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[[File:sherlockbondage.jpg|link=Sherlock Holmes (Filmfilm)|frame|"Beneath this pillow lies the [[Innocent Innuendo|key to my release]]."]]
 
{{quote|''[[Double Standard|Obviously if you're watching a scene with a woman tied to a bed while]] [[Rape Asas Drama|a man forces sex on her]], the final act of that movie will involve said man getting shot in the face by [[Bruce Willis (Creator)]]. [[Double Standard Rape (Female Onon Male)|If, on the other hand, it's a man being tied down and forced into sex by a pretty lady]], well, [[Black Comedy Rape|you're watching a wacky romantic comedy]].''|From '''[[Cracked]].com''''s [http://www.cracked.com/article_18756_7-romantic-movie-gestures-that-can-get-you-prison-time.html#ixzz10dWTtaOj list of romantic movie gestures that can get you prison time.]}}
 
'''''It's a tie game with no score.'''''
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Sometimes the setup is used for dramatic, rather than comedic effect, as the person who was chained to the bed is now helpless and at the mercy of the person who tied them up or whoever discovers him. In the comic example the victim is nearly [[Always Male]]; in the dramatic example the victim might be male or female. If it ''is'' a woman chained to a bed it's much more likely that it's [[Double Standard|deadly serious]].
 
Compare [[Chained to Aa Rock]] and [[Bound and Gagged]]. Often [[Fetish Fuel]]. May lead to [[Cuffs Off, Rub Wrists]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* Done (mostly) non-sexually and dead serious in ''[[Zombie Loan]]''.
* Otome Chibaku Yuugi has this for [[Rape Asas Drama|drama]]
* This is similar to Yamazaki Sakura's prefered source of revenue in ''[[Blue Seed]]''; she pretends to be a prostitute, insists that the guy take a shower, and then swipes his wallet. [[Comedic Sociopathy|Hilariously]], when one of them suggests some BDSM, [[Megaton Punch|she flips out on him.]]
* Played straight in a side story in the manga ''[[Mel Kano]]''.
* In the ''[[Please Teacher (Anime)|Please Teacher]]'' OVA, Hatsuho drags Kei to a [[Love Hotels|love hotel]] against his will and ties him to the bed, in order to spice up Kei and Mizuho's married life, or possibly so she could just have video footage.
* ''[[To Love Ru (Manga)|To Love Ru]]'' have one episode where Rito is tied up in a bed naked by the Amazon queen, who was about to have her way with him only to be interrupted by Lala.
 
