In these stories, you’ll encounter a lot of self-bondage scenarios. Most of them go… wrong.

I want to point out that, by no mean, I’m encouraging anyone to perform self-bondage scenarios.

Self bondage is inherently dangerous, and one must prepare, test, rehearse, practice, and plan ahead, every “bad turn” of any situation possible, and have an alternate method to get free, ideally, having someone come over.

Do I practice self-bondage? Answer: yes

But I’m too “chicken” to go all the way, to close the last padlock, tighten the last rope, and if I do, I always have an easy (too easy) to reach second alternative, which I end up using most of the time, simply because I get bored, or because there’s an issue.

And it could be any kind of issue.

I’ll give you an example: I put electromagnets on my bed for the wrists, in a stretched-arms position and set myself up for half an hour. With one of my hand, I can reach one of the wires for the electromagnets and, although struggling, I can manage to unplug it.

Then, I realize that I forgot to close my bedroom door properly and enters my two cats. One of them weighs about 14 pounds (6Kg). That one decided that he wants to sleep on my forearm… which one? Of course! The one I can use to reach the plug.

It’s funny at first, then my arms begins to feel numb. I’m quite limited in my movements. I try to get the cat off, but he sees it at “play” and decides to bite my arm instead. When it finally moved off, my arm was pretty numb.

I waited, expecting it to go back to normal, but for some reason, it stayed the same, even seemed to increase. And it hurt.

I struggled and managed to reach the plug and pull it off. I still had about 5 minutes left to the timer (which I couldn’t see), but I wonder how bad 5 more minutes of arm numbing would have been.

Do not take anything for granted. Play safe. Very safe.

There’s only one advice I can give you about self-bondage: don’t.

Pierre.