theropegeek:

Why You Shouldn’t Try This At Home

So I was just contemplating how damn hot this gifset is, and wanted to take a moment to point out a few things:

1.  The guy running in at the end is Lew Rubens.  Truth is, his rope is generally a very different style than mine, but the dude definitely knows his shit.  He is (or at least, was?) a full time professional bondage rigger for porn, and he’s done a lot of work. This is not his first rodeo.

2.  That’s Not a Noose.  It’s a non-tightening loop (aka Single Column Tie).  It seems to have more wraps than a “standard” single column, and it’s been strategically placed and tensioned.  

3.  Shit Like This Often Includes Tricks/Strategies To Make It Less Risky (well, relatively…)  The one I noticed is that she’s OK as long as she keeps her foot on the ground.  So as long as she doesn’t *fall* any distance into the neck rope, the pressure is within a margin of risk that they’re willing to accept.  

The moment her foot **fully** leaves the ground (in the last one) shit is OVER.  She rights herself, but by then he’s already rushing in to kill it, because he knew that signal meant “you’re done kiddo”    

4.  I bet you anything the rope just above the frame is tied with a big fat quick release.   The truth is, the concept is simple; but making sure that quick releases stay visible, grab-able, and that they fully pop out the knot 100% of the time, is harder than it sounds.  

This has been an area of interest for me lately; but even for an addict like me, I’d say my personal hope is to feel 90-95% competent with the sort of stuff I’m experimenting with by like…  summertime?  

5.  There’s probably other stuff too.  There’s no telling what else is behind the scenes.  Hell, they might even have EMTs on standby in the next room.  Who knows?

So yeah.  Hopefully you weren’t contemplating an attempt to duplicate a neck rope predicament from your local porn blog, but the same general thinking also goes for rope suspensions, needles, blood choking, holding people’s heads underwater, and any of the other Hot Depraved Shit

™ you see around here.  

As a general rule, you probably don’t know more than you’d expect about how to keep it safe, let alone what the risks look like in the event of a mishap.  So please.  Don’t try this at home.