Mr. S Leather Fist Mitts Review

Padded Leather Fist Mitts: No More Pesky Fingers for Your Human Pony

Written by cPony on Mar 18 2025
Last updated on Sep 26 2025

Introduction

This is a review of Mr. S Leather's padded leather fist mitts. Bondage fist mitts - or bondage gloves - are a versatile and cool piece of bondage gear. They are especially functional in pony play (as well as other forms of animal role play, like puppy play) because ponies don't have fingers, so why not have a piece of gear that takes away a pony's ability to use his or her pesky fingers. Lock them on, and your pony is helpless to reesist whatever training scene you have in store for them! Their quality and aesthetic makes them worth their $209.95 price tag - if you take care of them, they will provide you with many, many hours of kinky fun.

My First Pair of Fist Mitts

I knew I was kinky a decade before I ever set foot in Mr. S Leather.

Teenage me was cocky, yet paradoxically shy. It was the cocky side of that young man who strode through the mirrored double doors of Mr. S Leather for the first time on a cool San Francisco late autumn day many years ago.

It was the first time I had been inside any adult store, but armed as I was with the knowledge imparted by hundreds of kinky stories and thousands of bondage photos consumed voarciously, yet slowly, via the nascient internet, the last thing I was expecting was to be surprised.

But surprised I was. Indeed, mere surprise would be one hell of an understatement.

Up until that point, I only owned a couple - literally two - pieces of dedicated bondage gear (though I had seen and read about other pieces of BDSM gear in photos and stories): a ponyplay bridle (from Stormy Leather) and a ball gag (I mentioned I like gags right?), so I'm not ashamed to say that I actually didn't even know what fist mitts were until that day. But boy did I learn :)

After a brief (and I use that word very loosely here) stint browsing around, my gaze fell upon a pair of what looked to be, leather boxing gloves.

I reached out and touched the soft leather, tentatively at first as the shy side of my personality bubbled to the surface, exploring this new piece of, well, I didn't know precisely what yet, only that it must be an item used for erotic restraint.

Sensing my interest, and perhaps my newfound trepidation, a shirtless member of staff approached and asked if I wanted to try them on.

I have no words to adequately communicate to you how interesting a prospect that was to eighteen year old me - someone who had, up to this point, experienced partnered bondage on very, very few occasions, none of which really lived up to the hopes created by my kinky imagination. All I can say is that for every foot my stomach sank in eager anticipation, my cock rose twofold.

In an instant, the cocky, confident teenager who strolled into the store was paralyzed like a deer in the headlights leaving the shy side of me had in full control, and I think he mumbled "Yes, please", or some other similar affirmative vocalization accompanied by a shy nod of the head.

As he guided my hands into the fist mitts one by one, pulled the velcro flaps snug over each other, and buckled the leather wrist strap on each mitt tight enough to cause my stomach to drop off a cliff, I found that I was unable to respond coherently to anything: I was completely focused on the fact that my hands were held nearly completely closed by soft leather with just enough give that I could flex my fingers outwards slightly before they were gently, but firmly, pushed back closed by the leather cocoon.

The next five minutes were both the longest and the shortest five minutes I had ever experienced in my life, and even though eighteen year old me did not have the disposable income to purchase them (they were $135.20 back then, on sale from $169 - you can check out how they looked back then via the Internet Archive), I splurged and bought them becuase there was no way I was not walking out of Mr. S Leather without a new pair of fist mitts after my experience that day.

And that is how a pair of padded leather fist mitts became the third piece of bondage gear I ever purchased, and the first really high quality piece of leather BDSM gear.

My Second Pair of Fist Mitts

In April of this year, I purchased my second pair of padded leather fist mitts from Mr. S Leather. Although my previous pair was still functional, Mr. S had a sale going on, and I could not resist treating myself and upgrading my (at the time) two decade old pair.

In addition to being a hot, versatile piece of bondage gear, a quality pair of leather fist mitts can be used as forehooves for ponyplay if you don't have the budget to purchase a dedicated pair of hand hooves (such as the latex Fetisso hoof gloves, or Teku SP's 3D printed hooves), or don't want to make your own (such as the 3D-printable hand hooves or from bio-horse medicine boots).

I personally need some tack and a degree of bondage to get into "pony" headspace (for me that is the headspace of someone captured and transformed into a pony against his will). One of the key pieces of bondage for me is the inability to use my hands, and, ideally, the inability to use my fingers and the dexterity of opposable thumbs. A pair of fist mitts (or hand hooves) fits the bill perfectly.

