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Chapter 2






                                                                                                                                                                               The History of




                                                                                                                                                                                 Rope Bondage









                                                                                                                                                                  Rope bondage has arguably been a “thing” since the first criminal got an er-
                                                                                                                                                                  rant boner from the feeling of rough rope binding his hands and feet together,

                                                                                                                                                                  but rope bondage as an art form and a means of sexual expression has a much

                                                                                                                                                                  more interesting history. In fact, it has two very distinct histories. Modern rope
                                                                                                                                                                  bondage, as I describe it in this book, is actually a fusion of a number of different
                                                                                                                                                                  styles from both the Eastern and Western schools of rope bondage. While you

                                                                                                                                                                  can find riggers who still work solely in the Eastern or Western style, the type of

                                                                                                                                                                  rope bondage that I prefer and the ties that my team and I have helped create
                                                                                                                                                                  bring together both styles with a new modern twist, creating something truly
                                                                                                                                                                  unique—a fusion that brings the best from both sides of the world and ushers

                                                                                                                                                                  it into the bedroom, where it belongs! But let’s take a kinky little history trip to

                                                                                                                                                                  better understand the evolution of how rope bondage came from criminals to
                                                                                                                                                                  the art gallery.






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