Interviews

For the sake of accurate history, and because age is a fact of life we have to accept, it becomes imperative to record details from key...

I first met Nuit de Tokyo at a rope-play event in Japan at a time when my Japanese language skills were at best, rudimentary....

What a year 2020 has been.   For those of us in the world community of Kinbaku practitioners and enthusiasts, the advent of the Covid-19 virus...

This interview was conducted by Osada Steve in 2000, and published in Secret Magazine in 2002. A German version of this interview appeared in Schlagzeilen in 2000. An online version...

In these times of international crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, we suffer collectively. We cannot so easily practice whichever interpretation we enjoy in...

Yoi Yoshida san was my first real contact into the world of Japanese Kinbaku and I was lucky enough to be invited to her Onawa...

I first met Kanna san dressed in a Japanese schoolgirls uniform at Nagare Aotsuki san’s SM & Minority Bar MAJESTIC in Shinjuku, Tokyo, and...

This month we welcome a special guest contributor to Kinbaku Today, Sugiura Norio.  Sugiura sensei has offered to provide periodic commentary, advice, and reflection for Kinbaku Today for a special section: Sugiura Speaks. In a recent interview in Tokyo with Kinbaku Today, famed bondage photographer Sugiura Norio pushed back on the idea that the gote is...

From September 1979 until January 2009 S & M Sniper was a Japanese erotic magazine catering for sadomasochism and rope bondage. Unlike previous publications,...

One of Japan's top kinbaku models discusses being tied and what the future holds for kinbaku.

Interviewed by Bergborg.

I first met Ugo san around 6 years ago via ViceMinister, an American resident in Tokyo, and, as a confirmed historian of rope bondage in Japan,...