Tag: Cage

Fun Furniture

I’m a big fan of original and fun BDSM furniture. There’s a lot of scope available for creating items that facilitate interesting physical and mental torments whilst also being cool pieces of design in themselves. The chance to plan and build a dedicated play space, with this kind of furniture in it, is one thing that might eventually get me out of a downtown condo and into a real house.

There’s a good couple of examples below. The first has been all over various tumblr sites, but I believe it originally came from Sir’s Little One. Obviously custom built for the space, I like the idea, but think it’d be better with more of the cage exposed. It looks just a little too cosy a place to be.

Cage BedIn contrast the next example definitely does not have a warm cosy feel to it. I guess you’d call it a floating board and it can be found in Mistress Annabel’s dungeon. She’s a London based pro-domme, with a fine selection of furniture. I love the heavy industrial look of the buckles and the metal frame. Very utilitarian and no doubt very easy to wipe clean of blood! There’s also a St. George’s chair on the right and a St. Andrew’s cross at the back.

Floating board from Mistress Annabel's dungeonAbove photograph was taken by Peter Felix Kurtz from www.fetishfoto.co.uk. I found it in the gallery page on Mistress Annabel’s site.

Human pets (part 1)

Human pet play is a very natural fit for D/s relationships. It works so well on so many different levels. There’s the equipment for restraint and punishment – collars, leashes, whips, cages, etc. There’s the dehumanization and humiliation aspect. Animals are typically naked and at ground level, where humans are clothed and standing. So a very natural power imbalance is automatically created.  There’s the idea of training and punishing to create the desired response to basic commands. Removing someones intelligence by treating them like a ‘dumb’ animal. And there’s also a burden of caring that is created. Animal owners are supposed to look after the pets, where the pets themselves have nothing to do except be pets. So that creates all sorts of trust issues and the transference of responsibility. It’s an area packed with hot buttons for kinky role-playing.

Caged PetSadly I’ve no idea who the artist is for this. I do enjoy the proprietary way she’s staring down at him. The cuffed hands behind the back are a nice touch, as it enforces a very animal style of eating.