Bondage

Bondage may refer to:

  • Debt bondage, a modern form of slavery in which people are bound by debt, rather than legal ownership
  • Bondage (BDSM), the practice of tying people up for pleasure
  • Self-bondage, the practice of tying oneself up for pleasure
  • Physical restraint in a more general sense
  • The term bondage is also used figuratively to mean spiritual attachment, such as to the physical world, or an evil compelling force, such as original sin
  • Serfdom
  • Bondage (play), a 1991 play by David Henry Hwang
  • The Bondage, a 2006 film by Eric Allen Bell
  • Bondage (album) a 2009 album by j-pop singer Nana Kitade

Famous quotes containing the word bondage:

    “Consider the value to the race of one-half of its members being enabled to throw aside the intolerable bondage of ignorance that has always weighed them down!”
    —Bertha Honore Potter Palmer (1849–1918)

    “There is a totalitarian regime inside every one of us. We are ruled by a ruthless politburo which sets ours norms and drives us from one five-year plan to another. The autonomous individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.”
    —Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)

    “Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house.”
    —John Stuart Mill (1806–1873)