I’m starting on my New Year’s resolutions early this year by ordering myself a tight neoprene hood from Mr S Leather. Admittedly, buying fetish gear sounds more like kinky fun times than self-improvement, but there is method to my madness.
Regular blog readers may be aware that I have an issue with hoods. They stress me the hell out. A fact which I find annoying. Anytime I don’t like something it annoys me. I feel like I’m missing out. Hoods tend to be a big part of heavy bondage and I’d love to be able to incorporate them into my scenes. I totally understand both their aesthetic and sensory value, but so far that knowledge hasn’t helped when it comes to my stress levels.
My brilliant plan for 2020 is therefore to buy one for home and wear it in non-stressful situations. Like while washing up or doing food preparation. If I can train my brain to realize that wearing a hood doesn’t equal instant death by suffocation, then perhaps I can start to use them in scenes. I know of at least a couple of dommes who’d love to get me into their hood collection. In the meantime, if any of my Seattle readers spot a strange hooded man through the windows of a condo building, then rest easy. It’s just your friendly neighborhood femdom blogger trying to improve his kinky life skills. I shall keep you all up to date on how my experiment goes.
This is exactly the kind of fun hood I hope to condition myself to handle. Sadly I don’t have an attribution for it. As ever, if you know the source for this image, then please leave me a comment.
I’m not sure that wearing a hood around the home will work. I don’t like collars around my neck and tried something similar with them by wearing a leather studded collar around the house. Not only did it just feel uncomfortable I spent ages worrying that I might forget about it and answer the door wearing it.
Thanks for sharing your perspective.
One of the benefits of living in a condo is that it’s pretty hard to get unexpected guests. My building concierge should always call me first, so I should be OK when it comes to knocks on my door!
As for the hood itself, it’ll be interesting to see the effect (if any) over time. I don’t actually find them uncomfortable, just stressful, which I think is a slightly different issue. But I’ve no idea if this experiment will make things better, worse or unchanged.
-paltego