Does the cruel, cold bite of stainless steel make you melt? Does the smooth, sleek vibe of metal dildos raise your temperature?
Some BDSM lovers prefer metal restraints, metal bars, and stainless steel harnesses when others dream of rope or leather. Metal bondage may be your preferred material when it comes to the materials and aesthetics of BDSM, or it may be an exciting variation or novelty.
Whether it’s your fetish favorite or one of many ways to play, there’s something sexy and futuristic about the look and feel of steel.
Why People Love Metal Bondage
There are different reasons people enjoy metal bondage.
Metal bondage feels “extreme.” There’s no way to break through a stainless steel cage. A metal dildo and clamps feel serious. While some kinky people prefer a softer approach, metal bondage appeals to others for its hard edge. Metal means business.
Some bondage lovers simply enjoy the tactile sensations of steel bars, chains, and other metal toys. The cold, hard steel is thrilling because of how it feels.
Just as the warm, skin sensation of leather is a thing for lots of you, others love the unyielding, smooth touch of metal.
Some love metal bondage because it is aesthetically appealing and sets a certain atmosphere for role play. The Metropolis aesthetic or the film noir aesthetic can be important parts of scene building.
The industrial, machine, abandoned basement or rusty medical flavor of asylum ruins or underground bunker is a rich setting for erotic, kinky fantasies to play out.
Others are turned on by the power of metal, either on the submissive end or the domination end. There is a sense of intensity in this power exchange.
Still others find the contrast of metal against the softness of flesh and skin to be exciting, or the contrast with other bondage materials such as silk or leather.
Steel is also a very sanitary surface, and that makes it a selling point for messy sex and safe sex.
Read: Bondage for Beginners: How to Get Started
12 Ways to Play with Metal Bondage and BDSM
If you love metal, many kinks use paraphernalia or devices that are already metal, or can be metal.
There are also various fetishes and ways to play where the instruments of pain and pleasure happen to be metal, and can expand your repertoire of metal bondage thrills.
1. Metal BDSM Collar
Wearing a BDSM collar and the ritual of dominant and submissive collaring is an easy way to play with metal. A metal bondage collar is a beautiful and meaningful addition to any BDSM collection.
Read: 9 Types of BDSM Collars
2. Metal Restraints and Chains
Stainless steel restraints, including leg cuffs, wrist cuffs, metal chains and locks, and various kinds of metal bondage equipment will keep a sub in place like nothing else.
Read: Bondage Restraints: 15 Types of Bondage Gear
3. Cage Bondage
Metal bondage cage play is an exciting way to explore BDSM, and there are so many styles to choose from.
There are puppy-style metal bondage cages, bird cages, wheeling cages, dungeon style cages, standing cages, sleeping cages, sitting cages, cages with features that hold limbs and head in position, roomy cages, cages with no room at all, training cages, cages that hideaway as coffee tables, and many more.
Read: 10 BDSM Furniture Ideas for Your Home Dungeon
4. Metal Chastity Devices
Metal bondage works perfectly for those who enjoy chastity play—there are lots of stainless steel chastity devices to lock his cock away.
5. Vaginal Hook and Anal Hook
Metal bondage can mean BDSM torture, suspension bondage play, or being held open. Vaginal hooks and anal hooks are usually made out of stainless steel.
Read: Suspension Bondage for Advanced BDSM
6. Steel Sex Toys
Those into metal love the hard thrill of a stainless steel dildo, which comes in all shapes and sizes. There are flared anal plugs in stainless steel as well.
Lots of sex toys have steel options, including nipple clamps, G-spot dildos, speculums, and cock rings.
7. Metal Impact Play
Spanking and other styles of impact play can also work for metal play and metal bondage because there are stainless steel paddles, and various kinds of paddles or striking agents with stainless steel spikes and other kinds of hardware.
You can also get a chain flogger. These are practical sex toys for impact play, but also aesthetically beautiful.
Read: Impact Play Tips, Tools, and Safety
8. Piercing and Needle Play
Some metal lovers might want to include piercing and needle play, an intense fetish that many find immensely pleasurable. Piercing needles are made of surgical steel.
9. Urethral Sounding
Sometimes called catheter fetish or cock stuffing, urethral sounding is when a thin, long device is inserted into the penis urethra.
Sounding play can be part of BDSM torture or bondage, and it can be part of metal bondage as many sounding rods are made of steel.
10. Knife Play
Kinks and fetishes for knives, for cutting, or for blood sports can mean knife play, and knife play can be part of metal play as many knives are made of steel.
Read: Knife Play Basics for BDSM Lovers
11. Medical Play
Medical kinks are not always about BDSM bondage, but lots of them are, or can be incorporated into BDSM.
Many medical fetishes involve steel instruments and devices, from the gynecological speculum to operating theater tables to stirrups, and needles. Medical fetishism is an exciting variation in metal bondage for many kinky folks.
Read: Medical BDSM: 10 Medical Play Ideas
12. Metal in Role Play
Metal bondage is great for role play scenes that include medical fetishes, sex slavery dungeons, futuristic worlds, nightclubs, strip clubs, vampire fetishism, car crash fantasies, and so much more. As I often say, the only limit is your imagination.
Read: BDSM and Bondage Roleplay Ideas
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