Physical restraint

right|thumb|Hiatt type 2010 handcuffs. . thumb|A person handcuffed behind their back. Handcuffs are restraint devices designed to secure an individual's wrists in proximity to each other. They comprise two parts, linked together by a chain, a hinge, or rigid bar. Each cuff has a rotating arm which engages with a ratchet that prevents it from being opened once closed around a person's wrist. Without a key, handcuffs cannot be removed without specialist knowledge, and a handcuffed person cannot move their wrists more than a few centimetres or inches apart, making many tasks difficult or impossib

device to prevent sexual activity

thumb|A Posey Straitjacket (small-size) manufactured by The Posey Company. A straitjacket is a garment shaped like a jacket with long sleeves that surpass the tips of the wearer's fingers. Its most typical use is restraining people who may cause harm to themselves or others. Once the wearer's arms are in the sleeves, the person restraining the wearer crosses the sleeves against the chest and ties the ends of the sleeves to the back of the jacket, ensuring the arms are close to the chest with as little movement as possible.

thumb|A man gagged by duct tape

thumb|Stocks, unlike the pillory or pranger, restrain only the feet.

thumb|Prisoner walking in legcuffs thumb|Chain gang street sweepers, 1909 Legcuffs are physical restraints used on the ankles of a person to allow walking only with a restricted stride and to prevent running and effective physical resistance. Frequently used alternative terms are leg cuffs, (leg/ankle) shackles, footcuffs, fetters or leg irons. The term "fetter" shares a root with the word "foot".

thumb|right|Harry Houdini (1874–1926), a famous escapologist and magician thumb|250px|Harry Houdini before one of his escapology performances in [[Boston 1908]] Escapology is the practice of escaping from restraints or other traps. Escapologists (also called escape artists) escape from handcuffs, straitjackets, cages, coffins, steel boxes, barrels, bags, burning buildings, fish-tanks, and other perils, often in combination.

thumb|right|Ambrogio Lorenzetti's [[Madonna and Child (1319) depicts swaddling bands]]

thumb|upright|Salle des Martyrs at the Paris Foreign Missions Society. The ladder-like apparatus in the middle is the cangue that was worn by [[Pierre Borie in captivity.]]

physical restraint device

16th-century instrument of punishment or torture

BDSM sex toy

form of general physical restraint used for medical purposes

, or just is the traditional Japanese martial art of restraining a person using cord or rope (called in Japanese), as a precursor to modern-day handcuffs. Encompassing many different materials, techniques and methods from various schools, hojōjutsu is a classic Japanese art that is a unique product of Japanese history and culture.

thumb|right|Woman handcuffing herself Self-bondage refers to the use of restraints on oneself for erotic pleasure. It is a form of erotic bondage which can be practiced alone.

thumb|upright=1.5|Daniel Defoe in the Pillory (Eyre Crowe, 1862) thumb|upright|The 17th-century perjurer Titus Oates in a pillory

device for preventing or limiting the locomotion of a human or animal

device for BDSM play

thumb|right|A model wearing both thumbcuffs and handcuffs

voluntary restriction of the access to genitalia of the wearer as a form of sexual play

thumb|right|A monoglove with a Y-shaped harness configuration. An armbinder or monoglove is a type of restraint device primarily used in bondage play (rather than law enforcement, medicine, or psychiatry), designed to bind the arms and/or hands to each other or to the body, usually behind the back, and employing a range of bondage equipment including cuffs, rods, straps, and gloves.

sex toy

thumb|The Shrub Hill jougs, displayed in the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh The jougs, juggs, or joggs (, from Latin , a yoke) is a metal collar formerly used as an instrument of punishment in Scotland, the Netherlands and other countries. When the soldiers of Oliver Cromwell's army occupied Scotland, they were horrified at the church using such a punishment, and many were removed from church walls and destroyed.

form of physical restraint for the hands using plastic straps

restraints used for BDSM

thumb|A man wearing a schandmantel thumb|Schandmantel A ' or (German, "coat of shame" or "barrel of shame"), sometimes also Spanish coat', is a torture device which came into use in the 13th century. were fashioned from wood and sometimes lined with sheet metal. Victims were made to wear this device in public where they would be insulted, humiliated and have rotten vegetables thrown at them. The was mostly used as punishment for poachers and prostitutes or other petty crimes and not known to be used to torture other people. It was an alternative to throwing someone into the stockade or prison.

anti-masturbatory device

physical restraint worn by prisoners

restraint device

thumb|300px|A calf hogtied while being livestock branding|branded on a [[ranch.]]

equipment in BDSM dungeons

human positions

use of drugs to restrict a person's movement

practice of rendering a person harmless or defenseless by constraining their movement