Bondage (BDSM)

Bondage is consensually tying, binding, or restraining a partner for erotic, aesthetic, and/or somatosensory stimulation. Rope, cuffs, bondage tape, self-adhering bandage, or other restraints may be used for this purpose.

Bondage itself does not imply sadomasochism. Bondage may be used as an end into itself, as in the case of rope bondage and breast bondage. It may also be used as a part of sex or in conjunction with other BDSM activities. The letter "B" in the acronym "BDSM" comes from the word "bondage". Sexuality and erotica are an important aspect in bondage, but are often not the end in itself. Aesthetics also plays an important role in bondage.

A common reason for the active partner to tie up their partner is so both may gain pleasure from the restrained partner's submission and the feeling of the temporary transfer of control and power. For sadomasochistic people, bondage is often used as a means to an end, where the restrained partner is more accessible to other sadomasochistic behaviour. However, bondage can also be used for its own sake. The active partner can derive visual pleasure from seeing their partner tied up, and the restrained partner can derive tactile pleasure from the feeling of helplessness and immobility.

Bondage

Bondage may refer to:

Restraints

Social and economic practices

In arts and entertainment

Other uses

See also

Bondage (play)

Bondage is a 1992 play by American playwright David Henry Hwang. It deals with issues of race and racial stereotypes by placing a fully disguised man and woman in an S and M parlor playing out sexual games. The play premiered as part of the Actors Theatre of Louisville's Humana Festival on March 1, 1992. It was shown in tandem with Suzan-Lori Parks' short play Devotees in the Garden of Love under the title Rites of Mating. It was directed by Oskar Eustis and featured B. D. Wong and Hwang's wife Kathryn Layng.

It is published as part of Trying to Find Chinatown: The Selected Plays by Theatre Communications Group. and also in an acting edition published by Dramatists Play Service.

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Bondage (album)

Bondage is Nana Kitade's third full-length album, and last release with Sony Music Japan. In its first week, it debuted at #85 selling 1,698 copies.

Track Listing

Release and Promotion

The album came in two editions, normal and limited edition. The first press for the normal edition came with the first "Nana Original Logo Sticker," and the limited edition came with a DVD containing all single PVs and live footage, "A German Story of Nana," of the time Nana spent in Germany. The live footage featured was the first live footage of Nana released on DVD in 3 years. The album was later released on May 22, 2009 in Germany by the label Spark & Shine, which had already released the previous album "Berry Berry Singles".

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