Surviving The Summer Heat (In Latex)

This article is mostly about summer-fun poolside water play and staying cool while wearing latex:

Summer Latex Survival Guide

But the part that actually heated me up a little bit was the hot shower scene:

On Halloween, my latex catsuit taught me another lesson – if it’s cold outside, you will be cold in latex. And your goose bumps will totally show through your latex, and you can feel the bumps as well. But even when it is 30 degrees outside, your latex will warm up very quickly once you are out of the cold and back in the warmth. However this party was anything but warm. It was a notoriously filthy and debaucherous warehouse party with no heat, and by the time I got home the thought of peeling off my dirty Disturbathon latex (which was now stuck to my body for lack of lube) and allowing the last of my body heat to escape was unbearable. So I turned on the shower and climbed in, catsuit and all. It was absolutely glorious. The warm water splashed across my latex covered body and ran down my legs, warming me and massaging me as it beaded and bounced off of my protective covering, dancing like rain on a windshield. I spent at least 15 minutes playing in the shower, rinsing and rubbing every inch of my slick shiny catsuit before finally unzipping it just enough to let the water slip inside. It began to flow down my body, lubricating and gently separating my skin from the latex that had become a part of me. The feeling was pure ecstasy.

And thus began my love of latex and water.

Since that’s from The Stockroom Blog, it’s no surprise that The Stockroom also sells a ton of latex clothing items.

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Kinky People: Less Insane Than The General Populace

I’m just dropping this here for the benefit of the 2% of you who didn’t see this in their headlines via some more timely social media method:

Kinky People Have Better Mental Health Than Everyone Else

Bound By The Transporter

I shall forever maintain that this was the best scene in the movie The Transporter:

Shu Qi bound and gagged and thrown into the trunk of Jason Statham\'s car in The Transporter

Via Kinky Delight.

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Black And Blue For The Stones

If you’re old enough, you might remember an early feminist protest after the Rolling Stones put up a bondage billboard to advertise their 1976 album Black And Blue. ErosBlog recently went looking hard for the bondage art, and found several good versions and examples. This is from a magazine advertisement:

tied up woman in Rolling Stones ad for Black and Blue album

The model is Anita Russell and supposedly Mick Jagger himself did the rope work for her bondage shoot.

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Tied To An Iron Bed

This series of facial reaction shots showing Kenzie Vaughn’s enjoyment of some rough bondage sex at Sex And Submission demonstrate the sexual value of owning a good solid iron bed:

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Pictures are from the member’s area and are part of the most recent update.

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The Falaka Bench

It’s a very demure bondage photo. Boring, even, until you think about the physics of her tied knees and those bricks under her heels. She’s going to find it very hard to move those bare feet when the caning of them starts:

tied to a rough wooden bench for a foot caning

Found here.

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Orgasm-Sensing Brainwave Toy

Oh, this should be fun. Here’s Dave talking about hacking the Mattel Mindflex toy (which normally lets you control the height of a ball floating on a column of air) to get at the surprisingly detailed brainwave data, which can then be piped through an Arduino or another computer of your choice and used to control a vibrator (pleasure) or e-stim device (pleasure or pain depending on settings). He seems confident that the device can usefully detect arousal levels (impending orgasm) and thresholds of discomfort, which opens up the possibility of all kinds of fun predicament bondage, teasing and orgasm denial, or repeated forced-orgasm games.

There’s no unusually interesting ropework here – we’re aiming for immobilisation and sensory deprivation, but other than that, the restraints used don’t take an active part in the scenario. Sensory deprivation is important for the thing that is interesting here – keeping the EEG feed from the NeuroSky chipset in the MindFlex headset as clean as possible. Or, more usefully, NeuroSky’s newly-released elasticated MindBand headset with Bluetooth transmitter, which sends more data than the hacked MindFlex headset – all the way down to raw, non-FFT’d EEG readings.

Once that data has hit a processing system – something like an Arduino (limited capabilities, very cheap, tiny), a Raspberry Pi (flexible, cheap, small), or a full-blown Bluetooth-equipped desktop or laptop computer (extremely flexible, expensive, bulky) – the data can be processed and the vibrator and e-stim state can be set based on the submissive/bottom’s brain activity.

The scenario can be thought of as a loop. The vibrator and e-stim start in the ‘off’ state, and the EEG processor begins monitoring brain activity before the loop starts.

  • Vibrator switches to ‘on’ state.
  • EEG processor detects change of brain activity representing near-orgasm.
  • Vibrator switches to ‘off’ state.
  • System pauses for five seconds.
  • E-stim switches to ‘on’ state.
  • EEG processor detects change of brain activity representing a threshold of discomfort.
  • E-stim switches to ‘off’ state.
  • System pauses for five seconds.
  • Loop repeats from the start.

This could, in theory, continue indefinitely. A control could be added for the dom/top to allow the vibrator to continue to stimulate the sub/bottom to orgasm at the end of the scene – or even a setting for one cycle in ten (or one in any number of cycles, or even a weighted or unweighted random number of cycles) to allow orgasm to be reached, after which the cycle could repeat yet again.

Me, I think the most obvious use of this technology is to control a number of stimulus devices and vary their inputs while monitoring arousal level to whatever extent possible. By closing the feedback loop and giving the computer a way to estimate the subject’s arousal state at all times, we enable machine-mediated trial-and-error routines to quickly determine stimulus regimes that work best under current conditions to achieve whatever your goal is, whether it’s fast hard orgasms or perpetual brink-of-orgasm teasing. In short, this is the first step toward highly satisfying sex-bots as well as diabolical mad-scientist sexual-torment machines.

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