Our esteem'd colleague Evil Sensei at SenseiSays continues his beginner's guide series on finding the best Japanese porn online with this tidy guide to shibari, the ancient Japanese rope bondage practice that we've covered in some depth before on Fleshbot, but only from the perspective of ignorant Westerners who don''t understand all those kanji. Given Evil Sensei's browsing tips, however, we're sure you'll be gathering your own deliciously ropebound Lolita Complex Sperm Lesbians sightings in no time at all.

Sit back and unwind (assuming you're not tied up yourself at the moment, that is), with Evil Sensei's online shabiri guide after the jump.

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Evil Sensei's Guide to Japanese Porn
Part Two: All About Shibari
by Evil Sensei

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Shibari, or more accurately kinbaku, is descended from the ancient martial art of hojojutsu. It has a fascinating history, with various styles of restraining a person being used depending on factors like their social status, the crime committed, physical size and strength and the likelihood they may attempt escape.

Shibari is thought to have been used as a sexual practise from around the late 1700's. It is less about sadomasochism than it is about the eroticism of restraint.

Shibari.info is a nifty little site with tutorials on some of the more common tying techniques, which you'll also find at Japanese Rope Report (though the latter has a horrid frame-based page design—the author should be tied up himself).

When I say that kinbaku isn't about the SM, I'm not talking about the Japanese AV industry, where being tied up on its own would probably not be enough to sell massive numbers of DVDs. So it tends to go hand in hand with all sorts of other genres and fetishes, and generally amounts to highly entertaining erotic abuse of the utterly helpless. One can only assume the pay is reasonable.

AV studio Dogma has a series called "restraint chair trance" where actresses are tied up and subjected to various bodily fluids as well as being poked with different things. They also have something called an "SM laboratory" to check out if you're into this kind of stuff. There's a members only section which I didn't bother checking, and as always it helps if you read Japanese, but they have some sample galleries which are quite nice.

Dogma is known for their bdsm themes and features actresses such as the cute-as-a-button Mayura Hoshitsuki, whose pastimes include being tied up over a toilet and face-fucked until she vomits repeatedly and stars in films with catchy titles such as "Lolisuparezu" (that's "Lolita Complex Sperm Lesbians" to you, bub) and "Anal Trance DX". If you read Japanese, you'll definitely want to check out her blog. And don't miss the kawaii cartoon penis orbiting a moon on her Dogma home page. Hey, being tied up and abused for a living doesn't mean you can't find the time to be cute too.

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Previously: How To Search For Hot Japanese Porn: Part One, Tie Me Up Tom: Behind The Knots, Of Human (Pet) Bondage, Club RopeMarks, Fetish Photos By Pierre, Rope Rookie, Twisted Monk's How-To Rope Videos, David Lawrence: Shibari Art Photography, Art Bondage, DeLano Bound, A Kinbaku Freak

Despite whatever you might think to the contrary based on their use of scary looking props like head restraints and wrist shackles, people who tie each other up in fancy knotwork usually tend to be some of the nicest folks you'll ever meet. For proof, pay a visit to Bob and Chantal and their the community of rope bondage enthusiasts at Club RopeMarks, which is just about as welcoming and well-organized a place as you'll find on the interwebs where you can indulge your taste for seeing gorgeous European and international fetish models done up in all sorts of delicious restraints. Even the text that reminds you that the good stuff is for members only has a polite air about it that you don't always come across on paysites of this type ("The list of galleries displayed here are freely available and browsable by the members of RopeMarks. As a guest you are free to browse the artistic covers and/or thumbs of each gallery.") If we can't actually live next door to Bob and Chantal, we guess paying $19.95 to be their virtual neighbors is the next best thing.

· Club RopeMarks (ropemarks.com, via Unscathed Corpse)
· See also: Club RopeMarks Blogs (ropemarks.com)

Previously: How To: "Unleash Your Inner Mistress" With Mistress Jonvieve, Black Book Art, Rope Rookie, Leash Sex, Twisted Monk's How-To Rope Videos, David Lawrence: Shibari Art Photography, Art Bondage