Is it too cold for you Stacie?

Everyone who reads anything I write knows that I have a goofy name for almost everything that happens during a shoot. I don't know why it happens, it just does. I'll joke about something at the time, the model and I will get a chuckle over it and then it becomes stuck in my brain. It's over at that point. Every time something similar happens the silly little word or phrase comes back into play. In this case it's "the turkey popped, she's done!"

I do a series where the damsel begs to be tied up instead of taken and dumped in the middle of nowhere or locked in a closet. She pleads with her captor that if she is tied up really tightly and with a lot of stuff she'll never get away. She explains that if you stuff her mouth, wrap it, tape it and cover her face she won't be able to call for help, she won't be able to get free. The captor is assured a getaway because her predicament guarantees  nobody will find her until the next morning, an exhausted, sweaty and still very much helpless robbery victim.

The thing about this series is that it relies on layering tape over rope. Poor Stacie up there has her elbows welded and her legs pinned with bands of thin cord three times wider than what I would normally use. The knots are protected from prying hands by tight wrappings of electrical tape crushing the rope into her delicate skin. Her mouth is filled with a huge ballgag, her face covered with a stocking and her head tightly wrapped with electrical tape.

She is not comfortable and not a happy camper at this point but her wonderful nipples pop out into full erection. Is she turned on? No, she's in agony. She knows she has at least 5-10 more minutes of this plight and is hoping that any second I'll say I've got my footage. Is she cold? No, she's roasting. We're shooting with over 2000 watts of halogen lights. The room is 90+ degrees. Those nips are popping out because she's a turkey, and she is done.

There is a point in any strict restraint where the damsels starts to sweat. The ropes are so tight that her skin is taught and her nerve endings are sensitive. As the tape started going on Stacie broke out into a light sweat. There was no relief from the rope or the tightness, so the only things her system could do was sweat. That's how you know it's tight, when the model sweats standing still. We finished the restraint, and her playful moans were gone. Every noise she made was a reaction to her restraint. She slid off the couch onto the rug and "pop." Her body told her she was ready to be untied and her built-in turkey thermometer popped out.

The nipples are a great way to know that your damsel is at her physical edge. They don't pop out to let you know she is in trouble, they pop out to let your know that at that moment she is not faking. She is not acting, she is not playing a role. She is gutting it out for your material.  Those erect nipples let you know that physically she is done but mentally she is pushing herself so that you get the footage that you need. When a restraint is super-tight there is a point where the only thing the body can do to alleviate the discomfort is rush blood to the skin. The nipples are no longer controlled by discomfort, temperature or your mental state. They perk up an perk up fast. When this happens you need to make a note for later. Shoot your footage, get her out quickly and thank her like you've never thanked a model. She just gave you 5-10 minutes of the most precious footage you can get, the time when a model becomes a real damsel in distress, the time when she can pull the plug and doesn't, the time when she is mentally stronger than she is physically, the time when she chooses your material over her comfort!

Image courtesy of Stuff My Mouth and Cinch Me Tight So I Can't Call the Cops with Stacie Snow.