All Tied Up Over Tokyo Whores

Bondage and BDSM are one thing, and you might be familiar with the images come across on the web (on purposes or not) of bound and gagged women and men submitting to dominatrixes...

But Japanese bondage is diffferent...

Shibari, or more technically correct, Kinbaku is the form of Japanese restraint based on natural, thick rope and odd, broken-doll style positions such as the knees-together, feet-apart position you'll note in our Japanese Bondage gallery, for example.

The use of jute, a kind of thick hemp-like rope, dates from the time traditionally when Japanese criminals were punished using rope torture. Sometime in the 1960's, shibari actually became a performance art, involving members of the audience (mostly the ladies).

Now you can view this oddly esthetic sexual torture at sites like Tokyo Whores, surely one of the definitive sites on the fetish.