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The functions of a gag

What a gag tries to achieve is one or more of the following: disable communication enforce silence mark the wearer as submissive disable the use of teeth to grab or handle objects punishment or humiliation The fourth function is often forgotten, but it is rather important. For example, someone who is bound with rope or tape and gagged with a simple cleave gag, may be able to open a drawer in the kitchen and pick up a knife from it with her mouth, then wedge it in somewhere and use it to cut through her ties. Functions #3 and #5 may go hand-in-hand. Some gags are specifically designed to be uncomfortable and unflattering. Other gags look rather nice though, but they do not hide their purpose of gagging a person. So my take is that you can have function #3 without function #5. The gag "invented" for the story The Return of the Paramour aims at functions #1 through #4, but specifically not #5. The ball insert (3) deep in the mouth keeps the tongue down and blocks in