Hoods anyone ?

Have you a desire to use a hood on your partner when playing or are you a submisive who enjoy hoods? What material?

Yes i have used hoods, and i put a pair of headphones on my partner as well, obviously no sound was going through the headphones,

she enjoyed it a lot,the hood was a dark pillow case.

Yes, I have a latex hood and have used it on a partner on occasion

I've not used on partners but I have a number of latex hoods with various orifices covered or uncovered. A particular favorite is a black latex one with a zip up fastening that also has two D rings either side of the zip, through which a padlock is fastened. It also has semi transparent latex eye covers that add to the intensity of the bondage, particularly when combined with a ball gag harness.

We have a collection of four leather hoods and three made of stretchy spandex material.

One hood is just a heavy black leather bag with some breathing holes on the top of the head (so no light gets in) and has a chain around the neck so you can lock it on with no hope of removal without the combination of the lock. I feel most confined in this one.

The second is a full head leather hood that laces up in back and has neoprene air bladders on the right and left sides you can pump up to put pressure on the head and face. Again, this has no holes for eyes and only one for the nose. It also locks on. Heck, what's the purpose of a hood it if doesn't lock on???

The third one laces up in back for a tight fit and has holes for eyes, nose and mouth and velcro to hold in position the leather covers over the orifices so you can keep certain things open if you like and they also lock on behind the head. I may open the covers for the eyes and nose, but who the hell wants to hear the submissive talk???

The fourth is a lightweight deerskin hood that laces in back and is soft and thin enough to show the facial features but be totally light-proof with two holes in the nostril area for breathing.

We also have a few in black spandex that pull over the head, two have holes for the nose, one doesn't have any holes.

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Hoods are great for creating claustrophobic feelings. While those things don't bother me or my husband at all, we love the sensation of isolation and being totally at the whim of the other. A couple of other friends we occasionally play with just get very apprehensive which is great for doing other things to them, especially medical manipulations. We use the leather hoods only on ourselves and the spandex ones we use with friends because they are easy to clean in the washer and they aren't too expensive if we need to throw them out. The all leather ones are costly.

I suspect they need a curator at the @Susie home from what I've read. They're connoisseurs of kink. I think Susie's house rivals the museumofsex.com!

Hoods are not something that I have ever tried and never really thought about. I am certainly not being judgmental but could someone explain to me what the benefit of a hood is. Susie is the only one to say anything about what she gets out of hoods, everyone else agree with her? If I understand Susie’s thing with them it is claustrophobic feelings and a sensation of isolation.

My wife and I are a bit on the light end of BDSM, we have used blindfolds with and without bondage. That sort of goes along with Susie’s other comment about “being totally at the whim of the other”. Blindfolds are great for tie and tease; you don’t know what is coming next—or maybe who is coming next. I am just afraid that a hood may be a little over the edge for that. I would appreciate anyone’s comments for my education on the matter.

Hoods are like blindfolds raised to the fifth power. We have four leather hoods and they all lock on around the neck.

They aren't for everybody and some people will be driven crazy wearing them. Wearing one, especially locked on with arms and legs restrained is being severely restrained. Wearing a hood is well beyond "tie and tease" as you called it. Many people can't handle the claustrophobic aspects of the hood and combining that with restraints is too much for many people. It takes most people several occasions to become accustomed to them.

Hoods give the dominant extraordinary control over the submissive.

Thank you all for your very interesting answers. But there is an aspect in hoods which is very important to me, namely the aesthetic one : seeing my submissive hooded is a blatant visual expression of her submission, thus very arousing.

There have been times I have put on one of the leather hoods when I have been alone sitting in my library when no one else is home. At first there is some apprehension even though I am doing the hood by myself, but after a while I just settle into the confinement.

I have a latex hood that zips down the back. It only has two holes at the nose for breathing. It took me a couple of times to get used to seeing my sub in it (I can't feel his lips of course). Now it doesn't bother me. I know he is definitely excited being put in it.

I and my sub have looked at other hoods (I'd like to get one where my sub's mouth is able to be used). Just have not gotten any others.

Hoods that will get body fluids all over them should be latex or spandex because you can wash them---unless you want the hood to be really gross, dirty and seem like the inside of the hood is the last thing the submissive will every see alive!

Muwahahahaha!

Definitely go for latex. I'm obviously very biased in my view but it really is great for hoods.

It fits and conforms to your features wonderfully. It is easily cleanable.

Getting one with a mouth opening would be preferable as you always have the option of adding a gag if you want to keep your sub quiet.

There are a number of places that do hoods where you can buckle on a gag or blindfold as you see fit. Alternatively just having a standard hood with te accessories seperate would have the same effect. Either way, it sounds like your sub is one lucky, lucky guy!

~ Rubbermark

Latex is my subs favorite material. It does clean up ever so nicely.

