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Context, planning, risk management and safety:
- Understanding BDSM and “The Scene” in general
Am I normal? (Yes!), Are there others like me (Yes. Many!), How can I find them?, Is it safe to do so? What is “The Scene” really like? What are the expectations? - Consent
What it is, what it is not, what is a consent violation, what is not, and how to handle one should it occur. - A Framework for Negotiating and Planning a Successful BDSM Encounter/Scene – Finding a partner, vetting them, negotiation, planning, risk & safety, setting up & conducting a scene, aftercare, and emotional processing after a scene.
- Scene Negotiation & Planning
Including detailed safety & risk management, Common Risks When Using Rope and Nerves & Circulation - Scene Negotiation and Planning Tools like
- Suspension Preparation and Safety Planning
Foundations of Rope Bondage (a.k.a. Rope 101 & Rope 102)
Foundations of Rope Bondage is a series of XX tutorials that start from the ground and help you build all the skills you need for a solid understand of core rope bondage. Some people have a happy life of rope-filled adventures using only this material!
- Understanding the BDSM Scene, Negotiation, Safety, Risk Management & Finding a Local Mentor
- Rope itself – Choosing rope, creating your rope kit, handling rope, coiling and storing rope.
- The 4 Fundamental Knots
- Core Single Column Ties – several techniques for creating a rope “cuff” with a lead that can be attached to something else
- Core Double Column Ties – Wrist-to-wrists, ankle-ankle, ankle-thigh, wrist-thigh, wrist-ankle, elbow-elbow, …the list goes on…
- Building Blocks – A few core techniques that will allow you to do so much more! Including extending rope if you need more and using up rope if you have too much.
- A few Core Harnesses – Shinju, Pentagram Harness, Unchastity Belt and more!
In Flogger Forge you will find a growing collection of knots and techniques that you can use to create floggers of your own design! Here are a few examples of what you can create!
Member Tutorials in the Easy Category + selected samples of Intermediate & Advanced!
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A BDSM Experience and Curiosity Checklist
What is a "Hell, Yes!!"? What is a "Hell, No!"? What is a "?" Explore the list to expand your horizons!
A Framework for Successful BDSM Encounters
If you include these important elements, you are much more likely to have a successful BDSM (or other) encounter.
A Kinky Education List
Some people are just here for the artistry, some people want to learn more. Here is a good place to start for both new and experienced players.
Aftercare & Post-Scene Processing
The few minutes immediately after your scene are incredibly important in creating a wonderful overall experience.
Applying a Handcuff Knot
This is how to properly apply the various handcuff knots on this site, making them almost inescapable!
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Bikini Harness
This is a very simple and popular harness and a good first layer upon which to build additional bondage
Bondage Belt
Here is one technique to integrate two cuffs into a single rope belt, making it a Bondage Belt 🙂
Bondage Belt w Happy Strap
This bondage belt features to integrated wrist cuffs to keep your partner's hands controlled, plus a little teaser to make them wish they weren't!
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Building Blocks – Junctions
What choices you have when two ropes cross each other -- Twist, Crossing Hitch, Cow Hitch -- and how they are related
Building Core Strength
Whether you would like to hold your hips up or be more comfortable in suspension, core strength is key
Bulldog Harness
The classic bulldog harness. Done with rope!
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Bulldog Harness – X Back
The classic bulldog harness, done with rope. This time with a decorative X back!
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Bunny Ties
Tie your partner’s wrists behind their neck in such a way that their elbows stick up like bunny ears!
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Burlington Bowline
A very fast, very stable single column tie. Once you master it, it takes only 20-30 seconds to tie
Burlington Bowline – Inline
A very fast, very stable single column tie. Once you master it, it takes only 20-30 seconds to tie
Cat’s Paw Single Column
This single column is very fast to create and apply. While technically a sliding knot, properly applied it will not cinch down
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Chain Stitch Single Column
This is a single column tie that is rapid to apply
Chain Stitch Thigh Cuffs
A method for putting bands around the thighs as a starting point for other layers of bondage.
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Chair Tie Example – Armless Chair
How to apply a few well-known techniques to tie your partner to an armless kitchen chair!
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Chair Tie Example – Folding Chair
How to apply a few well-known techniques to tie your partner to a folding chair!
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Chair Tie Example – Legs-Up
Another way to do a chair tie using nothing but easy ties ... this one with their legs up!
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Chair Ties (A Mini Course)
A modular mini-course showing many ways to tie your partner to a chair!
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Choosing Rope
What type of rope should you use?
Choosing Suspension Rope
Members Only - Suspension - What type of rope do you need for your suspension support lines ("up lines")
Christmas Inspiration!
Use colorful ropes to bring holiday cheer to your bondage!
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Christmas Tree Party Top
Christmas Tree Party Top, v1
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Classic (Square Knot) Double Column
When a rigger says simply “Double Column” this is probably what they are talking about (or you can use any DC you like).
