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Podcast: Private Parts Unknown: Sex & Love Around the World
Episode: The Transformative Effect of Shibari Rope Bondage with Marika Leila Roux of Shibari Study
Description: For the 144th episode of Private Parts Unknown, host Courtney Kocak welcomes Marika Leila Roux, a Berlin-based Shibari practitioner & the co-founder of Shibari Study, the leader in online rope education.Shibari is Japanese rope bondage, a form of BDSM. The word broadly means "binding" or "tying." It originated from Hojo-jutsu, a torturous method of restraining captives, before morphing into the erotic bondage Kinbaku in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.Marika shares her personal journey with Shibari, and we get into the origins and how it relates to Western BSDM practices, how you can...