Tale of the Tape

Everyone has their strengths when it comes to bondage. There are girls who can wear ballgags and girls who can wear huge ballgags. There are girls who can drool and girls who have strands dripping off their chin like somebody left a faucet on. There are girls who can wiggle and girls who flop around like a fish on the deck of a boat. There are girls who moan pitifully and girls who sound so distressed you have to stop shooting for a moment just to be sure everything is okay. There are girls that do well with rope, girls who do well with straps and girls who do will with stockings; then there are the girls that can really handle tape.

Ultra-strict restraint is a challenge in itself both mentally and physically, but nothing really compared to ultra-strict tape restraint. Rope has several qualities that tape can never have. First, rope is fairly rigid; we call that a low coefficient of restitution. Second, rope isn't sticky as hell. Finally, rope breaths! Why does that make tape so challenging?

Skin gets uncomfortable when it can't breath. Rope, even tight rope, lets some amount of air in and increases the comfort level. Tape blocks air out completely. Your skin can't breath and you sweat like hell which is doubly discomforting. It is uncomfortable to be pinched. Rope shifts a little as you move but tape is welded fast. When you move the tape pinches and pulls. Last, and in my opinion the worst, some tape like electrical tape stretches and then compresses with a rubbery quality. This is called a high coefficient of restitution. Electrical tape wound tightly is like a huge rubber band. Let's combine all those now. Imagine a huge rubber band that squeezes into your flesh tighter than any rope could be pulled. Image that rubber band sticks to your skin like glue; every movement pulls, pinches and hurts. Finally, imagine that on top of this your skin starts itching from lack of contact with the air. It's not fun.

The easiest way to put it is that I've tied up a dozen gals that could have their elbows welded and be put in a back-arched hogtie and make it through a video set under hot lights. I've taken some of those same gals and done a tight tape restraint and they don't last 1/3 of the time. Tape wears you out and separates the tough from the down-right indestructible damsel.

That brings us to Elita. I have a TON of video of her. We worked together for about 14 months, and we ALWAYS used tape at least once. She loved take down sequences and for a quick tie-em-up, electrical tape is always a great choice. The picture speaks for itself really. Her elbows are smashed, there are no gaps at her knees or anywhere between her legs, her ankles are so close her shoes are flared out and the tape cuts in deeply. She never went away bruised. She never went away hurt. She just had the body and skin that could deal with that sort of thing, and I'm not talking about a couple minutes; she could deal with it for a long time. Need proof? Check out Elita in She Knew Too much ... apparently snooping around in the wrong files gets you taped up, roped up and far worse!