What is your favorite type of gag?

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So Shaboygen asked me about my favorite gag. I started answering and realized I was writing an essay about gags, so I might as well post it as a journal.

I´ll go for ball gags -personal preference-. I like the precise moment when the captive finally accepts her fate and opens her mouth letting the gag in -thinking that it won´t be so unconfortable and that she will be able to spit it out- and the moment it is tightened around her head and she realizes the mistake that she just made accepting the gag in.  I like to see the lips stretched around the gag and the expression in the face of the captive. You can have the variation in sizes: the huge ones that force the hiperextension of the jaw and stretch the outside lips, and totally oclude the mouth almost choking the captive (but hate them when they are just for show and can easily be pushed out by the captive). Or you can have medium/smaller ones, which can be tightened up deep into the mouth (as seen on "hogtied" homepage videos),with no means of being spit out even with repeated efforts by the captive,  leaving the tongue depressed and the futile effort of biting it, showing the teeth trying to resist it. The captive can wrap her lips around the gag and partially close her mouth or she can open her mouth and show her teeth in despair and disconfort.  Makes the girl drool incontrolably and gives her the false hope that mumbling inintelligible words will get her out of the bind. Love the gag talk, whether it consists of softly pleading or angrily mumbling insults, Girls look so cute with gags. Also, multiple colors to mix and match. Romantic? pink. Kinky: red. Hardcore-leather-chain-bdsm: black.  
The possibilty of a simple, one belt gag, or a complex head harness with it adds to variety. I dont really understand the purpose of the "trainer" ballgag (the one with an underchin strap). Maybe to avoid being spit? but if a simple strap ballgag is adjusted deeply enough it is almost impossible to spit it. Share some insight about it please.

Whiff ball gags (the ones with holes, as seen in japanese hentai bondage pics) are safer because they don´t block the mouth, allowing breathing and drooling. But they are made of rigid plastic instead of rubber, which makes them more harsh to use for a longer period of time. Nose hooks are just too weird for my taste. 
Also the panel gag seems interesting, but I think that it would just slip down if it is not properly adjusted. Panel gags in combination with a head harness seem adequate.

Functionally I think that a mouth packing with wraparound tape (or elastic sport bandage) is the most effective in muffling the sounds of a captive. Still mouth packing is kind of dangerous. Saliva can accumulate and there is difficulty in swallowing. Also the packing, if not done right, can slide into the back of the throat blocking the airway. 
There is also the problem of a sticky adhesive tape over the hair of the captive and how to safely remove it later. High ponytails or pigtails help with that issue.

Tape gags are ok, but 2 or 3 strips over the mouth just won´t do. The captive just has to force open her mouth and the strips will come off (jaw muscles are strong enough to loosen the tape), also with the sweat and saliva, the tape tends to loosen up. So for tape gags to be effective, they have to be wrapped around the head several times, and sealing the lips together.

OTM (over the mouth if you´re not familiar with the gag terms) is just an esthetical addition after another gag has been set under it. Also dangerous if it blocks the nasal airways 

Cleave gags Are mostly useless in silencing a captive, they just render their speech partially ininteligible. On the other hand, Knotted cleave gags serve a similar purpose as the ballgag, depending on the size of the knot. 

Stick gags or pony gags, might be very unconfortable since they need to go deep into the jaw articulation so they won´t be spitted out. This hiperextends the jaw causing discomfort and pain. Depending on the material of the stick gag (rubber, wood, metal, plastic), any force applied by the jaw can damage the teeth or pull a jaw muscle. 
Ring gags are an interesting concept and serve other purposes - ahem- but same principle applies to what I commented with the stick gags. If the captive has a sensitive gag reflex on the back of her throat, she will have the automatic response of trying to close her jaw, damaging her teeth or jaw muscles with the rigid gag, even if it is wrapped in leather or rubber.    

These conclusions come after years and years of visually studying ball gags. 

