Shibari (縛り)

To tie decoratively

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Kinbaku-bi (緊縛美)

The beauty of tight binding

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Artist (noun)

One who professes and practices an imaginative art
 

Perform (verb)

To do in a formal manner or according to a prescribed ritual

"One could say that everyone has their own dialect of erotic rope bondage."

- Georg Barkas, Archaeology of Personalities

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“You can deny, if you like, nearly all abstractions: justice, beauty, truth, goodness, mind, God. You can deny seriousness, but not play.”

- Johan Huizinga, Homo Ludens