 
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== Film ==
* As seen in the image above, Sherlock Holmes walks right into this trap in the [[Sherlock Holmes (Filmfilm)|2009 film]]. Although in this case he was drugged unconscious first. And to add insult to injury, the key was left under that pillow.
* In the very dark drug comedy ''[[Spun]]'', the protagonist ties a girl to his bed, duct-tapes her eyes and mouth shut, and leaves her there for days.
* ''[[Mr. and Mrs. Smith]]'' - the first time we see Jane kill anyone is when she's sent to play dominatrix to an arms dealer.
* In ''[[Heartbreakers]]'', Sigourney Weaver's character is tracked down by her ex-husband (well, the most recent one, anyway) in the midst of her scheming to capture the next one. He begs her to take him back. Being too busy to deal with him just at the moment, she persuades him to let her tie him to her hotel bed blindfolded, then takes off and leaves him to be discovered by the maid. Who doesn't exactly rob him, but does refuse to let him go until he offers her a bribe. Incredibly, he later teams up with this character and her daughter to enact another scheme.
* Susan Sarandon ties Tim Robbins to the bed in ''[[Bull Durham]]'', just to read Walt Whitman to him.
* Subverted in the Irish film ''[[When Brendan Met Trudy]]''. Brendan, who is [[Genre Savvy]] has been seriously rattled by news reports that a woman has been running around chaining up unsuspecting men and ''castrating'' them. When Trudy (who Brendan already knows lied about her job) turns up with the paraphenalia and starts chaining him to a bed, he not unnaturally panics. Turns out she really ''was'' only looking for consensual, kinky sex. In a further twist she does in fact turn out to be a thief.
* In ''[[Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS|Ilsa: She-Wolf of the SS]]'', Ilsa is tricked into being tied to her bed by Wolfe, believing that he's into S&M. Instead, Wolfe leaves her there, escaping the concentration camp. {{spoiler|When the Nazis storm the camp, Ilsa believes they're going to rescue her. However, they shoot her in the head. This didn't stop three more sequels, though.}}
* ''[[Sex Drive]]:'' Lance lets the gas station attendant he met less than an hour previously handcuff him to the bed in her trailer. She asks if he wants to try the "rolling brownout." He quickly agrees, then asks: "Wait, brown?" he is next seen running naked out of the cornfield, carrying the headboard which he is still attached to.
* In ''[[Wedding Crashers (Film)|Wedding Crashers]]''. one of the characters gets tied to his bed and is at the mercy of first his girlfriend and later her brother.
* The Australian movie ''Envy'' has this happen to the protagonist's teenaged son, although the "kinky sex" bit is absent.
* [[National Lampoon]] 's ''Dorm Daze''. The plot involves a handbag full of stolen money. At one point, a guy offers a woman half the money in exchange for a good time. She tells him "By the time I'm done with you, you'll give me all of it." After handcuffing him to a chair: "Okay, I'm done with you."
* ''Something Wild''. A woman (Melanie Griffith) lures a man (Jeff Daniels) into being handcuffed to a bed, then makes him call his place of work and tell them he's taking the rest of the day while she's sexually stimulating him.
* In ''[[The French Connection]]'' Gene Hackman's character wakes up like this and his partner lets him out. Played to suggest this is not a particularly unusual occurrence for him.
* In the slasher ''[[Valentine (Film)|Valentine]]'', Paige (Denise Richards) responds to a guy's advances with this (as well as a blindfold). After asking if he still wanted her to "wax it," she takes one of the nearby candles and pours [[Exact Words|melted wax]] [[Groin Attack|on him]].
* In ''[[Forty40 Days and Forty40 Nights]]'', the protagonist has given up all forms of sex for Lent due to a string of unfulfilling relationships, but as he nears the end of his last day he's starting to crack. So he asks his roommate to handcuff him to his bed so he doesn't give in to the urge to [[A Date Withwith Rosie Palms|"help himself"]]. {{spoiler|He wakes up just in time to discover his ex-girlfriend broke into the apartment and [[Double Standard Rape (Female Onon Male)|raping him while unconscious]] just to win a bet, and [[Finagle's Law|of course]] his love interest enters the scene just in time to get the wrong idea. He has to apologize to her, with the [[Unfortunate Implications|logical inference]] that if you're a man who's raped trying to fulfill your vow of chastity, it's your own fault.}}
* In ''[[Hostage]]'', Jennifer Smith (Michelle Horn) is tied to a bed by psycho serial killer mercenary Mars (Ben Foster). She's rescued in the nick of time by her kid brother before Mars can do anything rapey. In somewhat of a fulfillment of the quote above, Mars is later killed during a confrontation with [[Bruce Willis (Creator)]] (although not shot in the face).
* In ''[[Idle Hands]]'', when things are getting hot and heavy with Molly, Anton ties his own hand to the bed. He's doing it for her safety, but she thinks he's just being kinky.
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* A moderately famous urban legend has this happening to a man who is handcuffed to a bed in anticipation of kinky sex. She then leaves the room and a man dressed as [[Batman]] jumps out of the closet and rapes him. That's pretty much it.
** A similar urban legend is about a man tying his wife to the bed so he can play a "Batman saves the girl" role play scene. But during the fun he jumped onto the bed and smashed his head on the ceiling fan, knocking him unconscious. The woman had to call for help until the police kicked in the door to save them. (''The Big Book of Urban Legends'', a book of short comic-strip treatments of various ULs, had this one illustrated by Kevin Maguire of ''[[Justice League International]]'' fame.)
* There is also ''[[The Odyssey (Literature)|The Odyssey]]'', where Hephaestus chains Aphrodite and Ares to a bed as revenge for Aphrodite cheating on him. [[Aesop]] about 'smart outstrips the swift'.
** Although there's a difference between 'guy stupidly lets a girl tie him to the bed' and 'guy and girl are busy on the bed when a net of golden chains made by girl's angry husband traps both of them'.
 
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* In the short story "Bed of Roses" by Elisabeth Waters, the protagonist's suitor/stalker insists on [[Exact Words|"a night in her bed"]] in exchange for helping her to rescue her little brother. He should probably have asked for something else, considering that she's a [[Celibate Hero|member of a celibate order]] of [[Religious Bruiser|Religious Bruisers]], and as such lives in a barracks...
* ''[[Vampire Kisses]]'': Played with in the first book when Raven distracts Trevor by making out with him and then stealing his clothes that he had taken off, thinking that he was gonna score with her. The next day at school, she plays a prank on him by supergluing his underwear to her locker.
* A very dark example of this is in ''[[Less Than Zero (Literature)|Less Than Zero]]'' where a twelve year old girl is tied to a bed, and given drugs as she gets used as a sex slave.
* Happens more than once to Lisbeth Salander in ''[[The Millennium Trilogy]]''. The first time, she's being strapped down by a [[Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate|sadistic psychiatrist]] and the second time she's being [[Rape Asas Drama|raped by her court-appointed guardian]]. {{spoiler|She gets vengeance on them.}}
* In ''[[Hilary Tamar|The Sibyl In Her Grave]]'' by Sarah Caudwell, bank director Edmund Albany gets found almost-naked and tied to a bed by one of the protagonists. It turns out that he referred to a French dominatrix as ''tu'' when she preferred ''vous''.
 
