Practicing Shibari with your Roommate

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Hey! What is all this? Oh.

Oh shit. Fuck. Yeah, I wasn't expecting you home this early.

This is Rope. Yes, yes, I know, okay, sorry, the force of habit being direct, blunt, and awful. I'm practicing this thing that I've gotten into.

I tried to keep it away from you, kind of, sort of, in a way, to just, I don't know, vibe with, I guess, but, well, I'm starting to reach a certain, okay, I'm beating around the bush, I'm sorry, I'm being really, really stupid. So at one point over the pandemic, while we were kind of all locked alone and everything was quiet and we had to keep to ourselves, I kind of got into something called Shibari. Have you ever heard of it? No, that's fair, I don't blame you in the slightest that you haven't.

It's. .. Ugh, how do I put this? It's the art form of rope bondage, if that makes any kind of sense whatsoever.

Okay, yeah, yeah, well, you know how I've always joked that during lockdown you either picked up a new kink, a new hobby, or a new trauma? I managed to get the first two combined, I guess, and sort of developed a knack for rigging up rope. And, I mean, most of the time I've been doing it either on myself or one of my stuffies for practice, but, um, well, now that you see it, I, can I ask you something?

No pressure, no, no, no pressure whatsoever, but, um, how would you feel about, like, being my, um, fuck, I'm really trying to think of the word with this, um, how would you like to be my model for practicing this stuff on? It might be kind of fun, and I've heard it's really, really relaxing. The one time I actually had it done to me, I, I described it to one of my friends, and she replied, oh my God, that sounds like, what was it, it sounds like yoga on crack.

It's oddly relaxing. If you want to give it a shot, I'd be more than happy to do, like, a little dive into it, see what you feel, and then maybe in the future we could step things up. Okay.

Okay, cool. Yeah. Yeah, that sounds great.

Okay. Cool. Ground rules.

Because this shit's, like, mega important in this kind of a setting, because, like, if I'm not careful, or if, you know, you don't talk to me and I can't figure out what's going on, we could have issues, and, um, you might hurt yourself, or be hurt. Now, I don't want to scare you, it's, we're not doing anything crazy intense, but it's, there's a few rules that I want in place with this, okay? So, first and foremost, these right here, these are my, um, safety shears.

And the safety shears are pretty easy at cutting through rope, so while we're doing anything like this in this kind of a scenario, the safety shears are here to, in an emergency, just snip and you're free. Okay? Great.

Okay, so, the other thing that we also need to cover is, um, safe word. Safe words are hella, hella important, um, and I know it seems silly, like, you could just say, oh, just, just say stop, but it, there's kind of some miscommunication that might be like, hey, stop doing this specific thing in the moment, so there's a common system that we use, um, that I quite like a lot, and I'd like to run it by you, make sure you agree, you like it, and see if we can step forward from there. Um, it's called the stoplight system.

So there's three colors of a stoplight, green, yellow, red, so if I ever check in and say, hey, what's your color, mixed, or you can just say it outright without even needing a prompt, green means, hey, I'm good, I'm doing great, everything's going well. Yellow is, you're kind of on the edge, or, I'm kind of pushing up to that limit, or, hey, I don't want to stop, but I need you to adjust something, I'll check in, we'll kind of adjust, reevaluate, and then move on from there. Red is, I'm hurting, I'm scared, I don't want to do this anymore, for whatever reason, you don't need a reason, you don't need to explain it to me, you just say red, maybe say it a couple times if you're nervous and want to make sure it gets pointed across right away, and that's when I break out the safety shears.

Sound good? Awesome. Well, in that case, then, I don't think there's anything else for us to cover, so do you want to start right now?

Yeah? Awesome. Okay.

Okay, cool. For now, I think I'll start with a chest harness and a basic box tie for your arms. It's pretty standard, it was, I think, the third knot that I learned, and the chest harness, this'll be the first time I do it on a person that isn't myself, so bear with me a little bit, um, but I think you're gonna like it.

