Body harnesses can also form the basis of your bondage. Depending on your further plans, you may want to use different ones. Here are two: one for general purposes and one for specific suspension purposes.

KARADA: (Japanese word for body) is another basic bondage. It is a non-suspension body harness, aiming to tease almost the entire body. Harnesses may look difficult to make, but actually it is quite simple once you figure out how it is done. If you are of an exhibitionistic nature, here is one to surprise your friends with. Harnesses are the only bondages, where a different knot is used: the overlay.

Use a twelve yard rope, double it up and a loose wind around the neck, ends towards the front of the body. Now make a first overlay just above the breasts. You need a second one just under the breasts, a third one on the belly button and a fourth one on the lower belly, just above the pubic hair (or where it used to be).

Juicy Detail: You can add a couple of extra knots, touching the vagina and the anus, just as in the previous bondage, of use small dildos is you like.

Both ends again go in between the legs, the labia and the bottom-cheeks up over the spine and through the neck-loop. Now you split the ends go forward – one end on each side of the body, under you front-line in between the first and second overlay, go backwards again and tie the ends together (right next to the spine). You repeat this procedure again and again, until the body of your partners looks like it was a fish, freshly caught in a net. Again don?t do this all too tight, just take care there is sufficient tension.

This bondage is also one you can wear underneath your normal clothing for a long time and you will love it. As the scene goes on, you can tie arms, hands and legs to this harness, which makes certain your partner feels every move she makes around her entire body. Or you can tie the whole thing to a stake or a hook and your partner won?t go anywhere, even with her hands and feet untied (which is a very frustrating feeling).

If you are novice this is the point where you might like to stop working on bondages and turn to other forms of erotical play. That is a good idea. You can tie down your partners hands, spread-eagle or hog-tie her onto the bed and tease and tickle her, introduce hot wax, a blindfold or other things. But, be careful, your partner now is very vulnerable and probably aroused as well, so don?t overdo it. Whipping, flogging or canes is hardly ever introduced in Japanese bondage, mainly because the over-sensitivity of the body. Also you may want to do what the Japanese are very good at: frustrating your partner by teasing her and then letting hear sleep (if she can) in bondage and wait until the next morning to give what she really wants.

Suspension Harness

KOTORI: Suspension is one of the major tricks in Japanese bondage. It looks spectacular, it is not that hard to accomplish and the effects on your partner are enormous. KOTORI is the Japanese word for bird. Very appropriate in this case. You can let your partner literally glide in mid-air. The object of KOTORI is to give your partners? body sufficient support when suspended, so she will be comfortable and the suspension can last long. Equal tension on the different windings now is even more important then ever, because, once suspended, the tension will increase severely. Like KARADA, KOTORI is slightly similar to the leather body harness.

This time you start of with your longest thick rope. It needs to be thicker, because it is stronger and gives better support. Lay the middle of your rope directly under the bottom. It is a good idea if you tape the rope to the body temporarily, so you have both hands free. Lead the line (from both ends) around the legs twice (don?t cross windings in the front of the body!), then lead it from front to back through the legs and make a knot right on the hot spot (vagina or anus, whichever you prefer. Lead the line halfway up the bottom, make another knot, twice around the body again and again a knot. The knots should be on opposite sides of the spine. Now you go up to waist and repeat the procedure. This is done again just under the breasts and under the arms.

Next you lead both ends over the shoulders, under all the previous windings and tie it to the part of the line that goes between the legs (this will direct the effects of every movement directly to the hot spot!!).

It takes some time and practise to master this bondage and, as said before, tape can very helpful here. Once the bondage is ready you can remove the tape. Make sure the tension on all windings is even. Let your partner get used to this feeling for a while (it is a lot of rope around the body and she may have to get used to the idea that she will soon be suspend.

Lifting the body may seem a tough thing to do, in fact it is a trick. There are two ways: using a table is one of them. What you do is have your partner lay down on her belly on the table, tie ropes to the bondage and to hooks in the ceiling and when you are ready, remove the table. The second method may even be an easier one. Let your partner stand and bend over forward. First you tie the waist-windings with an a line to the ceiling hook. Have her make an exact 90 degrees angle and tie the windings around her upper body to the hooks. Now you tie a rope to the upper leg windings, hoist it up (there will be almost no weight), tie it down and then do the last winding.
Now all you have to do is tie her arms together in front of her head and connect them to a hook as well. The same goes for her feet and if you like her knees. She is now completely free, belly down in mid-air and there is nowhere she can go.

This may look tough, in fact it is almost as if she was hanging in a net. The pressure the windings have on the body will be not more then somew-here between five and fifteen kilograms on one spot. If this is her first time, it takes her a while to adjust to the feeling. She will be slightly scared and needs time to realise she is all right and nothing can happen. A blindfold now will probably be very helpful.
If you set her free after suspension, be careful because will probably have lost her sense of direction and she needs some time to re-adjust. Don?t try to do all this on one ceiling hook. You needs at least three or four hooks in a row.

Safety: Avoid to tie the ropes directly to the hooks but use so called panic hooks in between the rope and the ceiling-hook. You can buy panic shops in a hardware store. They are used to tie horses onto. The nice thing about a panic hook is that it takes only one quick move to release it, even under heavy tension. So if you need to move quickly, your partner is down on the ground in seconds.