Bondage By The Numbers

On Brians' Page, a discussion forum for people who like mainstream bondage scenes, they have a database of the movies and television shows in which such scenes appear. Over 10,000 films and TV shows are represented. The database is worldwide in scope, including films from England, France, Turkey, Japan, the Phillipines and even Canada.

Whhen you have a database of that scope to hand there are all sorts of interesting searches you can conduct, since the database is searchable by title, actress and keyword.

ALSO FROM PAT POWERS

Recently, and just for fun, I did some statistical analysis of the frequency of bondage that occurred in several TV series that were noted for their frequency and quality of bondage scenes (see chart below). I calculated the total number of episodes of each series, then the total number of episodes that included bondage of any kind (though I did not include the more problematical kinds of bondage, such as handgags) and I counted the total number of scenes that contained bondage scenes that included gags.

I chose series that represented decades over the last 50 years, from the black and white Adventures of Superman serial from the 1950s to the full-color Adventures of Lois and Clark from the 1990s. This doesn't lend any significance to the numbers, because the sample is just too small.

Did this research prove anything or lead to any startling conclusions? In a word, no. The percentages appear to be all over the map. There may be some good information to be gleaned from this data, but I have no idea what it might be, except to say the 90s were a pretty durned good decade for bondage.

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Bondage and Gagging In Mainstream TV By the Numbers
Title & Decade	gag	bondage	total eps		gags/ bondage	gags/ all eps	bondage/all eps
Adventures of Superman (1950s)	11	18	108		61	10	17
Avengers (1960s)	23	46	161		50	14	29
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. (1970s)	5	9	29		56	7	31
Scarecrow and Mrs. King (1980s)	2	14	88		14	2	15
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1990s>	3	16	99		19	3	16
Xena: Warrior Princess (1990s)	8	49	148		16	5	33
Adventures of Lois & Clark (1990s)	12	22	81		55	15	27
X-Files (1990s)	7	9	148		78	5	6
Walker, Texas Ranger (1990s)	17	23	195		74	9	15

Note:

Gags/bondage means gags as a percentage of all bondage scenes. Gags/all episodes means gags as a percentage of all the episodes in the series. Bondage/all episodes means the percentage of episodes in a series that had bondage of any kind.