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Bondage has a lot more to offer than people realize. As an engaging physical, mental, and emotional activity, one can find it plenty rewarding depending on your line of interest: you can design your session to be satisfying in terms of sexual fulfillment, connecting with your partner, developing your physical mastery/endurance, and/or creative expression—plus countless others.
Browse the links below to get a glimpse of how there’s more to bondage beyond the knots, patterns, and shapes we create.
The Cut.com: Roni Jacobson writes: “The transformative effects of bondage are well known within the BDSM community. ‘We call it rope space‘, says Roxie, who leads the New York chapter of Hitchin Bitches, a rope bondage group for women.”
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“Meditation and bondage might seem like strange bedfellows, but they actually pair together like milk and cookies…”
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DownToThere.com: “My husband and I had been exploring different ways of connecting physically and this class in Shibari, an ancient Japanese form of rope bondage, seemed full of possibilities…”
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“Whips, rope and handcuffs aren’t exactly what come to mind when most of us think of a stress-free day. But research indicates that BDSM practice, typically thought to be all about pain, dominance and physical stress, has health advantages beyond sexual satisfaction…”
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