Power Exchange Books: Ropes, Bondage and Power

There is no other book currently in print that covers such a wide range of topics for rope enthusiasts.  There are many extraordinary rope books in print, but they are almost exclusively guides to how one goes about learning this art.  Said differently, virtually all the rope books in print are meant to help readers learn the how of rope bondage.  That’s not what this book does.  This book shares the views of seventeen prominent riggers as they explain the why of their art.  


This book is about the power of rope.  This book is also about the power exchange aspect of rope.  Even more that that, this book is about the intimacy of rope.  


You stripped me

out of my defenses

and replaced each layer of armor with rough cord

Hands thrown back

you held me in my place

in my place in your arms


(“With My Ankles In The Air” by Lee “Bridgett” Harrington first appeared in print in Raven Kaldera’s anthology Dark

Moon Rising: Pagan BDSM and the Ordeal Path from Asphodel Press, 2006.)