December 8th, 2022 -- by Bacchus
Riding Those Round Bedknobs
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Don’t think for a moment that for centuries, furniture makers didn’t build in features of this sort to help sell their wares.
The narrow pinch below the ball is a great place for tying a rope as well for spread-eagle playtime.
Generally speaking, form follows function, and what other function did such a short post perform? Not only would it be a waste of excess wood, but extra labor costs as well.
Those who could afford it, no doubt requested the added feature.
Most of these knobs placed at the feet of a bed’s frame, were made by knowing craftsmen to be at the perfect height for humping…
Delighted to see Twitter still serves some higher purpose!
Dr. Whiplash, I rather doubt you are correct but I like the way you think!
I have been a furniture maker for years and I can attest that there is some truth in Dr Whiplash’s comment. Ladies love a bed with knobs on.
Also, that the structural design loading limit for a good table is that it doesn’t wobble when you have rough sex on it. I remember a boardroom table I had just installed at the offices of a certain Quantity Surveyors in London. My girlfriend came along, to help move it into position, and to give it a good testing. I was very satisfied that there was no more than 6mm (1/4″) deflection under full load, but the French polish was just too slippery. Luckily we had some cargo straps.
Many furniture stores have beds with headboards and footboards with many places for hands to grip, or for things to be tied. Looking good helps explain them to people without thuswardly inclined minds :D
Well! Perhaps all you good gentlemen do indeed have greater and more worldly insight than mine into why furniture is designed thusly. I certainly won’t argue, as it aligns in any case with my fond notions of how things ought to be.
I spent several years making custom furniture. Granted I probably had an unusually high percengage of customers looking for erotic wares, I had an attractive twin cluent who wanted a bed made high enough so that the mattress top matched where she bent at the waist, so that her lover could stand behind her as she lay comfortably for doggy style sex and or anal sex . She didn’t indicate if her mate was male or a female with a strap-on.
Another VERY shapely woman ordered an extra sturdy bed frame for a “party” she was having that she said had to “sleep” three on an oversized mattress. These beds with finials were probably innocently admired and became a part of decorative design. The bedroom however, is not just for sleeping…
King Edward the VII had a well know sex chair:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_chair
I have seen vintage wooden chairs with two separated scoops cut across the tops of their backs that were spaced at a height and width and curve of a pair of women’s breasts. It seems obvious to me that a woman is intended to straddle the chair facing backwards, and rest her mammaries there for bondage sessions. Of course, as you say, that may just be the way I think…
I had an apparently gay man come into my establishment who shyly announced that he wanted his entire home designed in a sex theme, but I could never get him to be more specific, so that one never came to fruition.
Drop (center removable), leaf tables exceptionally sturdy enough to hold a woman’s entire weight, became the equivalent of surreptitious queening stools.
People who have guests in their homes, often don’t want their furnishings to be too obviously sexually oriented.
I live in an area with many colonial era attractions, and one such famous founding father had an unusual and exceptionally elaborate chair that was found within his house (that the tour guide tells touring groups), that they ASSUME was a “birthing ,(parturition) chair”. She says this with a wink…
One look at these chairs and you have to wonder why there were so many places designed into them where various ropes could be placed for ankles and wrists etcetera.
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You can always tell your guests, “Oh yeah THAT! Uh, that’s a “birthing chair” in case the little woman gets pregnant”…
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You can find modern unabashed versions of these chairs by using the following search terms:
SM Female Automated Chair Restricted Frame Screw Chair Adjustment Props Sex Chair BDSM Furniture Red BDSM
Also “Dungeon furniture”, “tantra chair”, “queening chair”, and “octopus chair”
Wow.. I just realized I have not built any sex furniture in over two decades. (Not that I’m that old mind you…) ;op