Shibari : Art or Sexist Evil?
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A guy wrote a very civil letter to UK arts and culture magazine Time Out to see if the publication might be sympathetic to coverage of Shibari as performance art:
In recent decades, it has been performed for select audiences, in Japan, on a scene that is only just beginning to emerge from the underground into contemporary performance art. Go Arisue, one of the world’s top nawashi (rope artists), is one of the leading figures in this mission to forge a place for his art is this area. We also hope to put on perfomances by Go, who has never publically performed outside Japan. I was priveleged to host his only private performance abroad.
An editor’s response:
Funny how its naked women that always get tied up. How does this relate to foot binding I wonder and to the enslavement of women in Japan in the past. I find it repulsive. Yours, Sarah Kent
I know there is (or was) a British Domme who was doing public performances of men she’d bound.
Discussion at Informed Consent: Time Out: Bondage is repulsive!