Somewhere along the way while sharing my rope stories I noticed something I wasn’t expecting started was happening. People kept saying “I trust you.” Or “I know from your reputation that you’re a safe person to explore this.” Or, and this blows my mind every time: “I really want you to be the first one to tie me up. Like, really tie me up.”
And holy fuck if I don’t smile and beam and giggle and say “oh my god yes I’d be flattered, please come to me and my rope.” But on the inside I’m ugly crying as that broken, hurt part of me that’s been raped and violated and had her trust tattered again and again by shitty rope tops melts. She gets smaller and less prickly every time someone tells me I’m trustworthy. That means I’ve done everything right, I’m nothing like that monster who raped me.
So I gladly put people in my rope and blast them out of this world with intimacy and happy brain chemicals as I wrap them up in my rope and my arms. But they probably don’t notice me planted firmly on the ground, processing the experience and working every second to make sure they’re safe while they aren’t fully in control of their body. That’s a heady experience and a lot of work. But so worth it to show people how beautiful rope and kink can be when there’s trust and a connection.
The problem with being the safe safest very most safe rope lady is I often can’t mix rope and sex, it gets so confusing since consent is something I never want to violate. I mean I’m all about people feeling pleasantly used and abused at the end of our time together if that’s what they’re into. I like providing that. Fuck yeah! But it takes me a long while to believe the person I’m tying up when they say sexy stuff is welcome along with rope, it isn’t something I can do casually.
Jump to last weekend where I spent a blissfully large amount of time with the new fellow
I’ve been smooching on. Dear reader, it was our third date and we were out in daylight hiking, sharing food and drinks in the sun, then snuggled up in my bed all night participating in the holy and oh so rare for me trinity of rope/sex/cuddling. I can count on one hand the number of people I’ve shared that with! So I was swooning with happiness.
On our first date he too said some variety of “I’m super curious to experience real rope, from you especially.” And I almost died of delight. I’ve been looking for someone I like in life and in kink at the same time for a long while…and here he was. So I was more than happy to tie him up during our second date, adoring the way he melted into the rope and against my body as I timidly bound him and touched and kissed him but not much else before releasing him so we could explore one another as equals.
And during that hike it was him that kept bringing up rope, the cheeky boy. Which made getting through dinner a multi hour tease, during which I was already picturing him naked. In my bedroom it was me that was nervous while I bound him and he calmly rolled around in my lines as I experimented with sensations to see what he might like. Though his body let me know he was enjoying himself, practically yelling at me to take him, I couldn’t, he was too quiet and I’m too cautious.
So I untied him and we were back to the awkward but sexy fumble of trying to figure one another out with hands, and mouths and eventually merging body parts. But not finding satisfaction we were at the odd moment of “now what?”
“I liked being in the blindfold while I was tied up.” He demurred. As in, hint, hint lady tie me up again!
This was new, I’d (no hyperbole) never ever been in bed with someone and had them request more thorough or more frequent rope. Nope, I’ve always been the one begging for rope time. So you better bet I got up and untangled that mess of rope on the floor and bound him up tight and vulnerable and naked at the center of my bed. And instantly his body was alert and willing where it had been soft and lovely at rest seconds before.
And this time I trusted him (because that’s a big thing rarely talked about isn’t it, that the trust goes both ways, because I need to trust that my bottom actually wants or can handle what they’ve asked for in addition to them trusting me to not cross boundaries) and tied him so that he was exposed and there for the taking. It took my breath way to see him there.
So oh did I take! Taking pleasure in pleasuring him, lapping at his body as if he were the cure to something, so tempted to ride that which was exposed to me but deciding to wait until later. But the knowing I could trust that he would enjoy that taking, that riding, that shared vulnerability was heady. I trust him in so many ways, rewarding his trust of me by returning it.
He’s not a monster (not even close) and neither am I. So it’s okay (more than okay!) if sex and rope and more all happen at the same time. Now to remind myself of that next time I have him in my rope…
