Japanese kinbaku bondage

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Taut lines, complex designs, and knots that would make a sailor blush are bound together in the art of kinbaku , or erotic Japanese rope bondage. Artists and enthusiasts have adopted the practice, bringing doses to the public in fashion magazines and art galleries alike. A search for kinbaku on Instagram yields an infinite scroll of over 60, tagged posts. To the uninitiated, kinbaku might seem like the latest in pop-BDSM, but the tradition evolved over centuries before making it to the smutty, nipple-free crannies of social media. Just as the tools of Western subjugation have become the subject of fantasy, rope has had a similar pattern of expression.

The performance itself was a study of communication through the physical and emotional: as the lights dimmed and a hush rippled through the crowd, the sound of drums surged like the tide as it grows from low to high. Her slippers, or geta in Japanese, are removed as she and Kinoko come to stand in front of the wooden beams from which she would dangle. Lindsey: Can you both talk a little bit about your backgrounds? How did you find the art of kinbaku? Maybe it was my destiny to be into the world of Shibari.

In Japan , rope has played a significant cultural role for thousands of years. Of course it was used for practical reasons, such as for operating pulleys and holding kimono shut, but also for spiritual ones: the Shinto shimenawa purifying rope , or the border of the sumo ring. Kinbaku uses rope to decoratively tie and restrain the body for the purpose of erotic pleasure. Seasoned kinbaku masters or bakushi say the art takes years to master and is difficult to spot in the world of mass produced pornography today. During the Edo Period, rope was used as both restraint and punishment.