So, what is your favorite gag? 
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nomdesoumis

Ball-freakin'-Gags. Yes. Yum. I've been mesmerized and infatuated by ball gags ever since laying eyes on one in use.


Very well-written section on the topic. To comment on some particulars:

"I like to see the lips stretched around the gag and the expression in the face of the captive."

- That's a big part of my undying love for ballgags. Facial expressions just become much more intense when you've been shut up in this manner. The propped-open mouth ends up pushing the wearer's entire head such that they'd otherwise be able to yell at the top of their lungs if only it weren't for that gosh-darned infernal ball stuck in place. It's inherently humiliating. There's really no way not to look silly and foolish with a ball having been stuffed and strapped in one's mouth. That's your one facial expression. Even if, say, you could speak 100% uninhibitedly: good luck stating your case to your captor looking like a total dork.

"Love the gag talk, whether it consists of softly pleading or angrily mumbling insults"

- Oftentimes it gets mentioned that ball gags are pretty bad at actually shutting someone up. I guess so, but then again, why does it really matter? Almost all ballgags are commercially produced. For an evil person to use one to silence a victim in a non-consensual, dangerous way would be a rather stupid decision. If they'll already narrow down anything from the perp's model of shoe or car tire, it'd almost be trivial to narrow down a storefront to subpoena records. (Hell, I'd do that consulting work pro bono).

- Sorry for the bit of a tangent above... and back to that sweet, sweet gag talk. Not only does a ball gagged person look helplessly foolish; they're gonna sound like it too. Pronouncing any consonants (in English, at least - I'm no expert) need jaw and lip movement. Coherency gets tossed to the side when your only clear speech has been reduced to just some A, E, I, O, U noises. Even then, vowel sounds will be dampened by the ball's physical presence alone shifting one's usual, non-ballgagged, air flow patterns around (again, I'm armchair speech therapist-ing this). Non-coherent speech due to a big 'ol ball gag is one of the hottest things imaginable for me. Like, there should be gag-talk ASMRs!


"I dont really understand the purpose of the "trainer" ballgag (the one with an underchin strap). Maybe to avoid being spit? but if a simple strap ballgag is adjusted deeply enough it is almost impossible to spit it. Share some insight about it please."


Happy to oblige, albeit almost a decade late, lol. Single-strap ballgags can absolutely be pretty effective. It might just be me, but something that almost always make bondage even more fun is... even more bondage/levels of restraint/removal of one's agency and control, etc.


A ballgag "trainer" head harness works to keep that nefariously repurposed oversized bouncy ball from moving in *any* direction (X, Y, or Z).

For example, consider the main behind-the-head strap to be securing the ball along the Z axis. So already you're on par with pretty much any single-strap ballgag.

Add a strap at both sides of the mouth: run these along the face to meet and become 1 strap to run atop the head and meet back up with the main strap. Now you can't even budge it left or right: bye-bye, X axis...

Lastly, discourage the ability to budge the ball up or down with a strap from one sides of the ball and mouth to the other; with a detour along the wearer's chin. A chin strap assists with preventing the wearer from opening their mouth any further. That'll take the Y axis out of the equation.


What are we left with? A stubbornly secured silencer. Obviously straps will ultimately have a little bit of 'give' to them, but not enough to make any practical difference. IMHO, a properly fitted and strapped down harness is going to keep the ball from moving much at all, perhaps 1cm or so from its initial placement. It ain't gonna budge a whole lot. YMMV.


Besides additional security; more straps create more of a sensation of being controlled and restrained. This adds a few extra servings of looking yet even more foolish/silly and helpless.


Let's put it this way: you see two DiD's, one gagged with a single-strap, the other with a head harness. Again it might just be me, but I'm gonna assume as a casual observer that of the two, the mouthier one got the full head harness.

Holy crapola, I didn't mean to practically write a dissertation on ball gags, lol. Sorry. I just really really really think they're neat and loved OP's post. Thanks in advance to anyone managing to stumble through all this. I may have also been wearing one while writing most of this😁