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bondage:
Or: sexual-bondage , the sensual and consensual experience of safe captivity and physical helplessness. A sexual practice in which a participant is physically restrained or otherwise tied-up , as with cords, ropes, silk scarves, collars, fetters, leg irons, handcuffs, or manacles, or through the use of stocks, pillories, cages, etc., as a means of attaining sexual gratification from relinquishming control, or in combination with spanking, whipping and other disciplines as in bondage-and-discipline . Bondage scenes are negotiated ahead of time to determine the modes and modalities of the exchange of physical power to be acted out, to select the paraphernalia to be used, and to agree on a safeword to be used by the submissive to end the game whenever s/he chooses. CAUTION: A bound person should never be left unattended and should be constantly monitored for breathing, circulation, skin tone, and temperature of the fingers and toes.Etymology: Fom the Anglo-Latin bondagium, to inhabit. The word entered English prior to the 14 th century referring to the tenure of a serf or slave to his master .
See also: bondage-and-discipline ; burgundy-handkerchief ; tity (or titty) bondage; vincilagnia (arousal from bondage).
Quotes:
(1) The Detainer (Daliah Lavi), strapped naked on a couch , and the short megalomaniac head of the evil organization SMERSH, Dr. Noah (Woody Allen) in Casino Royale (1967):
-- Detainer: ' Do you treat all the girls you desire this way? '
-- Dr. Noah: ' Yes, oh yes . I undress them and tie them up . I learned that in the Boy Scouts .'
(2) Hairdresser Rita/Susan White (Julie Walters) and a client in Educating Rita (1983):
-- Client: ' Is that a book you're reading? (...) What's it called? '
-- Rita: ' Of Human Bondage .'
-- Client: ' Yeah? My husband's got a lot of books like that .'-- Rita: ' Somerset Maugham books? '-- Client: ' No, bondage books. '
See Also: a.p.b., a.s.b., abduction (play), all penis bondage, anaclisis, anaclitism, animal training, ankle cuffs, ankle restraint, B, B & D, B & D dyke, bambi sex, bdsm, BDSMer, Berkley, Theresa, binding, blindfold, body slave, body worship, bondage, bondage and discipline, bondage and dominance, bondage and domination, bondage and torture, bondage bra, bondage device, bondage harness, bondage queen, bondage table, bondagemaster, bondagepics, bondager, bonds of humiliation, brank, breast bondage, breast torture, bundler, buntline hitch, burgers and dogs, burgundy handkerchief, C & B bondage, cable tie, captive, captivity, captor and captive, CBB, chain, chloroform, cinebonds, cock and ball bondage, cock and ball harness, cock harness, cock mouth gag, cock strap, collar, collar and lead, constrictions, cross, crotch rope, cuff, cuffs, DHB, discipline, docile, dominate, hood, hood bondage, humiliation, inverted suspension, John Willie, leg restraint, master, non-kinky sex, ropemaster, scolds bridle, sexual bondage, straight sex, string bondage, tethering, three-legged bloomers, tit bondage, tit discipline, tit torture, titty bondage, titty discipline, titty torture, Victorian lace, vincilagnia, web
Quotes Containing bondage:
The Detainer (Daliah Lavi), strapped naked on a couch , and the short madman Dr. Noah (Woody Allen) in Casino Royale (1967): - Detainer: ''Do you treat all the girls you desire this way?'' - Dr. Noah: ''Yes, oh yes . I undress them and tie them up . I learned that in the Boy Scouts.'' Hairdresser Rita (Julie Walters) and a client in Educating Rita (1983): - Client: ''Is that a book you''re reading? (...) What''s it called?'' - Rita: ''Of Human Bondage.'' - Client: ''Yeah? My husband''s got a lot of books like that.'' - Rita: ''Somerset Maugham books?'' - Client: ''No, bondage books.''
Sally Athelny (Frances Dee) and Philip Carey (Leslie Howard) in Of Human Bondage (1934): - Sally : 'Of course, I knew you never loved me as much as I loved you.' - Philip: 'Yes, that's usually the case . There's usually one who loves and one who is loved.' - Sally : 'It's always the same. If you want a man to be nice to you, you have to be rotten to him.'
Sally Athelny (Frances Dee) and Philip Carey (Leslie Howard) in Of Human Bondage (1934): - Sally : ''Of course, I knew you never loved me as much as I loved you.'' - Philip: ''Yes, that''s usually the case . There''s usually one who loves and one who is loved.'' - Sally : ''It''s always the same. If you want a man to be nice to you, you have to be rotten to him.''
Sally Athelny (Frances Dee) and Philip Carey (Leslie Howard) in Of Human Bondage (1934): - Sally : ''Of course, I knew you never loved me as much as I loved you.'' - Philip: ''Yes, that''s usually the case . There''s usually one who loves and one who is loved.'' - Sally : ''It''s always the same. If you want a man to be nice to you, you have to be rotten to him.''
Sally Athelny (Frances Dee) and Philip Carey (Leslie Howard) in Of Human Bondage (1934): - Sally : ''Of course, I knew you never loved me as much as I loved you.'' - Philip: ''Yes, that''s usually the case . There''s usually one who loves and one who is loved.'' - Sally : ''It''s always the same. If you want a man to be nice to you, you have to be rotten to him.''
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