If you enjoy mummification, latex catsuits, bondage hoods or small cages, this could be you. There are a variety of encasement bondage ways to play and total enclosure kinks.
What is Encasement Bondage?
Bondage is central to many if not most kinky people and fetish plays, especially of course those who enjoy the power exchange and intensity of BDSM.
Bondage and restraint are ways to submit to someone else, and ways to take command or control of someone else. Bondage isn’t just about discipline or sadomasochism, however—bondage is integral to other playful kinds of sex, even to vanilla sex.
You see all those fuzzy pink handcuffs at Valentine’s Day, and everyone and their grandparents have used pantyhose or a tie to restrain someone. That’s because restraint enhances sensation in a few ways—it secures you to the present moment, it helps you relax, and it gives the initiative or reins to a partner.
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Encasement bondage might be best described as “total bondage” or “extreme bondage.”
While even just the idea of pinning someone’s hands above their head is super sexy, or using a silk scarf to symbolically put them in place, encasement bondage and total enclosure bondage are forms of kink or fetish play where the whole body is confined, paralyzed, covered, and limited.
This is not symbolic bondage or partial bondage, but complete surrender and submission—motionless restraint.
Encasement bondage can mean anything from being wrapped and pinned in a bedsheet to being bound inside of a vacuum bed.
Read: Bondage Ideas: 10 Types of Bondage Play
Why People Enjoy Encasement Bondage and Enclosure
There are many different reasons why someone enjoys encasement bondage or enclosure fetish play. These may simply be variations of the reasons we like any kind of bondage, or they may be specific to encasement bondage exploration.
Domination and Submission
If encasement bondage is “total bondage” then we can see it as total domination or total submission. In domination and submission, the power exchange and interdependency can be very intense, physically and psychologically pleasurable, intimate, and rewarding.
Encasement bondage calls for complete control, complete submission, and complete trust.
Read: How to Build Trust in Your Kinky Relationships
Helplessness
There’s often a profound sense of relief when submitting or giving up control. In a similar way, feeling helpless can be very pleasurable and psychologically rewarding. It is relaxing, it is confronting or overcoming a fear, and it is trusting.
Read: Why BDSM Submission is So Satisfying
Comfort
The necessary trust and the total envelopment sensations of encasement bondage can feel comforting.
Think about weighted blankets for anxious people or pets, or the way a cat loves to crawl into the smallest crevice to sleep away the hours. Some people feel this way during an encasement bondage session.
Sensory Deprivation
Sensory deprivation is sometimes used as a form of torture, and sometimes as a psychological therapeutic tool or a religious technique.
In encasement bondage, it can be part of sadomasochism or sexual torture, or it can simply feel profoundly releasing.
Read: Sensory Deprivation Play for Couples
Tactile Sensation
If you have an intense fetish for a fabric such as leather or rubber or fur, you may enjoy the sensation of being totally surrounded by it and enveloped inside of it.
Anonymity or Depersonalization
For some, the attraction or pleasure from encasement bondage or total enclosure fetishes is simply the anonymity of being hidden. Similarly, feeling depersonalized can be part of BDSM play and be intensely pleasurable for some.
9 Examples of Enclosure and Encasement Kinks
1. Bondage Hoods
Your basic bondage hood is a form of encasement bondage and is very versatile. Even though it only covers the head, it can be psychologically or perceptually fulfilling by simulating the encasement bondage experience.
Read: Blindfolds, Hoods and Masks, Oh My!
2. Mummification Bondage
Being wrapped completely in a bed sheet, duct tape, plastic wrap, latex, leather, or any other material from head to toe is a form of encasement bondage called mummification bondage.
3. BDSM Sleepsacks and Body Bags
Special sleepsacks for BDSM are on the market for a night of encasement bondage.
The classic body bag, traditionally used for cadavers, can do the trick, with the added bonus of being psychologically disturbing for torture or humiliation fetishes.
Read: Sleepsack Bondage and Body Bag Confessions
4. Vacuum Beds
A vacuum bed is an encasement bondage device designed to allow all the air to be vacuumed away.
5. Latex Catsuits
Classic fetish gear includes the form-fitting latex catsuit, usually red, black, or white. Being covered closely from head to toe can fulfill your encasement bondage needs.
6. Zentai Suit Fetish
The zentai suit is a Spandex bodysuit that covers from head to toe, in a solid color. It has been used in sports, dance, and performance art. It makes a human being look like a crash test dummy or depersonalized.
Others love z-suits because they put the total focus on the form and shapes of the body and motion.
Read: Zentai Suit Fetish
7. Rubber Fetish
Rubber lovers who also desire encasement bondage can wear rubber suits of various styles along with rubber hoods or gas masks.
Read: Rubber Fetish: A Kink for Rubber Clothes & More
8. Sexual Furries
Some furries want to be completely encased inside a stuffed animal suit, or they wear cosplay murrsuits (sexual fursuits) which are anthropomorphic costumes that surround them.
Read: Sexual Furries and the Language of Furry Sex
9. Claustrophilia
What’s the opposite of claustrophobia? Why, claustrophilia of course.
For those who find small spaces exciting, crowded places or small, dark spaces can provide a kind of encasement bondage.
Being locked in a hot closet, a kitchen cupboard, a car trunk, or hiding under the sink or in a crawlspace can be ways to explore the claustrophilia kink.
Safety and Enclosure Bondage
The desire for total enclosure can be intense, but don’t let that need cause harm to yourself or your submissive. Other people may not realize the risks and assume a mouth breathing hole is the only consideration when it comes to enclosure bondage or total encasement kinks.
Breathing is an obvious safety concern, but the skin also needs to breathe—very tight plastic wrap for example can block oxygen from pores.
There may also be circulation risks if encasement is very tight, or something called positional asphyxia, where air pathways get stuck or blocked if someone is in one position for too long. Research and practice safety first.
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