My love for the bound female form already showed itself at a very early age, the age of 8 when I started reading comics. One day, somewhere around the age of 10, I once again took my allowance (the huge amount of a few dollars) to my favorite second-hand comic shop. In the back of this shop was a small porn department. While waiting in line to pay for my second-hand comic I catched a glimpse of the magazine the man in front of me was paying for. The magazine had a black and white photo on the cover of a bound woman wearing only sexy lingerie. This was my first look at such a picture.
A few weeks later I myself was standing by the already mentioned porn department, looking for a magazine with a bound female. I think I never blushed as much as I did then when I paid for the magazine I found.
The Dutch, European, BDSM I was exposed to, had little serious bondage to offer, mainly the use of leather cuffs for restraining. The use of rope was minimal and aesthetics where not to be found. It was nice and exciting, but it was not -exactly- what I was "looking" for.
Around my 16th I got access to the internet through school (which was nothing compared to the internet of today). On the internet I started looking for information about BDSM. It was quick, easy and anonymous (still important aspects for current internet use). Besides a lot of information I also found, photos, a lot of photos, of Oriental women bound with rope. These photos where not just photos of bondage with leather or leather and rope, but there was beauty in the bondage, a purpose, an aesthetic. The bondage itself could be seen as art. The model served as a canvas where the artist could apply his ropes. The model became a living erotic piece of art. Not only did it look wonderful, it was also very arousing. The name I saw being used most for this was "Japanese bondage".
When I knew what I liked, Japanese bondage, I started concentrating on it. I started with looking, studying, the photos I found on the internet. The more I searched the internet, the more textual information I found.
With my first girlfriend I attempted my first bondage's. This kept growing and expanding with every girlfriend. Relations broke, but bondage kept my interest. Comics, SM magazines, bondage and the internet filled my youthful mind and became a returning factor in my life and relationships. When I met Chantal and found out that she shared my interest for bondage on the receiving end of the ropes, mine and our growth went very fast. Among other things this resulted in the website RopeMarks, our website.
Bob
Taken from our online bio:
http://www.ropemarks.com/en/home/us.htmSome of models we worked with
(in no particular order and far from complete):
Chantal (RopeMarks)
Miss Mirjana (MM#75128)
Dizzy Duveaux (MM #225959)
Miss Suzn (MM #14684)
Ancilla Tilia (MM #87419)
Jill Diamond
Vendetta Li (MM #379732)
Sofia Valentine (MM #401645)
Alsana Sin
Some of the photographers we worked with
(in no particular order and far from complete):
Lexie Molotoff (MM #318447)
Patrick Ceuppens / KinkyStyle (MM #645946)
Patrick Kaas (MM #1003091)
For a complete credit listing visit our site
http://www.ropemarks.com/en/portfolio/
Some of our publications
(magazine's/DVD's/Newspaper,etc. in no particular order and far from complete)
Sniper, Japan
Sanwa's Mania Club, Japan
Cosmopolitan, Netherlands
Massad, Netherlands
Kerfstok, Netherlands
Tabu, Finland
SteelMoon, Belgium
For a complete publication listing visit our site
http://www.ropemarks.com/en/media/magazines/
