Category Archives: Kinbaku

Kinbaku Part II – Seiu Ito and his Rope Bondage Fetish

Posted on June 10, 2016 by toshidama

Back in 2012 I wrote a piece on Kinbaku, having spent an evening with the very charming Midori, an exponent of sexual bondage and rope play… we had dinner. At the time, I wasn’t really familiar with the art of … Continue reading →

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Beauty and Violence: Kinbaku, The Art of Japanese Rope Bondage

Posted on February 8, 2012 by toshidama

There is a vogue right now for a practice called Kinbaku or Japanese Rope Bondage. It involves a mainly public display of clothed and naked women being tied in elaborate ways with metres and metres of natural rope, bound, wound … Continue reading →

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