She spoke about how she had a very stressful life at the time, was having difficulties with children, and had some difficulties with PTSD on the side. Rope Bondage As Therapy = Another Form Of Sensory Modulation Therapy?Ī couple of months back, I was having an email conversation with a lovely person from Wales on this very subject.
There are times when being tied up can actually relieve stress, if you’re careful about what other kinds of stimulation that you throw in there. In general, it make sense to be pretty cautious around that and because you want your rope bondage times to remain joyful, awesome, sexy occasions, you don’t necessarily want to contaminate them with that memory of how you felt much much worse following a rope scene. When you’re really stressed out and trying to cope with life difficulties and then you take on some kind of BDSM scene with rope bondage as a component (which tends to intensify the psychological impact of any other stimulus) you’re subjecting yourself to some additional intensity that your body and your mind may not be prepared to cope with at that time.Īnd the after effects of such play ( physical discomfort, endorphin drop, etc) may come at a really bad time when you’re trying to cope with all those other life stressors. The main reasons I’ve already written about NOT doing rope bondage play when everything in life is a mess still stand. I still stand by that… but I’m going to add some qualifiers, because I’ve come across some interesting and potentially useful effects of rope bondage as therapy.
Rope bondage as therapy… doesn’t seem like a normal approach, right?Įarlier in the days of this blog, I advocated very strongly that people shouldn’t do rope bondage play when they have a lot of stress going on, because it can lead to some very unfortunate consequences.