This article is part of a series for beginners interested in S&M/B&D
The basic principle behind edging is simple: the slave wants to cum, but is prevented from doing so until you decide to let him. The more desperately he needs to cum, the more effective it is - and this becomes a method of torture. There is something wonderfully fiendish and unfair about using a man's urgent need for orgasm as a torture. There are as many ways to do this as there are victims, as each individual has his own turnons and fetishes - all of which can be used against him to make him progressively more and more desperate to cum. These may include physical things like the bondage itself, being hooded, the feel of leather or rubber, servicing the top, confinement, pain, boot-licking, cock-sucking, or CBT. Whatever really turns the guy on and gets him horny. It may also include psychological things such as not knowing when he's eventually going to be allowed to cum - or even if he will be allowed. It can involve humiliation; being edged to the brink of orgasm over and over again without release and told he won't be allowed to shoot. But apart from all of these, there is one other thing that is the most effective of all: teasing. No matter what else a victim is into, having his nipples, ass and balls worked on for a long time will make him want to cum. And then, of course, there's his cock...
One of the best ways to start is to ask the potential victim exactly and precisely how he best likes to masturbate. Is he cut or uncut? What's his favorite position? Does he lie down or stand up? What technique does he use? Fast strokes or slow? Whole cock or just the head? What does he do with his other hand, does he use lube? Lots of questions designed to tell me the technique I can use on him which will make him cum quickest and most intensely. Not that I have any intention of letting him cum right away, I just want to know the best way to get him close and make him want to cum.
There is nothing I love more than to torture a victim like this. Encouraging him to want to shoot; getting him ever more horny and building up his need for orgasm to the point where he is out of his mind with the urgent, desperate need to cum and then removing all stimulus so that it's impossible for him to get the relief he so urgently needs. And I'll do it over and over again until he cant take it anymore.
I will use every single one of his fetishes and turnons as weapons against him, along with slow masturbation and my licking. There's nothing hotter than the sight of a bound, helpless cub struggling and writhing as he desperately tries to find some way of getting himself off as you leave him on the very brink of orgasm for the 10th time.
Cum control subs are instructed not to cum at least a week before visiting me, sometimes longer if I think they can handle it. This helps ensure that by the time they arrive he is extremely horny and will do whatever I say. One of my favorite ways of teasing is spending a few hours slowly (and I do mean slowly) stroking his cock with my well-lubed hand, very carefully bringing him to the edge of orgasm, then stopping and leaving him there - desperate and struggling - until he calms down a bit, and then repeating the whole process over and over again. This is something that can only be done really effectively with a slave whose responses I'm very familiar with, so that I can keep him close enough, but still make it impossible for him to cum until it is time.
When I know what kind of action he's most vulnerable to, I can use it to torture him by repeatedly bringing him to the edge of orgasm, and then stopping short so that he can't. A couple of the useful side effects of edging are that it greatly prolongs the sexual buildup, and also it usually makes the victim's eventual orgasm (when it is finally allowed) extremely intense.