A new interpretation of the most widely spread kinky art
When – 2020-2023
Where – Milano
Key features – Bondage workshops; themed art exhibitions
Bondage – meant as the art of restraining or immobilizing the body – possibly is the unusual erotic practice counting most enthusiasts, maybe also thanks to its strong aesthetic value, making it more acceptable than other kinks.
Incidentally, it also is one of my least-loved subcultures, so much so that I turned my intolerance for ropes and knots into a running gag.
Such impatience isn’t actually for the game in itself, but for how bondage is often conceived as the obsessive repetition of a few specific figures of kinbaku, the Japanese tying style. They are very beautiful and elegant, for sure, but they are deadly boring as well after the three-hundredth time you see them – especially if they get reduced to a sterile style exercise. What I couldn’t understand is why so many riggers boasted their originality… while they were imprisoned in routines as standardized as the rotest missionary position.
When I was offered to collaborate in the creation of a monthly event dedicated to this very practice, I accepted the challenge with the intention of reclaiming the creativity of a kink that’s far more varied than the usual scenes featuring kimonos and suspensions. Without selling the Far East fanatics short, my first wish was to focus on the other thousand forms bondage can take, proposing something different every time.
The second was to exorcise the somewhat ascetic and geeky atmosphere of so many bondage encounters, opening the party to other kinks too, and especially… to partying! Without sacrificing neither art nor safety, who could have imagined that even ropes could be sensuous and fun?
The result turned up the noses of some purists, yet got many new people into unusual eroticism. Isn’t it nice when everyone can find their place?
