Jadit wrote:Duct tape is stronger than medical tapes, when it's not about the glue power. If you even fold the edges, you can't get any grip on them to rip them open even if it's an outside person. Some sharp tool is the only way to rid of that.
Duct tape is no doubt more powerful, but it has to be used on steel, wood, plastics etc. Human skin is a strange collection of microscopic bumps and dips which are made up of millions of cells, some of which can shed at any moment.
Standard hardware tapes can definitely work for a time. I'd had duct tape work quite well once my skin is essentially exfoliated raw from replacing strips
but I don't consider that very effective. Duct tape also causes some weird irritation unrelated to the minor removal of skin cells.
Medical tapes seem to have an adhesive that works on a much smaller scale. Almost as if there's thousands of little adhesion points that can adhere to the strange dips and bumps you can't see. If some dead skin gives way, it's only in that very small region below the tape that gives, and the adhesive doesn't start to catastrophically fail from that weak point to allow you to just open your mouth. Medical tapes also deal with moisture and body oils much better. Micropore is especially good for this (going off the documentation and experimentation). It can be applied to a clean face with some sweat on it and still seal your mouth no problem better than duct tape on a dry face.
Medical tapes can work very well on hardware style surfaces as well. I've used the cloth adhesive for some things because I have too much of it haha and it's holding strong after weeks. The backing is strong so it works, but in general the adhesive isn't about super long term hold like duct tape on large even surfaces. They're about short to medium term hold on a highly dynamic surface, so the adhesive is completely different chemically and structurally.
Also having said that Transpore and especially Micropore have fairly weak backings, so it's not like they'd be appropriate for fixing things outside of a talkative mouth haha.
The whole point of sharing my experience from experimenting with these 3M surgical tapes is that the bondage community has been getting it wrong with the use of tapes like duct tape. It's not the most effective nor do they look that great on. Aesthetically medical tapes seem to look much better due to how they grip the face and lips. They just look more effective (because they are) and I think that's important.
Some studios are slowly wising up and are using some of these tapes and others I haven't had access to because they're possibly European. There's a great video called "Karry Self gag 2" that demonstrates some other extremely effective medical tapes from across the pond, as well as the famous Fixomull stretch, which isn't technically a tape because it comes on a backing. Every tape in that video has her inescapably gagged from a movie style rectangle. The way it's supposed to be.
I think the sooner the community switches over to their use the better off everyone's skin, and the more effective everyone will be gagged without resorting to uncomfortable methods like tight wraps and skin irritation. A good medical tape keeps you gagged and pretty comfortable