without much difficulty.
I have finally, after a year or two of work, achieved success. The system I built consisted of a custom straitjacket that fastened in the front with segufix closures instead of with straps in the back. This makes it quite easy to put on yourself (with a little bit of practice anyway). Each sleeve ends in a small loop, it came with a strap that was meant to connect them (Also fastened with segufix). I replaced this strap with a length of static ¼” climbing line run through a special ring device. One sleeve was connected to the special ring device, to the other sleeve I attached a battery powered electromagnet (I believe it has a holding force of 60 lbs) either way it’s more than enough the way the rope is run though and the way your arms are positioned. I tried Ice locks as well but found them less reliable and disliked that they get everything kinda wet. The metal plate that attaches to the magnet was tied to one end of the ¼” static line, on the other end of the line I tied a bowline with a reasonable sized loop.
Skip this paragraph if you know what a special ring device is. A special ring device is a super simple way of tightening a rope and having it stay tight. Basically you loop a rope through two small metal rings then again around only one of the rings. The result is that you can pull the rope through one way but not the other. If you use a good dense rope and rings that are small relative to the size of the rope (my rope is ¼” and the rings are 1” in diameter) then it can really work quite well.
I started by tying my legs at the ankles with a bit of hemp rope, twice around with the bite and then cinching it off, next I secured my legs just above the knees with a segufix strap (the one that is meant to be used on the arms). I slipped the straitjacket on, it goes on like a regular coat not backwards like a normal one, the sleeves were a bit too short for me to fully open my hands which made everything a bit more difficult but was worth it in the end. The jacket takes two segufix locks to close, the first is at the waist line. The metal post goes first through the left half of the jacket then the right, then two straps come around the waist from the back and also go over the post, finally the crotch strap. It was a bit difficult to hold the post and all five pieces in place with getting the plastic lock onto the post and the first few tries I dropped the pin. Eventually I smartened up and used some tape to hold the pins in place, this helped quite a lot. The upper lock went at about the collar bone, thi sone was easier as there was only three things to get over the post; the left and right side of the jacket and the crotch strap again, which now made the loop at the front for my arms. The next bit is partly a person fetish but also a legitimate safety issues as well as I would be jumping around in a straitjacket with my legs tied together, I strapped a large bike helmet onto my head. Finally I grabbed a ball gag, AN IMPORTANT SAFETY ISSUE HERE, I did not secure the ball gag into my mouth, I strapped it on over my face with my mouth closed, if your doing selfbondage with anything other than a ring gag (even that really) then you need to be able to spit it out easily. I like being able to have a gag my mouth but I also don’t want to die and I also might just get painfully tired of being gaged waiting for the battery to die.
Side note on the safety topic: the electromagnet will give out eventually when the battery dies but the rule is have two ways out. My second was a pocket knife tapped in the sleeve of the jacket, within easy grabbing distance of my right hand. In a pinch I could cut a hole in the sleeve and get my right arm out and cut myself loose.
