Rope, Bondage, and Power
A 2009 anthology edited by Lee Harrington in which some twenty riggers and rope partners write about why they tie and how rope relates to power exchange.
Rope, Bondage, and Power is an anthology edited by Lee Harrington and published by Nazca Plains in March 2009 in its Power Exchange Books line. Hares & Hyenas lists it as a 173-page paperback, and English Wikipedia includes it in Harrington’s bibliography under 2009.
Unlike a manual, the book is about why people tie rather than how. The publisher’s description, as quoted by Hares & Hyenas, says it gathers the views of prominent riggers on the reasons behind their art, on the power exchange that rope can carry and on the intimacy it can create. In a post announcing its release, Harrington wrote that the project grew from seven planned authors to seventeen essays plus his own foreword, by about twenty contributors from the United States, England, Australia and Germany, with cover art by Lochai.
The contributors Harrington lists include Graydancer, Zamil, Esinem (Bruce Argue), Madison Young, Van Darkholme, JD of Two Knotty Boys, Tonbi and Sarah Sloane. Their subjects range from gender and class to Chinese medicine as a model for moving energy, finding a suitable partner, performance anxiety and setting intent in a scene. Harrington said that part of the proceeds would go to the Leather Archives and Museum, the Woodhull Foundation and the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom.