Are you looking for a spanking bench?
Spanking is wonderfully versatile. Impact play can be an easy, portable, low maintenance kink. Or it can be highly ritualized with a gorgeous array of fetish paraphernalia.
You can take your naughty lover over your knee any time. But you can also have a spanking bench, which gives your sensual space a designated kink zone and gives you easy access to that butt when your lover is a glutton for punishment.
What Is a Spanking Bench and How Does it Work?
A spanking bench is fetish furniture designed, not surprisingly, with spanking or impact play in mind. It provides a stable, secure perch for the receiving partner or the submissive to bend over, lie down on, or straddle. Buttocks will be easily accessible to dominant partner for spanking, whipping, caning, or flogging.
There are different types of spanking benches on the market to suit different needs and desires. Some are designed with BDSM in mind and have bondage attachments. Some are designed for playful spanking lovers, offering an alternative to the bed or sofa for impact play.
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8 Types of Spanking Benches
1. Padded Metal Spanking Benches
A padded metal spanking bench is the ultimate in spanking furniture. It’s sturdy and stable to hold the weight of the submissive securely. The padding allows for safety and comfort as well as easy sanitization.
Most padded benches are constructed so that the sub’s torso is supported, with knee rests to get that butt to the desired angle.
Especially designed for BDSM, padded metal spanking benches often come with a variety of options to connect to bondage restraints. Some have storage options for hanging flogs, canes, whips, paddles, and other impact play implements.
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2. Adjustable Spanking Benches
Adjustable spanking benches generally offer vinyl padding as well, but are designed so that the supports for arms and knees can be moved around into a variety of positions.
Adjustable spanking furniture may also come with straps for restraint play. The versatility of positioning is the key to these models. They can be flexibly adjusted for the dominant’s desired angles of spanking access, for different sized submissives, or different moods of either dom or sub.
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3. Pony Play Spanking Benches
The pony play spanking bench model is designed for kink lovers into the pony fetish. It is made with the pony in mind, and comes with stirrups, reins, and a black saddle. It can also be used for pony grooming.
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4. Foam Spanking Benches
The simplicity of foam spanking benches is their brilliance. These benches are just dense, solid foam designed to straddle or kneel over. Some come with restraint options too. These are generally reasonably priced, and they’re a bargain for the possibilities they offer.
Foam spanking benches are, unsurprisingly, fantastic for spanking. They’re also tremendous supports for various sex positions. They can help bring support and stability to sex for people with disabilities. They are great for hardcore BDSM spanking if desired, but appropriate for all kinds of lovers. Easy to use and clean.
5. Foldable Spanking Benches
You can have the support you need for a nice flogging session, and also the discretion, because foldable spanking benches turn into boxes that slide under the bed or into a closet easily, letting you control your space when you need privacy.
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6. Barrel Horse Spanking Benches
Barrel horse spanking benches are beautiful. They’re simple cylindrical furniture that you straddle and ride like a horse, or bend over from the side, putting your ass in the air where your dom wants it.
This type is especially sturdy and offers added security for larger bodies.
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7. Secret Spanking Benches
A secret spanking bench is designed to look like everyday furniture with storage, rather than having a BDSM aesthetic. This allows folks with small spaces to do double duty. If you live with children or parents, secret spanking benches allow discretion.
8. DIY Spanking Bench
Spanking benches can be expensive, and making your own solves that problem if you don’t want to or are unable to make that investment. For handy lovers out there, or those who enjoy the ritual and symbolism of self sufficiency or artistry, creating your own bench is more fun and more meaningful.
Crafting a spanking bench from scratch is best if you are already experienced working with hardware, metals, etc. However, even beginners can create a simple bench following DIY instructions on YouTube.
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Alternately, jerry rigging a DIY spanking bench with stuff on hand can be an adventure. Incredibly secure furniture exists already in weight lifting and gym equipment, which people often give away or toss as resolution enthusiasm wanes, or new furniture arrives.
Dense foam rec room chairs can be repurposed. Economical, versatile exercise balls are incredible for facilitating different sex positions, and could double in a pinch as a spanking bench. Use your imagination and look around.
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What to Consider When Choosing a Spanking Bench
Shape and Comfort
Choose a spanking bench that offers the support and stability you want for the sub’s comfort, endurance, safety, and longevity. The shape of the spanking bench may be personal preference, but factors to consider include weight, height, length of limbs, and length of sessions.
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Bondage Attachment Points
A simple foam spanking bench might work wonders for spontaneous hanky panky sessions, but if you’re doing serious BDSM scenes, a spanking bench with a variety of bondage attachment points will allow you to add and remove restraints for hands, feet, head and more.
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Spanking Bench Materials
You’ll want sturdy and lasting quality materials in any spanking bench. You’ll also want to consider materials that are easy to sanitize. Your fetish interests also come into play—you can look for kinky fabrics like leather or latex.
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Does It Need to Be Stored or Hidden?
Space, storage, discretion—when choosing a spanking bench, it’s good to know where will you put it, and who will see it. If you have a playroom or BDSM dungeon, great. But if you’re in a small space and your mom stays over twice a week, you might want the kinds that you can hide in plain sight, or fold up under the bed.
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Your Budget
If you’re planning to invest a few grand in the finest dungeon equipment, there are stunning spanking benches that will bring hours of pleasure and pain. But if your budget is a few hundred, or much less, don’t think you have to go without.
Do your research, online, and locally. Someone in your kink community may make spanking benches or be willing to help you make one. Foam options are economical. You can also plan for your desired spanking bench and squirrel away something each week until your dream comes true.
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