Rafael Pérez Gay is a Mexican writer. In 2006, he wrote a short story collection entitled “Paraísos duros de roer” (Hard to Bite Paradises). One of the stories in that book is “Bondage.” And, obviously, since it is not frequent to find a Shibari short story in a book, we read it. Here are our…
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His name was Ronnie McGinley, but everybody in school knew him as Ronnie, the weirdo. Young people are supposed to be open-minded, but Ronnie talking about his taste for kink once was enough for most of the high school students to see him as a pervert, and to stay as far from him as if…
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I work with two riggers. That’s how it has been since I started playing rope, and I’m not willing to change it. I couldn’t. Arthur is the best soft-skilled rigger you can imagine. He’s great at communication, and he knows how to drive your feelings toward the climax of the scene. (When I work with…
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You know what they say: don’t ask questions you don’t want the answer to. Clearly, it’s great advice. Unfortunately, it is also impossible to follow, since we humans are born curious and stay curious all throughout our lives. Therefore, I don’t feel guilty for what I did. After all, I needed to find out. And…
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Anyone can tie their partner’s wrists and believe they are being kinky. Likewise, any square couple can get a little rough and assume they are experiencing domination. I mean, any average vanilla jerk can buy some handcuffs and think of themselves as part of the BDSM community. And yet, anyone who is truly into the…
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I love bondage. There’s only one thing that I love more than bondage, and that’s watching a rope scene as it unfolds in front of my eyes. I’m a rope lover, and I’m also a voyeur. I don’t believe that you should only stick to one kink. Quite the opposite; for me, each one of…
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Are there Shibari enemies? Not quite. There are neither anti-bondage groups of any sort nor public figures immersed in a crusade against rope games. There are, however, people who are quite unsupportive of bondage and all things BDSM. Additionally, to make things more complicated, they might be your friends or relatives. Hence, in this article,…
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I won’t say my name because it’s not important. I am more or less an average person, just like most of you. That is, I work hard, I try to be kind. I appreciate honest people and those who prefer dialogue over fighting. As I said, nothing too important. What is important, though, is that…
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Let’s make a social experiment, shall we? We’re going to explore the similarities and differences between Shibari and Olympic gymnastics, and this will help us illustrate an important point. The standard by which society accepts and encourages certain practices, while it criticizes and obstructs others is not clear. First, the similarities. Olympic gymnastics requires strength…
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Many people, especially those with a mainstream mindset, are quite suspicious about the whole business of BDSM practices. It doesn’t matter that psychologists have already agreed that alternative lifestyles and sexual practices are not symptomatic of mental illness by themselves, they still have their doubts. And when it comes to the morality of Shibari, they…
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