In celebration of Kinktober, and the release of their new “Link” handcuffs, CEO and Co-Founder of Bloomi, Rebecca Alvarez Story, shares 10 ways spice up your sex life and ease into BDSM experimentation with restraint play. Reported by The U.S Sun, here are 10 ways to cuff this Kinktober (which don’t involve a wedding ring).

  1. Hands behind your back

Tying your partner’s hands behind their back is a submissive setup which allows you to rearrange them in different positions and safely tease them with control. Remember the most important tenets to BDSM play: that it’s safe and consensual.

2. Role play

Handcuffs in the bedroom offer an opportunity to experiment with role-play, which can add fun and excitement for couples of all kinds. “Cops and robbers” is the most obvious role play set up with handcuffs, but any power play will heat up the affair.

3. Hands in the air

While we’re used to thinking of handcuffs as a behind the back position, an expansion of the imagination allows the introduction of new positions. A hand placement of cuffing hands above the head, for example, can be a vulnerable and sensual adjustment.

4. Role reversal

Further power dynamic play can be an erotic experience for both partners, and switching up the position of tethering is sure to introduce new ideas in the sexual relationship. Consider cuffing your partner to a fixed object, such as a chair, and leaving them there, while you perform a sexy strip tease without the relief of letting them touch you.

Switch up who’s cuffed. Who plays Dom better?

5. “Justice is blind”

Adding a blindfold to the handcuff experience is a sure way to heighten their senses. Enjoy their lustful overdrive as you taunt them with small strokes, and they’re unable either to see or to touch you! That is, until you decide to free them.

6. Foreplay as “coreplay”

Foreplay is essential to creating the natural lubrication of a fantastic (and safe) sexual encounter, assuming you aren’t adding lube. Some say that foreplay is the best part of sex. And making your partner wait to have you can certainly be the most fun.

“Taking your time while touching, teasing and exploring each other’s bodies is bound to drive you both wild,” says Story. “Caressing the body of your partner as they are cuffed in the desired position enables you to find new ways to pleasure your partner without penetration.”

7. Any room is a sex room

Get creative with cuffs by exploring objects to secure your partner to that aren’t their other hand. Exploring the space with erotic intentions will transform any room into a sex room. And if you have more than one pair of cuffs, the possibilities are endless.

8. Out of the bedroom

“Why leave your sexy escapades in the bedroom?” asks Story. Exploration should be stimulating. See what play you can work in in public…without breaking any laws, and you’ll see that “sex” can go a lot further than penetration.

9. Edible eroticism

Should you find your partner in the kitchen with a pair of handcuffs, now’s the perfect opportunity to feed them everything but what they want most. Feed them favorite food, fruit, whipped cream or anything sweet you have on hand before you let them taste you.

10. “Hands where I can see them”

As sexy as it is being led to the bedroom with no clue what’s waiting for you, imagine how much more erotic that experience is with the inclusion of handcuffs. And why not complete the bondage with a BDSM collar and a leash? Handcuffs are a soft entry into BDSM play, and the possibilities for what follows are endless.

Read the original story on The US Sun here.