At the bed, if you choose to unbind her and ungag her, you may or may not wish to secure her there, or, indeed, on the floor. A length of chain, with two padlocks, fastening her by the left ankle, or the throat, to the bed, might please her. If she does not wish to be secured, of course, then she should not be. All details of the fantasy must be mutually delicious.

Incidentally, in binding a woman or a man, such materials as silken cords, strips of cloth, neckties, etc. will probably be superior to rope. Rope does not hold as well, and, if rough rope, may scratch or irritate the skin. Rope, coarse rope, in my opinion, would detract from the pleasure. In binding, ankles and wrists are commonly crossed, looped about more than once with the binding device, and knotted. Confining the ankles or wrists in solid loops, fastened so that they cannot much give, is superior to looping each ankle or wrist separately. It is easier to free a single wrist, looped and tied separately to the other, than it is to free either wrist when both are bound in the same loops. This has primarily to do with angles and frictions. It is easier to pull an object straight through a ring, if one can do it at all, than it is to pull the object at an oblique angle through the ring. Each wrist of the captive prevents the other from aligning itself parallel to the loop. The captor forces the captive’s body to work against him, in his own favor. Incidentally, one must be careful with bonds. A captive may be perfectly held without being tied particularly tightly. If he needs only a quarter of an inch to free himself and does not have it, he cannot free himself. The bonds should be sufficiently tight that the captive knows himself helpless, but they should not be tight enough to pinch or mark the wrists, or slow the circulation. The captive is playing, as you are. Playing at suffering is one thing; suffering is quite something else; the one can be fun; the other is just painful. The little fellow who pretends he has been shot in the arm, in playing cowboys and Indians, does not really want to be shot in the arm. He is just playing. If the partner requests, at any point, seriously, to be untied or for the bonds to be loosened, immediately do so. If he begs, in play, that they be loosened, or removed, that may be a cue for you that they should be tightened, as though scornfully and callously. One thing to be particularly careful of is any fastening used on the throat. These must always be loose enough to insure free breathing and the individual must never be so situated that he might fall or roll in such a way as to inadvertently tighten such a fastening.