Bondage is a practice based on the immobilization of a person’s body. The word ‘bondage’ comes from being a French word that means slavery. Using ropes, chains, handcuffs, or fabrics, the person is tied in a part of his body or in his entirety, it is even possible to blindfold or gag him to deprive him of his sensory abilities.
Bondage is a practice that has been recognized lately due to the understanding of certain taboos and the freedom that the new female generation has been allowed when it comes to living their sexuality, this according to the sexologist Fernando Calero, «Now, they know their body better and they take advantage of their erotic capacity, which is much greater than that of men. That is why things that were previously unthinkable because they were extravagant, are now part of the erotic games of millions of couples.”
The antecedents of ‘bondage’ are recognized in the East, when restraints were used as prison punishment. It would be between the year 1400 and 1700, when in Japan it was acquiring an artistic sense, which would be known as ‘Shibari’. The first practices of bondage arrived with the Middle Ages in Western Europe, while, in the United States, its implementation was not known until the late 1940sand the clandestine distribution of erotic comics such as ‘Gwendoline’ and ‘The Princess Elaine’.
The ‘bondage’ is motivated by the sexual pleasure that a person can feel when being immobilized. There are those who elevate the experience to the point of being suspended in the air with the same ties, being described as a ceremony of a spiritual nature.
In fact, a study conducted by scientists at Northern Illinois University showed that bondage practices can alter the state of consciousness in the same way that meditation, relaxation and yoga practices do. That is to say, that the ‘bondage’ allows to reduce the levels of anxiety and stress.
The research pointed out that in general, the practices of ‘bondage’, domination, submission, and masochism, integrated under the acronym, ‘BDSM’, allow the person subjected to immobilization or submission to reduce the functions in the cerebral cortex where Executive control and working memory are found. facilitating the discharge of endorphins, inducing relaxation and deep rest, just as if you were performing focused concentration exercises such as yoga and meditation practices. For greater consolidation of the result, the experimental group, made up of 14 people, randomly exchanged their roles with each ‘BDSM’ practice.
Being one of the best known sexual tendencies, ‘bondage’ is also a different way of raising adrenaline, passion, and desire in the couple. However, the sexologist, Ezequiel Peralta points out that care must prevail to prevent marks, burns or excess enthusiasm, which leads him to experience an uncomfortable sexual emergency.