Ep55: The mix of ‘torment, pain, sex and fear’ in rope bondage - an interview with Faviola Llervu

Fox and Mya interview podcaster Faviola Llervu about her interest
in rope, her podcast (including some of Fox and Mya’s favourite
episodes such as Shibari myths), and her aim to get Japanese
kinksters more represented in the global rope community. Listen to
this interview to hear Faviola’s inspiring thoughts on: *The very
unusual reason she started to learn Japanese *How her studies of
Japanese SM and rope connect, including the reality of rope versus
what she’d initially encountered in comics and stories *What she’s
currently exploring in her Japanese SM studies *What her access to
Japanese source materials gives her in turns of her approach to
rope, and how she translates that into her podcast episodes *The
perhaps surprising intersection between rope and Japanese
prostitution *How and why modern rope bondage now is a sanitised,
fantasised and idealised version of bondage that had been going on
in other parts of life for years *The fetishes that go along with
rope in Japan that don’t typically get represented in translated
English language materials *What English-language Japanese ‘rope
purists’ get wrong *The rope anarchy collective The Devil’s Mask
Society and how it was formed, and how you might form similar in
your area *And Mya and Faviola’s bonding over their perfectionism -
while Fox despairs! Faviola Llervu is the creator and narrator of
The Kinbakunomicon, an informational podcast about the historical
traditions and foundations of kinbaku. She has translated for
bondage artist Kasumi Hourai's official website and for Nawapedia,
and has presented at Bondage Expo Dallas. She is also a founding
member of the Devil Mask Society. Faviola's main interest is in
tracing the development of torture, eroticism, sadomasochism and
censorship represented in Japanese media from pre-modern times to
today, as well as understanding its impact on early SM in Japan.