After much deliberation, here, in alphabetical order to avoid expressing any favouritism, are the performers for LFAJRB 2013, barring any unexpected cancellations. It’s a lucky coincidence that our star performer’s name starts with an A or I might have had to formulate a different order 🙂 I can’t tell you how tough it has been …
Rope is flying out the door! I have just placed orders for more than 40km (25m) rope today as the rope store is looking rather bare and I’m down to my last 50m of 6mm Amanawa Linen Hemp. The latter seems to be selling itself with a lot of the orders being repeats from happy …
Where art gets knotted BOUND is Europe’s first monthly Japanese bondage performance and social event. The mission is to bring shibari, like butoh*, out of the shadows and into the mainstream of alternative art. Until now, the only place you could see this sort of show is in BDSM or fetish clubs with a strict dress-code …
D/s and protocol can be wonderful instruments for developing submissives in a positive way. A benevolent Dom/me can use them as a tremendous power of good in ways that reach far beyond merely play interaction. It can instil a sense of self-worth, be used to promote a desire to learn, develop self-discipline and punctuality…the list …
UPDATE: In 2015, we started a specialist shibari learning resource, ShibariClasses.com, based on purpose-made educational software which allows full multi-media tutorials. This is now undoubtedly the most comprehensive resource ever produced with around 40 full-length tutorials and growing. These are not 5-10 minute ‘paint by numbers’ videos, some have over an hour and a half …
The techies have just completed some significant changes to the page layouts and the way the galleries look. There’s more to come. I hope you like the results. Although, what you won’t see are the improvements behind the scenes, which should pay off in terms of reliability and performance. It looks like they have also …
Impatient as always, I am throwing open the doors to the new members area somewhat early. The builders (PKS Consulting) are still in, the decorators (PKS Consulting) haven’t been yet and the removal men (me) have barely started loading up. OK, the place is a mess but that’s pretty much how I live 🙂 Anyway, good things …
I see Best-Japan sell Sugiura Norio’s wonderful photo books and a whole raft of manga. Best of all there’s free shipping. As postage usually doubles the prices of orders from Japan, this is a real not to be missed deal! Sugiura’s book, of which we have several, are our main source of inspiration as they …
KinbakuMania is an interesting site for Osada ryu aficionados which is in Portuguese, Spanish and largely in English.
This is work in progress but hopefully we can all add to it for a useful resource: VENUES This is by no means exhaustive or any guarantee there will be shows on any given night. Mistress bars usually work on a ‘system’ charging men a high hourly fee, and women little or nothing, which includes …