There are two styles of Bondage that are generally catagorized as either “Western” or “Eastern.”  I am fond of both, but find a great deal of artistic value in the Eastern or Shibari type of bondage.

History has documented that Shibari was more than likely produced for the purpose imprisonment due to the lack of formal prisons and the raw resource in metals in the 1400’s. This was identified as “kinbaku-bi” during the time period and still to this day hemp and jute rope are still carried in the police vehicles of today.

Kinbaku-bi is translated as “The Art of Erotic Rope Bondage” and has been photo documented as far back as the 1920’s.  Although those pieces are almost impossible to find, there has been a constant evolvement of the practice today.

Shibari is translated as the term “to tie” or “to bind”.

One of the main differences we see between Western and Kinbaku-bi bondage is that the submissive/bottom enjoys the torture or torment gained from the Kinbaku-bi style because of the pain/pleasure that is recieved from the rope on the genitals and breasts.  Instead of just imobilizing like Western bondage, the Shibari technique produces that fine line of pain and pleasure that most submissives seek.

Shibari is well known for it’s asymmetrical and asthetically pleasing site.  I personal am a very symetrical individual and I still enjoy the beauty and artistic value that Shibari rope bondage provides when a submissive is trussed up in hemp or jute rope.

Although the Western bondage providers have come up with more complex knots to use, Shibari, despite the complexity of it’s appearance, uses relative 4 to 5 different types of very simplistic knots.  Most placed in strategic points to give not only safety, but just the right amount of nerve stimulation to keep the submissive on their toes (no pun intended).

I have seen hundreds of yards of rope to just a few feet of it used in some of the most intricate and simplistic but very effective bondage scenes.  I personally have used rope under clothing as well as over clothing in certain environments to provide a highly aroused submissive with not only visual stimulation but mental as well.  A rubbing of a piece of rope in the right place can only keep a submissive in the mind set of who they are and where they belong.

I have participating in intense suspension hangings where I have watched  submissives float in complete freedom from the ‘real world’ and into their zone where they have remained for hours.  Each of these submissives varied highly in height, weight and in experience and each one of them, the tie was different and they all found themselves very much enlightened and a new lover of rope.

Remember though, that as some of my news articles have depicted, once you have someone in bondage, of ANY type, that leaving them alone for ANY duration is highly dangerous.

Some of us love rope, some of us find it a nusance but those that love it always find new ways of using it as an enticing and very beautiful way of stimulating the minds and bodies of those that allow us to use it.

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