One-line definition
A rope bottom receives the ties in rope bondage, focusing on rope sensation, posture, and body experience.
Full definition
Rope culture is insistent on this: bottoming is a skill. A rope bottom learns their own body’s nerve geography, knows the difference between good strain and a warning signal, and reports precisely while tied: numbness here, tingling there, this hand cooling. The rigger’s safety knowledge only works when paired with a bottom who can feel and say what is happening. Some rope bottoms are in it for sensation, others for D/s, others for the practice’s meditative depth.
Related terms
- Rigger
- Shibari
- Rigging
- Suspension
- Bottom