Though I haven't used hoods, I do like creating a sort of "isolation tank" effect for myself. Total sensory deprivation. I do this periodically and find it amazing. The idea of wearing a hood myself pushes my buttons way too much for me to ever try it.

~ Rubbermark

Latex is my subs favorite material. It does clean up ever so nicely.

Try this one for size...

http://www.twistmyrubberarm.com/index.php?code=5076&k0=

~ Rubbermark

That's a nice one!

Oh Rubbermark that is a nice one! I even got a bit wet while looking and reading about that one. Thanks for sharing.

One word, Intense !!!

The snaps may be for ease of removal "just in case". Buckles would be more intimidating though....

Hoods, blindfolds and ear plugs accentuate the experience.

Any sort of gear is fantastic. Helmets are also a huge stimulation on either end.

The snaps may be for ease of removal "just in case". Buckles would be more intimidating though....

You need LOCKS.

A little (or a lot) of intimidation is good for you.

The finality of the click of a lock is absolutely mind warping in intensity. Locks for sure!

The finality of the click of a lock is absolutely mind warping in intensity.

I couldn't have said it better myself!

I love hoods. Well anything really tight really but on the head it's particularly intensive. I found that it can be difficult to make a leather hood very right without gettting a headache. A Master U might do that but I don't have one.

I have a double layer inflatable latex hood and that one gives a nice consistent pressure all around.

I'll just start out by saying that I could probably go on for quite a long time about how much I love rubber or latex hoods on me or on my partner (woman) they provide so many different sensations and opportunities for sensualism, sexual enhancement and role play that it's too long to describe in a first post on it. Suffice it to say for now that a lot of our enjoyment comes down to tightness, stretch, smell and submission. I just had a thrill just writing that. I've had probably 5-6 latex hoods over the years, but down to one now as the rubber doesn't last forever even with good care. I need to replace them, various types depending on what orifices or sense organs are covered and how. I'm also a long time SCUBA diver and have several wet or drysuit hoods I play with also. I wear a latex hood very frequently during solo or partner play and giving myself enemas. I have an old style heavy black rubber dry suit in two pieces from which I wear the hooded jacket (pullover, no zippers) and pull the hood up while taking enemas sometimes. It's loose but feels very confining and heightens my sense of submitting to an enema. Sometimes a gas mask goes over it. I enjoy making a point of telling myself or partner to notice the nice click of one of my latex hood's rear zipper when it clicks closed. I really agree with someone earlier who said

The finality of the click of a lock is absolutely mind warping in intensity. Locks for sure!

I plan to as soon as some financial issues are resolved here. I'm down to one functioning hood about 10 years old from Cocoon, but it has a tear that may destroy it in a couple of more uses ?. Fortunately in the interim I can still use my heavy smooth thick latex dry suit jacket/hood or a standard wetsuit hood. I once saw a video from about 10-15 years ago of a Domme forcing a woman sub into complete latex enclosure before putting her to sleep for the night in a rubber vacuum bed. During the early stages, after latex thigh-high stockings and a catsuit and gloves plus mittens, she proceeded to say "everything must be covered," and put her into a standard latex hood with 5 holes and back zip. Then without warning, from behind her sub she pulled on another thicker latex hood with only a mouth and zipped the back, saying "aren't two hoods better than one?" as the sub whimpered in surprise. Then she said "why not 3? - this one has a surprise for you," and pulled on and zipped her third hood with mouth but teased the sub with a penis gag attached to the hood. She didn't leave the gag in, but then kept going to complete the ensemble with a rubber inflatable arm/torso immobiliser like a straitjacket without arms, and an item that looked like a front of rubber underwear strapped around her waist and thighs but with what I thought was a black ~10" urine tube hanging down. But there was no catheter, so she'd have to pee through the catsuit and let it collect in this item in her crotch - didn't really understand that one. Then there was a collar and off to the vacuum bed with much moaning and complaining as the Domme fit her mouthpiece in, deflated the bed and began to stroke her all over through the bed. The whole thing was enjoyable, assuming the sub enjoyed it, but what really struck me for some reason was the three hoods at once. Somehow that was the hottest part of the video.

That sounds like an awesome movie. Any ideas what it was called?

I've seen one where a rubber slave is held prisoner by a Mistress. She wakes up and doesn't know where she is. Then feels her face and it is both hooded and then a full heavy rubber face masks also buckled onto the front of the hood. You see her trying desperately to unbuckle it but she can't. That was hot.

Try eBay for hoods. If you haven't bought any rubber there before I think you may be pleasantly surprised at the keel of quality that is now being produced at reasonable prices. Whilst it would be great to have a full wardrobe of Libidex, Cocoon and Wedtward Bound I'm not sure many budgets stretch to that!

I find a nice white cotton pillowcase works wonders !!