Bondage device from the Middle Ages, which today is used in the S & M scene in various forms. A pillory is a wooden board, which can be opened longitudinally. Then limbs or head are inserted into the holes and the board then tightly closed. There are state pillory (mostly for head and hands) the firmly fixed in a frame and only in height are adjustable and there are several minor variants, mostly in the hole combinations hands or feet or hands or head-hands-feet.