As a form of Bondage this is the family of Bondage that uses rope to achieve this. The term Rope Bondage has grown in places where it is now considered "bondage" even without the restraining factor of what the rope does. This predominantly due to more activities being introduces such as self-tying, rope dressing, Rope Play and other applications of rope bondage in places that do not always have a connection to the BDSM/kink community.

Roles

Common roles in Rope Bondage are:

• Rigger / Rope Top
• Rope Bat
• Rope Bottom / Rope Bunny / Rope Model
• Rope Self-Tier
• Rope Switch

Styles

There are many different styles, but predominantly there is Western Bondage and Japanese Bondage. In more modern applications both people in the west as well as people in and around Japan are moving also towards a Japanese Hybrid where some safety and style elements are taken from western bondage and applied with the Japanese philosophy.

Within Japanese Bondage there is Shibari / Kinbaku, Semenawa and Aibunawa