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Podcast: Private Parts Unknown: Sex & Love Around the World
Episode: The Power, Politics & Freedom of Shibari Rope Bondage with Marika Leila Roux
Description: For the 51st episode of Private Parts Unknown, your hosts Courtney Kocak & Sofiya Alexandra welcome 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 & early 20th centuries.We get into the origins of Shibari, the common misconception that it's an ancient Japanese art, how it relates to Western BSDM...