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Poem Written on a Rope

I’ve always enjoyed Leonidas’ shows. He’s a very creative rigger and he always comes up with new and exciting bondage scenes. He’s not the most skilled top you’ve ever seen, but he understands perfectly well the emotional undercurrents of a Shibari scene. For him, when it comes to Shibari, there’s always a poem written on…
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Shibari and Fractals

A fractal is a figure whose parts are made of smaller versions of that figure. For example, imagine a square made of little squares. That’s a fractal. Sounds boring, right? Well, it’s not. And if you combine Shibari and fractals, the results can be very interesting. Believe it or not, I’m a mathematician besides a…
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Shibari Stops Time

Julie is one of the best bottoms I’ve ever worked with. She’s passionate about our scenes, and she’s a very kind person offstage. However, she’s always a little bit sad, lately. You see, she used to be gorgeous. I mean, really gorgeous! She showed me a few pictures from the time she worked as a…
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Shibari the Art of Stillness

I am a dancer. So, I use every inch of my body for beauty and art. I have disciplined every one of my muscles, so that they’ll do whatever my imagination demands of them. I move. That is, I make motion visible, so that others can see how beautiful it is. Shapes and figures grow…
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Shibari Seasons

I’m a mature woman now. There’s no point in denying it. And I don’t complain. I’ve had a happy life. Maybe not from someone else’s point of view, but who cares about anybody else’s opinion about one’s life? Yet, there is pain in growing older. You lose friends, dreams, skills. It’s not easy. Of course,…
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Living Portrait

It all started in a quite usual manner. A rich woman is about to turn fifty and she wants a portrait of herself so she can unveil it at the party she’s gonna throw at her mansion to celebrate her first half a century of life. They called me, a painter. Now, I’m supposed to…
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The Art of Contemporary Shibari Exhibit

Shibari is an ancient Japanese artistic form of rope bondage. The Art of Contemporary Shibari Exhibit is a multi-media exhibit including photography, video and live performance. The authors are photographers, riggers and models for the footrest 2012 Bienniea. The Bienniea isone of the largest exhibits of Contemporary Shibari Art in the world. In the exhibit,…
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Tessa Kuragi

Tessa Kuragi is a London based artist and model of British, Asian and Jamaican heritage. Tessa loves to explore themes of eroticism and surrealism, usually tending through the uncomfortable part of art. At age of 19th, her career began, and she began working with famous photographers and participated in amazing collaborations. Tessa Kuragi expresses her…
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Non-sexual Shibari

Shibari has become very popular as an erotic practice. However, you can also practice a non-sexual Shibari. Shibari is now present in social media, the Internet, and even in art. Nowadays, it is very easy to get lessons, workshops, find rope events and rope bondage accessories, so Shibari is living its golden era. Shibari appeared…
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Shibari.ph

Shibari.ph is a curated directory of resources for Shibari practitioners and enthusiasts in the Philippines. It empowers people to celebrate their art, kinks, and sexuality through Japanese rope bondage. Shibari.ph is a project that wants to help people of all kinds to explore their interest in bondage. This project wants to show and teach the…
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