So at this point I am strapped into the jacket, legs strapped/tied tightly together with a helmet on, and a ball gag in my mouth, but my arms are free. My left arm has the special ring device attached to the end of the loop and my right the electromagnet and battery. The ¼” static line is running through the special ring device, all the slack in on the end of the line that will get shorter, it ends in the metal plate that will latch onto the electromagnet the other end has the loop, it’s the end that will do the pulling. With my arms free it was very easy to pass the end of the line with the metal plate on it through the loop on the jacket, around my torso, and then through the loop again at the front. The I held the metal plate against the magnet and… Nothing, I forgot to turn the damn thing on…
15min later I was back at this point after taking everything off and turning the magnet on. The metal plate snapped onto the magnet and a few good tugs assured me that it was staying on. So now my arms are still free but the rope connects them and follows the path my arms will take into the straitjacket position. Then I kinda hopped to the nearest door and looped the bowline I tied in the end of the static line over the knob. Now all i had to do was walk away, and it worked; the rope connecting my arms got shorter the further I went from the door, I slipped my arms through the loop at the front of the jacket and felt my movement slowly restricted, then it stopped working. The rope had gotten all tangled, at this point I wasn't using the static line, I was using soft hemp rope, it was too soft and didn't run through the ropes past a certain tension. Five minutes later I was out of the jacket and retrieving the static line from my camping gear, 15min later I was back in the jacket and walking from the door again, my arms pulling tight all the better. An added benefit of the static line is that it will not stretch, no matter how hard you pull. As my arms just started to pull tight it stopped again. This time I couldn’t see what had happened and I also couldn’t get out easily. It was quite annoying as the tie wasn't tight enough to satisfy me but also wasn't loose enough to easily trouble shoot. After about two min of struggling suddenly my arms popped loose. After pulling them around the front of me I saw the electromagnet had given out. I also saw why it had stopped tightening. The special ring device had worked perfectly this time but the length of the electromagnet, plus the special ring device, plus the rope tying each to the loops of the arms, plus the loops themselves at the end of the sleeves, was too much length. 5min later I was out of the jacket AGAIN. I corrected the issue my tieing a bit of rope around the end of the sleeves with a snuggle hitch (Basically a clove hitch with an extra pass) and tieing the ring device and magnet with much less slack. This gave me an extra 7 or 8 inches of slack that I could take up. Then I looked into the magnet, turns out I was wrong the battery wasn’t dead, my struggling had caused it to dislodge from the contacts (battery popped out from me jumping around). I fixed this issue by cutting a piece of canvas off a roll (thanks again camping gear) and jamming it into the battery housing to prevent the battery popping off again. I also took the opportunity to change the now half drained battery. 20min later I was walking away from the door again, my arms pulling tightly together, really tightly, at this point I was blown away by how tight it was getting. I was all caught up in it, leaning my full weight against the rope pulling every bit of slack out of the line. I couldn't move my arms at all, then the rig I was standing on slipped and I went down, HARD. With no arms to break my fall and my legs strapped together tightly, there is definitely nothing quite like falling face first toward a marble floor unable to move your arms or legs. I’d like to think I would have used the helmet with or without the added fetish but damn I am glad I did. That little slip could have been seriously bad. My head was the first thing to hit but the helmet did its job and I barely felt a thing. Physically anyway, emotionally and psychologically was a different story. Now here I was, on the floor in a super tight straitjacket legs tightly bound together. At first I didn’t really buy it. I rolled around and struggled a bit but I was worried about accidentally breaking loose, so I only went so far. At this point I was elated, I had (and have) never experienced such tight and legitimate bondage ever before. It was everything I wanted. Some minutes later (after doing what people often tie themselves up to do) I wanted out, this is when I actually tested my bondage. And it held, damn did it hold. I spit the gag out and struggled HARD for a good 10-15 minutes. I thrashed around trying to dislodge the battery again but the canvas had fixed that little loopwhole. I tried to escape the legitimate way, I had watched enough straitjacket videos online to know the concept there, that was a fucking joke, I tried rubbing the magnet on the edge of a wall to catch the lip of the metal plate and lift it off but the plate was smaller than the magnet and I had lined it up really well when I snapped it on. I really wasn't enjoying it and I really wasn't playing around, I tried to get out. I could have used the knife but that meant ruining the nearly $600 jacket, I saved up for months to buy it. That wasn't happening. All the struggling had exhausted me and I ended up lieing on the floor, the helmet actually made an ok pillow as well. At this point I kinda just “fell” into it. It was exactly like I had imagined it would be, my whole being just gave up and I surrendered to the stupid little 9volt battery. I was dying of thirst tho, I managed to do the hardest sit up of my life and then using the wall got to my feet. I hopped my way to the sink and turned the tap on with my face, then stuck my face into the running water and had a drink, I was careful not to drink so much that I would have to go to the bathroom for obvious reasons, even just swishing the water around in my mouth was heaven tho. My apartment is a bachelor so I wasn't restricted in movement between rooms as it’s all one room, kitchen living room, bedroom. So I hopped my way to my bed to lie down there. I lay in my bed for probably half an hour just squirming around, not really struggling like I had before, enjoying being tied up, I finally experienced that “relaxed” feeling people talk about and it was amazing. I have a pretty stressful life as I run a business. I was totally stress free for the first time in probably years, I couldn't work on the computer against the far wall if my life depended on it. But I was getting kinda bored, my best guess was that it had been close to an hour, the battery would last about another hour based on my tests, my hard thrashing earlier would have possibly shortened that but now I was also just lying here, in my test I hung a 20lb weight from the magnet, it could well be as little as 10 lbs on it without struggling. The jacket was still tight enough that my arms were naturally pressing against the sleeves so that was a bit of force, and my light squirming was a bit as well, but probably not 20lbs. I don't want out anymore in this situation tho, I felt like I could stay like that for hours, I’m just bored. It was then that I noticed my phone, I had put it this stand I have that holds it up for watching moving in bed (It’s a long flexible arm) . I had put a slide show of straitjacket photos on it earlier (before tying myself up) and it was still playing, I wasn’t really fully in the mood for that anymore tho, not yet anyway, I was pleasantly kinda halfway there. Then I realised, it was a brand new Iphone, one of the new features.
