A BRIEF HISTORY

The Japanese style rope bondage kinbaku originates from hojo-jutsu, medieval military restraint techniques mastered by The Samurai, who generally showed great respect for their captives. The Samurai were peerless in their ability to tie enemies up safely and securely.Follow this link for an indepth history of hojo-jutsu go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinbaku scroll to History & follow links.

The art became crueller under the Tokugawa government, when binding techniques were used as punishments for various offences. Once a victim was restrained, four methods were used to humiliate and inflict pain: whipping, stoning, constriction, and hanging them mid-air. These four types of torture survive, in less extreme forms, in modern Japanese S&M.

Despite the decline in hojo-jutsu, kinbaku techniques have moved to the bedroom, partly encouraged by Western influences. Newly-introduced ideas about sex and bondage, like those of the Marquis de Sade, aroused lovers' enthusiasm for traditional kinbaku techniques. In the 1960s, as Japan's porn industry exploded, Tokyo theatres hosted shibari shows, in which a nawashi would demonstrate techniques on a hapless volunteer from the audience.

Since arriving on western shores kinbaku has been greeted with mixed views and opinions. Appealing more to the fetish & gay communities kinbaku is beginning to excite, enhance & provide an erotic medium in peoples sex lives whether they are straight, gay, bi-sexual or of any other sexual orientation.