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Piercings

Never play rough with a new piercing. Once fully healed they can be played with gently, but best not to tug on them as the jewelry can rip through the flesh. When applying pressure, do not press on the flesh directly over the metal – but either behind it or on the tip of the nipple. Piercings can be great fun and increase the sensitivity of the tits but TOPs should take especially care with pierced nipples because it is easy to damage the piercing by accident.

The key to successful nipple work is gradual overload… Rush at tit and you simply knock the bottom over into pain and that’s it. But build up, seduce him first and then take him on a journey and he will take much, much more. Not only that, he will stay with you for longer. He really will be unsure if this hurts or turns him on… and of course, if that’s what he’s into, it is doing both.

Nipple Size

Nipples come in many shapes and sizes. A good rule of thumb is that small, undeveloped nipples have not seen much action and will not have a long arc of pleasure to pain. Large fleshy developed nipples have usually got that way through use. And they tend to have a very long pleasure-pain arc. Not only that they are, simply by being more substantial, more fun to play with.

Understanding Nipples

If, like me, you have sensitive nipples, then you are lucky indeed, for nipple play is one of the most satisfying and varied areas of SM (and indeed vanilla sex too). Not all guys have sensitive nipples, but many (most in my experience) do and some are very sensitive indeed.

The nipples have a lot of nerve endings (I’m not sure why – if anyone knows then email and let me know…). As a result they are sensitive to light touch and yet can generate the most intense pain when handled by an expert. Unlike many areas of the body gentle, warm up makes them more sensitive not less. And even after a long session they remain sensitive to a range of sensations and do not ‘block out’ the way some areas can.

Simply working the nipples with finger and thumb can be stimulating. All the more so if the subject is restrain with his hands behind his back – forcing his chest out and defenseless.

It may sound paradoxical but before you can really understand how to hurt a guy’s nipples you need to understand how to give him pleasure. Nowhere is the ambivalence between pain and pleasure more apparent than in nipple play.

Sustained play will tend to develop your nipples. Maybe because the body builds up the flesh to help ‘protect’ the nerves. Whatever the reason, thick, protruding nipples come from play and are made for play. Piercing will also make the nipples larger, but the hole created makes the structure weaker, so be more careful here. Don’t pull hard on a pierced nipple and never pull hard on a ring or piercing in situ. (More info on nipple enlarging here.)

Many clips, especially those that started life as electrical crocodile clips, have teeth. This gives extra bite and also better traction, ensuring the clips stay put if the nipples are being stretched. Just be careful with any sharp teeth as it’s never a good idea to draw blood. A quick rub with a file or emery paper can soon dull them down so as not to puncture the skin.

Here are some ideas:

Crocodile clips – small ones are used to attach wires to small dry cell batteries. Serious players use the ones on car jump leads (but forget the battery guys – never play with electricity above the waist as the electrical impulses can interfere with the heart beat). These usually have teeth and bite into the nipple.

“Bulldog” and large paper clips – the sprung-loaded ones not the little bent wire variety. These are usually smooth and apply two flat plats that squeeze the nipple rather than bite into it. Not much good for tit stretching as they tend to slip off.

Clothes pegs (clothes pins) – usually wooden or plastic but heavy metal versions are sold as bill-clips for the desk. These are not so harsh and a good place to start out with a novice.

Clover clips – these ingenious clips apply more pressure the harder you try to pull them off. I wasn't sure what they are made for originally – but Bruceboy wrote to let me know they are a Japanese invention made for holding silk (since pinning silk always leaves a hole). Many thanks Bruceboy.

Trouser hangers with built-in clips can make excellent tit torture units. The clips usually slide along the hanger and can be aligned with the nipples. The bar then allows weights to be suspended or cords tied from it to the genitals.

Nail Work

Once the bottom has got accustomed to the pressure of thumb and finger, rotate the fingers to press with the tips and slowly bring the edge of the nail against the flesh. This is much more intense and can take the pain level from light to heavy simply by slight adjustments to the angle of the nail. Pressing with only the nail of the thumb onto the nipple with the index finger on the other side gives a modified pressure that is a little less painful.

Fingers

The fingers can apply a huge range of pleasure and pain to the nipples. Rolling the nipple between thumb and index finger is a pleasant sensation. Squeezing hard causes a moderate pain and a good sense of pressure. The remaining three fingers can press against

the chest to provide a fulcrum against

which to lever the nipple and apply a

hard stretch that cannot be relieved

by the bottom moving his chest.

Clamps

Clamps (in the way I’m diving things up here) apply pressure through a screw mechanism rather than a spring and so have much more of a range in terms of the pain created.

Lab piping clamp – simple screw action presses one plate onto the other. Larger versions are also good for ball torture.

G-clamps – used by carpenters to hold wood while glue hardens. Traditionally made of metal but newer version come in in hard plastic. Some of the plastic versions have trigger/ratchet system to close the gap which allows for one-handed operation.

Forceps

Blunt forceps used for holding sponges during surgery and for various other medical procedures make excellent implements for nipple play. Being medical they are well made and usually surgical steel and yet relatively inexpensive. You may have to send away to a mail order medical or veterinarian supplier to get these. Great to apply, they lock when closed applying serious pressure to the nipple. The long handle adds some weight and a lot of leverage and the handle loops are good for attaching further weights if necessary. My favourite tit torture instrument just now.

Clips

Clips are almost always metal (though some are made of hard plastic) and loaded with a spring. This gives an even pressure and therefore limited variability in terms of intensity. For this reason clips are usually used when play involved pulling the nipples, the varying intensity of pain caused depending on how hard you pull not on how hard the clip squeezes (though, of course, the bite of the clip is sore in itself). Some custom-made clips have a small screw that can alter the gap between the teeth, thus changing the bite. If you are reasonably adept at DIY then it is relatively easy to adapt most metal clips in this way by drilling a small hole and fitting a self-taping screw.

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Pretty well any sex shop selling sex toys is gonna have a selection of nipple clips ... at a price. If some of these items look strangely familiar then head down to your local hardware store because like as not the same clips are there at a fraction of the price. With a few bits of chain and a little ingenuity you can make a very serviceable piece of SM equipment. Stationery shops are all so good to check out – all those spring clips for holding papers together.

DIY

While there are many types of nipple-play toy available commercially, they can be pricey. It can be fun to make your own and certainly cheaper. As I've said many times before, the hardware store is the horniest shop in town ;-)

Here are two ideas sent to me by SM Buddy (thanks Mate):

Weighted Document Clips ("Bulldog Clips")

SM Buddy writes: "I not only like tit play but like to make my own instruments of torture. The top photo shows 'document clamps' with 1/2 lb of washers tie-wrapped to each. My chest is flushed in the photo as I had just done 50 push-ups with these on."

Spiked Clothes Pin (Clothes Peg)

"The two other photos show clothes pins (pegs) into which I drilled and inserted and glued a rounded-off nail. The nail stands proud about 3/16" (4mm). Note the elastic bands around the clothes pin to increase the pressure ... and the pain. When the pin is placed so that the nail is right on the tip of the mipple, the pain is exquisite."