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Have you ever tried to balance yourself without using your hands?

You’re blindfolded and bound with tape, tight and squirming. On a table just behind you are five things: a crop, a candle, a feather, a bowl of ice, and a vibrator. Standing in front of you are the four people who paid for an hour in this dim room.

The game is simple. They each get three five-minute turns, and they can invite one of their fellow players to join them, though they are not required to agree. They’re not allowed to touch you, not with their hands or body: only with the tools.

They can whisper to you. They can lie to you. They can stroke and tease and punish you, and the way you’re bound, you won’t be able to close in on yourself or hide your most sensitive places. You have to stay open and exposed to them. And they have to resist the urge to physically push.

If one of them pushes, they’re out of the game, immediately–and there are no refunds for this very expensive hour. But if they manage to do it, if during one of those turns they manage to make you tilt or jerk or convulse off the side of the little platform–if you fall–well then you’ve just found your new owner.

Do you think you can make it the whole hour? Do you think you’ll want to? Do you think–when you finally give in and tumble down, collapsing onto your side without your hands to break the fall–that the one you picked will be kind enough to catch you?

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