If you’re curious about BDSM cage play, there are all kinds of cage bondage options to explore.
You may have seen or experienced BDSM cages at fetish nightclub parties or in a dominatrix’s dungeon. You’ve probably seen quite a few bondage cages in kinky porn.
Bondage cage play can be an exciting aspect of BDSM power exchange relationships. They are especially useful for bondage, punishment, torture, humiliation, chastity play, puppy play, roleplay, and many other kinks and fetishes.
What Is BDSM Caging?
Bondage caging is a BDSM practice that involves the dominant’s use of a cage to confine or restrain their submissive.
BDSM cage play is a practical and symbolic expression of dominance and submission, of pain and punishment, historically and in an erotic context. Cages are both useful for BDSM training as punishment, and for protection and safety.
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Cage bondage can take different forms depending on the unique relationship of the dominant and submissive and their fetishes or areas of erotic interest. There are various styles of BDSM cages and various options that work for different cage play scenarios.
Cage play can build trust and intimacy between master and slave, puppy and owner, or sadist and masochist.
Dominant lovers can show control, protection, and guidance by caging their submissive partners. Submissive lovers report feelings of safety and comfort, intense feelings of surrender, and delicious humiliation of degradation play.
Both dominant and submissive partners can benefit from the erotic jolt of the aesthetic and enhanced sensations of the caged one.
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BDSM caging of course requires a consensual power exchange and common sense safety. Limit time spent in cages if body movement is restricted or impossible. Check in to make sure temperature is suitable, if submissive is naked. Some cages hold the body in challenging positions.
Trust is obviously necessary in locked cage scenarios or in shackled or fully confined caging styles. Otherwise, cage play is generally extremely safe.
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13 Types of BDSM Cages
There are many styles of BDSM cages. Here are a some options.
1. Barrel Cage
The barrel cage is just that—a barrel-shaped cage. It is designed so that the submissive will be in a vary confined, uncomfortable position, with knees bent and folded against chest. The barrel cage is usually designed so that the head is outside of the cage. The barrel can be upright or prone.
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2. Bird Cage
The bird cage is a BDSM cage styled after regular bird cages, but with openings the submissive partner can crawl into. They are able to stretch their limbs by poking them outside the bird cage.
3. Bondage Cage
The bondage cage is a classic confinement cage that severely immobilizes the submissive. The sub is in a constrained seated position and is limited to very small movements.
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4. Sleeping Cage
The BDSM sleeping cage is for nighttime or naptime confinement, or just for when the dominant wants to see the prone nude body of their lover, caged.
The submissive can stretch out fully on his or her back, but cannot sit up and movements are still heavily restricted.
5. Coffee Table Cage
The coffee table bondage cage is a BDSM box that doubles as a coffee table, so the dominant can relax with her feet up while she watches TV or sips her martini after a hard day. Her submissive is close at hand, so she can keep an eye on him without being too bothered about it.
There are different kinds of furniture bondage cages, such as a cage chest, which can be used for storage when not in use. The coffee table cage can be discreet for everyday life with a table cloth tossed over it.
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6. Stand-Up Cage
This BDSM cage is sometimes called a jail cell cage and leaves the submissive in a standing position, unable to sit down. Perfect for cops and robbers role play, abduction fantasies, and other kinds of prison play.
7. Cock Cage
Not all cages are full-body bondage cages. Chastity play can involve a cock cage, with your dominant controlling the key—and the use of your dick! There are different styles for every taste, from soft harnesses in leather to stainless steel with urethral sounds.
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8. Head Cage
A head cage is a bondage cage created to restrain and restrict the submissive’s head, for forced worship, depersonalization, and more. This can be a cage that restrains the submissive to the floor or wall, or it can be a cage they wear on their head even as their body is mobile.
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9. Isolation Cage
Any bondage cage strategically positioned can be used for isolation play. But BDSM cages designed specifically for this purpose can be built into the floor with closing floorboards above, or are designed to look more like a chest or freezer, with air holes and nothing else.
Floor models are sleeping cages for lying flat and straight, and other isolation cages may restrict movement to seating or kneeling and cannot be used for long periods of time.
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10. Puppy Cage
A puppy cage for humans is a bondage cage designed to look like a puppy kennel cage. It may be used as a prop for a puppy play or animal roleplay.
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11. Hanging Cage
Some cages are designed with suspension options, such as bird cages, barrel cages, even sleeping cages.
12. Cage with Wheels
Bondage cages can also be designed with wheels so that human cargo can be easily moved from room to room.
13. DIY Bondage Cages
Cages designed purposefully for BDSM cage bondage can be very attractive and provide convenient openings for limbs and orifices, or bars for attaching restraints, shackles, and cuffs.
Cages, however, are not always readily available or suitable to everyone’s budget. You can build your own BDSM cages if you are handy, or jerry rig something. An old travel trunk, toy box, or armoire can double as a bondage enclosure. Always make sure there is enough oxygen of course.
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