Postby bondagefreak » Sun Jan 29, 2017 1:26 am
An interesting topic with an equally interesting variety of responses.
From personal experience I can say with certainty that blindfolds can be prove to be an effective way of frightening the sub and heightening his other senses.
However, I also believe in a close bond between myself and the sub I'm playing with, so blindfolds are only a temporary measure for me.
When I play around with subs, I generally enjoy humiliating and mildly tormenting them. Being a dominant guy, sensory deprivation doesn't appeal to me that much. I prefer to stimulate a sub's senses instead of depriving him of them, since deprivation is not really a way to actively dominate.
Unless the one being tied up, is a sibling or friend, he won't feel safe with a blindfold on, which is why I'm not a fan of using them for long periods of time.
When a sub is tied up and gagged, he is at his weakest. In a domination session, sight, sound, smell and touch all become very important to the sub. If I remove/hinder/deprive one of those senses, I almost always compensate by stimulating another one of his senses to calm him down.
Then again, that's probably due to me being naturally protective with submissive guys, even though I enjoy humiliating and tormenting them.
So if I have a sub over and I decide to tie him up and gag him while I watch TV, I might decide to put tape over his eyes to deprive him of his sight for a while...but chances are, I'll pick him up, pull him up on the couch with me and let him rest his head on my chest while holding him firmly in my arms.
I might fool around with his breath, smother his nose, slap his face and abuse him verbally, but I'll be doing so while holding him close, allowing him to feel my warmth, pick my scent up and hear my voice. He might whimper, freak out about having his air cut off and complain, but he won't be scared or on the verge of emotional collapse while I'm holding him.
Even though he's tied up, gagged and unable to see, my voice and the fact that I'm holding him close to me compensates for the temporary loss of sight.
Generally though, I prefer to leave my sub's eyesight intact.
You can tell a lot about a person's current emotional state by the look in their eyes. In a vanilla bondage session, that's not too important. But in a domination session, it becomes VERY important. You never wanna push the sub TOO far. A blindfold can make it harder for the Dom to tell when he's about to cross the sub's emotional threshold.
Besides, I enjoy watching a bound and gagged sub plead silently or look up at me in fear of what I'm going to be doing next.
I tend to pay a lot of attention to my sub's eyes whenever I take part in a bondage/domination session.