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* Marissa did it to a [[Jerk Jock]] in ''[[The OC]]''.
* Mandy did this to her crazy ex-boyfriend in ''[[Game On]]''.
* In ''[[Stargate SG 1|Stargate SG-1]]'', an amnesiac and confused Vala escapes from Mitchell by stealing his clothes and handcuffing him to a hotel room bed. The rest of team finds him half naked and covered in junk food.
* Happened to Greg's father Edward in ''[[Dharma and Greg]]'', involving Penn from [[Penn & Teller]]. The girl cuffs him and walks out, then Penn comes in. A pause, then Edward says, "Oh, I sure hope you're here to rob me."
* Used in an episode of ''[[Nip Tuck]]'' in which Christian's bitter on-again/off-again girlfriend Kimber tricks him into letting her tie him to a bed, supposedly in preparation for kinky sex...then proceed to torment him with a knife (she never hurts him, but takes great pleasure in making him think she's going to), fed up with the crappy way that he treats her--his most recent stunt involved trying to trade her in for a CAR. Afterwards, she leaves him tied up with a parting shot of, "You'll be fine, your maid comes on Monday."
* In ''[[The X Files|The X-Files]]'' two-part episode "Dreamland," Mulder and a [[The Men in Black|MIB]] have [[Freaky Friday|had their bodies switched]]. When Scully figures out that something's wrong (in part because "Mulder" has been [[Celibate Hero|coming on to her]]), she gets control of the situation by playing along with his advances and then handcuffing him to the bed. (When he tries to talk his way out of it, addressing Scully as "baby", she warns him that if he does so again he will be "[[Groin Attack|peeing through a catheter]]".)
* Played straight in ''[[Life On Mars|Life on Mars]]''. Sam Tyler is drugged by a prostitute (who is, of course, working for the antagonist of the day) and tied naked to his bed, left for his co-workers to find. And [[Blackmail|she took incriminating-looking photos]] of the two of them while he was unconscious.
* ''[[Highlander the Series]]'' had this happen to protagonist Duncan MacLeod, who was over two hundred years old by then and really, ''really'' should have known better.
** It happens to Richie too. The poor boy never did have any luck with his women.
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* Happens to Xander, more or less, in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''. Xander is the one to suggest that the rope might be for "kinky sexy fun"; the girl claims she just wants to suspend a canoe in her garage. We're not shown exactly how Xander ends up suspended over the Hellmouth.
* Adebisi did this to Kenny Wangler on ''[[Oz]]'', but that was implied to be a straight-out [[Prison Rape]].
* The killer-of-the-week in the ''[[Criminal Minds (TV)|Criminal Minds]]'' episode "Jones" employed this tactic with her victims.
** As did the UNSUB in "Conflicted". [[It Got Worse]].
** Used as a joke in another episode. "If a John wants to tie you up, walk away. If he wants to be tied up, do it and steal his wallet."
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* Something similar happened in the UK comedy series ''[[Coupling]]''. Girl cuffed to bed, played for laughs. Only in ''this'' case she wound up stuck because {{spoiler|Spank Man accidentally swallowed the key}}.
** Don't forget Patrick handcuffing ''himself'' to the bed in anticipation of his girlfriend bringing back another woman for their supposed threesome. Needless to say, Earth logic need not apply. Again.
* Inverted in the ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' episode "Favorite Son". Harry Kim is stranded on a planet of [[Horny Devils|Amazon Vampire Succubi]] that secretly want to suck his life out by having deadly sex with him. He's discovered their plans, so when two of them come to seduce him he suggests to them that he'd like to do it with them tied to the bed. As soon as they're bound, his escape attempt ensues.
* Inverted in ''[[Farscape (TV)|Farscape]]'', in the episode "What Was Lost- Part 2." John Crichton is being interrogated by Commandant Grayza, the fourth season's [[Big Bad]]; her interrogations involve pheromone-assisted rape, and [[Double Standard Rape (Female Onon Male)|it is most definitely not okay]]. However, after dosing himself with a stimulant to resist Grayza's pheromones, Crichton suggests that the next round involve bondage: as a result, Commandant Cleavage is left tied to the bed, humiliated and seeking revenge.
* Happens to Casey in ''[[Chuck]]'', with the result being that Casey breaks the headboard off and beats down his capturers with the piece of wood. It's also implied that this is not the first time this has happened.
** And then happened to Chuck in "Chuck vs. the Suburbs".
** Casey is later chained to a radiator (no seduction in that case). He takes it with him, and uses it to hit someone.
* In one episode of ''[[Archie BunkersBunker's Place]]'', a woman robs Murray at gunpoint in his hotel room and ties him to the bed just to keep him out of the way. When Archie barges in, she hides the gun, pretends that the situation is exactly what it looks like, and leaves with her loot; Murray plays along until he's sure she's gone.
* Happens to Cliff in the ''[[Veronica Mars]]'' episode "The Rapes of Graff".
* On the pilot episode of ''[[Crossing Jordan]]'', Jordan flirts with the investigating police officer throughout the episode, and at the end ties him to a bed so she's free to wipe the makeup off his arm and [[The Reveal|reveal]] the bite mark that identifies him as the killer.