Cleopatra Chest Weave
The Cleopatra Chest Weave is a wonderful harness with many fun variations. You can keep it simple or get quite complex.
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Coiling & Storing Rope
Here are a few ways to coil and/or store your ropes
Continuing Your Rope Education
When people engage in BDSM activities, they put tremendous trust in each other. There are risks. You need to understand those risks and manage them.
Continuous Reverse Gauntlet
This is one simple method to add gauntlets to your outfit or that of your partner
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Crossing Hitch (Munter Hitch or Nodome)
A Crossing Hitch, or Nodome, is used to anchor two cords that cross each other. Often used in shibari to make a tie more stable
Doggy Style Harness
For … some reason … many of us *love* to have our partner bent over. Well, here is one way to make sure they cannot stand fully straight up again without permission.
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Extended Lark’s Head Double Column
This is the Extended Double Column. It can bind two things that cannot be place closely together, like your elbows
Extending Rope
Three way to add rope to your tie if you need a bit more...
False Lover’s Knot
This attractive cross-shaped knot can add a decorative layer to a tie.
Fast Bowline / Eskimo Bowline
This is a very fast forward-tension single column cuff
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Finding a local mentor
There are many people out there that can help give you face-to-face training and mentorship. How do you find them?
Finding a Play Partner
If you are looking for a partner with whom to explore rope, go where such people may be more easily found!
Fishnets
Fishnets! 'Nough said!
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Flogging Cuff
This single column is very fast to create and apply. It is not intended to be secure; it is more intended to help your partner stay in position
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Forced Orgasm Belt (Prusik)
This simple modification of the Unchastity Belt allows you to install a wand vibrator
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Frog Tie
A frog tie is just a double column tie applied in such a way so as to tie the ankle to the thigh
Full Body Hishi Karada
Here is a simple extension of the Hishi Karada to run down the full body
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General Scene Negotiation & Planning
This is the foundation of authentic, informed consent.
Gift Wrapping Yourself 1
Here are a number of ideas how to use Easy ties to make a gift of yourself...
Gote Shibari
Gote Shibari (aka the "Takate Kote" or "TK") is an very popular box tie used by riggers around the world!
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Hair Ties
Incorporate your partner's hair into a rope bondage scene!
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Half-Hitches
This simple wrap of rope around an object is a basic building block of many other knots
Handling – Locking Off
When instructions just say "lock it off" it usually means that it doesn't really matter how. Here are a few common ways.
Handling – Moving Rope
How to move rope like an experienced rigger!
Handling – Using Up Extra Rope
How to use up extra rope when your main tie is complete.
Handling Rope While Tying
Understanding how to move rope efficiently, add more if you need to, use up extra rope at the end and modify a tie for different body types are all important skills.
Hanukkah Harness
Decorate your partner with the Star of David this holiday season!
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Heart Ladder
Add decorative hearts to an series of bands!
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Heel Tie – Stirrup Style
Like high heels on your partner? Want to keep them from kicking them off?
Heel Tie – Top Weave Style
Like high heels on your partner? Want to keep them from kicking them off?
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Hishi Karada (‘Rope Dress’)
This body harness, with its diamond patterns and tight lacing, is lovely and stimulating for both parties
Hog Tie (Accessible)
An Accessible Hogtie is one in which you can still access your partner's sex with relative ease
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Hog Tie (Simple/Classic)
The hog tie is one of the most simple full-body ties. It can be extremely challenging for the bottom, so the top should understand a few key things.
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Hojo Cuff
A quick way to add a cuff in the middle of your rope!
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Karada Hobbleskirt
Restrict your partner's ability to walk at any real speed with a hobble skirt. This one is in the Karada style and has many options!
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Kikkou Hip Harness
This "strappy" hip harness leaves things in the middle free for use... This is the original version
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Kikkou Hip Harness – Locked
This "strappy" hip harness leaves things in the middle free for use... This version is more stable and holds its shape better as your partner moves
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Kikkou Karada
This body harness is very similar to the Hishi Karada, but instead of diamond patterns it has hexagons 🙂
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Lark’s Head Double Column
This reverse-tension double column is simple to apply and is snug and secure.
Lark’s Head Knot
This is one of the simplest sliding (collapsing) knots. It should not be used for bondage directly, but is often the first step in other ties
Lark’s Head Single Column
This reverse-tension single column is attractive, lies relatively flat, and is very secure.
Leash
This is a simple and rapid method of collaring your partner with rope
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Light Elbow Harness
A simple, highly effective, highly adjustable elbow harness
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Lightning Harness
This is fast and can be made wonderfully tight. Unlike the majority of what we do, it starts at one end of a rope not in the middle.
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Load-bearing Double Column
If you plan to have any tension or load on your double column, you need to do so in such a way that the cords of the cuffs don't cinch down more tightly
Loop-Chain Evening Dress
Once you know this simple and versatile tie, all sorts of ropey fashions are possible!
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Loop-Chain Harness
Once you know this simple and versatile tie, all sorts of ropey fashions are possible!
