Sex Toy Review: Under the Bed Restraint System
I’ve always liked bondage and kink. However, as first a college student in the dorms, then a starving grad student renting cheap apartments, and now a poor and starving unemployed person with a college degree and a graduate degree and no job leads renting a condo from someone who can’t sell it and needs help with his morgage, building my own dungeon, or even installing eyebolts into the walls that I don’t own has usually seemed like a no-no.
However, there IS an answer for those of us bondage inclined but living in rented space; the Under the Bed Restraint System.
It’s brilliant, really. It looks like a giant X of nylon webbing that can be installed on almost any bed (I’ve tried it on doubles and queen-sized beds – I can’t speak for king sized sets). If you’re like me and don’t care how much of a pervert you look like, there’s no issue with letting the ends hang down for the world to see. If you’re more like Q, and actually like having a fairly traditional looking apartment (minus her love for Che and poster of radical politcal buttons), you can just as easily tuck them under the corners of the mattress when in use. The webbing is adjustable, so you can a) make it fit different beds, and b) put the cuffs on loosely and then tighten (and subsequently loosen) your victim/lover/partner/hook-up.
I say cuffs. You’ll notice it doesn’t really come with cuffs. It comes with these felt velcro thingies. This is the one major failing of this system. They suck. There is no way around it. I mean, they don’t even come close to being usable. Cheap $15 or $20 cuffs you can buy at your local sex toy store are better than these. We use nicer ones on the one under my bed along with snaphooks or caribeeners to attach them…and are in the process of procuring some for Q’s. The felt ones they come with can be undone with out any effort, and worse yet, come off by themselves even if you’re not trying to get them to come off, if you pull too hard against them.
That aside, I really love how adjustable this is. If I want Q spread eagle on the bed, everything flat, I can do that. If I want her arms out, and legs bent but secured in position, I can do that. If I want just her arms tied, so I can move her legs around where I want them, done. And if you want to move the system from home to home (or let’s say that F hypothetically-in-reality breaks my bed, and I have to take everything off and put it back together on a new frame), it’s really easy to take off and put back on. You can even do it by yourself, assuming you can balance the mattress on your hip or head.
All in all, I love this affordable bondage system. College students, those with only one income, etc, can afford it, unlike some fancy restraint systems or bondage bed sheets. I’m so glad Babeland is carrying this. On the other hand, the cuff it comes with are pretty crap-tastic, and I HIGHLY recommend getting your own set of some kind better quality restraints.
Otherwise, I give this 4.5 stars out of 5. It only loses half a point for the cuffs. As a side note, I’ve had one of these (this one was for Q’s bed) for more than two years, use it regularly, and nothing has ever broken or stretched or anything. Good investment!
Click here to get your very own Under the Bed Restraint System.
-Essin’ Em
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Got mine. How luscious are they? Oh my…
I don’t have a problem with the cuff’s, as there is usually cunnilingus ahappenin’ when they are on and so a bit of roughness at the wrists is not an issue for me.
P.S I love your site and have a link on my main page for it. Hope that’s ok. Hope that doesn’t cross any blogger guide lines or sum such, as I didn’t actually ask first. xoxo
The best part is that you can first start with the ties loose, and then later punctuate or emphasize a point by pulling them tight.
these have always looked like fun. though, ropes tied to the legs of the bed have worked okay so far – they are a bit more complex.
as for subtlety, i highly recommend a bedskirt! in this case, you would have to be sure to put the restraints, then skirt, then mattress. it does a great job of hiding whatever kink you may have hanging out under your bed, and it looks so *traditional* – isn’t that cute.
So you can use different cuffs with it? That would be awesome to be able to change them out. I just want to make sure I understand completely.
My bedskirt certainly is helpful :)
And yes, you can switch the cuffs out — you just need some sort of metal connector thing (99 cents at home depot — I use both snap hooks and carribeaners).
Lady gold – no worries. Thanks for the link love!
Don’t waste your money on cheap “vanilla” bondage gear. Especially one where you’re going to throw away half the pieces.
It’s a good idea, but you can do better. Go to Home Depot and get four eight foot pieces of chain plus eight quick links. Total cost, maybe $30.
Now put ‘em to use.
Method One: Use the quick links to attach one end of each chain to the feet on the bed frame, top-left, top-right, bottom-left, bottom-right. Pull the other ends up and onto the bed.
Bingo. One VERY secure very quick spread-eagle restraint system that can be attached to your own better quality cuffs. Easy on, easy off. Chain length can be adjusted based on where you attach the quick links.
No feet?
Method Two: Take the eight-root chains, quick link the ends to together to make two 16-foot chains, then slide them under the mattress with the ends pulled back around the sides and over the top. Put one set at the head of the bed and the other at the foot.
Method Three: Similar to two but use the links to make all four pieces into a big X, exactly like the Under the Bed Restraint System.
Method Four: Again, similar to two, but this time cinch each chain tight and link them together on TOP of the bed as well, making two very tight loops that hug your mattress.
Now you have a different system with many, many attachment points for both cuffs and rope. It’s also one where, once attached, the hands and feet can’t come together, nor can they move further apart.
Method Five: Like four, but a cross. One loop goes across the middle of the bed from left to right, while the other goes from top to the bottom. This gives you a different set of options.
Method Six: Move the horizontal chain in method five up and down the bed, and see what other bondage positions suggest themselves.
Four pieces of chain are cheap, durable, versatile, and much more mentally satisfying than four thin nylon straps.
Besides, it’s always nice to have a few chains around… (grin)