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How to Handle Rope

By now, you’ll probably be so excited that you’ll have run back from the hardware store,
slammed the front door, tossed your clothes onto the floor, and started running your
gorgeous new rope along your boyfriend’s skin with sinful abandon. But wait! There’s still a
little more to do before you can leap with reckless abandon into your bondage practice.

Your rope, if cut to size right there for you in the store, is probably going to need to be
treated a little before you use it. Usually, it’s the ends of the rope that need the most
attention. It sucks if you drop a good wad of cash on a nice bit of play material only to have 1 1
it fray within a few hours and be ruined entirely within a week, so be sure to set a little time
aside to make sure this doesn’t happen to your rope. If you like, it can be a nice, sexy little
teaser task for your submissive to be getting on with before playtime, while you sit and
manage the proceedings with a glass of aged whisky and a cigar. Or is that just me?

If you’ve just purchased a nice, new length of natural-fiber rope, you can finish the ends (or
have your submissive do it for you) by simply tying a finishing knot in each one or wrapping
each with electrical tape. If you purchased nylon rope, my preferred method is to melt the
ends, as this is very easy to do and creates a nice seal. There are other ways to turn raw
rope into usable bondage rope, but they’re for another book!

Becoming a rope bondage aficionado, you’ll want to put your rope away nice and neat for
the next time you use it. This technique will ensure two things: (1) The rope doesn’t snarl
on itself when you go to uncoil it, and (2) you can snap it open with just one hand and you 2 2
will look like a complete pro.

1. Take the free ends of the rope and make the knots even in one hand, then grab
down the rope about 16 inches (40.6 cm).

2. Turn your hands end for end and grab the rope as it falls into your other hand.

3. Repeat until you bundle up almost all the rope.

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