Review: MEO Bondage Rope

Hey. We all know it's a hard time. I deal with this enough in real life (and online, let's face it), so I'm just going to keep life as normal as possible with my very intermittent posts. Stay safe babes.

 

Let's get right into it. You know the drill. As anyone looking to explore the BDSM spectrum, you gotta try some rope. Right? I mean, it’s like the most accessible thing out there, I would say. You may find yourself wandering past the rope section in hardware stores and having Speculative Thoughts. If you’re like me, you get overwhelmed with all those material comparison articles and just end up getting a basic Fifty Shades bundle with branded aglets that seem extremely ill-advised when combined with a whippy object. Seriously, why would anyone think that little metal weights at the end of something that is made to be flung about are a great idea? They get in the way for tying and tucking and are a legitimate hazard.

After literally being hit in the face a bunch by small metal projectiles, I finally got the chance to try some actually pretty good quality rope courtesy of MEO. We’ve worked with them a bunch before and they are a joy to deal with. This time, we got to check out their 3m/9ft rope which also comes in 10m/32ft bundles as well as in blue, red, and white colourways. It bears repeating that MEO products are reliably excellent and I honestly can’t recommend them enough. As always, however, remember that MEO’s website features some NSFW content. Their target audience is also primarily homosexual men, but like, the products can be used by anyone. Observe! Photographic evidence of a bad self-tie.

It’s actually kind of difficult to review rope because it’s more about what you do with it than the product itself, yes? Rope can be whatever you want it to be. It’s so versatile and mutable and offers a huge amount of variety to those who are creative enough to use it. It can be anything from functional to fashionable and is probably the most useful and variable tool in anyone’s collection. So, what makes this rope different? It’s just rope. To which I respond: please read this article on materials.

Yeah. There is so much rope out there. Can you see why I panic-bought a Fifty Shades set?

Following from that, the material used in the MEO rope is actually really soft and definitely of a far better calibre than any of the cheap trash I’ve tried before. It’s a natural-feeling cotton that you can toss in a laundry-bag and put through the washing machine and have it come out fresh and bacteria-free. The texture is soft, without the artificial slipperiness of nylon. This also helps with the natural “grippiness” of the rope, helping ties stay in place. It also just looks better – there's no fake-looking sheen that accompanies unnatural materials. Instead, the rope looks soft and natural and far more inviting than my experimental Fifty Shades kit.

Secondly, no aglets. Yay. The MEO rope ends are whipped (fancy rope terms) to prevent fraying and damage, and this is where the superior materials come in. As you can see from this comparison image, the MEO rope is densely woven and has no gaps in the weave, while the shiny, synthetic Fifty Shades rope is made in a sort of Twist-a-Braid style (and if you don’t remember the early 2000s Twist-a-Braid craze then it’s time to start searching Instagram for #y2kaesthetic tags because you don’t realise how good you have it). This explains the aglets. I think that without an actual physical stopper, the rope would unravel uselessly into a sad pile of scraps. 

This assessment is not applicable to the MEO rope – it’s an actually functional, practical tool rather than a pretty experimental photoshoot-type thing with cute branded accents. As usual, MEO blends quality with functionality and happens to make it look pretty good too. The one thing I’m sad about is that I got such a short segment of this rope. It means I’m limited to small binds – hands; feet – as larger body-bondage like torso or thighs are too great a surface area even as a straight-size person. If you’re more on the plus-size end of things I wouldn’t mess around with that 3m nonsense – go straight for the tens, bb. You’re worth it.

Final thoughts on this subject: if you have cats and you’re trying to experiment with ropey things, maybe just quarantine the kitties for a bit. Trust me.

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