Bondage may refer to:
- Debt bondage, a modern form of slavery in which people are bound by debt, rather than legal ownership
- Bondage (BDSM), the practice of tying people up for pleasure
- Self-bondage, the practice of tying oneself up for pleasure
- Physical restraint in a more general sense
- The term bondage is also used figuratively to mean spiritual attachment, such as to the physical world, or an evil compelling force, such as original sin
- Serfdom
- Bondage (play), a 1991 play by David Henry Hwang
- The Bondage, a 2006 film by Eric Allen Bell
- Bondage (album) a 2009 album by j-pop singer Nana Kitade
Famous quotes containing the word bondage:
“Thus I alone, where all my freedom grew,
In prison pine with bondage and restraint;
And with remembrance of the greater grief
To banish the less, I find my chief relief.”
—Henry Howard, Earl Of Surrey (1517?–1547)
“In her present ignorance, woman’s religion, instead of making her noble and free, by the wrong application of great principles of right and justice, has made her bondage but more certain and lasting, her degradation more hopeless and complete.”
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902)
“Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)