BONDAGE

Bondage (from the English, original meaning of bondage, slavery) is an activity in which people bind each other with material for sexual or aesthetic reasons or restrict their freedom of movement.

Different types of techniques are common within bondage. There is the Japanese rope bondage, shibari, which is carried out with a lot of graceful rope work and is therefore seen as an art form. Suspension bondage is a form in which a tied person with ropes is hung on one or more suspension points. Other bondage techniques include tight clothing including corsets or foils (mummification). Hand and ankle cuffs, leather belts, chains and spreader bars can also be used to limit freedom of movement.

There are several reasons why bondage can be found sexually pleasing. The pleasure can be part of feelings of power and powerlessness, which some find exciting. The physical inability to move freely can also lead to a release from responsibility: because one has no opportunity to satisfy the partner, one can fully focus on one's own feelings and pleasure. Finally, the physical feeling of the bondage can be experienced as pleasant, especially when the binding over erogenous zones takes place.

For the binding partner, in addition to the aforementioned power game, the binding of the partner can give his or her imagination free rein. In addition, the excitement of the partner can be properly observed and monitored. Some also find a tied partner a pleasant sight.

After one of the partners is tied up, the direction of the sex game lies with his partner. This can go in all sorts of ways, from soft strokes to hard sm, but what often happens is that an erotic 'tease game' is played with the tied partner. Hereby he or she is stimulated to a certain level, but the desire to continue afterwards is not granted. By postponing the climax in this way, sexual feelings are strengthened.

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