Erotica
Tied Down — A Kinbaku Story
The unnerving freedom of being tightly bound
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4 min readJul 7, 2021
Kinbaku (Shibari) is the Japanese art of rope bondage. It’s not at all like being cuffed to the corners of the bed and roundly fucked. Instead, a Kinbaku model is elaborately tied, in well-practiced, symmetrical forms, until she is completely immobilized. She becomes a statue in rope, and is open to (and…