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When we first begin to explore the more kinky sides of our sexual personalities, it can feel I would eventually become inspired by Arisue Go and Osada Steve and the work I saw in
scary, as if we’re catapulting ourselves into a world that we don’t understand. The aim of
this book is not to tell you what you should like. The aim of this book is to help you explore
your sexuality and artistic abilities and to imbue you with rope bondage skills to take your
new hobby and grow with it.
I grew up on a farm where using rope was a practical, day-to-day skill. Different knots
perform different duties. I learned the right ones for the job from my grandfather.
Eventually, I wound up in a relationship with a kinky girl who wanted to be tied up. So one
night, I tied her up the only way I knew how—like a wagonload of hay. We laughed about it,
but she couldn’t get out of it. None of her other lovers had ever tied her up like that before,
to a point where she couldn’t escape, and, to my delight, it turned her on immensely! We
explored and experienced the pleasures of rope bondage with each other for a few years,
and then the Internet happened.
In those days, my friends and I would stumble across Japanese websites depicting women
tied in luscious ways. But none of us could read Japanese, so we did the only thing we
could do: We tried to reverse engineer the ties. Clearly, this posed a huge challenge.
Though we never perfected the ties, we ended up bringing our own skills to the table and
were problem solving with our Western skill set and approach to bondage.
Around this time, I discovered Lew Rubens (who would later become a close friend and
terrific inspiration) online and was amazed at the work he was creating. Thankfully, his
work was in English. That made practicing rope techniques much easier, especially with
the approach Lew took, inspired by long-ago Western bondage masters like John Willie.
I learned the beauty of making bondage simple and utilitarian, leaving room for inspiration
and flourishes.
Eventually, I would meet another great friend, Midori, who would give me some hands-on
training in Japanese-style bondage. She always maintained that the work could never be
“truly Japanese,” because there were differences in the way she tied and what was taking
place in Japan. Nevertheless, it was a great opportunity to have more detailed instruction
in Eastern knot tying.
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Japanese books. However, I never strayed far from my Western roots and incorporated as
much of my own style into what I was seeing and practicing. One of the most satisfying
aspects was to work out problems with knots in my own style with the skills I had developed.
I remember when the rope bondage scene in Toronto was exactly three people—my two
friends and me. But our rope masterpieces inspired others at fetish nights to practice their
own forms of rope bondage. The love of rope bondage in the fetish community became so
strong that it needed a larger audience. That passion is what drove me to create and host the
world’s largest public rope bondage event called Morpheous’ Bondage Extravaganza (MBE).
The event takes place in Toronto annually in October and is approaching its tenth year. It is
free to the public and showcases the best rope bondage artists around the world for one
sleepless night, from sundown to sunrise. The event is now on the international spectrum
and takes place concurrently in different cities around the world.
These days, I draw my inspiration from great works of art and from nature. The range of
human emotions and expression has been conveyed through countless works of art over
the ages. From postimpressionist painting to renaissance sculpture to postmodernity and
photography, I look at other artists’ approaches and inspiration to motivate my own art. I
want to thank the team I put together of the best rope artists I know (Allura, Ruairidh, and
Ve-ra) who helped me rig, style, and bring this book to you.
We all come to rope bondage in different ways, and our paths through it will be equally
different. Perhaps you’ve felt the soft tug of rope against your fleshy bits while playing
with a partner who was into bondage. Perhaps you accidently walked into a rope bondage
exhibition once and felt a stirring in a place that you’ve never felt before. Perhaps you saw
this book in a store and picked it up on impulse because the cover attracted you for some
reason you can’t pinpoint. No matter how you arrived here, I hope that this book will be
the first step on a journey that takes you wherever you want to go—and beyond where you
think you might end up, all while having fun and playing safely.
Now sit back, relax, and get ready to be tantalized.
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