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1. Introduction
2. The Roles & Definitions
3. Basic Psychology of Bondage
4. Types of Bondage Bottoms
5. Matchmaking
6. Figuring Out Your Bottom
7. Play Suggestions

2 – The Roles & Definitions
In the fetish world, people often use different words to describe the same thing. Just to be clear, here are some of my definitions as they’re used here:

• Bondage – The act of physically or psychologically restraining one or more people
• Players – Those engaging in bondage
• Scene – A specific play session (but many comments apply to an ongoing relationship or lifestyle as well)
• Top – The one doing the restraining (Master, Mistress, Daddy, Domina/nt, etc.)
• Bottom - The one being restrained (submissive, slave, boy, etc.)
• Consensual – Everyone involved in the scene consents to what’s happening and derives pleasure from it

This article isn’t about why one person is top and another is bottom. Quite a bit has been written on that controversial subject. If you want more information, you can find some excellent references on the web and in books. I’m going to assume you’re already comfortable in one or both roles (even if you’re a novice).
If you’re mostly or exclusively top, reading further will hopefully shed some light on selecting and understanding bottoms. If you’re mostly or exclusively bottom, especially a novice one, you should be able to better understand your own interests and communicate them to a top. In either case, the point is to enhance communications making for a better scene.
Copyright ©1997 Michael Nelson.