Beginner’s BDSM – Part 5.1 Bondage

Bondage the act of physically or psychologically restraining one or more people

Novice Bondage Positions:

• Bed: A tied spread eagle on a bed.
• Chair: Tied while seated.
• Raised Legs: Tied to bed with legs tied to the back of the bed
• Reverse Spread Eagle: A face down spread eagle
• Hands tied to legs
• Spread Eagle: Tied down with spread legs and arms

Advanced Bondage Positions:

• Ball Tie: Tying your partner into a ball. Knees pressed against the chest, ankles against the buttocks, arms behind the back or against your shin
• Bottom Bondage: Tying up the buttocks
• Box Tie: Tying the arms behind the back, wrist to elbow
• Breast:
  • Breast Bondage: Tying up the breast
  • Breast Bondage Suspension: Combining breast bondage and suspension
• Chicken Wing: Holding the arms bent double
• Elbow Bondage: Arms behind you, elbows tied
• Frog Tie: Ankle on each side is tied to its thigh
• Hair Bondage: Ropes to the hair and using them to fix the head into position
• Hammerlock: arm tied behind the back with hands pulled as near as possible to neck/shoulder
• Head Bondage: techniques used to apply control to the head of your lover – you can use: rope, hood, head harness etc.
• Hogtie Versions:
  • Box Hogtie: Combines box tie and Hogtie
  • Frog Tie Hogtie: Variation of the hogtie, legs are in a frog tie position
  • Hogtie:Wrists and ankles tied together
  • Kneeling Hogtie: sitting on heel (buttock on heel)
• Lotus Tie: Binding lower legs – pointing in opposite directions
• Over Arm Tie: Wrist tied together, passed over head and then tied to wast
• Reverse Prayer: Placing hands in prayer position behind the back (tips of hands touching bottom shoulder blades)
• Savage Fold:
  1. Tie wrists crossed behind back
  2. Tie ankles crossed in a sitting position on the floor – this forces the shins to be at right angles to each other with the knees wide apart
  3. Using a collar around their neck, place a rope from the front of the collar to the ankle ties, and pull the rope tight, forcing the ankles as close to the neck as possible
  4. Tie the left upper arm to the left thigh, just above the knee
  5. Tie the right upper arm to the right thigh, just above the knee
  6. Your lover is now folded double
• Shibari – Japanese bondage style:
  • Karada – Body Harness:
  • Sukaranbo – Crotch Rope
  • Shrimp Tie – Harness
• Spreadeagle: Arms outstretched and legs apart – similar to the letter ‘X’
• Strappado: Arms are bound behind the back, arms are lifted behind them and ‘hung’ from a secure point from the ceiling
• Suspension Bondage: Bound person is hung from one or more overhead suspension points
  • Vertical Suspension: Using rope or suspension cuffs and lifting your lover by the wrists. (note rope, metal cuffs/handcuffs can cause extreme damage to skin/tissue)
  • Horizontal Suspension: Bound in horizontal position either face up or faced down (most common). Lifting your lover by either wrist  ankles together or kept apart by spreader bar.
  • Inverted Suspension: Using suspension cuffs or rope, your lover is lifted into the air by their ankles. (note due to blood rushing to their heads this position should not be used for long periods of time and can lead to them blacking out. Also as noted above using rope, metal cuffs/handcuffs can cause extreme damage to skin/tissue)

Remember during our initial discussions on BDSM – Safety is critical, many of these bondage positions listed (especially in advanced section) are short term positions, require special equipment (ie suspension bondage – most common danger is falling due to weak suspension points).

Always discuss in detail with your lover/partner what will be done, have a safeword(s) or clear way t0 communicate stopping or slowing down (ie using the color red = stop, yellow = slow down or humming a particular song)

Never leave a bound person alone.

Reference Parts 1-2 for additional safety suggestions.