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Bondage stories
Bondage stories are erotic fiction where one partner is tied or restrained by another, because both of them want that. The rope matters less than what it does: one person stops having to decide anything, and the other has to pay very close attention.
A lot of what ranks for this search is old forum writing that’s hard to read and short on people. We’re after something else. Every story here is between adults who chose it, and who could stop it with a word. Below is what makes these stories work, three openings to read, and how to ask for your own.
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Chapter 1 is public. You choose how chapter 2 goes.
- metime · house storyKnot TheoryNo. 300BondageKnot TheoryHer girlfriend studies knots on paper. Tamsin ties them for a living. One rainy Sunday, the mathematician asks for a demonstration.Bondage · Rope · 7 min
- metime · house storyRope RescueNo. 347BondageRope RescueThree years on the same volunteer rescue team. A training weekend, an empty cabin, and a knot Cole wants to show him again, not on the dummy.Bondage · Gay romance · 7 min
- metime · house storyFinal FittingNo. 147BondageFinal FittingShe's spent thirty years making other people stand still. Now she'd like to know what it's like. Her husband, a tax preparer, has bought a book.Bondage · Silk · 7 min
- metime · house storyThe Ninth WrapNo. 297BondageThe Ninth WrapA textile conservator signs up for a rope class to understand a knot. The man teaching it has the slowest hands she's ever seen.Bondage · Shibari · 7 min
- metime · house storyOn BelayNo. 318BondageOn BelayHe's held her rope on a hundred climbs. Now he's asked her, very badly, whether she'd mind tying him up.Bondage · Rope · 5 min
What makes a bondage story work
- Slow hands. Tying someone takes time, and that time is the story. Each knot is a moment to look at each other, to make a joke or to stop joking.
- The details of the thing. The smell of jute, a silk tie borrowed from the closet, a bad knot that has to be redone. Concrete details make a reader believe it.
- Why this person? You don’t let just anyone do this. The trust has a history, even if it’s only been a week.
- Who holds the power is an open question. The person tied up often has more say than it looks. They chose it, and they can end it.
- Untying. Rubbing the marks out, a warm drink, the talk afterward. Good writers know this is part of the scene. See aftercare.
Three openings
Three openings written for this page. They stop well before anything explicit. Open one to read how it starts.
Practice Rope
A sailmaker knows every knot there is. Her best friend asks her to teach him one, and it isn’t for a boat.
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“It’s called a double column tie,” Eli said. He was reading off his phone, and his ears were red. “For, you know. Wrists.”
Greta looked up from the mainsail spread across her loft floor. She had known Eli for fourteen years. He’d once needed her help to fold a map.
“Who’s it for?”
“Nobody. Yet. I just thought, you’re the only person I know who actually knows knots.” He put the phone face down. “Forget it. It’s weird.”
She got up, crossed the loft and pulled a length of soft line off the rack. She ran it through her fingers, then held out her hand.
“You’ll need something to practice on,” she said. “Give me your wrist, and then I’ll give you mine.”
What happens next?
- She teaches him, slowly, one knot at a time
- He asks her who she’s tied before
- Skip to a week later, when he comes back with his own rope
The Silk Tie
Twenty years of wedding-guest neckties, and Nina has finally thought of a use for them.
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Nina was supposed to be clearing out Paul’s closet for the charity drive. She had a pile for keeping and a pile for giving away, and she’d been sitting between them for ten minutes with a burgundy silk tie wound around her hand.
He came in with the laundry basket and stopped.
“You hate that one,” he said.
“I do.” She pulled it tight around her knuckles and let it go. “It’s very strong, though. Did you know that? For something so thin.”
Paul put the basket down on the bed, slowly, like a man who’d been married twenty years and could still be surprised.
“How many of them are we keeping?” he said.
What happens next?
- “All of them.”
- She hands him the tie and turns around
- She tells him what she’s been reading
Tuesday Class
Partners rotate every twenty minutes at the rope class. Julian keeps hoping the rotation will stop on Sam.
Read the opening
The studio smelled of floor wax and hemp. Mei, who taught the class, clapped twice, and everyone moved one mat to the left.
Julian sat down across from Sam for the third Tuesday running. He’d started checking the order of the mats in the parking lot.
“Chest harness,” Sam said, holding out the rope. He had a carpenter’s hands and a sunburned neck. “You’re tying. Last week you got the first wrap wrong.”
“I got distracted.”
“I know.” Sam turned around on the mat and lifted his arms out of the way. He looked back over his shoulder. “Go slower this time.”
What happens next?
- Julian asks him for coffee after class
- Mei notices, and pairs them up for the whole session
- Sam offers a private lesson at his workshop
Setups readers ask for
- Learning together, with a book, a video and a lot of laughing.
- Rope as an art. Some readers want the patience and beauty of Japanese rope work: see what shibari is.
- Household items, like scarves, belts and neckties, for the couple who decided on a Sunday afternoon.
- The partner who wants to be the one tied, and says so, which is often the bravest moment in the story.
- Restraint as part of a bigger dynamic. See BDSM stories and femdom stories.
Get one written your way
Ask for it in your own words: a rope teacher and a skeptical engineer who keeps correcting her knots
. metime writes chapter one while you read, then you pick what happens next or write it yourself. Explicit chapters sit behind sign-up and an age check. This is fiction, by the way. If you want to try rope in real life, take a class from someone who teaches it. It isn’t risk-free, and a story won’t teach you that.
Questions
What are bondage stories?
Bondage stories are erotic fiction where one partner is tied or restrained by another, by agreement. They can use anything from silk scarves to rope, and they’re usually as much about trust and attention as about the restraint.
What’s the difference between bondage and BDSM stories?
Bondage is about being tied or restrained. BDSM is the wider family: bondage, discipline, dominance, submission and more. A bondage story might have no power play at all, and many BDSM stories have no rope.
Is everyone in these stories willing?
Yes, always. Every character is an adult, everyone wants to be there, and a refusal holds. On metime, restraint is only ever something both people chose, however a request is worded.
Is it free to read?
The openings here are free. On metime, the first three chapters of your first two stories are free, with no card. After that there are three plans, from $6.99 to $14.99 every 30 days. Paid plans open soon; until then, nothing is charged.
Updated October 31, 2026. Written with AI at metime. Examples on this page were written for it; every character in them is an adult.