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Enhancing the Scene
with Tightlacing

(Corsetry's Place in the B&D Scene - Part 1)

By Tes Staylace

Hello all you corset lovers! May sees Part I of another article on corsetting from Tes Staylace on TG Forum. I am happy to once more join all the girls here for a monthly informational niche. Next month, this column will be once more devoted to petticoats. We will continue to alternate between "Petticoat Pond" and "Tightlacing Topics" each month (my URL for petticoats is http://www.pettipond.com, for corsets http://www.staylace.com)
Feel free to write me at staylace@staylace.com! All e-mail will be answered.

Get that slave into a corset! What are you waiting for? You will find that using back-laced, tight corsetry in your sessions and lifestyle will enhance your pleasure, complementing and concentrating the feelings and sensations that you seek from your relationship with your partner.

First off, if you're the boss, consider wearing one yourself! The visual appeal to your bottom will thrill him, providing a sensory turn-on, and invoking a sense of powerlessness in the face of harsh, but sweet-smelling leather. Leather is recommended for the top's corset, as it not only symbolizes the severe and demanding dominance of the wearer, but provides a firm anchoring point on which to hang all the implements of misery upon which your ill-fated slave can focus and dwell (Oh Lord! What's next? Is she really going to use THAT on ME?). Of course, it also provides a mooring to make certain that your slave's mouth is in the proper place at the proper time!

The leather corset is seen as intractable--armor for the inviolate heart, which can only be accessed by the bottom when the mistress so wishes. It is a veritable patina of unforgiving hide, nearly impossible to penetrate. In addition, the taunting, unstated message to the slave is, "Well, if I can handle this tightness, then why should it bother you?" ("Why indeed," muses the hapless slave, trussed almost to suffocation, encumbered, not only with a snug corset, but all the other accouterments of bondage.) Finally, your corset adds another item to the list of duties to which she must attend. And, when your slave invariable fouls up the job, perhaps of tightening your laces incorrectly, her failure provides another "fortuitous" reason for you to punish her.

So just what are the reasons to tightlace your slave? They are as varied as the wonderful gags that he must endure. Psychologically, the effect is on the top AND the bottom. While your slave generally has little to say regarding the decision to wear the garment, the mere fact that she IS wearing one communicates to you a willingness to please. And, if the slave spends any time actually donning the corset herself, you could view that in the same spirit as "weaving the ropes of her own misery." There comes a certain satisfaction at the sight of a person invoking her own bondage.

And "bondage" certainly IS the key word here, as the wearing of stays, even when not otherwise bound, could be described as in "walking" bondage: She may be free to stroll about and interact, but her movements ARE restricted and she is fully aware of what she is wearing (and why), whether anyone else is or not--a constant reminder of her station. This can be very handy in social arenas outside of your circle of friends who share the scene. Many might suspect she is wearing something unusual, but cannot be certain (unless they ask).

In any case, few people not "in the know" would ever even suspect the REAL reason for her gracefully stilted movement. But SHE knows, and so do YOU. It can be very exciting! Of course, the visual gratification for the dominant enforcer is pleasing indeed!

The physical considerations are significant as well. Consider, for example, how the addition of attaching devices on the garment can make your life easier: With the click of a padlock on an O-ring, your slave is rendered immovable. Such a setup is very handy for discouraging wayward charges at parties and other functions! This same hardware can expedite any binding with rope or straps in your normal pursuit of happy immobility. Backlacing prevents ease of removal; zippers or flaps with locking mechanisms may be ordered in order to totally prevent access to the laces.

Usually a threat to tighten your slave's corset laces will bring her into compliance when necessary. However, in those instances when your captive gives you reason to discipline (or even when he doesn't!), there exist a variety of techniques that you might employ that are unique to the corsetted slave. Perhaps her behavior calls for a little itch powder, strategically inserted into the tightest areas of stricture. Few things are as intolerable as the inability to scratch an itch. Or maybe a night spent in a full-length (chest-to-ankle) corset will teach your slave not to take you for granted.

Tes Staylace ©1995
Look for Part 2 in July!

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