* Subverted on ''[[NCIS (TV)|NCIS]]''. A girl was tied up by her boyfriend in a hotel (to jokingly stop her from running off with the cute Navy guys having a celebration downstairs) and was left there for days when he got killed in a traffic accident minutes after he left her alone to go get food for them. Humiliated she lies when finally found and says she was raped, her mother goes wacko when the nonexistent rapist is never brought in.
** Another episode had a Navy programmer die, and while searching for the boyfriend as a suspect, he's found in exactly this situation.
* On ''[[CSI (TV)|CSI]]'', this is called a "Trick Roll" and usually involves a prostitute drugging her mark into unconsciousness before robbing him.
** [[Memetic Mutation|Then there's the version where the prostitute ties the mark to the bed before forcing them to listen to Rick Astley.]]
** Subverted in another ''CSI'' episode when a police officer with missing uniform was found to have engaged in some handcuff/uniform kinkiness but was ''not'' robbed by the woman - it was instead stolen when sent for much-needed cleaning afterwards.
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* [[Gender Inverted Trope|Gender inverted]] in ''[[Desperate Housewives]]'', where Gabby, who wants sex with Carlos, agrees to let him tie her to the bed. He's not up for sex and goes off to have a nap. This is played for comedy.
* A variant is used in the TV version of ''[[The Dresden Files]]'', where Harry is handcuffed to the bed by a date post-sex so that she can steal Bob's skull.
* Used in an episode of ''[[Scare Tactics (TV series)|Scare Tactics]]'' where the "victim" begs the person being pranked to free her, only to have the captor return and threaten the prankee with the same fate before the reveal.
* Happens in ''[[The New Statesman]]'' entirely by accident and the (rich female) victim loves the experience, even as Alan gets back to the hotel and concludes that he doesn't have time to deal with her cuffs if he's going to make the flight home. Possibly the only non-serious version with a female victim.
{{quote| "Now there's a man who really understands bondage!"}}
* Another accidental version in ''[[Peak Practice]]'' - it's a medical show, so the one with the keys has a bad fall and can't get to the cuffs to unlock them.
* In ''[[Robin Hood (TV series)|Robin Hood]]'', Guy of Gisborne gets tied to a bed...by his sister. She then refers to him as a "present" for Prince John.
* Subverted in ''[[Dollhouse]]'', when Echo only leaves her client this way when her programing glitches.
* A rare female version occurs in an episode of ''[[Friends]]''. Rachel finds Chandler handcuffed to a chair in her boss' office. Cue him insisting she uncuff him, and her wondering whether it's worth the risk of her boss knowing she was in there and firing her (he ends up handcuffed to a completely different piece of furniture before finally escaping). Chandler later gets revenge by leaving the boss chained up, in her slip, for Rachel to discover.
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* Happens to Rayanne in a ''[[My So-Called Life]]'' episode.
* Inverted on an episode of ''[[St Elsewhere]].'' Dr. Ehrlich (Ed Begley) hooks up with a slightly kinky young woman who asks him to tie her up. He gets her tied, then goes out to his car to fetch one more item . . . and the apartment door locks behind him.
* Happens in an early episode of ''[[Justified (TV series)|Justified]]''. The US Marshals are tipped off about an escaped con hiding with his girlfriend. Guess how they find them...
** Boyd Crowder ends up doing this to {{spoiler|Quarles near the end of Season 3. He messes it up however by having two Oxycontin addicts be guards, and leaving a nice bottle of the drug in the room.}}
** In season three, Quarles binds Brady to a bed and tortures him to death. The crime was part of Quarles' long history of abusing male hustlers.
* Happens to ''[[Angel (TV)|Angel]]'' all the time since his friends believe that is the practical solution every time he is in danger of having lost his soul. Inversely his vampire ex-friends chain him up for having a soul. Can't really win that one.
** In Season One after 'happy pills' inexplicably caused a ''temporary'' reversion to evil--apparently if he isn't really happy his soul goes into temporary suspension until the fake euphoria wears off?--and they overpowered him, Angel woke up extremely chained to his bed. He and his friends established that yes, he was really okay now and yes, they were willing to forgive him for scaring them out of their wits and nearly killing them. Then they walk off and leave him there indefinitely. [[Played for Laughs]].
* Sam does this in ''[[Las Vegas]]'', before she leaves him to be ''raped'' by someone else.
* ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'', happens with Barney once...or so he says.
* Mentioned in one episode of ''[[The Fresh Prince of Bel -Air]]'', where Carlton sets up a prank of this nature on Will to teach him to respect women (somehow). Will escapes being tied to the chair and, having twigged to the plot, calls up Carlton and "explains" the situation, saying that he panicked and ''killed'' the woman. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* Self-inflicted example occurs in ''[[Two Pints of Lager and Aa Packet of Crisps]]'': Gaz is convinced that he and Donna need something to spice up their relationship. Something romantic. So he strips down to a latex posing pouch, covers his crotch and nipples in whipped cream, handcuffs every limb to a bedpost and waits,with a large, flashing noveltry dildo in his hand, for Donna to come home. She takes one look and freaks out, running out of his flat and leaving him there...
 
