Tag: Shibari and hollywood

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Celebrities Doing Shibari

Take the challenge. You won’t find pictures or videos of celebrities doing Shibari. And it’s not like we’re in the 50s and celebrities live up to—or at least pretend to live up to—an elevated moral standard. Not at all. Celebrities have contributed to the normalization of tattoos, piercings, and non-binary sexuality. So, how come they…
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Bondage Scene in a Film

I was excited. I mean, finally there was going to be a bondage scene in a film! To make things even better, I was the one chosen to do it. So far, Hollywood has been too prudish about certain things. I mean, there was a point in the late 80s and early 90s when it…
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Shibari in Comic Books

Mass media has always served as a cultural thermometer for our society. Movies, being the most popular media channel around the world, leads the trend. However, it is also worth noticing how other, smaller media, shape changes that may slowly take over and become trends. In the case of Shibari, even though Hollywood has scarcely…
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Shibari and Hollywood

Mainstream Hollywood movies have scarcely portrayed BDSM. Even worse, it has traditionally portrayed it as something perverse and sick, something that only villains would do. However, with the spectacular success of Fifty Shades of Grey, there was an increasing expectation that BDSM would finally make its way into mainstream movies, as a legitimate expression of…
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