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Loop-Chain Thigh-Highs
Once you know this simple and versatile tie, all sorts of ropey fashions are possible!
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Malasana Tie
This tie keeps your partner’s legs open by binding the knees up near the shoulders.
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Multi-loop Handcuffs
This is pretty much the same as the Quick Cuffs, but with more loops so it looks a little cooler
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Munenawa
This is a very simple chest harness and is the basis for many others
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Nerves & Circulation
Understanding nerves and circulation and how they may be impacted by rope is critical to reducing the risk of rope bondage.
Overhand | Double Overhand
This simple knot is commonly used to finish the end of a rope so it does not fray or as a stop knot
Pentagram (Star) Harness v1
Very attractive and somewhat unusual, this harness can be a fun binding for your favorite witch. 🙂
Pentagram Harness v2
This attractive harness can be lots of fun for religious- or occult-themed scenes.
Prusik Anchor
This is an adjustable anchor for rope single columns or shackles
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Prusik Cuffs
This quick-capture knot (takes less than a minute!) is very difficult to escape from when properly applied
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Prusik Head
This monumentally cool knot can be adjusted, but locks down when under tension!
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Prusik Shackle
This is a quick-capture knot that is can be quickly and easily adjusted on the fly by the top without untying it, but it cannot be adjusted by the bottom
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Prusik Single Column
This is a reverse-tension single column that only requires one tail pull! (Most require 2 or 3)
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Quick Cuffs (‘Texas Handcuffs’)
This is a rapid technique to make rope handcuffs
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Redmayne Strap-on
One method of creating your own custom-fitted strap-on using only rope
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Redmayne Strap-on (Ring)
One method of creating your own custom-fitted strap-on with rope and a ring
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Risks When Using Rope
Rope bondage is not safe. There are risks. Your #1 priority is to make sure you understand and manage those risks.
Rope Length & Thickness
What thicknesses and lengths of rope should I have in my kit?
Scene Negotiation Forms
Here are some forms to help guide negotiations prior to a scene.
Scene Planning & Safety
Information helpful for planning out your suspension scene, including additional safety information
Server’s Hand Catch (Limb Binding)
Also known as the “Chicken Wing”, this is a special form of Limb Binding that keeps your partner's hand extended backward
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Setting Up & Conducting a Scene
The time has arrived for the scene you negotiated and planned. Take time beforehand to set things up for success!
Shinju
This classic chest harness, known and practiced by riggers throughout the world, is simple, secure and, when applied properly, can be used for suspension.
Small Fiber Neuropathy
A person with SFN may experience pain or other sensations in ways or to degrees that you might not expect.
Somerville Bowline
This single-column tie requires no tail pulls and can therefore be applied when one end of the rope is already attached to something!
Spiral Futomomo
This classic tie is used to bind the ankle tightly to the thigh and distribute the force of the tie across the entire leg
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Square Knot | Surgeon’s Knot
Pretty much the most basic knot for holding to ends of rope together. Used to "tie off" or "finish off" many ties
Square Knot Single Column
When someone says just “Single Column” with no other name, this is probably what they are talking about
Stretching for … Access from Behind
If you like being taken from behind, it is fun to have good hip flexibility so you can bend over comfortably
Stretching for Box Ties
The key to being able to do a box tie or to get your elbows close together is flexibility in your *shoulders*
Suspenders & Garters
Minimalist suspenders and garters that can be a fun base for other bondage!
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Suspension
Suspension Central. All suspension tutorials start here.
Suspension – Top or Bottom, Are you ready for suspension?
Who can suspend? Who can be suspended? Are you ready?
Swiss Seat
A simple waist harness that is an excellent choice for seated or face-up suspensions
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The Inescapable
This eel-controlling tie, properly applied, is virtually impossible to escape from!
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The Solomon G-String
A simple rope G-String made with the Solomon Bar ... it can have a surprising hidden purpose!
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Twisted 8 Tube Top
Members Only - This is an application of the ideas taught in the Bra tutorial. This time we create a kind of Tube Top!
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Tying Various Body Types
Most ties can be modified to work with a wide range of different body types using only a few techniques.
Unchastity Belt
Commonly known by the awful name "Crotch Rope", this simple waist harness has a little teasing feature. Think of it as an un-chastity belt made from rope 🙂
Unchastity Belt Cuffs
Here is how to add Wrist Cuffs to an Unchastity Belt after-the-fact!
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Understanding “the Scene”
"The Scene" or "The Community" is a vibrant subculture. Like all subcultures, they have expectations that you need to understand and respect if you are to be successful.
Vetting a Potential Play Partner
So you met someone that you think you might like to play with. Vet them first! See if they are known to the local community and what reputation they have.
Vine Futomomo
This attractive futomomo features a vine-like pattern created by the repeated use of the Half Hitch
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What’s next? Vote!
Members get to vote on what tutorial will be added next!
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Wrap & Cinch Double Column
This forward-tension double column is simple to apply and is snug and secure.