In the intervening twnety something years, those original mitts from Mr. S have seen extensive use through many scenes of various intensities in various climates and are only slightly worse for the wear. Functionally, they are essentially the same as when they were new and do as good a job of denying me use of my fingers as they did on their first day.

Aesthetically, on the other hand, the mitts have admittedly started to show signs of age. Nothing super dramatic, but what had been a sleek, solid black leather exterior developed a rougher texture with a multitude of small, superficial cracks that added thin streaks of white throughout the outside. Whatsmore, the padding (likely quilt batting or something similar) used in the mitts between the inner padding and the outer leather covering began to bunch up or clump in places. Both of these wear related issues are relatively minor and solely due to heavy use of the mitts.

And so it came to pass that when I was recently in Mr. S Leather, and PonyRoper spotted a pair of fist mitts in the clearance section at a reasonable discount, I immediately jumped on the opportunity and was soon the proud owner of a shiny new pair of padded leather fist mitts.

They still hold a very special place in my heart (and my cock lol). Fist mitts remain one of the hotest pieces of gear to me: there is something incredibly erotic to being rendered so helpless by something as simple as taking away the ability to use my fingers. They don't even need to be locked or clipped together, which adds to the appeal.

Throw a gag in my mouth, and you'll have a very frustrated - and very horny - ponyboy on your hands, so preoccupied with trying to escape the deceptively simple bondage that you can have your way with him while he vacillates between vainly trying to remove the gag with mitted hooves and remove the mitts with a gagged mouth.

Overview

The leather fist mitts are can be put on by yourself but are easiest to have a partner/handler put them on you.

Unlocking and removing the mitts is a task not so easily accomplished by the wearer, but trivial to the pony's owner and trainer who has full use of their fingers. Below PonyRoper unlocks, and unbuckles my mitts. Even after wearing for a relatively short period of time, there is some sweat build up, which means he has to pull with a bit of force to get them off my hands. This would be rather difficult by myself, adding an additional ayer of security.

Sometimes PonyRoper wants to walk his pony around outside when we don't have the time to go all out on with a show harness or pulling harness. Throw on a gag, a pony hood over top of that, and a pair of these fist mitts, and voila, human transformed into human pony, and one that cannot speak or remove the hood. A simply clip and hooves can be bound together in front or behind for added helplessness.

With no use of fingers, the pony has no hope of freeing himself nor the ability to unclip his hooves from behind his back, whereas a passerby could unclip the hooves from each other (or even remove the mitts if they're not locked on), or they could add to the pony's restriction by clipping the pony's hooves tighter (both D rings clipped together on the same side of the double ended clip) or clipping then hooves to something else (e.g. the pony's belt, harness, a fence, etc.). Most often, however, passersby do nothing to help the pony or add to his distress.

The humiliation factor at being so utterly helpless is a big appeal.

A Fun and Functional Sleeping Companion

Sleeping in bondage is always fun...as a fantasy. It's rather fun to masturbate to the idea of being bound overnight: left completely helpless in a stall while all tacked up and bound up, unable to find a comfortable position and trying .

However, the reality is often substantially less than fun (though if you're like me, the discomfort is part of the fun, and while not necessarily enjoyable in the moment, it is fun to recall at a later date (like other things that are terrible, painful/degrading/gross in the moment but hot later)). Thus, I generally prefer not to sleep in any sort of bondage with rare exceptions for special occasions.

This review qualified for an exception because I had experience sleeping in fist mitts (my original pair from Mr. S Leather) about 15 years ago. My experience then was unpleasant though not terrible: I slept poorly, never falling into a deep sleep and only just barely asleep for the whole night. I woke up tired and with sore knuckles on all my fingers (neer could figure out what exactly caused that - friction between my knuckles and padded liner or sweat buildup irritating my skin, who knows).

I was not eager to repeat that experience, but in the interest of testing the mitts thoroughly, I decided to take the plunge and wear them overnight. I choose to document the experience with a time lapse on my iPhone (8-10 hours of 8K, 12K, or 19K raw of me sleeping would be one of the most understated uses of the phrase overkill) since that's a feature I had never tried out (I know, I know, not smart to try something new for such a long shoot when I would not be in a position to make adjustments on the fly, but I do like to fly on the seat of my pants) and seemed like it would be fun and appropriate for this sort of scene.

Around 8PM, PonyRoper got me locked snugly and securely into my mitts. I brought my mitted and bound hands to my face to inhale their delicate leather aroma as he proceeded to lock on a pair of ankle cuffs and a collar. Finally he clipped the mitts together in front of me (we will try behind the back at a later date now that we know decent sleep is more than possible) and tucked me in for the night.

