Healing Rope
There are plenty of women in rope, you can see them everywhere these days. Intense rope faces, jovial rope faces, and some concerning faces although its par for the course. What I don't see often enough are Black Women in Rope.
Yes, I live in a mostly white state (Portland Oregon) but there are black women here yet, there are few who are in rope, know about rope or will have the conversation without it being too taboo. I am a newbie, as far as the rope community sees me, so I have all these ideas and thoughts of things, so-called different, that could greatly enhance the experience and have been laughed at or ignore or patronized. I know what Kinbaku-bi has done for me and I would like to share that with anyone who wants to hear it.
Those who I have found are kinky rope artist who expresses their love of rope, being in rope and getting pleasure from rope is all the praise and good juju. When it comes to things I enjoy, I tend to take the original idea and tweak it to what my comforts are, as many of us do. Therapeutic Rope Art is my jam. I conjure spirits through rope to guide me through the pain. I summon energy through the twisting, creaking, slapping on the ground rope I hear see and feel. There are moments when my personal dark passengers get to roam free and there are times where I see hear and feel nothing but the blissful exquisite pain and pleasure that is rope. I take my Kinbaku-bi to another level. To a place of healing. A place where I can let go and be. Trying to talk to people about what I see and what I feel in this community gets me cute looks like, "aw, she's sweet. That's nice dear. Sounds interesting*wink*. Could be fun but that's not Kinbaku". Why Not?
Is rope directly tied(pun intended) to sex? Yes, it can be, sex is amazing! Yes, rope can lead to sex and it would be glorious to not have control while constricting your breath and binding your body. That sounds hot like grease in a pan to me yet, Why can't I heal with my rope? Why do I have to have sex with my rope? Why do I have to follow the community and stay "kinky", WTF is that? Trying to find people who feel and think as you do when tradition says something totally different is frustrating. When I find out that people are doing therapeutic rope I got excited. I thought, "Finally. Someone hears me and feels what I feel", further from the truth. It's sex-based, not bad just not what I was hoping for. Being a pioneering Black Woman, in many things I have done in my life, is taxing at times but exhilarating to be the first. If I weren't a Black Woman would this be a thing at all? Probably not but I am, so it is. Does it have to be about Black Woman specifically? No, but I would like for the barriers to be broken in more ways than you can imagine.
I play the cello. I love heavy metal, jazz, country, opera, screamo, indy...I love music! I love the eras which clothing was a status so all forms of expression can be viewed. I enjoy surfing, rollerskating, yoga, kickboxing, and R.O.P.E! I enjoy traveling to places I don't know the language, eating foods of grandmothers long forgotten. I am nerdy, geeky, kinky, who salivates on intelligence and how that is administered. The precision of language is sexy which becomes a conversation about many avenues about this life. Does anyone out there hear me?! That soapbox was higher than I thought, apologies.
The conversation needs to be had. Yes, you can ease pains through pain and art. Yes, there is a place for you if you want to be at a place. Yes, this form is not just for kinky, it's for the nerdy arty peeps too. I don't want to just talk about the possibilities, I want to make them happen. If you are in the great Northwest and are interested in learning Kinbaku-bi with me, hit me up!
Yes, I live in a mostly white state (Portland Oregon) but there are black women here yet, there are few who are in rope, know about rope or will have the conversation without it being too taboo. I am a newbie, as far as the rope community sees me, so I have all these ideas and thoughts of things, so-called different, that could greatly enhance the experience and have been laughed at or ignore or patronized. I know what Kinbaku-bi has done for me and I would like to share that with anyone who wants to hear it.
Those who I have found are kinky rope artist who expresses their love of rope, being in rope and getting pleasure from rope is all the praise and good juju. When it comes to things I enjoy, I tend to take the original idea and tweak it to what my comforts are, as many of us do. Therapeutic Rope Art is my jam. I conjure spirits through rope to guide me through the pain. I summon energy through the twisting, creaking, slapping on the ground rope I hear see and feel. There are moments when my personal dark passengers get to roam free and there are times where I see hear and feel nothing but the blissful exquisite pain and pleasure that is rope. I take my Kinbaku-bi to another level. To a place of healing. A place where I can let go and be. Trying to talk to people about what I see and what I feel in this community gets me cute looks like, "aw, she's sweet. That's nice dear. Sounds interesting*wink*. Could be fun but that's not Kinbaku". Why Not?
Is rope directly tied(pun intended) to sex? Yes, it can be, sex is amazing! Yes, rope can lead to sex and it would be glorious to not have control while constricting your breath and binding your body. That sounds hot like grease in a pan to me yet, Why can't I heal with my rope? Why do I have to have sex with my rope? Why do I have to follow the community and stay "kinky", WTF is that? Trying to find people who feel and think as you do when tradition says something totally different is frustrating. When I find out that people are doing therapeutic rope I got excited. I thought, "Finally. Someone hears me and feels what I feel", further from the truth. It's sex-based, not bad just not what I was hoping for. Being a pioneering Black Woman, in many things I have done in my life, is taxing at times but exhilarating to be the first. If I weren't a Black Woman would this be a thing at all? Probably not but I am, so it is. Does it have to be about Black Woman specifically? No, but I would like for the barriers to be broken in more ways than you can imagine.
I play the cello. I love heavy metal, jazz, country, opera, screamo, indy...I love music! I love the eras which clothing was a status so all forms of expression can be viewed. I enjoy surfing, rollerskating, yoga, kickboxing, and R.O.P.E! I enjoy traveling to places I don't know the language, eating foods of grandmothers long forgotten. I am nerdy, geeky, kinky, who salivates on intelligence and how that is administered. The precision of language is sexy which becomes a conversation about many avenues about this life. Does anyone out there hear me?! That soapbox was higher than I thought, apologies.
The conversation needs to be had. Yes, you can ease pains through pain and art. Yes, there is a place for you if you want to be at a place. Yes, this form is not just for kinky, it's for the nerdy arty peeps too. I don't want to just talk about the possibilities, I want to make them happen. If you are in the great Northwest and are interested in learning Kinbaku-bi with me, hit me up!
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