omg lesson#41: whatever can you do with clothespins?

i like clothespins. i prefer the wooden ones for many reasons (i find the plastic ones are insanely painful little buggers and sometimes limiting in terms of what a play partner can take). and i like to be creative with my play things and my toys so them being able to endure and suffer for longer periods of time....is kinda important to me. i'm maybe an unusual sadist in that way.

i've played with clothespins in many ways. and then i saw a scene recently and it re-inspired me to think about all the ways to play with clothespins.

since i play non sexually, i find genitals can be off the table. i'm not touching them. i only touch my lover's. and one could say that might be limiting. i don't think so! let me explain.

you could dump a bunch of clothespins in front of them. set a little timer (like one of those hourglasses) and tell them they have to apply all the pins onto their penis and balls...before time runs out. i like 2 minute timers for this. and lots and lots of clothespins. whatever's left means i get to hit them with whatever toy they most dislike as many times as there are pins left. i like a rewards system :)

hint: if you're hard, it hurts more. don't get hard. just sayin'.

now if clothespins don't strike you as particularly painful or torturous and you're a lazy dominant like me - looking for maximum pain for minimum effort - well i'd encourage you to re-think your ideas about clothespins.

now i'm sure if you were into sexual play, you could think about using pins on more intimate genital regions. i'm not going there b/c i don't do sexual play. however, if you want to, by all means. just be safe and maybe read up on it a bit. some of those areas can be much more sensitive and delicate than you might think.

but on to my ideas. b/c i've found some creative ways to use clothespins - both seeing and trying and thought i would share to give you a bit of inspiration:

1. the old zipper trick

kinda like dominos except you make a line over the body in pins and you loop some twine or string through the entire length. just like a zipper. and when you've played by flicking pins and digging them deeper into the skin a bit, you can yank that string or pull it ever so slowly. b/c the thing is, as much as it might hurt to attach the pins, it hurts even more when they are pulled off :)

2. nipple torture

some people have very sensitive nipples. now if nipples are on their hard limits list, oh well. no go. but if they are sensitive and still let you play with them, fun! pins are like clamps, just cheaper. i like to attach them to nipples and then try to use a thin flogger to snap them off. 2 for the price of 1! i would try flogging from the side rather than head on, to avoid hitting the face.

you can also attach them to the nipples and then flick the pins. sensitive nipples will feel more pain with each touch or movement. until the nipples get a bit numb. then pull them off. that will hurt like a mean little bastard...which is what i'm usually aiming for. you can be nice and massage them a bit after you pull off the pins. but c'mon, i'm a sadist. how likely do you think that is?

3. don't miss the head and face!

i have found that ears don't make it on many people's limits list. not at first anyway :) but clip a pin on the outer ear and it will hurt and continue to hurt. the earlobe, not so much, usually. but i like to dot each each ear with at least 5 pins. most people yellow and red on this pretty soon. just be aware.

eyebrows can be fun just b/c they can kind of see them there. they don't rank too high on the pain scale...and don't mark usually. which is good for face stuff.

lips may swell a bit so keep that in mind. but it does hurt. and continues to hurt. safewording is hard so you might want to have a signal in place if you're going to town on the lips/mouth.

the nose is more a good option for engaging in breath play. although if closing the nostrils is not your jam, or your person has breathing issues, don't do this. you could put a pins on either side of the nostrils and just between the septum. if their eyes start to water, you've got it just right:)

if it's not already clear, don't do a zipper on the face. not a good idea. it's a person's face and you want to cause pain, not lasting marks or bruises that might be difficult to explain for the person the next day.

4. body decoration

pinching a bit of skin on pretty much any part of the body and clipping on a pin may seem rather rudimentary. and kinda boring. however, it's usually only a minor bit of pain that a sub feels they can handle. but get to about 200 pins and they'll continue to keep feeling they can keep up (or so my experience tells me). the scene i saw had over 300 pins and that didn't even cover the entire person's front. which is all to say, you can put a lot of pins on a body :)

but think of putting on the clothespins as just the prep work. b/c once that's done, you can play with your little devices of torture with minimum effort. remember, i'm a lazy domme :) you can gently run the tips of your fingers over the pins to create some delicious screams. you can flick them. you can use chopsticks to tap them. they will hurt. b/c just resting there, with the pins immobile, is the easiest to withstand. it's the movement that then really hurts.

once you're ready, what has gone on, must come off. and when they come off, they hurt like a mother fucker. or so i'm told :)

you can flog them off. i'd have your partner standing for that. they will come off unevenly and very very painfully. keep in mind, your sub might not be able to hold their balance so be aware of that and keep a chair or couch behind them so they can fall into that if necessary.

you can try caning them off. i haven't tried that yet. i'll do that soon and get back to you :)

alternatively, you could remove every 2nd or 3rd pin throughout the body and play with the ones you leave. that's a different kind of effective slow torture...

5. predicament bondage

ah one of my faves. using the pins as a holding device (with string looped around and tied to something stationary). usually this is nipples or ears. they are the most painful (i have found) and thus the ones i connect to keeping them standing in awkward positions or sitting in awkward positions. they rarely last and they end up ripping the pins off pretty quickly just so they can stand or sit comfortably again. however, if i'm not satisfied with how long they lasted, i'll keep reapplying the pins till i am satisfied. so ripping off the bandage is not an effective measure to get you out of shit. just sayin'...

i find clothespins a cheap but effective tool in my arsenal.

it does depend on the sensitivity and medical conditions of your sub, though. safety first! but i've found that it can mix things up and make your sub dread seeing when my clothespins come out...and fear does sometimes pull at the strings of my wee sadistic heart.

oh, i don't use the same pins on different partners. if you just have the one, that makes it easy. if you have multiples, i put my clothes pins in ziploc bags with the name of that partner so i only use those pins on them. but they are cheap at the dollar store so keep that in mind.

got additional ideas to add? i'm always looking for a little inspiration!

Oct 27, 2019