Experimentation and mutual discussion is helpful with deciding on ties. For example, your wife will probably have ideas of certain ways that she might be bound which would be felt as “sexy” by her. Find out about these things. Her ideas will be illuminating. Take advantage of her ingenuity; she has plenty of it. You, too, of course, will have ideas. You have doubtless fantasized naked women, bound or chained in certain attitudes. Now, in your enacted fantasies, you can have these delicious erotic dreams as reality. There she is, as you have dreamed her, at your mercy. You approach her. You do with her what you please.

The following are some suggestions in connection with ties. Others have been mentioned here and there in the book. Obviously those mentioned in the book, and those following are not exhaustive.

Imagination and experimentation are desirable.

Split-legged ties.

The bedposts are useful here. When a woman has her legs tied apart she feels vulnerable. Tie her hands as you wish, together behind her back, together over her head, behind her head, apart to the upper bedposts, etc. You may even leave her hands free.

The chained-body tie.

The simplest is a chained ankle, say, with about five feet of chain, fastened, say, to the leg of the bed. You have her, say, on a comforter, on the floor. She may also be chained by the throat. Another possibility is to chain a wrist, preferably the left, if she is right handed; her right hand, as she becomes excited, must be free to love your body.

Combination-leash-wrist ties.

The hands are bound behind the back, at the end of a long length of rope. The rope is then looped several times about her belly and knotted, the knot at her navel; she may then be led by this. Another such tie is to loop the rope, or strap, about her throat three or four times, and use that as the leash. (The free end, in its last turn, must pass under the rope lifting to the neck from the wrists. This way she cannot, by turning her body or dipping her head free herself of the leash. More security, of course, is provided, particularly if one wishes to leave her tethered, untended, for a time, by knotting the rope about her neck.)

Stick-behind-the-back tie.

A stick, drilled or notched, is thrust behind her back, and her arms are brought forward under the stick. Her wrists are then lifted and tied, the cords against her belly. Her arms, near the elbows, are fastened to the stick. This keeps the hands tight to the body.

Handcuff ties.

(With remarks on chaining.)