Oh just hanging around here. What's new with you? I'm wearing a harness and off-camera learning about some Shibari techniques.

Shibari (Japanese for "to tie"), or the practice of bondage, dates back to the 1400s as an art in knot-tying. Initially, Shibari was considered an art in bondage used to contain one's captive with more elaborate knots used on captives of a higher status. It was considered a practice done with honor and intention.

In the 1600s, Japanese stage plays included bondage in plot lines, and the knots were tied in the front of the body for the benefit of the audience's view. Obviously plays are written for dramatic effect and as time went on plot lines included eroticism and sexual tension between those in submission and those tying them up, developing an almost reverence or trust amongst the two. The rope wasn't meant to cause harm, just to contain.

The Westernization of the practice doubled down on that. Nowadays you can take classes to learn how to tie yourself or others, or you can buy special rope harnesses to step into and tighten.