Mistress160's Abode: Ms160's birthday weekend (Part 2: play party)

After the tea party at Mistress_Angelicca and paddy's home, several good friends stayed on to help transform the house for the eighty or so kinksters expected at dinner time.

Sol and I retired to our room for half an hour. When we re-emerged I amused everyone by slothing around in my pink and white flannel pyjamas. They may not be classy but they ARE comfortable AND warm. But all too soon it was time to change into fetish gear....

Mind you, what I was wearing wasn't really uncomfortable. Dressing for warmth (as it was a mostly outdoor affair) I wore black leather boots, my Marquis de Sade PVC skirt, jacket, Gallery Serpentine waist cincher, black leather fingerless opera gloves ... and the great hat Devilwoman brought for me, bless her. I matched the red band on the hat with scarlet stockings and a much beloved bracelet:

I was Dungeon Monitor, along with our hosts, which is why I am wearing the tiny red and black torch on my right wrist:

Having extra light fast is extremely helpful if something goes wrong during a scene, and you need to undo or cut something fast. I can either just point the torch from my wrist, or quickly put it around my head - its actually a caving torch and is supposed to be worn on the forehead.

The nice thing about being a DM is that it gives you the authority to perv. There were two interesting scenes I remember from that night. One was done with licorice by a couple I knew from Midori's visit. Licorice. Yep, you read that correctly! However my favorite scene was a blood cupping scene between tntnikki and her sub, of whom she writes so expressively on Fetlife:

"We own a "squishie", who IS submissive, and he fits nicely into the mix- having a live in who is service oriented in nature is certainly a much welcomed plus- but aside from that, his brain, both smart and funny is a welcome addition to our Tribe"

Squishie had just served with grace and distinction at our tea party. I look forward to sharing many more tea party experiences with them.

Readers of this blog will probably have heard of cupping, but not blood cupping or wet cupping. Cupping of course is derived from a traditional form of therapeutic treatment that's very common not only in Asia, but all around the planet. Originally bamboo cups, and then metal and glass cups were developed, with fire being used to create a vacuum in the cups once the latter were firmly positioned on the skin.

Fire cupping makes a striking BDSM scene, I've done it once. In Nik's scene a hand-held pump was used to extract the air from valve-fitted cups and create the vacuum. This pulls the skin upwards. Either way the end result is a very erotic form of sensation play...

Bruises occur under the cups, where the skin is raised into the cup via the suction stimulating an acupressure effect. The skin often becomes very dark once the cups are removed. It looks painful but done properly, is not. What cupping doesn't usually do is bleed, lol. Let me tell you what I saw.

I arrived on site at the point in the scene where all the cups were in place, and Nik was doing nasty things to Squishie's back, alternating gentle fingertips with sharp objects and a violet wand on his incredibly sensitive skin:

I was stunned by the amount of blood in the cups, and found myself sharing a quick glance to the party's first aid officer, who like me, had only just arrived:

From her expression we were in agreement: What was all that blood doing there?! It was only later in the scene when Nik removed the cups that we realized she had made an incision into the skin under each cup. Brilliant.

This technique - of making the incision under the cup - was intriguing for me to see. It reminded me of the blood cupping I'd seen in the Middle East. It's called hijamah in Arabic, which translates as "sucking". It's a form of traditional therapeutic blood letting that is even referred to in the Qu'ran. It's usually performed on the head - the back is not especially recommended, as one should not lie down during the treatment. The cup is left to cling to the skin for a few minutes, then it is lifted off and several tiny incisions are made in the skin. The cup is then put back as it was before until it is filled with blood.

Now Nik was not filling the cups with blood, not by any means. But the technique certainly made an effective and erotic kinky blood play scene! I continued to watch as Squishie's body responded delightfully to Nik's various tortures:

Sparks flew as the violet wand again came into play...

When it was time to remove the cups, Nik donned latex gloves and several of us stepped forward to help with holding up the plastic sheet draped over the massage table. As the suction in the cups vanished, the taut skin began to relax and the blood dribbled and ran...

Nik swirled her hands through the blood to stop it dripping too much down the sides.

It looks very dramatic but it's really not painful. Soon Squishie was sitting up, and then was accompanied down to the shower by Nik's husband and the first aid officer. The sheet was quickly folded up and removed. Nik then disinfected the massage table top as well. It's always important to take these kind of precautions after blood play. I've listed some articles on blood play, cutting and cupping in the References + Online Resources section at the bottom of the post, if you feel like learning more...

Later I wrote to Nik asking about her technique, whether she had heard of wet cutting or hijamah. She replied that she was aware of bloodletting and blood cupping but in Asian cultures, but not of the Middle East link:

"I've used my cupping set often - and had it used on me often and it is a wonderfully relaxing thing! I've done cuttings often too, but that was the first time I have combined the two. It was only Squishie's second time being cut.

"And I used just a scratch, not an actual deep cut. I scratched small X marks- not deep enough to draw blood on their own- because it was interesting to watch the X's burst open on the first suck in!

"I plan for more decorative things in the near future- the circular bruises will lend themselves to interesting designs when combined with cuts- I'm thinking a pentacle and an eye design soon, which will incorporate the larger circle"

I never cease to be dazzled by the creativity of kinksters, in their search for new games to play and new techniques to inflict. Inspiration is quite literally, all around us. I find myself wondering if Nik will ever be tempted to push her experiments further and completely fill those cups. With any luck I might be DMing again :).

The massage table Nik used during the scene was one of my birthday presents. What a perfect scene to christen it. Towards the end of the evening Mistress_Angelicca produced a very pink birthday cake with sparkler candles (she knows I now have a fondness for sparkler play!):

You can't blow out sparklers like candles, although I tried VERY hard....

I sent sol to bed at midnight. Play had finished by about 1am but I stayed up talking with my hosts and good friends until 4am. For which I seriously suffered on Sunday. Definitely a good birthday weekend...

REFERENCES + ONLINE RESOURCES:
H. A. Hâyar Albinali, Traditional Medicine Among Gulf Arabs Part II - Blood Letting,
Heart Views, Volume 5, No.2, June-August 2004
Titanium Angel Blood play
Subhuti Dharmananda CUPPING
Fire play
Leather Barbie Cupping and fire play
Noir Silence Blood play
Rose Veraga Playing with blood
Healthy Muslim Hijama

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Thank you:
to our weekend / party hosts
Mistress_Angelicca and paddy
for a terrific time :)
and
to tntnikki and squishie
for sharing photos and their scene
and finally,
to Devilwoman
for that great hat!

Photos:
Ms160
Scootah
reproduced with permission