“Hey siri”
Siri popped up with her little beep beep.
“Yes!”
“Sorry boss I didn’t get that” (I make siri call me “boss” )
“Can you play netflix videos”
“Sorry I can’t help you with netflix”
Damnit worth a try. Not surprising tho, apple just let siri play with third party apps a few months ago.
“Siri play music”
Music starts playing, it was bon iver I think, that was something. I squirmed around a bit more, tried to shift my legs and arms but enjoyably couldn't do much. Well anything really, the jacket was %100 as tight as when I had my insane fall.
I was pretty sure that there were no movies on my phone but it was worth a shot.
“Here siri are there any movies on my phone”
“I found the following titles” Siri reads out five great recent movies “there are more, would you like me to reed them all?”
It took me a second to figure it out. My new phone was the result of switching our phones from personal to a business account, we had also set up a family account for apple music, AND sharing apps, it must also share tv and movie titles by default. This was great, I had siri read out 15 or 20 titles before settling on Star Wars The Force Awakens. I saw it in theaters but it was a solid movie and it sounded perfect for my currently somewhat “distracted” movie watching experience.
“Siri play the Force Awakens”
“Sorry , Boss, I can’t play movies”
“What!” I thrashed around again for a second in the jacket “damnit apple! What’s the damn point…. ” that went on for a bit. Then it kinda turned into me struggling around in the jacket, I was trying to reach the phone suspended above me to hit play with my nose or something, but the stand would just move away and bounce around when I pushed on it. Then I put my head, in it’s helmet, down on the pillow, pulled my feel close to me and tried to raise my waist/torso up so I could get it with my hand though the sleeve of the jacket. I was so close it was crazy. Now the loop on the front of the jacket is the same strap as crotch straps so this was an interesting approach. I didn’t end up getting at the phone but I did solve my boredom problem. The slide show of straitjackets was playing again now. Normally I don't feel like bondage is complete without a gag but in this case I didn't feel the need for the one around my neck, really at all. But it was a nice touch to have it there, I was able to get it back in with the help of my shoulder.
After that I fell asleep, in the jacket (I spit the gag out) tightly strapped up, unable to move. It was amazing, I don't think i’ll ever forget it. If i didn’t mention this was also my first time in a straitjacket. Everything about it was amazing, the way the jacket pulled in constantly against my upper arms and shoulders in particular. I think I only slept for around 20min but when I woke up the battery had died and I was free, I was actually quite disappointed, I could have stayed in for twice that long. I was really tempted to reload the battery and go again but Now that I was free the work I had brought home was staring at me and I had responsibilities and decisions to make again. I spent the rest of the evening working on the computer but I felt like a million bucks (though more than a little distracted).
I think I may look into rewiring the battery housing, make it so I can load 2 or 3 batteries in parallel for longer sessions. Either way I love this thing and can not wait to use it again. What sucks is that I’m heading to my home town for a week to visit family for the holidays, so it will have to wait….
If anyone is interested in more info on how I set this thing up let me know and I can take some photos of the rig, I know the description is not the best, it’s a bit hard to describe.
Also if anyone want’s to proofread please feel free and I will my edits.
Please let me know if you enjoyed reading!