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JohnWarren -> RE: Advice needed: Nipple Clamps (1/13/2009 4:18:11 AM)
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I'll be teaching a course in breast play at the Power Play Academy later this month; however [laugh] that doesn't do any good in the here and now.
Here is the section on clips and clamps from my book The Loving Dominant. I hope it helps. However, this is copyrighted material so let's just leave it here and not copy it for publication elsewhere.
Nipple clips are almost a cliche in bondage films and photography, and clips and clamps are popular tools. These can be used on almost any portion of the body, but breasts, labia, cocks and balls are natural and obvious targets. You should always remember that when these are taken off the process is more painful for the submissive than was the initial application
. You should test every clip on the skin between your thumb and forefinger. This does NOT tell you how it feels on a nipple, but it does give you a gauge for comparison. If one clip felt much stronger than another on your hand, it is reasonable to assume that it would also be more painful on a nipple or elsewhere. Although it would be unusual to do any kind of permanent damage with a clip, one should not be left on longer than 15 minutes because it does cut off blood circulation to the skin underneath. The triangular paper clips available at stationery stores should be treated with considerable respect.
Complex-looking adjustable clips are available at leather stores. However, many dominants swear by the simple wooden clothespin. Not only are they cheap and easy to obtain, but you can vary their severity in several ways. The simplest is to buy several brands. Different companies have varying degrees of 'zig' in their pins. Test them on yourself, and color-code each pin with a drop of model airplane paint. I use red for the strongest down to blue for the weakest.
You can also weaken individual pins by putting elastic bands around the part where your finger grips the pin. This is particularly useful when the pins are going to be used on sensitive sections of the body.
Some people even disassemble the clothespins and readjust the spring tension. This is done by heating the spring with a blow torch, altering its alignment with a pair of pliers while it is still red hot and then quenching it in a container of oil. Before using clothespins on submissives, you should cut or sand off the tips so the pins end in a flat surface. This will allow them to get a firmer grip on the skin and prevent unintentional pain.
Initially, you should place a substantial fold of skin between the tips. The larger the amount of skin which is gripped, the weaker is the stimulation felt by the submissive. As you become familiar with both the strength of the pins and the tolerance of the submissive, you learn just how large the fold should be to produce a given amount of stimulation. Avoid putting the clip so where pieces of bone or cartilage would be caught inside. These bruise more easily than soft tissue.
Alligator clips are not generally used in stimulation because their serrated teeth can easily break the skin. However, you can cover the teeth by taking a piece of shrink-wrap tubing, putting it over the jaw of the clip and then heating the tubing. It may take several layers of tubing before you have a thick enough covering on the teeth. Mouse and rat traps are fun to play with. They look infinitely more painful than they are because the spring's clamping action is distributed along a relatively wide striking wire. However, before you use them, I recommend that you take off the release arm and the trigger. Not only are these unaesthetic, but the gripper for the cheese can tear the submissive's skin.
To use them to maximum effect, hold the trap about a foot in front of the submissive's shocked eyes and let the striking wire snap on to the wood. Then, take it and insert the breast or cock and lower the striking wire on to the skin.
The degree of stimulation from a clip can be increased by several orders of magnitude by attaching weights to it. To hang things from clothespins, run a cord through the spring coil. Alligator clips come with a handy screw that is convenient for attaching cords or small chains. Some versions of adjustable clips in leather stores are designed to clamp harder when weights are suspended from them. Always add weight slowly.
Another approach is to pull on the string or, an even more erotic approach, put the string in your submissive's mouth and have him or her pull on it for you. This can also be done when you have two clips attached by a string or chain, a common technique when clamping nipples.
A variation on these dangling weights can be obtained by attaching the weights by heavy elastics or light springs. Any movement will set the weights bobbling, and it will take a while even when the submissive is standing stock still for the weights to stop bobbing.
If a clamp causes a minor cut, you should treat it with antiseptic; however torn skin requires a doctor's care to prevent permanent disfigurement.
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