Bondage

History

It is established that the modern bondage largely draws its origins in the Japanese company, where the use of the cord in all its forms dates at least from the 15th century, and in particular of the Kinbaku, a corporal punishment. The Samurai S could be blocked only by one specialist, the nawashi .

15th century 1560: The bloody period of Shinkoku or the reign of Tokugawa

At that time, the Japanese company lived one dark and tortuous period of war under a reign of dictatorship which lasted until in 1560. According to the rule of Tokugawa, in 1542 one promulga a code presenting 4 degrees of torture based on the cord for the criminals. The first degree was to make use of the cord to whip or to whip, the second was to attach a stone to the cord and to make use of it as masses of weapon, the third consisted in creating points of compression inflicting of the serious and irreversible after-effects, and finally the fourth was the suspension which could sometimes last several days. In the last three degrees, the exit of the punishment was generally death.

These methods ended at the same time as the wars, towards 1560. The use of the cord as a tool of torture took place never again since. However, several of these techniques are at the base of the modern use of the cord in its erotic forms most current concerned with the bondage.

1600 - 1878: Period Edo

After the bloody period of Shinkoku, a technique called Hojo-jutsu or hobaku-jutsu was developed. The hobaku-jutsu was an martial art very special employee to catch and retain criminals or prisoners. A precise technique of the use of the cord to attach and force a prisoner was born. Each village had its own method.

A captive criminal/could be attached/suspended only as a public, and any observer could say by the way in which the criminal or the prisoner was attached/suspended and by the model of cord employed, which was the social class of the captive criminal/, the crime whom it had made, and also sometimes the age and the profession of the victim.

The use of the cord as forms erotic is very fuzzy for this period, and we did not find any writing clearly being able to inform us about his use.

The modern bondage

At the end of the period of Edo, some Japanese erotic images appeared, where the use of the cord is finally represented. If this erotic use could exist front, one in any case does not know it in any historical direction: only accounts or legends refer there.

The modern art of the plays of cord is not a practice of torture as unfortunately many vidéos present it to us. There remains consensual and never crosses the limit of the two protagonists. There exist today two universities, at the same time antagonistic and complementary: the Western school (bondage), based in the beginning on the Eastern school (Shibari), developed its own techniques and its own esthetics. It today is spread, except in Japan obviously.

On a purely anecdotic basis, the modern Japanese police officers always carry a piece of cord on their uniform.

Precautions of use

The bondage is before a a whole relationship of trust between the person who attaches (the bondagor says also bondor ()/the bondageuse one) and the attached person (the bondagette/bondagé or crammed (E)). The responsibility (and even life) of the attached person are constantly between the hands of the person who attaches. If you are this person, always keep with the spirit that since your partner puts himself voluntarily between your hands to be attached (E), you are his responsible, his guard for it, and you must above all honor this confidence.

Several serious accidents related to the bondage are listed every year. Never forget the following elementary safety regulations:

never leave a bound person (or connected) only, without monitoring. If you practice as a recluse, a certain number of additional rules are described in the document concerning with the ;
Even more important, never leave only, not even a moment, a person bound and muzzled . Accidental smotherings are very rare, but they can intervene very quickly;
do not pass from cord around the neck. The risks of throttling are too much great;
Preserve a means of demolishing the cords quickly. Scissors (the scissors with binding are recommended: they are effective and comprise a protection intended to protect the fast skin), knife, and/or nodes. In particular on the level of the chest, of the articulations and certain significant places, to avoid the garrots;
Prevent the risks of fall and throttling. An immobilized person making a fall behind (with its chair, for example) risk break the neck;
the “suspensions” require much control. Do not practice them if you are initial;
the quality of the cord is paramount in order to limit the risks of burn related to frictions (to prefer the natural cord for the suspensions: the cord will remain in place);
never use running nodes! It is always necessary to use nodes which do not slip. Avoid the nodes known as “tail of pig”, which slip (the node of the laces of shoes). Prefer to them the Reef knot.
do not insist if your partner expresses an embarrassment or pain. We all are not equal in front of the bondage. Certain characteristics and physical limits are specific to each individual. The flexibility is a good indicator. To supervise particularly: the shoulders (risk of dismantling) and the elbows (if they are not touched easily, do not force!).

The duration of the meetings is very variable, of a few minutes (very strict positions and/or nobody attached beginner) at several hours of sharp (positions easier to hold and/or anybody attached tested). In all the cases, do not take useless risks, and think of regularly hydrating the attached person.

The photographs, vidéos and texts of fictions which one can find on Internet are selected according to their esthetics and/or of their impact. The positions are generally real, but they are often more complicated to realize than it does not appear to with it, and cannot always be reproduced simply and/or without risks. Do not risk you there if you are initial.

