Bondage Books

“Dare… to Try Bondage” by Axterdam is part of the new Dare series on sexuality published by Hunter House. This book is recommended to those who want to know and/or try bondage. Bondage is not without danger, and yet it opens the door to dramatic new pleasures. Whether a complete newcomer or a seasoned bondage expert, sexual adventurers can use this guide for simple, necessary instructions, scenarios, techniques, and advice. Including chapters on shibari (the Japanese art of knot-tying), appropriate equipment, conducting a satisfying session, and what sensations to expect, this guide is a comprehensive resource for both men and women who are seeking sexual liberation and pleasure through restraint. Those who are shy to go into the sex section of bookstores to learn and read about bondage, well this is the book for you.

It is a quick read and teaches almost everything you wanted to know about bondage. What is nice about this book is that there are illustrations and background information the author gives, including personal experiences. The author wanted to share his knowledge with his friends and more so he wrote this very interesting book. The author gives background information from personal experience. He wrote it for his friends in mind, who kept asking him questions.

French artist and author Axterdam’s illustrations of the Japanese rope-tying art of Shibari, also known as Kinbaku, bring to life the simple yet visually striking patterns of “beautiful bondage.” Axterdam is well known in the world of amateur erotic imagery; his drawings are considered inspirational in the universe of fetishism. He published his Carnets d’un obsede (Notes of an Obsessive) in 2003.

The book starts out with the history of bondage and different aspects of sadomasochistic activities. The author explains everything, from tying a knot to scenarios. Once you have tried this erotic experience, the phrase “tied up in knots” takes on a whole new meaning. The warm text shares valuable insights on how and where to place bonds, what sensations to pay attention to, how to free yourself and how to play without restraint while restrained. The author also gives things to use, from ropes to handcuffs to clothespins and more.

This book is great to spice up your sex life but warning, some of these bondage “moves” can be dangerous and as always should be used with caution. Technique and safety tips are the primary focus of this book. He also explains the history, rules and having a key word that you use with your partner and yourself to “stop”. He also gives very detailed safety measures. So basically this book is a guide.

“Dare to Try Bondage” is definitely for mature audiences only, especially with the illustrations. There is a glossary at the back of the book, which covers all the Japanese words associated with bondage. A detailed resource section as well.

Attractive illustrations, balanced information and a light, sex-positive tone make this book helpful and entertaining. This book is a great way to get adventurous in the bedroom. Whether you’re looking for edgy role-play or simply a way to spice up your night, this pocket guide brings you into the world of exciting erotic play.

“Bondage for Sex” is a guide that helps you to develop a full understanding of adding tie-in rope play to your sexual life. Ms. Chanta Rose, professional bondage model instructs courses on bondage play. Her 138 page manual, brings that classroom to you and gives a detailed and thorough look at how to use ropes, create several types of knots and how to introduce bondage rope play to your partner. Each page is presented with comprehensive explicit text and full-color photographs. Chapters include topics, such as choosing rope, rope play terms, tie variations, how to discuss rope play, and ways to use all parts of the bed. You’ll feel much more confident, and aroused, when you browse through this book and see how “Bondage for Sex” can enhance your bedroom adventures.

In “Bondage for Sex,” Chanta Rose teaches bondage that is easy, safe, and comfortable during penetrative sex. For many couples, the bondage comes off before the sex begins. Here Rose teaches rope bondage that couples can use safely during partner sex, thereby incorporating bondage as part of the whole sexual experience. The models in her book are straight and gay, male and female, and very ethnically diverse.

“Showing You The Ropes”. Whether you’re new to the art or if you’re just looking for some new styles to add to your repertoire, this step-by-step guide will give you the tools to make rope play an integral part of your sex life. Presented by the Two Knotty Boys, who bring with them 25 years of rope bondage experience, this book covers 80 pages of illustrated descriptions of methods you can use.

When Two Knotty Boys, Dan and J. D., began teaching rope bondage together in 1999, they discovered that most people learn best when they’re shown – close up, step by step, and repeatedly – how to tie basic knots and combine them into bondage techniques. It is this learning process that they duplicate in this book. With the help of world-renowned photographer Larry Utley, they use over 750 photos and captions to explicate the soup-to-nuts techniques for turning great knots into great bondage that is safe, sensual, attractive, and effective. Readers can learn at their own pace, review whole techniques at a single glance, or even lay it flat on the table (beside their blindfolded partner) and follow along as they tie. Two Knotty Boys Showing You the Ropes appeals to those interested in improving the quality of their sex lives, not to mention aficionados of bondage and discipline/sadomasochism (BDSM), both curious newcomers and serious players alike.

The book is divided into 5 sections: Knot Tying, Basic Rope Bondage, Decorative Bondage, Dominance Bondage and Sex Bondage. Each section devotes time to show you how you could use rope for typing your partner down, how to create several types of knots, how to create a body harness or bra, even how to create a pair of panties made out of rope. Using hot models and plenty of pictures, this book will make sure that you’re not all tied up trying to figure out how to make great sexual use of rope.

This is a very good manual. It gives you some basics and then shows you how to apply them in various ways. you can have a lot of fun with this if you are a beginner and looking for a first taste. Definitely recommended.

“The Seductive Art of Japanese Bondage”. From ornately decorative to excruciatingly stringent, Japanese rope bondage is an art which has developed over centuries of martial and erotic practice. Now, accomplished Japanese-born educator and practitioner Midori shows step by step how to achieve beautiful and exciting Japanese bondage on a variety of genders and body types.

Each chapter starts with a spectacular, tasteful full-color photo of the finished bondage pose – harnesses, hogties, standing and bent-over poses and more – then goes back and explains with text and line art how each rope and knot is placed to achieve the final result. Readers can use the detailed instructions to experiment safely and erotically with their own partners – or simply enjoy viewing the results of Midori’s expertise. Large softcover, 165 pages.

“13 Years of Bondage: The Photography of Rick Castro”, is a hardcover monograph book containing over 120 stunning duotone images, primarily featuring nude men in bondage or heavily fetishized context. Not for the faint of heart, 13 Years of Bondage showcases Castro’s well-known homoerotic photography through powerful images intertwined with rope and leather, intimately documenting the ties that bind.

A critical essay precedes Castro’s breathtaking images, written by Art Critic and Curator Edward Lucie-Smith, as well as a Foreword by Leather Museum & International Mr. Leather founder Chuck Renslow. Additional texts are also featured, by acclaimed author/filmmaker Clive Barker, and Catherine Johnson, Curator of Special Collections – The Kinsey Institute for Research in Gender and Sex. Hardcover – 128 pages with over 120 duo-tone plates.

“Rick Castro’s extraordinary photographs give us a welcome taste of the forbidden in this age of sanitized, deodorized and commercialized erotica. There is the unmistakable tang of the human about Rick’s subjects. They are living, suffering and occasionally ecstatic men whose experiences are written on their faces and recorded in their tattoos. This is not a book for people who want to live in a fantasy world of airbrushed perfection and implanted symmetries. It is a book for everybody who wants to remember the first rush that came with a peek at the illicit, the taboo. Most of all it is very, very sexy.” -Clive Barker.