![]() ![]() 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. ![]()
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