Bondage Blog

So there I was, perusing bondage videos at pornkai.com (as one does, conducting pure intellectual researches of course) when I stumbled across a really entertaining electric predicament bondage scene from Deviant Designs. The video is awesome; go watch it now. The submissive (clearly long-suffering) is sweet and cute and resigned and just a tiny bit bratty — not obnoxiously so, but just enough to remind us all that she does this stuff because she loves it as much as her master. And the video itself? Watching it will give any gadget-happy dominant just a touch of toy bag envy.

What has this inventive and creative sadist done? He’s merged a simple marble-maze game with a pair of wrist cuffs and some electronics. And then he’s combined that with a fairly severe electroshock device affixed to his sub’s pussy. The combination (the part we can see) looks something like this:

How does it work? The video gives a good demonstration. The point to the device is that it’s designed to consume the entire attention of the poor submissive locked into it; she dare not take her eyes off the LEDs at any time. At random intervals they light up for a new “game” and she has to spot that moment, because when a game starts, she has just 15 seconds to navigate the steel ball to whichever set of contacts is indicated by the LEDs.

If she makes it in time, she’s good. If she fails? Uh-oh…

That’s when the pussy electroshock device kicks in. I presume the pussy shock level is adjustable, but in the demonstration video, it’s clearly been set at a rather high and painful level. Our sweet demonstration submissive shows herself to be highly motivated to avoid the pussy shocks. In fact, we never see the shocks kick in until her master grabs the maze game cuffs and physically prevents her from solving the maze in time, just so we can see her desperate reactions to the shocks. (Sadistic bastard! But of course I never hold that against a man, being one myself…)

And here’s the fun part. Once the pussy shocks kick in, the maze game is still live. She still has to solve the maze (while bouncing and squirming all over the place) in order to turn off the shocks. It doesn’t look easy.

I began by calling this an example of electric predicament bondage. That’s the same terminology used by the creator of the device. But upon reflection, I’m not convinced that predicament bondage is really the right conceptual framework for this toy. Usually a proper bondage predicament requires the submissive to choose between two sorts of discomfort — standing on tiptoe, say, to avoid sharp things under her heels. Whereas the function of this toy, truly, is as a sort of electronic attention leash: using circuitry to demand that the sub maintain all of her focus, without distraction, on her bondage. If she lets her mind or her eyes wander, pussy punishment inevitably follows. All with no effort by her master — lazy dominance for the win!