Bondage
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In its most basic sense, the word bondage refers to the state or condition of being bound to an unfree labor system, as in slavery, indentured servitude, or serfdom. More generally, "bondage" may refer to any state of subjection to a force, influence, or power. The word bondage is derived from the Middle English bonde ("serf"), which came from the Old English (Anglo-Saxon) word bōnda ("husbandman"), which itself comes from the Old Norse bōndi, the past participle of būa ("to live").
Specific meanings of "bondage" and words with the "bond-" prefix include:
- Debt bondage, a modern form of slavery in which people are bound by debt, rather than legal ownership.
- Bondage (BDSM) in BDSM is the practice of tying people up for sexual pleasure.
- Self bondage in BDSM is the practice of tying oneself up just for fun or for sexual pleasure.
- The term bondage is also used figuratively in religion, to mean spiritual attachment, such as to the physical world, or an evil compelling force, such as original sin.
- A bondmaid is a woman servant.
- A bondman, or bondsman, is a man servant.
- The term "bondsman" is also used in the sense of bail bondsman, a person who provides bonds or surety for another.
Works with titles referring to bondage include:
- Bondage, a 1933 film
- Bondage, a 1991 play by David Henry Hwang
- My Bondage and My Freedom, an autobiographical book by Frederick Douglass
- Bondage, also know as The Bondage, a 2006 play by Eric Allen Bell
[edit] See also
- Atlantic slave trade
- Bond (a disambiguation page)
- Human bonding
- Bondage in Pakistan
- Freeborn
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