I’ll tell it as a story, although it was true. Once upon a time there was a young, beautiful maid who excelled at her work. She was so good, that she only worked for people with a high profile. Nevertheless, she had a defect: she was too curious. And when she came to work in…
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In Shibari, Etsugyaku is the ideal of pleasure and pain. Even though for the Western mentality pain and pleasure are opposites, for the Japanese tradition you can actually combine them to create something bigger. As in all BDSM practices, pain is not an end in itself, but rather a necessary state to reach the highest…
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Shibari can be artistic, intensely emotional, even traditional. However, I am a man of raw sensation, and what I like about Shibari is the friction, the restraint, the pain, and the marks. Hey! Don’t look at me like that! After all, in the beginning, Shibari was a way of torture, called hojojutsu. I like pain.…
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I’m not dead. And, I’m not useless. I’m a human being, a woman, a woman who happens to be on a wheelchair because of a car accident. I’m still me, though. I still exist, complete, even if I spend most hours on this wheelchair. Little did I know I would find the connection between Shibari…
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For some people, pain and pleasure are equals. Physiologically, endorphins and adrenaline are chemicals that make people feel good. Pain and Pleasure: Freud Sigmund Freud developed the pain pleasure principle, which suggests that people make choices to avoid or decrease pain. In contrast, people can make choices that create or increase pleasure. This principle explains…
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