Bondage

Technique used to restrain a person for the purpose of erotic pleasure. This can range from a command to hold a position all the way to the most complicated web of rope or other similar material that prevents the smallest of movements. Often it is the means to an end, but it can also be the whole point. It is the visual and tactile representation of the D/s power exchange. The sexual practice in which one participant is physically bound by way of ropes, chains, locks and similar devices. Any practice involving tying or securing a person, as with ropes, cuffs, chains, or other restraints. Restraint bondage, the most common form of bondage, involves immobilizing a person, by tying or otherwise restraining him or her to an object or by binding his or her limbs together. Stimulation bondage is any form of tying in such a way that the subject is not immobilized and has freedom of motion, but the ropes or ties shift and move against the body, often in sensitive or erogenous areas; certain forms of shibari are stimulation bondage.