Latex Vac-Bed bondage restraint

This Latex Vac-Bed is a bondage restraint that connects to a household vacuum cleaner. It immobilizes the individual between two layers of 14 gauge latex rubber by sucking out the air between the "sheets." It's $640. From JT's Stockroom:

To use the Vac-Bed, place your bondage partner inside and check to see that they can breathe safely thru the breathing hole. (We recommend using a hollow gag so that there is no chance of the breathing hole slipping and restricting the flow of air.) Close the zipper that runs along the side of the Vac-Bed, and make sure that your bondage buddy is comfortable before attaching the vacuum cleaner to the connector at the bottom. The 1½” PVC connector will fit most household vacuum cleaners.

Latex Vac-Bed

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Takuan

does it come with a freezer?
hypatia

Secret_Life_of_Plants, you just broke me. I can’t either :)
cstatman

totally carbonite. I’d think this would sell to the fan-base as much as the bondage crowd

its cool. its also the same way I vacuum bag carbon fiber parts I am building.
dbarak

How much are these in the Roseanne Barr size?

That aside, the cube-style one is pretty darned cool, even though I’m not into this stuff. I wonder if you can use these to keep your veggies fresh…
Takuan

ah, thank you. The creative process indeed.
eti

Takuan; the Zune ad. And don’t say I never did nothin’ for ya.
noen

dbarak, don’t you know that the great Google shall always provide?

vacuum veggies
Takuan

Zune ad? I get like fifty search results.
Ryan Waddell

I’m not normally claustrophobic, but just the THOUGHT of this thing gives me little panicky flutters.
Anonymous

Well, it could be worse. It could be the Medusa:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJY387jrfuk
Inkstain

That pic, before I read the blog, made me assume someone had Rule 34ed Han Solo.
DWittSF

Too bad this guy didn’t have one…

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/1008072scuba1.html
Secret_Life_of_Plants

I can’t even stand to have the sheets tucked in at the bottom of the bed.
kittenfoo

Well, my sweetie is allergic to latex, so we’re out.
Village Idiot

When you scroll down the page at their website, it says this:

People who have purchased this item also bought…

Lube Shooter $7.50

Rubber Head Ring $4.00 – $5.00

Pins-to-Bananas Adapter Plugs $14.00

Large Heart Padlock $7.00

Eros Light Love Bodyglide, 100 ml $19.95

So once the vacuum is turned on, don’t be surprised to suddenly see a “lube shooter” appear in the hand of your suctionatrix, though I understand that’s usually the point. Pray they are trustworthy and their aim is true, but God help you if they bought the “pins to bananas adapter plugs” instead.
bolamig

I betcha the CIA has a stable of these bad boys… just leave off the air hole and you’ve got a great torture device.
SeamusAndrewMurphy

Why would anyone want this?

I am always baffled by this stuff. On the one hand, this type of activity seems to get some folks blood revving, whereas the other hand, just the thought that this exists makes me want to throw up. How can there be such a divergence of desire?

Sex is fucked up!
Takuan

remember this?
http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q217/Taliesin_ttlg/blade%20trinity/bladetrinity_bloodfarm.jpg
lolarusa

The mere sight of this fills me with claustrophobic revulsion. Shudder.
ackpht

Anyone else think of the Vac-U-Form toy from the sixties?
eti

I’ve been meaning to ask; is there another bb-like site that doesn’t include stores about toe sucking, latex bondage, and shooting paint out of ones ass? Just wondering, thanks.
Rtarara

This just seems like it would get really sweaty. I could be wrong. I’m allergic to latex and can’t try it. If I weren’t allergic I’d try. I’ll try most things if they won’t seriously harm me. This facbook pics would be pretty funny later. I don’t think this would be sexy though.
mrsomuch

@22

you made a funny! thanks. I do believe you win.
Keeper of the Lantern

Between this and Princess Leah’s leash, I now know where Jabba the Hut was buying all that stuff.
Marshall

These always look sexy, but they sound like being on the tarmac at the airport. I don’t know how people can not lose all sexual motivation when that vacuum cleaner noise starts up.
Justin France

14 gauge *drools*.