We went with simple (but effective) bondage - nothing too tight or too uncomfortable: no gag or hogtie this time since we wanted to see if I could actually get some decent sleep, versus turning this review into an all night scene or getting my so aroused I couldn't sleep at all, or, even worse, getting tightly bound and painfully aroused only to be immediately "helped" to orgasm, then being left in uncomfrtable bondage for the next 8 hours).

Tucked in securely for the night, and mildly aroused, I set about trying to get some shut eye.

As luck would have it, I fell asleep rather quickly and slept very well (with the exception of one bathroom break in the middle of the night, for which the mitts stayed locked on (though the clip holding them together was temporarily removed but immediately replaced as soon as I was back on the mattress)), waking up sligthly disoriented, but refreshed about 9 hours later.

Reviewing the video after some morning coffee, I noticed that I did indeed get good sleep: almost non tossing and turning, which was very surprising based on my previous experience back in the early 2000s. My hands were not at all sore (they were however, rather sweaty and the leather fist mitts had to be dried by pulling the inner leather lining out and leaving it like that for 24-48 hours), the rest of my body was likewise free from any sores or aches except for a slight tightness in my neck from the collar keeping my neck movements mildly restricted. However, the neck soreness worked itself out a couple hours into the day, after a little stretching and a hot shower.

All in all, we're very happy with my ability to sleep comfortably in these mitts. There are times where I need to bound securely overnight but don't want to compromise my sleep, and I think I found the winner for that: hands down, nothing even comes close. I was rendered pretty darn helpless but woke up as if I hadn't been in any bondage for 9 hours, quite a feat. The mitts are far more secure than leather cuffs since not only were the wirsts bound together, but I lost the ability to use my fingers: I'm not sure if I would be able to get out of the mitts even with the keys (maybe with enough time and lots of effort, but a gag or muzzle would be all that would be needed to totally prevent that).

I wrote the bulk of this review in April 2025. I'm writing this note in mid June (the summer solstice here in the northern hemishere to be exact), and for the last 2 months, I have been sleeping in these mitts every single night, with the exception of two nights where PonyRoper was not around to lock me in them. I honestly love sleeping in these. I've notice that I actually better sleep while wearing them: I wake up less, move around less, and when I do wake up, I stay up far less than I had in the past when not wearing them (pretty much impossible to look at my phone with my hands locked in them, so if I do wake up, I realize I'm helpless to do anything unless I wake up PonyRoper to let me out.

Since I love PonyRoper and want him to getz good sleep, this is a big motivating factor for me to just to just roll over and try to go back to sleep again. Thus, unless it's an actual emergency, or the mitts are causing too much pain for me to ignore, I just immediatelt try go right back to sleep). This wear pattern ended up being a stress test of sorts on the mitts, and I noticed that the rivets on the inside of the mitts has started to rust, presumably from all the sweat they are subjected to multiple hours a day every day. This has not apparently effected any functionality nor aesthetics on the outside if the mitts, but I'll keep an eye on it and update here if anything changes.

At this time, I am unable to explain the discrepency between this experience and my earlier one from 15 years ago with a different pair of mitts. Thus, I am hesitant to say you will have the same experience as me (plus we are all different), but I personally loved sleeping in them - all the fun of bondage but none of the downside like soreness, inability to achieve deep or REM sleep, etc. Indeed, we repeated this on three addition nights (sans collar though for two of three additional nights since I don't want to kink my neck and have it sore or injured for a week) and each time, I woke up feeling great and refreshed, so I'm smiling ear to ear knowing I can be bound up overnight now :)

Below is a time lapse video of me wearing them overnight:

Sleeping in the Mr. S Leather Fist Mitts: 6 Months Later
I've been regularly sleeping in the fist mitts overnight, (nearly) every night for 6 months now. My bedtime routine now involves each mitt being buckled on tightly about 30 minutes before bed. Then, when it's time for sleep (that is when it's time to turn the light off), my mitted hands are clipped together in front of me, I close my eyes, and doze off to pony dreamland :)

Wearing them actually makes for a surprisingly restful evening. If I wake up during the night, I quickly realize there's nothing for me to do: I can't check my phone or even the time, so I just close my eyes again and usually fall right back asleep, and when I do wake up, I wake up feeling refreshed and happy. Another added benefit is that I never miss my alarm since it's impossible for me to snooze my phone alarm with my mitted hands and very difficult to turn my alarm off - it takes 30 - 90 seconds of fiddling to be able to press the button hard enough to silence my alarm by which time, I'm wide awake anyway. All in all, I would highly reccommend!

