Check out the newest article from Manami Okazaki about the search of authentic Japanese rope bondage culture in Tokyo in HugMag, an online platform that 2celebrates independent culture: people and movements that challenge the status quo”.
The article is mainly about Naka Akira Sensei and is illustrated with the mesmerising photography of RONIN DE GOEDE.
It also contains (a part of) the story how we got interested in Naka Akira’s style and how we have met him…
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We’re in a small room in a Tokyo apartment with traditional tatami flooring. Fifteen spectators are crammed inside, all transfixed by a woman suspended from the ceiling, panting profusely and groaning with pleasure. A well-built, extensively tattooed man is tying the woman in an intricate web of rope. He secures each bind with purpose and precision while looking her straight in the eyes. The man circles the suspended woman, increasing the intensity and tension of the ropes until she tips into a frenzy of pleasure, her eyes rolling backwards into her head. The show continues, with the woman in a state of fevered rapture. Despite the fact she is bound with increasingly severe ties, between each knot she lures the man to her with an intense gaze – eyes like a wild animal – before she finally convulses into an explosive climax…
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