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What should beginning (or aspiring) rope bottoms know? This quick guide aims to present some answers to that question. It’s based on my personal experience of when I just started [...]
Kinbaku - like any other BDSM activity - is relational at its core to me. With relational I mean that things (like kinbaku) never exist in isolation, but can only [...]
Tying or being tied semenawa-style is quite popular in today’s Japanese inspired rope scene. Semenawa is often understood as ‘torturous rope’, but is a context-dependent and nuanced term that can [...]
RopeMarks has been tying professionally for almost 25 years. He has done performances, demonstrations, photo shoots, video shoots and workshops in a wide range of contexts: at fetish and BDSM [...]
One of the many confusions I see in my students and people trying to understand Japanese rope bondage is the difference between shibari and kinbaku. Is it the same [...]
I came across an article from Midori. Her article resonated extremely with me, for one that it puts Japanese bondage (kinbaku, shibari) in a realistic context. It's an approach that I support and follow.
When I teach workshops or when I'm at events one of the many questions I get is "are there any good kinbaku tutorial books to learn from?". Learning kinbaku is [...]
Kinbaku Elements (previously: RopeMarks Artistic Rope Exchange aka RARE) are larger and smaller bits and pieces of information to build your session technically and emotionally. Providing tutorials online and [...]
A bit late with the "report" on Fetish Evolution but I'm busy prepping for BoundCon 2011 and then some... Anyway, Fetish Evolution, FE, was simply brilliant again. Other engagements [...]
It has been a while, but our second RARE meeting has been held at the beginning of December 2009. Again it was a lot of fun and left us with [...]
