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to use bondage tape on dd and dsd?

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Rachog · 05/06/2012 22:21

Dd and dsd both 4 are into the little mermaid at the moment. Dd found a Christmas stocking in the toy box and was wearing it like a fin.

This of course caused arguments because dsd wanted a fin too. I remembered that I had a roll of pink bondage tape in the grown up toy box so I used it to bind their legs from knee to ankle leaving their feet Aw flippers.

The girls were made up with their mermaid tails and had lots of fun but when dp came in he was less than impressed.

The tape is like punk plastic on a roll that sticks to itself but not clothes or skin. It's quite flexible and easily torn to remove it.

So was I being unreasonAble?

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thatisall · 07/06/2012 22:09

Actually I just thought, sorry if I'm repeating anyone, this is exactly the same as 'dress tape' and is simply packaged differently.

Ann summers sells bubble bath aswell, should the op not let her dc use it? The only reason it's a sex aid is because that's what the box says it is- put of the box and out of the bedroom it is just pink tape and the little girl was just a
Mermaid.
There was nothing sexual about this! nyone who I
Shines a little one pretending to be a mermaid as a sexual situation....wthinks they are the ones with the problem.

youarekidding · 07/06/2012 22:09

I am very uncomfortable with the expression of 'sex toys used on them' That actually insinuates something very illegal and abusive.

They were given some pink tape to play with - to play with innocently as mermaids. They were not forced into some kind of sexual play with bondage tape.

I get that people don't agree with using the tape - that is fair enough and people are entitled to their opinions. But it's not on to make it into something it wasn't.

It was the use of pink shiny tape - bought with the intention to spice up someones sex life - used for a different purpose that was not sexually related.

WorraLiberty · 07/06/2012 22:10

Yes the DH was unimpressed but fuck me, I'd love to see the look on his face when he reads some of the sick posts on there.

It doesn't matter a jot what it was marketed for.

The kids were not given the packaging it came in to play with...they were given the tape itself.

Now unless that tape has anything sexual written on it....It's just pink tape

No more and no less.

youarekidding · 07/06/2012 22:12

thatisall yes it is the same stuff. My friend had some and used it for this purpose. I also know dancers/ gymnasts who have used it too (myself included). I have only discovered it's other use from this thread.

dittany · 07/06/2012 22:13

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WorraLiberty · 07/06/2012 22:20

It's a sex aid dittany

And either way you know full well that describing young children as 'having sex toys used on them' has completely different connotations than simply making Mermaid fins.

EchoBitch · 07/06/2012 22:22

What actually is the difference between sex aids and sex toys?

And should either be used as children's toys/playthings?

No.

Whatmeworry · 07/06/2012 22:24

bondage tape is a sex toy

So's Vaseline, so's a bed - heck, everything is if so viewed.

Case dismissed.

squeakytoy · 07/06/2012 22:24

bondage tape can be used for many things unrelated to sex... a dildo couldnt.. that is the difference to me between an aid to a sex, and a toy that is used in place of a body part...

EchoBitch · 07/06/2012 22:25

I wonder who has fb 'liked/linked' this thread.

WorraLiberty · 07/06/2012 22:26

Exactly squeaky and I'm quite surprised you had to explain that....

TruthTeller · 07/06/2012 22:27

What Dittany said.
Every time.

AliceHurled · 07/06/2012 22:27

What an odd definition. Surely an aid is something that aids you to have sex, suggests a necessity. A toy is something you play with, suggests not necessary.

dittany · 07/06/2012 22:27

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squeakytoy · 07/06/2012 22:29

depends on how you define the word aid really Alice.. massage oil is used as part of sex play, but it isnt a toy either... so that could be classed as a sex aid IF it was in certain packaging... not a necessity to sex, and also has other purposes..

WorraLiberty · 07/06/2012 22:30

Vaseline isn't marketed as a sex toy/sex aid, neither are beds

Nor is pink sticky tape

And let's not forget that amongst the hysteria, that's exactly what it is.

Pink. Sticky. Tape

Bluegrass · 07/06/2012 22:30

Hang on, if I buy a ping pong bat with the intention of engaging in a little light spanky but then change my mind, is there some sort purification the clergy could perform to let me use it for ping pong with the kiddies instead? Or would I have to burn it?
And bury it?
And then buy a new one?

Does it matter that I'm an atheist?

EchoBitch · 07/06/2012 22:31

So what would fluffy handcuffs be under that rationale squeaky?

I mean,you could use them in a citizens arrest aswell as for sex.

FredFredGeorge · 07/06/2012 22:32

dildo's make excellent pull toys for dogs and spurtles for very large saucepans of porridge. All sorts of ideas, you people who just use them for sex just need an imagination.

AliceHurled · 07/06/2012 22:33

Obviously it depends how you define it, that's the point. Can't see the logic of the body part/non body part distinction. Odd that there would need to be a distinction if this is all just AOK.

squeakytoy · 07/06/2012 22:33

but Dittany, the OP was not using the tape AS bondage tape during sex on this occasion, she was giving it another purpose that was completely NOT sexual. If anyone here can see anything sexual in a child with pink tape round their legs to turn them into a mermaid, then I really would say they needed some sort of help.

Supposing the OP had a stethoscope for playing "doctors and nurses" with her partner, and then lent it to a child for dressing up as a nurse... would anyone see anything sexual in that, or think it freaky?

WorraLiberty · 07/06/2012 22:34

Exactly Bluegrass

Vaseline and baby oil are often used in sex play but are also used for innocent purposes.

Pink sticky tape is often used in sex play but is also used for innocent purposes.

Now, if I were to buy a Dildo and use it to say....tenderise a lump of steak - that would be weird and definitely not something one should do in front of children.

That's because unlike pink sticky tape...a dildo serves no other purpose - other than sexual.

I think I might hold the world record in the number of times the words 'Pink sticky tape' has been posted on one thread....

dittany · 07/06/2012 22:38

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Rachog · 07/06/2012 22:39

m.lovehoney.co.uk/sex-toys/bondage/bondage-rope-tape/tracey-cox-supersex-beginners-bondage-tape-double-pack/

This is the exact tape BTW for those that were guessing before. I have nothing more to add really, I can agree to disagree.

I agree with everything squeaky and youarekidding have said and they put it much better than I can.

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AnyFucker · 07/06/2012 22:39

why so much justification ?

so many "but what if...and what about" scenarios

so much rationalisation ?

it's not convincing me

and neither is this thread