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.