As you’ll see there’s an interview with me and also with Nina Russ about BOUND in this issue: Founded six years ago, Sang Bleu proposes multidisciplinary investigation of the body. With an eponymous magazine at center, the project encompasses a range of artistic activity spurred by the interests of its members. Fashion, fetish culture, visual …
As you might have heard, I’m setting up a ‘Virtual Dojo’ where you can participate in live on-line classes either as a group or individually for personal mentoring regardless of where you are, so long as you have an Internet connected PC with web cam and headset (below for exact specifications). I will be running …
I have just uploaded several hundred pictures from a Japanese themed shoot with French model Evan by Cortez77_fr to the members area. This is massive series required two galleries for the sequential shots of a face up takate kote with transitions; almost a tutorial for more experienced riggers who have a good grasp of the …
After a bit of an absence, SHIBARI.TV is back on air. The main reason for the sabbatical has been that MaYa, Nina’s model, returned to Spain and only comes back to London irregularly so they are not doing sessions so often. However, MaYa is here at the moment as they have been working at Cirque …
On Friday 18 October in Covent Garden, Nina and I will be running an introductory Japanese bondage class at Coco de Mer’s luxurious emporium of exotic lingerie and other erotic delights. Here’s what it says on their site: Esinem is one of the top practitioners in the art of Shibari – Japanese Rope Bondage. …
OMG, I just realised that I first started playing around with this in May last year and 15 months later the Virtual Shibari Dojo™ still isn’t up and running. This is one of those things that never quite got off my To Do list due to wearing far too many hats. Anyway, having cleared the decks …
Here’s an interesting post from Rope Springs Eternal which might cause some controversy Rope bondage in the Japanese style is popularly thought of by its practitioners in Japan and elsewhere as an art form, but as such it is practically unknown by the artworld, meaning bondage has never been defined or validated by some agency …
Here’s something I wrote back in 2004 about the psychology of bondage and why people do it. I need to review it and probably amend and add to it but, that said, I think most of it still stands in spite of having learned a lot since. I will try to explain why people do …
Ever wondered how to do kinbaku with no rope? IMHO, this is as close as you can get and if you can exude this energy with a piece of rope, you are as close as you can get to real kinbaku! Now try to imagine this performance with the dancers stumbling mechanically through their steps …
I have just posted a lot of new classes for all levels here. These include repeats of the popular ‘Bondage for Sex & Play’ and erotic techniques of ‘Tying people, not parcels’, the latter being suitable for all levels and applicable to any style of bondage, plus new classes on suspension hip harnesses and my …