Shibari is a discipline that, due to its erotic nature, necessarily implies emotional exchange. It has become popular amongst women because it is the most artistic and delicate type of BDSM. This discipline is where you can safely explore your fantasies. For example, some women have the fantasy of someone dominating them in bed. Letting…
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Atypical sex was first known as sexual perversion. That is, a desire in which you experience intense sexual excitement to “atypical” situations, such as fantasies, behaviors, or objects like rope leather and other artifacts. People now mainly associate atypical sex to BDSM, which stands for bondage, discipline, domination, submission, sadism, and masochism. There are still…
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Kinbaku or shibari is an erotic art from Japan that started with hojojutsu. This is the traditional martial art from this country which has its principles in rope restraint. The term hojojutsu means the “art of seizing with help of a rope.” Law enforcement and samurais used it in the Edo era (from 1602 to…
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Seiu Ito was born in Asakusa Tokyo in 1882. He was a Japanese painter and the creator of Kinbaku, known in the world as Bondage or Shibari. On imagination, he conjures scenes difficult to imagine—and much more difficult to recreate. In a society as hermetic and mysterious as the Japanese, where it is complex to…
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To understand the real origins of Japanese bondage, also known as Shibari or kinbaku, we have to understand early Japanese slavery. For this, we will have to travel back in time to the 3rd century AD. This is when Japan had an official slave system during the Yamato period. At this time, masters referred to…
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