Why people like to be made bind?

The people who find erotic to be made bind, find it for various reasons:

the reason more often quoted or at least called upon, is a release of inhibitions and responsibilities, insofar as the bound people have, to a certain extent, entrusted the keys of their situation to a third. One can call that a erotic exchange of capacities (in English: " erotic power exchange"). The feeling of impotence makes it possible to surmount the interdict: the attached person does not feel responsible any more to have made an sex act. This phantasm is frequent among women of which education diabolise sexuality, like at the people driving back their sexuality
to revive a narcissistic phantasm: the bound person feels more desired than usually.
Certaines people appreciates the physical feeling of the constraint, the feelings, the pressure of the cords, impossibility of releasing itself in spite of the efforts. These same people much more rarely appreciate the burn/pain generated by friction/bite of the cord.
One can like the feeling of impotence related to the desperate attempts to break its obstacles (bonds, chains or bracelets), particularly while being stimulated (E), sensuellement or sexually. Let us recall that the practice of the bondage does not imply necessarily a sexual contact between the partners.
Of other people appreciates the roleplays on various and varied topics (robber/kidnapper and victim/hostage, doctor and patient (E), police officer and prisoner (era), magician () and assisting (E)…).
more rarely, certain people test a pleasure coming from the “setting in danger” symbolic system (like the jump with the rubber band and the climbing). These people appreciate the adrenalin caused by potentially dangerous situations, and naturally direct the bondage towards this type of situations, even of degradation. This category is very few.
Or quite simply, like a complement “pricking” with the sexual practices, to test!

Some complementary reasons:

Like ones complement a fetishism given (fetishism of the matters like leather, latex or vinyl, fetishism of the lower parts, bottoms, the heels switches, etc). The geometry formed by the lines of the bondage on the body makes it possible here to emphasize such or such behavior, such or such fetishistic accessory .
And finally, of people can like to be made bind as complement with sadomasochistic practices which we will not approach here.
a taste for the esthetism of the shibari/bondage (argument regularly advanced by the attached women and/or wishing the being)

Why people like to bind other people?

to give pleasure to son/sa partner, and for the stimulations generated by the pleasure of son/sa partner; it is by far the case more running and advantageous to the two partners.
For the development of the anatomy, the geometry of the forms, the esthetic aspect of the subject, the bonds and the environment (see work of “Midori” and its photographer Michael Blue for example)
For the erotic tender of son/sa partner, in other words a phantasm of possessivity - which coincides with the phantasm to be excessively desired at the attached person.
For the control and the capacity caused by the “setting in danger” of son/sa attached partner (E). For this category of people, if it is about their only motivation, it is possible that they have some difficulties in cause the pleasure of the play at their partner.
And finally, like complement with others practical sadomasochistic.

So that the pleasure is shared, it is essential that the person who fastener is constantly with the listening of son/sa partner. A bondagor/bondageuse not being with listening that of its own pleasure will only get very seldom shared pleasure, as good number of “pseudo-bondageurs” which one can find by the means of clubs and private Internet sites.

Famous Ligoteurs

In France, the first testimony of bondage are the Cyanotype S (ancestor of the Photographie, of color Bleu E) of Charles-François Jeandel (1859 - 1942), notable a angoumoisin. These stereotypes are preserved at the Musée of Orsay. They were identified graces to work of Helene Pinet in the Années 1990, which recognized portions of a fabric of Jeandel on stereotypes ( Renversements of the idol Sérapis , 1889, exposed to the town hall of Angouleme).

Among the large inspirers of the bondage of the 20th century, one can quote John Willie ( Adventures off Sweet Gwendoline ) or Eric Stanton.

Let us quote also the Japanese illustrator Yoji Muku, carrying out splendid prints under various pseudonyms of which most known is “Jito”, English John Blake, under the name of Nawashi Murakawa, Akechi Denki and its assistant Akechi Enka (Shizuka Aoi of its true name), the photographer Nobuyoshi Araki, the draftsman Richard Laillier and French Tonton Ties up in the Années 1970.

The contemporary ligoteurs most famous are primarily American. It is for the majority of the references to the level of esthetics and the innovation. One can quote in particular Jim Weathers (alias The Weatherman), fire Cory Thompson (alias Mr. T), Jay Edwards, Dominic Wolfe, Jon Woods, Lew Rubens, etc And a woman in particular: famous Lorelei (alias Kristine Imboch), for the whole of its work and its contribution to the democratization of the bondage. One will also remember famous the American Pin-up Betty Page put in scene in multiple photographs and cartoons.

See too

Folsom Street Fair, a gay demonstration of fetishists of the uniform, which presents the bondage (and the BDSM also) as a public.
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