So can you go down over here, and, uh, it'd be a lot easier, actually, at the start if you could just stand, and, I mean, I've seen you naked many a time, so could you strip off for me a little bit? Yeah, um, shirt off if you don't mind. And for extra mobility, pants off, too.

Underwear's fine, though. You don't need to be completely naked, it just, I don't want your clothes kind of constricting in a way that could limit your movement, you know? Awesome.

Okay. So, alright, I'm gonna take this first new loop knot, and I'm gonna start running this over your stomach very gently, and you should start feeling the rope, yep, just like that. Deep breaths, calm body, relaxed mind, you're doing great.

Alright, I'm gonna do a few loops back here, you might feel a tug, like that, there we go. Yeah. Yeah, don't worry.

It's supposed to feel pretty snug, so if you think that it's, like, snug, and you're like, oh, I thought it was gonna be loose, it's gonna feel pretty snug. Um, but if you start feeling like a pinch, or if it feels like you're kind of getting the tinglys, that's a bad sign, let me know if that happens, okay? Great.

Um, so I'm gonna start looping this from your back through to your chest here, and it's going to accentuate your chest just like this, there we are. And the central loop that I'm also doing, I'm gonna loop it down through your body, and it's gonna run across your thighs too, kind of right, right near your crotch, but nothing, nothing too pinching there. Yeah.

Kind of keeps that harness stable, and also helps poof up your booty. Ah, there we go. You are handling this like a dream, I'm really impressed, we're almost done.

Almost done with the chest harness. A few more loops, and I'm gonna go ahead and tie it off, kind of right near the small of your back. So just keep steady for a moment.

There. How does that feel? Yeah, take a few deep breaths, close your eyes and just kind of focus on that feeling.

It's nice, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah, I really, really like the feeling of it too.

But now I've got another loop, and I want to roll a box tie, if you don't mind. Are you okay with me tying your arms behind your back? Okay, good.

I'm glad. I'm glad. Okay, so I'm going to need you to bring your arms here behind your back, raise them up, and I want your fingers kind of laced around each of your other elbows.

Kind of like you're crossing your arms behind your back. Yeah, like that, there you go. Perfect.

Okay, so I'm going to wedge my two fingers over here by your wrist, and I'm going to start looping this. One, two, three, four, five loops should be good. Awesome.

And then we're going to raise this up to your bicep over here. One, two, three. And now to your other bicep.

One, two, three. Okay. The rest of this is going to be just some knot work in the center, and making sure it's kind of pulling from all directions and not just a single direction to where it's like one point of return where it kind of cinches.

Don't want that. Everything still feeling okay? What's your color? Good.

Good. Okay, this will just take a moment. So just take a few moments just to take a few deep breaths.

Just focus on that feeling. And if you'd like that feeling of helplessness, it's a little bit relaxing to be able to just kind of stop and be at the whim of someone else, but in a non-malicious way, you know? Yeah.

Yeah. Okay. There we go.

How's that feel? Good. Good.

Okay. Do me a favor and just very slowly, I'm going to help you bring it down to your knees. There you go.

Nice. Go ahead and get comfy. I have one more favor to ask.

I hope you don't mind, but are you okay if I take a couple pictures? I can block out your face. I just, in truth, I just want to take a few pictures of the knot work and share that with a few of my kinky friends.

Yeah? Awesome. I'd rather avoid just putting your face up there just in case anything ever goes wrong or, you know, you have a change of heart or whatever.

That way, at the very least, your face never got out there. Awesome. Okay.

Let me go ahead and find my camera. There it is. Okay.

Nope, you just stay still and just breathe. Close your eyes even if it helps. Yeah, just like that.

Fuck, that looks great. Okay, I'm going to get some from behind. Okay.

Tell you what, I'm going to let you just kind of stay in that trance for a little bit. I'm going to be right here on the couch, okay? If you need me, just speak up, okay? But for now, I'm just going to let you soak it in for a moment.

Yeah, I look forward to doing more of this too. It's super fun. Thank you again for doing this with me.