Wide Open Position

The Wide Open Position offers full access between the thighs with erotic body positioning that instantly gets the mind racing.

To get into this sex position, the person being bound should lay on their back. Once there, they bring their knees up towards their shoulders, wrapping their arms around their calves to pull their legs as far back as possible. Your chosen bondage method can then be used to wrap the forearms to the calves. Bondage tape is used in the above illustration.

More about the Wide Open Bondage Position

The Wide Open sex position looks like an erotic experience at first glance. The spread legs, the extreme position, and the easy access between the thighs makes this a bondage lover's dream.

However, those same things can make it difficult to achieve. This isn't a comfortable (or achievable!) position for many people, and it takes a large amount of flexibility to get into the Wide Open position. In particular, the bound partner should be practicing their pancake splits and Happy Baby pose on a regular basis before attempting the Wide Open Position.

While stretching is recommended before many kinky scenes, we highly recommend it for the Wide Open position. This will be a deep stretch for anyone who can accomplish it, and the wiggling during the scene is likely to cause muscle cramps on muscles that aren't warmed up. Untying someone due to a charlie horse is never fun, and warming up the body and muscles ahead of time can help prevent that.

Ways to modify the Wide Open position

While the Wide Open position still requires flexibility from the recipient no matter how much we modify it, there are some easy ways to reduce some of the stress points of the position:

• Leave the arms out of the equation. Instead of binding the arms to the legs, simply pull the legs back to their comfortable stretch and use rope (or cuffs and tethers) to bind the legs backwards towards a bondage point above the bound person's head. This will provide the same access between the thighs while reducing involvement of the chest and arms.
• Reduce how far the legs are stretched backwards. You can even keep the legs bent! This may make the Wide Open position look a bit more like a Happy Baby yoga pose, but it will provide similar access between the legs without the deep stretch.
• Use cuffs instead of bondage tape. Bondage tape requires both limbs to lay against each other - and that's another layer of flexibility. Instead, attach individual wrist and ankle cuffs together. This will allow both limbs to move further away from each other, reducing how severely the body needs to be folded.
• Use a wedge sex furniture shape like the Liberator Wedge underneath the hips to reduce the strain on the lower back. Some people may be able to achieve the Wide Open stretch, but it may strain their lower back. This Wedge can help.

Even with these modifications, the Wide Open position may not be a good fit for everyone, and that's okay! The point of sex and bondage is to connect with your partner and have a good time, and there are hundreds of other sex positions out there that can make that possible without sending you into weeks of pain from a pulled muscle.

Playing in the Wide Open Bondage Position

Once the bound person is comfortably (or a bit uncomfortably, depending on your intentions) in their Wide Open position, the world is your oyster. The spread open positioning of Wide Open leaves everything between the thighs easily visible and easy to access.

This can make the Wide Open position a great fit for vaginal or anal intercourse or large sex toys like penis strokers or wand massagers. If you need light to make your kink come to life (like play piercing or other precise kinks), the upwards, spread angle of the Wide Open position can easily expose the area to a light source.

While enjoying your play, try to avoid placing any weight on the bound person's legs. Added pressure onto the thighs can unintentionally deepen the stretch and strain the lower back even further. Try to ensure you're keeping as much weight off the bound person's body as possible, which can be a challenge during intercourse.

The easy access to the chest also makes the Wide Open position a great fit for nipple clamps or breast play.