You’ll be familiar with the saying “choosing between a rock and a hard place”. Predicament bondage is an evil game that leaves the bottom with (usually) two choices, which they’re forced to choose between. Both choices have unpleasant outcomes, but there’s no way out. They have to choose option A or option B, or switch back and forth between the two.

The most common form of predicament bondage is a choice between muscle strain and some kind of pain involving sensitive parts of the body (by which I mean nipples and genitals), but if you are truly twisted you may be able to come up with other imaginative dilemmas.

Obviously predicament bondage involves bondage, but there tends to be a strong element of sadomasochism in it too. Whatever the choices made, there’s usually some pain involved.

Here’s a couple of very simple scenarios so you can see how it works:

You’ll need a collar or head harness and an anal hook. Lay your bottom on their stomach and attach the collar to the hook with enough tension to strain the head and neck back a little, causing it to be uncomfortable. The bottom’s options are now:
A – continue to strain their neck, or
B – pull the hook further in to themselves

2. Have your bottom in a squatting position (like a sumo wrestler or peeing in the woods). You could use a spreader bar or some other fixed point on the floor, and you could either use nipple clamps or a simple ball tie with rope to attach to your fixed point. Again you need to tension it so that the two options are:
A – put strain on the leg muscles
B – pull on the nipples or balls

Depending on what toys and anchor points you have, I’m sure you can think of dozens of variations on this game. It could be your bottom standing on tiptoes attached to something above their head or balanced with one leg on a stool. There are endless possibilities.

A LITTLE MORE TWISTED

Want to step up the evil a little? If the choices in your predicament are unbearable (letting go of the muscle tension causes so much pain that you need to step in to release the bondage), then you could combine your predicament with a punishment and make the punishment progressive. So, for example, the first time your bottom fails they get a stroke of the cane. The second time they get two strokes.

What’s especially sadistic about this is that each time you repeat the bondage your bottom’s muscles will be a little more fatigued and the time they can avoid the genital pain (and the punishment) choice will get shorter and shorter.

FURTHER READING

• Edenfantasys – BDSM101: Predicament Bondage
• Tumblr – Real Predicament
• BDSM Attitude – Predicament Bondage
• Submissiveguide – Stress in Play with Predicament Bondage
• A Lazy Dommie’s Guide – Predicament Bondage