Back when I was doing my goth-punk-angry-teenager thing I trumped around in full latex catsuits and reused industrial rubber.

There’s nothing greater than slipping into some shiny high-gauge rubber – and I mean that in the least sexual context possible. And the most.

Moving right along..
Paul Crowley

I’ve had one of these for a few years now, and they’re always popular at play parties. The vacuum cleaner noise is a bit annoying, as is the way that the vacuum cleaner will overheat after a while and you have to leave it to cool down, but I haven’t had the “pinch” problem that another poster reports, and no matter what your build you will look great when you appear to be made entirely of shiny black latex.

Mine cost me about Â£200 from Cocoon. Highly recommended!
Red Pill Junkie

The poor man’s carbonite freezer ;-)
Sephacus

The fact that you have to leave the vaccum cleaner running would rather kill the mood…or maybe enhance it with all the shouting. Would be pretty hard for the slave to convey any safty word or gesture though.

I’m giving this way to much thought. Continuing right along…
- Anonymous
  
  You can solve the vacuum cleaner noise problem by putting the machine in the next room and running a hose through a hole in the wall. Or you may substitute a quieter industrial blower.
  
  If you can maintain a good seal, you can valve off the suction line and stop the vacuum.
Jack

He’s all yours, bounty hunter. Calrissian, take the Princess and the Wookie to my ship.
mdh

I’ve been meaning to ask; is there another bb-like site that doesn’t include stores about toe sucking, latex bondage, and shooting paint out of ones ass?

Yes, yours.
Takuan

shooting paint?? where? I missed that one, where is it??
aacmckay

Oh man, I gotta put this on my christmas list!
Daemon

Not a new development by any means, but I imagine there are a lot of people who had no idea they existed.

#3 – Yeah, that seems sort of odd. I expect some other companies have valves so you just twist a knob and can then turn off the vacuum.
Anonymous

My wife so desperately wants to get this for to lock me in for an hour or three sometime, ever since we saw it (or something just like it) on an episode of HBO’s “Real Sex” a couple years ago. If not for the nosy tween-agers in the house, we’d have it already.
Pain in the Net

Hmm funky but you’d want to hope that the effort of breathing against the latex would not cause unattended death.

Myself I’d die laughing at anyone silly enough to get into it.
Anonymous

*G* this is just entry level. There is such a thing as a latex vacuum *cube*

(NSFW pic link:
http://images.steelmillmedia.com/Products/30/Cube_Large_UpsideDown.jpg )

I’ve done photo-shoots with one made of transparent latex, and it was seriously cool.
mujadaddy

I think the site has been “slashboing-dotboinged”…

I just wanted a better picture. Honest.
doplgangr

i am claustrophobic enough that just looking at the picture gives me heart palpitations… the whole idea seriously creeps me out.
papercup mixmaster

I get this feeling that a person actually vacuumed into the bed doesn’t look anywhere near as sexy as the picture would have you think. I mean, things compress, and so forth.
mdh

Jack – He’s all yours, bounty hunter

awesome. just awesome. thank you.
Ian70

These damn things pinch like a motherf’er along the edge of the body, where the two sheets of latex are pressed together. The happy little ‘victim’ in the bed can look forward to some inexplicable bruising for many days afterwards. If left in the bed for too long this bruising can be serious.
cherry shiva

and for an extra two-way dominance kink, then the latexee can order the vacuumer to vacuum the house ! win win !
noen

Well doplgangr, the only way to overcome your fears is to confront them. Over and over again. Just be safe.

And I think Temple Grandon has some good insights into why some people like things like this.
eti

Takuan: type “Zune” into search box. Click first link: “Microsoft Zune spec ad finally gets the metaphor right.”

Look out, I’m an IT professional.