Bondage within BDSM represents the area of bondage, for which the acronym BDSM means B. However, the scene does not agree on whether bondage games really belong to the BDSM practices, since they are also very common outside this group. Also many lovers of Vanillasex have realized that the immobilization of the partner can be very attractive.

Basically, as with almost all of these practices, bondage and educational games can also be transferred to the areas of dominance and submission or sadism and masochism. However, they can also be practised as an independent preference, detached from other practices. The attraction of bondage games is especially the increase of sexual tension. The fact that the prisoner gives up control completely and enters a situation of helplessness usually stimulates the prisoner. Many lovers of this erotic variety enjoy letting themselves fall completely into their feelings and accepting what their partner commands them to do. In addition, the shackles can cause a pleasure pain by friction, which additionally constitutes the attraction of being shackled.

The active person, on the other hand, pulls his sexual stimulant from the position of power over the tied partner. Within this role play any political correctness can be dropped and power and dominance give him pleasure in the erotic subordination of his partner.

In the meantime, an entire branch of industry is dedicated to the manufacture of utensils with which the passive person can be made immobile. While for some the bondage with conventional ropes, handcuffs or chains already has a desire-increasing effect, others enjoy or prefer special bondage tools made of satin, stretch rubber, in lacquer optics, with velvet bows and rhinestones and other utensils with erotic optics and haptics.

Also a set of further aids can bring about an additional pleasure gain. These include in particular the x-shaped St. Andrew's cross, to which the submissive partner is tied with spread legs and outstretched arms. Other aids include blindfolds, face masks, spreader beds, pulleys and much more.

The type of bondage can only affect parts of the body such as the hands and feet. But also whole body bondage is used especially for mummification. This is a special bondage technique in which the body of the bondaged person is completely covered. The partner is laced in a bag made of latex or leather. Also special bondage tape can be used for it. This type of play is often combined with breathing reduction games.

A similar type of play is weaving, in which the tied one is completely tied up with ropes, or wrapping bondage. There are no limits to the imagination of the participants. However, especially in bondage games the rules of safe, sane and consensual should be observed.  

Fesselspiele repräsentieren innerhalb des BDSM den Bereich Bondage (Fesselung), für den im Akronym BDSM das B steht. Allerdings ist sich die Szene nicht ganz einig darüber, ob Fesselspiele tatsächlich den BDSM-Praktiken zuzuordnen sind, da sie auch außerhalb dieser Gruppe sehr verbreitet sind. Auch viele Liebhaber des Vanillasex haben erkannt, dass die Immobilisierung des Partners sehr reizvoll sein kann.