A cou­ple weeks ago, they announced that free bondage classes would be avail­able to all employ­ees at my work!
I thought this was espe­cially rad, con­sid­er­ing they were being taught by world famous rig­ger (and all around nice guy) Lew Reubens.

I imme­di­ately signed up, and I’m glad I did since the class filled in 10 minutes!

We all got paired off into teams, so we can take turns both tying and being tied. Of course, it’s easy to prac­tice on your­self, but it’s good to expe­ri­ence get­ting tied by some­one else, so you know what they’ll feel like when you’re doing it. 

We’re learn­ing all kinds of knots, and also how to make the rope both aes­thet­i­cally pleas­ing and comfortable.

We’re also learn­ing about safety. I know how to cut some­one out of a hogtie as well as I know how to put some­one in one. I’m learn­ing about cir­cu­la­tion, endor­phins, and shock. It’s really inter­est­ing to be think­ing about the body and how it reacts chem­i­cally in this sort of con­text. As inter­ested as I was in the more, er, uncon­ven­tional, aspects of tak­ing a class like this…I’m find­ing I’m more fas­ci­nated in the medical/sciencey aspects. 

Nor­mally I’d go on about this a bit longer, but The ladies of Behind Kink have turned out a rad piece about the class that would explain more than me talk­ing about it. I’m in it for a lit­tle bit at the begin­ning. (NSFW!)

Other for­mats (again, NSFW!):

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I’ll update you all when I’ve fin­ished the course!