Suspending Larger Folks: Lee Harrington

I think this man rocks!  Not only has he been on both sides of the gender slash, but both sides of D/s and S&M.  I ran across this blog she wrote in essence disproving myths about suspending larger folks.

Suspending Larger Folks

Folks have asked me recently, can you suspend larger folks? All the porn is of tiny people. Yes, you can.Its all about weight distribution. The largest person I have ever suspended was about 350. Think of it like wearing high heels. If you are wearing tennis shoes, your weight, walking around, distributes across all that space. Go into pumps, half that space. Stillettos, 1/20th of the original space. Of course it hurts.

Going up on a sling, or in a hammock, is an easy place to start for larger people getting off the ground- lots of pressure distribution! Other options- more wraps of rope, wider ropes, webbing instead of rope, doing more sets of bands around the body, etc.

The fewer wraps/thinner rope/fewer points on the body- more it challenges/hurts.

Also look at the shape of the person. If the larger person is female and had one of those awesome bubble butts, instead of building the hip-harness/swiss seat to have wraps at the waist and upper thighs- distribute the pressure to where the wraps are needed- around the middle of the widest area of the rump. Instead of 2 areas, wrap at 3 areas.

Hanging up a big guy? If he is the big shoulder type, instead of one set of shoulder straps cutting in, distribute the pressure by having 2 or 3 sets of shoulder straps, or even adding a complete web of rope for him to lean into. Instead of just having the chest harness go once under and once over the tits, add more support around the widest part of the upper arms/chest, making sure to secure it so it doesn’t slide up and strangle him.

Is the big guy big around the middle? What about avoiding face-down poses that would distend the midsection, and lay him on his back. Build a web around his lower back, between the hip harness and chest harness, so the weight of his belly has somewhere to rest. Add extra support at the thighs, and voila, rope fuck-sling!

So yes, its totally possible to hang big folks in the air. It’s just not likely to be done comfortably with 4mm rope around the ankles and hauled up. And that is ok.

And really, hammocks are fun. Nylon ones are machine washable too for when the lube gets all over it

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