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In my view, the full body leather get up with hood is actually the quintessential top from the bottom.

I say this because it provides a feeling of full anonymity to the sub.
Real or imagined.

Your thoughts?
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The hood on a sub can produce a feeling of being used as there most individual and personal qualities are covered up leaving a body to play with .

Depending on the style of hood it can produce dependence on the top for basic needs for example sight ,speech ect.. with out the use of some of your senses you can become dependant, weak, forced to look inside ones self ect...

I do understand your thought though a slave/ bottom being covered can be seen as allowing him/her a bit of modesty . For some being naked while there partner is covered shows a definite position giving the power to the one who is covered as it is not them who is on display .

Flipping that coin when my wife struts during play with just heels on there is no question of who is in charge in many ways i see her ability to command with no covering as very self confident and self assure . Her body is on display and she knows it will be satisfied . She has no guilt or fear of showing herself , she also has no need to make her body attractive with shiny things as i would crawl to her if she wore leather or burlap .

Is this something you've ever done with anyone?
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I can only guess at it from the sub's perspective. I could understand it feeling claustrophobic to some and giving a feeling of helplessness.

I can see how others might draw strength from anonymity.

So, yeah, personality would have a great influence, I'd think.

That's with the hood alone.

I'm thinking that being covered or naked with the hood on would produce very different feelings?

Dressed in leather from head to toe, with the hood on, I'd think would be more likely to produce the powerful feeling.

Being naked and hooded would be more apt to make the sub feel very vulnerable.
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I think the idea that clothing the submissive in attire more traditionally associated with a dominant person is more likely to result in them experiencing feelings of power might just be false.

What I suspect might be more important is the state of mind of the submissive at the point at which the hood is put on, and what happens, or even what doesn't happen, once it is on.

Speaking personally, what I am wearing has very little to do with what I feel when hooded. I could quite easily put forward a case that being dressed head to toe in latex or leather while hooded actually increases my sense of vulnerability but I'm not going to do so because I don't think it's any more true, for me anyway, than the idea that being nude while hooded results in a greater sense of vulnerability.

It's primarily the removal of, or reduction in the quality of, my senses which makes me feel vulnerable when hooded so being clothed doesn't offer any protection. I can't see him coming. I can't see what he just picked up. My hearing is muffled so I can't quite hear what's going on or where he is. In addition, I might not be able to breathe as easily as is usual and I may feel more vulnerable to him preventing me from breathing at all, particularly if the hood in question is designed for that purpose. There's a general increased feeling of helplessness and sometimes fear.

Being clothed when hooded limits what he can do to me but then there are so many different things that can be done. :-)