WOMEN IN BONDAGE GAGGED FULL

WOMEN IN BONDAGE GAGGED FULL

Committed to experiencing the full shibari shebang, I stand in the spot designated for switches - and find myself jostling for space with about 80% of the class.Įllie, who's 41, is here for the first time. 'Now go over there if you want to be tied, over there if you want to tie, and over there if you're a switch!' A switch is someone who is happy to both tie and be tied. 'Go to this end of the room if you're a cat person, and that end if you're a dog person,' says Anna. The session starts with a few ice-breakers to get us chatting to different people. Can't you just have a cuddle? Ben, who's been to several classes, explains, 'Anna and Fred talk about the rope being an extension of your hands, so if you've got lots of rope, it's like you're giving them the biggest hug.' Ben is here with his girlfriend Bella, who adds, 'it's like hugs with bruises!' Photo: Anna Bones at Anatomie 'Our relationship didn’t need spicing up - it was spicy already!' I understand the need for closeness - I'm just not sure why there've got to be ropes involved. 'I like being close to someone,' adds Paul. 'You're touching another person, they're touching you and it feels nice.' As humans, we crave to be touched, and that's what rope is,' Anna explains. 'I like the closeness - connecting and having a conversation with another person through physical movement. 'I was looking online for kinky activities and I found this event called Peer Rope London. Shibari is, 'geeky, very brainy, and it can be very intellectual,' says Anna, who discovered it five years ago, towards the end of her PhD at UCL. I'd probably put money on at least one of the guys running a pop-up Beard Bar in Nunhead, selling artisan moustache wax made of oils secreted from his girlfriend's scalp during a head massage from monks in Tibet. In fact, if you wandered in before anyone was bound, you might mistake the Rope Jam for a yoga class, such is the predilection for Lululemon leggings and loose printed cotton trousers getting an airing between Goa and Glasto. I am pleased about this, because I'd rather not be bound with a rope that's rubbed against someone's backside.īut the attire isn't all leather and latex.

While participants are welcome to be naked, (' since nudity isn't unsafe we simply don't have a rule for it') everyone keeps their kit on. 'It comes from sado-masochistic porn in Japan,' says Anna Bones, who runs the Peckham based studio with her boyfriend Fred Hatt. Shibari, for the uninitiated, is Japanese rope-binding, which is a form of bondage.

Women in bondage gagged