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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?

OP posts:
Rachog · 06/06/2012 20:49

Thanks old lady that's the stuff! Hardly Gimp masks and handcuffs.
Can I just point out that the stuff I used on dds was straight from the roll and not pre used.

Lovebunny, I think it says more about your mind than mine if u think two 4yos playing mermaids are trussed up as offerings. I think dp can distinguish between tying my wrists together for fun and the girls playing make believe.

OP posts:
CaliforniaLeaving · 06/06/2012 21:19

They use that in the Lab at the hospital where I go to get my blood taken! I had no idea you could use it for anything else Blush, every time I go it's a different colour one, It was shocking pink last time. They use it to hold the cotton ball on and wrap a piece round your elbow. I'll have to tell them next time!

fallenangle · 06/06/2012 22:22

'Trussed up like offerings' where did that come from lovebunny? OP didn't initiate the trussing, her DD did using a Christmas stocking. If it were sexual at all then legs bound together would not be the way to go would it? Very very very few men would think of the girls as offerings but many might be disconcerted by the use of bondage tape in kids play when they didn't know the back story.

fallenangle · 06/06/2012 22:27

Btw OP my wrists are the last things my DH would tie, he likes me to have the use of my hands. Legs together is not a good choice either. Grin

McKayz · 06/06/2012 22:30

Lovebunny, I'm sorry but there is something very wrong with you implying that a father would view his DDs as sexual offerings.

They were playing mermaids not using it to tie themselves to a bed FFS.

lovebunny · 06/06/2012 22:35

well, you may think so if you like.

actually, i am right in my assessment of what happened, based on the information provided in the original post.

you may choose to be blind if you wish. you may enjoy it. you may wish to criticise me. fine.

but don't take your sex aids out and use them on your children, eh? that just isn't nice.

TiggyD · 06/06/2012 22:37

Real enthusiasts use pallet wrap I believe. Far easier if you're doing whole bodies. www.kitepackaging.co.uk/products.asp?subcatid=261&gclid=CK7DhdrIurACFcwNtAod6gw6nw

WorraLiberty · 06/06/2012 22:42

I hate to piss on anyone's pasta but....

Hobbycraft sell pink tape

Therefore I'm sure the girls will grow up to think their boring, vanilla, sexless parents bought some.

And I'm sure the teachers will think the same.

Sorry OP...just had to throw that out there Grin Wink

thatisall · 06/06/2012 22:45

Worra :D

ReshapeWhileDamp · 06/06/2012 22:46

...pink bondage tape? My, how vanilla. Not even black, OP? Grin

WorraLiberty · 06/06/2012 22:48

Actually now I come to think of it...there's pink sticky tape in my DS's art room at school Shock

That'll be the cook tying the PE teacher up to have her wicked way in the boiler room I expect Sad

AnyFucker · 06/06/2012 22:55

OP, I think you are to be congratulated in finding new and inventive ways of normalising the use of sexual aids and blurring the boundaries of what is and isn't a healthy family activity

well done to you

that was what you were after, yes ?

a big ole sex-positive pat on the back Smile

JenaiMarrHePlaysGuitar · 06/06/2012 23:01
JenaiMarrHePlaysGuitar · 06/06/2012 23:02
Hmm
TiggyD · 06/06/2012 23:03

But when is pink tape a craft item and when is it a sexual aid Fucker?

Does having sex on a kitchen table mean the table is a sex aid and can't be used for anything else?

Most people seem to think that pink tape is pink tape and how you use it determines whether it's sexual or not.

AnyFucker · 06/06/2012 23:04

it's alright tiggy, we can agree to disagree

TiggyD · 06/06/2012 23:06

Did you include a reference to Cafe Flesh there AF?

AnyFucker · 06/06/2012 23:09

OP got what she wanted from this thread

after all, "most" people agree it's all in the context innit

except when you look around you, that "context" gets dodgier and dodgier every year that passes

bondage tape, bought for that express purpose, used in small children's play

padded bras for 8yo's, harmless fun

Big Brother, aimed at teenagers, glorying in "smashing bird's back doors in", women getting pissed on and teachers who have a nice sideline in porn "acting"...just normal

yeah

AnyFucker · 06/06/2012 23:10

I dunno what that is, Tiggy

TiggyD · 06/06/2012 23:12

Very obscure, very B movie film.

Carry on all!

WorraLiberty · 06/06/2012 23:13

It's pink sticky tape

The end.

SaggyCeratops · 06/06/2012 23:17

Shit, of pink tape will scar them for life, then I'm up shit street! When he was four ish I worked as an Ann Summers rep. DS once told me that he knew what was in my suitcase. He told me that it was "full of willies!" Confused
He is 16 now. He seems fairly well balanced! Apparently, he remembers nothing.
I think this whole thread is way over the top!

AnAirOfHope · 07/06/2012 00:03

I think its ok and craft tape could have been the same, i dount anyone would know the difference.

Its just tape.

Dh and i have had sex on the sofa but its just a sofa. Today my son was jumping off it and doing handstands on it, should i stop him from useing the sofa because we had sex on it or because we were thinking of having sex on it?

AnAirOfHope · 07/06/2012 00:07

Also do you stop your kids from sitting or sleeping in your bed cos thats where you have sex?

Or stop your son from playing fireman sam cos you have a thing for firemen?

Do you think a child thinks about any of that?

or do you think a pair of 4yo wete just playing mermaids!

Get a grip people.

WorraLiberty · 07/06/2012 00:10

Oh stop being so sensible AnAirOfHope

You'll give the pearl clutchers nothing to swoon about Grin