{"id":13984,"date":"2020-05-22T10:57:23","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T09:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bondara.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13984"},"modified":"2024-04-29T17:18:30","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T16:18:30","slug":"the-bondage-boom-going-hell-for-leather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bondara.co.uk\/blog\/sex-news\/the-bondage-boom-going-hell-for-leather\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bondage Boom: Going Hell for Leather"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Move over, pasta and loo roll! Stockpiling just got sexy<\/em>… <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At first, the lockdown was an excuse for staying in bed all day. But with a surge in demand for bed restraints<\/a>, it seems people no longer have a choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At-home entertainment in the age of Miss ‘Rona<\/em> has never been so important, and it seems we\u2019re turning to more than just rabbit vibrators<\/a> and masturbators<\/a> to keep ourselves occupied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have witnessed a 52% increase in bondage sales (that\u2019s a lot<\/em> of handcuffs<\/a>!), and it\u2019s showing no sign of slowing down just yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whether people are using this time to harness<\/a> their horny horizons or are hoping a ball gag<\/a> will silence their chatterbox partner, it\u2019s whips<\/a> and chains<\/em> that are on everyone\u2019s list of essentials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indeed, people are digging into kink at the moment. So, with our curiosity well and truly spiked<\/em>, we set out to ask: why now<\/em>?<\/p>\n\n\n

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Cuffing season has been extended… Indefinitely <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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Four Little Letters for the Masses<\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

…B<\/strong>ondage<\/em>, D<\/strong>iscipline<\/em>, S<\/strong>adism <\/em>and M<\/strong>asochism<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once a niche fetish to seek out of backdoor boutiques or underground sex clubs, BDSM has quite evidently broken down the door to the mainstream!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course<\/em>, pop fetishists have come before… Madonna’s Erotica <\/em>era dabbled in the aesthetic of sado-masochism with raunch-fest ‘Justify My Love<\/em>‘ in 1990. And Rihanna writhed naked in her 2010 music video for S&M<\/em>; an ode to sex<\/em> and BDSM fetishes<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But it was the 2015 bondage blockbuster Fifty Shades of Grey<\/em> that truly unveiled the rules of kink to popular culture. With an eye-watering 125,000,000 copies of the book sold worldwide, this was a sexual pop phenomenon of unprecedented thirst!<\/p>\n\n\n

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“Can I tie you up?” Please!<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Accordingly, Dominant<\/em> lead Christian Grey<\/em> steals the central pin-up spot of male-attracted masturbatory fantasies across the land (TENGA, 2019) with a dark and twisted playbook that we haven’t been able to escape<\/em> since…<\/p>\n\n\n

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TENGA UK Survey: ‘Which celebrities, fictional characters or public figures have you fantasized about?’<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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Kink <\/em>the Trend<\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cA pervert is anybody kinkier than you are.\u201d<\/p>\nWiseman, 1996<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Subsequently, the arrival of consensual S&M into polite public discourse has meant that those without <\/em>the stomach for porno have flocked to the Fifty Shades<\/em> franchise for their kicks…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, the increase of bondage-based adult films is proof of the Power Play phenomenon – With ‘Femdom<\/em>‘ (female domination) ranking an almighty 10th on the list of searches that defined 2019 in Pornhub<\/em>‘s yearly review – Hold tight, the Dominatrixes<\/em>!<\/p>\n\n\n

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Who run the world? Female domination is taking pornography by storm (Pornhub, 2019)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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Depression Killer or Total Freud<\/em>?<\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Sexpert Pamela H. Connolly, PhD, came across a striking result when comparing BDSM players to the diagnostic norms of top mental disorders.<\/p>\n\n\n

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1950’s Fetish Icon: Bettie Paige – She never was <\/em>the girl next door<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

In fact, practising power players<\/a> had lower levels<\/em> of depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, psychological sadism, psychological masochism, borderline pathology, and <\/em>paranoia (Connolly, 2008).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not to mention that Dominants and submissives both <\/em>reported closer relationships and less mental stress after indulging in BDSM too!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although curiously, bottoms also showed raised stress hormone following the proceedings. This disconnect between lowered mental stress and increased bodily stress in submissive partners begs an interesting question about whether subs <\/em>enter a ‘high’ state during and after indulging in S&M.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– But, we could have told her that! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Social distancing<\/a><\/em> may be the rule outside the house, but with the science in mind, it seems that we\u2019re getting closer than ever behind closed doors\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n

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Enter holographic heaven as you bring some sparkle to your spanking sessions with Shiny B!tch by Bondara<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Never Mind the Downturn<\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

We knew <\/em>you were a naughty bunch, but the extent and flavour <\/em>of sexual consumerism in the lockdown have defied all expectations! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To illustrate our point, just ogle these figures for a socially-distanced look into lockdown Britain’s kinky <\/em>headspace:<\/p>\n\n\n\n