There have been, and likely will be more, evenings when the helplessness enforced by the bondage fist mitts gets me excited and aroused (after I all I'm really into bondage). Most often when that happens, I do my best to ignore it, or mildly and gently stimulate myself by rubbing my cock against something convenient, such as a pillows much as I try to helpmyself w or the mattress. However, sometimes the arounsal is too strong (to the point that my penis is painfully, rock hard).

It is on nights like those that I get myself into trouble. Those are the nights that I fight a losing battle with self-control and often succumb to the physical pleasure of (increasingly more and more) vigorous self stimulation (at least to the extent possible with the deviously padded fist mitts) which inevitably leads to a situation wherein I forgo the usual relaxing respite from technology in favor of enjoyment of a more carnal nature. Suffice it to say, things rather quickly get a little too carried away, which results in me ejaculating in my boxers.

This is always a mistake - I know it's a mistake as I'm doing it, but I simply can't himself on nights like that, what can I say ;) I then reflexively comment (well, if I'm being honest, it's really more of s complaint than a comment) about it to PoyRoper coupled with a simple, innocent ask: can I be let out of the mitts so I could change my boxers? The answer is inevitably a resounding "No" followed by "it's time for bed, you know that. His response more often than not, leads to some pouting, grumbling, and mumbling from me, which then leads to the mitts being unclipped.

The unclipped does not last long though. Within three seconds they are reclipped, but behind my back this time. This is followed shortly by my mouth getting stuffed with a gag (usually a nice big ball gag, but sometimes a penis gag, ring gag, or bit gag, and, occasioannly, a mouth stuffer gag), and leather ankle cuffs being wrapped around my ankles and then being clipped together. A blindfold is next, and finally ear plugs. I immediately regret my decision to masturbate all the way to the point of orgasm. Moreso, I regret complaining about the (comparatively) minor discomfort of wearing the fist mitts after having just came.

Remember the saying that "it's not really bondage until you want to get out"? Well, it is very much true: no matter how restrictive the bondage, if you're horny, the discomfort and pain is fun. If you're not aroused, especially if you just orgasmed and are in your refractory period, even light bondage, such as comfy padded leather cuffs clipped together, is at best irritating and mildly uncomfortable, and more restrictive bondage is, well, nowhere near as fun as it used to be. Well, now I was really in bondage. Not extreme bondage by any means, but with 8 hours gaping ahead of me, being bound hand and foot, gagged, blindfolded, and earplugged sure seemed too extreme for my taste given I was in my immediate post-orgasm state. But there was nothing - literally nothing - I could do about it, so I rolled around as much as I could with arms bound behind me to find the least uncomfortable position while my own fresh cum was still dribbling down my legs.

Anyway, back to the review...

How Secure are Fist Mitts?

As a piece of bondage gear, no review would be complete without me trying to extricate myself from them. I have included a video below of me trying to revie them, first while nuckled on but not locked, then locked but with the key provided, and the progressively more and more obstacles being placed in the way of my escape that it became impossible, but frustratingly fun :)

Fun video and goalpost moving bondage scene aside, the mitts are relatively easily escapable if they are not locked on (even with a gag, but the gag does make it slightly more difficult - I have to use my knees together as a kind to tweezer/pincer to get hold of the leather strap) if they are one of the only pieces of bondage gear you're wearing even if they are clipped or locked together.

Locked together in front is fairly easy. Locked together behind, slightly more difficult but very doable (even if you're unable to maneuver your bound wrists from behind your back to in front of your back by passing them around your legs. Adding additional restraint makes removing them more difficult (e.g. tied tightly spreadeagle on a bed, you're probably not getting them off, similarly tightly hogtied, or with your mitted hands clipped/locked together and attached above your head, etc.).

Now, with the mitts locked on, even if they are the only piece of bondage on (and even when not clipped together), you are going to have a tough time getting them off (though not impossible) using your mouth to hold the key and unlock the locks (of course, if you don't have the key, you're not getting out). Strap a nice mouth filling ball gag in your mouth, and you'll turn what was a tedious, but very likely successful escape, into an incredibly frustrating experience where the odds will be stacked against you.

Conclusions

My overall rating is 4.5 out of 5 sugar cubes for the padded leather fist mitts by Mr. S. They are super comfortable and secure when locked.

You can purchase them directly from Mr. S Leather for $209.95 USD online or in store at their location on 8th St in San Francisco.

Although I purchased my pair in store, they are, as will all of their products, also availale online. Furthermore, Mr. S Leather offers free shipping within the US on all orders over $99 USD, so a pair of these mitts will qualify for free shipping.