Bondage may refer to:
Restraints
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Physical restraint
Physical restraint refers to means of purposely limiting or obstructing the freedom of a person's bodily movement.
Basic methods
Usually, binding objects such as handcuffs, legcuffs, ropes, chains, straps or straitjackets are used fo ...
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Bondage (BDSM)
Bondage in the BDSM subculture, is the practice of consensually tying, binding, or restraining a partner for erotic, aesthetic, or somatosensory stimulation. A partner may be physically restrained in a variety of ways, including the use o ...
, use of restraint for erotic stimulation
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Self-bondage
Self-bondage refers to the use of restraints on oneself for erotic pleasure. It is a form of erotic bondage which can be practiced alone.
Self-bondage is characterized by experimentation and ingenuity, and can be riskier than conventional bond ...
, use of restraints on oneself for erotic pleasure
Social and economic practices
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Serfdom
Serfdom was the status of many peasants under feudalism, specifically relating to manorialism, and similar systems. It was a condition of debt bondage and indentured servitude with similarities to and differences from slavery, which develop ...
, feudal enslavement of peasants
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Debt bondage
Debt bondage, also known as debt slavery, bonded labour, or peonage, is the pledge of a person's services as security for the repayment for a debt or other obligation. Where the terms of the repayment are not clearly or reasonably stated, the pe ...
, a form of slavery which pledges debtors' labor or services as security for repayment of debt
In arts and entertainment
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''Bondage'' (1917 film), by American director Ida May Park
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''Bondage'' (1933 film), by American director Alfred Santell
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''Bondage'' (2006 film), by American director Eric Allen Bell
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''Bondage'' (play), 1991 work by Chinese-American playwright David Henry Hwang
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''Bondage'' (album), 2009 album by J-pop singer Nana Kitade
Other uses
*Spiritual attachment, such as to physical world or evil compelling force, such as
original sin
Original sin is the Christian doctrine that holds that humans, through the fact of birth, inherit a tainted nature in need of regeneration and a proclivity to sinful conduct. The biblical basis for the belief is generally found in Genesis 3 ...
See also
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Bondsman (disambiguation)
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