 
== Music Videos ==
* In the video for the White Stripes song "Icky Thump" the singer and guitarist Jack White is chained to a bed and robbed by a Mexican prostitute with a glass eye. [[Mickey Mousing|The scene is derived from the lyrics]].
* Happens to Joon of [[Korean Pop Music|MBLAQ]] in Kan Miyeon's video [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_1KfUDB1zU Going Crazy]. He's later shown [[With My Hands Tied|with his hands tied]] with a [[Strangled Byby the Red String|red rope]], which symbolizes exactly what it seems: {{spoiler|The girl in the video kidnaps young men and tries to [[And Now You Must Marry Me|force them to marry her]]. When they (very rationally) reject her, she keeps 'em [[Unfortunate Implications|locked up together in her closet]]. So, quite literally, the man in the video is [[Strangled Byby the Red String]].}}
 
 
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== Real Life ==
* Two possible real-life examples are retold on [http://everything2.com/title/You+really+shouldn%2527t+let+people+you+don%2527t+know+tie+you+up this node] at [[Everything Two2]].
* This is why all toy handcuffs have levers on them that allow the wearer to free themselves without a key.
 
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* Tip in ''[[Skin Horse]]'' lets Julie chain him to a bed with her police handcuffs for some kinky sex. Afterward, she leaves him chained up "for his own protection." However, the handcuffs don't present Tip with much difficulty in the end.
** [http://www.webcomicsnation.com/shaenongarrity/skinhorse/series.php?view=archive&chapter=38295#strip3 "Honestly. Like I've never been handcuffed to a bed before."]
* Happened to the titular character of ''[[Dominic Deegan]]''. Played completely for [[Black Comedy Rape|comedy]], because it's [[Double Standard Rape (Female Onon Male)|Rachel and Dominic]]. Comic [http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2005-07-22 here].
** What's interesting is the massive amounts of [[Dude, Not Funny]] reaction from the fan forum
*** Well, it was very much implied to be non-consensual (as Dominic claims to have had "no choice in the matter"), so treating it as comedy (compared to the male-on-female rape that is treated as [[Rape Asas Drama|drama]]) has some [[Unfortunate Implications]].
* Inverted in [http://bukucomics.com/loserz/go/97 this] ''[[Loserz]]'' strip where Jodie is the one chained to the bed, but it's after a [[Wild Teen Party]] and played for laughs.
* ''[[Last Res 0 rtRes0rt]]'' uses a downplayed version of this routinely as a preventative measure / enforced "curfew" on criminal players staying in the Executioner's Quarters. Unlike most of the examples here, though, the chains still give them some freedom of movement as opposed to being left spread-eagle and completely vulnerable.
 
 
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