How to Be Knotty ─ The Essential Guide to Modern Rope Bondage

If you’ve mastered the basics of rope bondage, where do you go from here? How can you enhance your bondage scenes with your partner? What safety considerations come with intermediate bondage? What is the difference between ties for sex and ties for art? What are the benefits of having different types of rope? How do you find quality equipment, and where do you get it from? How do you take your passion out of the bedroom? All of these questions and more are answered in How to be Knotty: The Essential Guide to Modern Rope Bondage.

How to be Knotty: The Essential Guide to Modern Rope Bondage is intended for those who have a little experience with rope bondage and want to learn more. Whether you’ve been tying for years or have already read one bondage book and want to know more, Morpheous’s easy-to-understand teaching style and phenomenal full-color photos will show you exactly how to achieve each tie, and how to safely and sexily bring intermediate rope bondage into your sex life.

If you’ve read Morpheous’ other books, How to be Kinky: A Beginner’s Guide to BDSM and How to be Kinkier: More Adventures in Adult Playtime, you’ll already love Morpheous’ fun, relatable writing style and his fresh, modern take on rope bondage. Fusing traditional eastern and western bondage styles together and adding a contemporary twist of his own, Morpheous shows you how to create beautiful and sensual ties that tantalize your rope bunny and your audience in equal measure.

This Beginner’s Guide addresses all aspects of enhancing your sex life with kinky play. Singles and couples who are new to the scene will appreciate material on the basics of BDSM play and role playing, how to turn your bedroom into a den of iniquity, discovering kinky uses for common household objects, proper protocols and etiquette at fetish events, the physiological and psychological aspects of pleasure and pain, and how to maintain physical and emotional safety during play.

This indispensable guide is fully illustrated, with gorgeous and erotic full-color photos throughout. With over 20 easy-to-follow photo essays showing you exactly how to successfully achieve each tie, and chapters covering safety, equipment, and the different schools of rope bondage (as well as how to combine them), How to be Knotty: The Essential Guide to Modern Rope Bondage gives you everything you need to advance in rope bondage. As always with Morpheous’ books, communication, fun, and safety are at the forefront of this fantastic intermediate rope guide. You’ll never be bored on a Friday night again.

Morpheous is a Canadian sex educator, author, photographer, and kinkster. This is his third book for Green Candy Press, following on the heels of his popular BDSM books How to be Kinky: A Beginner’s Guide to BDSM and How to be Kinkier: More Adventures in Adult Playtime. Morpheous’s work is archived in the Sexual Representation Collection of the University of Toronto’s Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies, at the Leather Archives and Museum in Chicago, and at the National Archives of Canada.

Morpheous has taught a variety of workshops on rope bondage, the aesthetics of bondage, fetish photography, advanced and beginner BDSM, and workshops catered to professional dominants and submissives. He travels and presents regularly, doing outreach to both academic and kink-aware safer sex organizations as well as performing in rope bondage expos the world over.

He is also the founder of Morpheous’ Bondage Extravaganza, an annual rope bondage art installation that has grown over the years into the world’s largest public rope bondage event, with upwards of 6,000 events across three cities with 75,000 more watching online. Though the event started as a part of Toronto’s annual Nuit Blanche all-night art festival, it has recently expanded to include another MBE night in Orlando, FL.