Ep191: Inverting the Rope Tropes: An interview with Petite Pretzel and Kink Name Pending

This episode was recorded in July 2024 Two guests for the price of
one! After enjoying very much a performance by rope switches Petite
Pretzel and Kink Name Pending in Thailand last year, we invited
them on the podcast to talk about their perspectives on rope. In
this first part of the interview, hear about how they enjoy
inverting some of the normal rope tropes, their love of
predicaments, and the positive side of being set up to fail as a
rope bottom! Petite Pretzel is a rope switch from New York
City. She has been teaching shibari since 2019 at Anatomie Studio,
London, as well as teaching and performing elsewhere in the UK and
internationally. Her commercial rigging includes music video
credits (Charli XCX, Christine + the Queens), art gallery
installation (Elizabeth Xi Bauer gallery), fashion photography and
full-length film. She lives in Bethnal Green with her cat, who
loves ropes just as much as she does. Pen (KinkNamePending) is a
UK-based rope switch who loves the connections that shibari
inspires and the wide range of experiences with vulnerability and
trust it has brought him. Outside of rope, he is keenly interested
in anatomy and physiology and has studied these topics extensively;
he brings his perspective and understanding of the human body into
rope. He has performed in the UK and abroad.