Ep152: Can Rope Bondage help with Chronic Pain?

Both fox (as a rope top) and Mya (as a rope bottom) live with
chronic pain in different ways, and exploring the topic in rope
bondage is very important to them. In this episode, they address
the idea that the activity of rope bondage can impact physical
chronic pain, and some of the ways it might do this. They note
they’re not Doctors, and pain is *always* a subjective experience,
but however you manage it - with props or processing - pain is
something in rope bondage you are almost certain to have to deal
with in some sense, both as a top and a bottom. The episode focuses
on the importance of a more nuanced conversation about pain in rope
bondage, and the hosts would love to hear about your experiences in
the area. The team discuss: • The difference between chronic pain
and acute pain • Where chronic pain comes from and what is it •
‘Good pain’ versus ‘bad pain’ and when these concepts are and
aren’t helpful • Variability in humans of altered headspace in rope
and how they might impact on chronic pain • New / different pain in
rope and how it can change your experience of chronic pain •
Trading off different types of pain in rope • Locus of control and
how it affects our experience of pain • How rope bondage can help
us change our body’s story and reclaim our pain • Increasing our
self-knowledge through the experience of pain in rope bondage • How
physical touch and connection can decrease pain • Therapeutic rope,
what is it, and what it isn’t • Pressure and compression and pain
gate theory • Recovery from rope bondage scenes • Realism about the
constant trade offs with chronic pain (spoons)