Rope Podcast
Podcast by rope partners Fox and Mya, The Rope Podcast is an adult podcast about rope bondage, Shibari and Kinbaku. Listen for discussions of ties, rope topics and news, interviews, reviews of events and rope gear, and listener questions.
Episodes
July 27, 2025 • 27 mins
Pearl began her rope bottoming journey in 2019 at the age of 57, attending Bondage Expo Dallas with her husband, Bayowolf. In preparation for Beach Bind 2021, they dove into the local rope scene, attending education-focused meetups to grow their skills.
Despite her commitment, Pearl found rope bottoming challenging and noticed a lack of education directed at bottoms in her community, leading her to question whether rope was truly ...
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July 13, 2025 • 27 mins
In this episode Fox and Mya discuss how you might successfully combine rope play with a very popular form of BDSM activity, wax play! This is usually pouring or dripping molten wax over the skin of a play partner, in this case, while they are also tied up.
The hosts explore in the episode:
• Wax and rope aesthetics
• Types of scene you can use wax within
• Safety and risks and possible mitigations for these
• Considerations f...
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June 29, 2025 • 40 mins
One of our lovely listeners left this comment for us with the following questions:
1. When it comes to being a rope educator, what are the essential skills someone should have?
2. How do you know if you're ready to teach rope to others?
3. How do you ensure you're not teaching above your own skill level?
4. How do you develop a rope curriculum?
In this episode the rope podcast hosts explore these questions, sharing their own o...
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June 15, 2025 • 21 mins
BondageOtter(he/they) is the founder of Rope Burn SF, the USA’s first ongoing masc-of-center, rope-specific play party + skill share, with his remaining energy spent volunteering for numerous gay organizations. A queer leatherman and rope switch, he maintains a private S/M practice while organizing public education and play programs for the community of people who want to tie masc-of-center bodies.
He commits a huge amount of his...
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June 1, 2025 • 29 mins
BondageOtter (he/they) is a queer leatherman and rope switch who maintains a private S/M practice while organizing public education and play programs for the community of people who want to tie masc-of-center bodies.
His education seeks to fuse Japanese aesthetics with the erotics of gay leather culture. The podcast hosts talked to him about how his rope experience in that culture is different from the cis-het/pansexual community...
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May 18, 2025 • 43 mins
It’s hard for us to believe, but this episode is number 200 of the Rope Podcast. That’s a lot of ropey goodness! Starting back in 2017, we’ve somehow managed to produce episodes every two weeks on a regular basis.
This fun episode celebrates our story so far - a story that in many ways echoes the growth of rope bondage in society at large. We hear updates from some of our guests, including Shay Tizano, Wooden Tiger, Faviola Lle...
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May 4, 2025 • 21 mins
Mistress J is an Australian switch known internationally for her gorgeous decorative rope. In our last episode we explored some fundamentals of the art, as well as getting to know Mistress J and her rope practice. In this episode, we go deeper, and talk to her about:
• Pros and cons of mixing decorative rope with other forms of rope
• Her inner sadist!
• A top tip for performances (that Fox and Mya also implement)
• Skills a...
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April 5, 2025 • 23 mins
Mistress J, best known internationally for the decorative rope designs she creates, particularly beautiful, wearable rope art has been part of her local scene in Melbourne, Australia, for eleven years. She has been teaching skillshares in her community for nine years, drawing on her background in design and education, and she facilitates a group called ‘The Art of Rope’.
Identifying as a Sensualist, she loves touch, and always trie...
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March 24, 2025 • 40 mins
Having lived in a number of condos and had a number of rope spaces, the podcast hosts have a lot of empathy for this question! The episode looks at what hard points are used for, what that means in terms of which hard points might work or not, and how those hard points do - or don’t - work in terms of a suspended ceiling (and why).
In this episode, hear more about:
• What actually is a suspended ceiling
• Why you can’t use it...
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March 20, 2025 • 24 mins
Last year, Fox and Mya learned the gorgeous Marquise harnesses from the one of the creators, @HwG-Paris. Fox was thrilled to learn a ‘French’ tie and the hosts of the podcast have experimented with it a number of times since. Fox has also had great positive feedback from some of the other rope bottoms who he’s tied it on, so this episode shares the harness more widely with listeners!
In this episode, hear about:
• What these deco...
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March 2, 2025 • 32 mins
This is a new type of episode for the Rope Podcast, where Fox and Mya discuss how you might combine rope with other forms of play!
Here they start with a classic pairing, ‘impact play’, which is very common for kinksters to integrate into rope scenes.
In this episode they talk about using everything from pevertables to body parts to items made-for-play, as well as:
• Why people like this kind of play
• What kinds of toys you mi...
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February 23, 2025 • 24 mins
As well as writing the extremely influential “Shibari You Can Use: Japanese Rope Bondage and Erotic Macramé”, Lee Harrington has taught over 1100 classes. Fox and Mya asked him about his experiences as a rope educator, focusing particularly on on classes that explore tying non-cisgender men and women. In this interview, hear them discuss:
• How he got into education - reluctantly!
• Education and tips on being a better rope educa...
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February 9, 2025 • 24 mins
You wouldn’t believe the number of times our guests and listeners share that their introduction to Shibari was the book “Shibari You Can Use: Japanese Rope Bondage and Erotic Macramé”. We are thus thrilled to share the first of two episodes with the author, another OG of US rope, Lee Harrington. Lee Harrington (he/they) is a spiritual and erotic authenticity educator, gender explorer, eclectic artist, and award-winning author and e...
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January 26, 2025 • 21 mins
This episode was recorded in July 2024.
The second part of our interview with the lovely Kink Name Pending and Petite Pretzel focuses on tying male bodies, as well as bodies with ‘out-y’ bits (which are sometimes the same, sometimes not!). The two rope switches share wise advice (and they, and the podcast, note that some of this will apply to tying genders of all types), including:
• Risks you might not have thought of
• P3nis p...
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January 12, 2025 • 12 mins
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 t...
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December 29, 2024 • 24 mins
Happy New Year dear listeners!
Our second end of year episode where we pull together favorite rope experiences from our guests across the year.
We find it super inspiring for our own play, and hope your imagination (and maybe more!) is also stimulated.
The episode includes scenes from
• Gorgone
• Knotty Devil
• vahavta
• Anna Noctuelle
• FoxofBangkok
Click to listen now!
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Woo hoo! It’s one of our most popular episodes of the year - where our amazing guests from throughout 2024 share the details of one of their favourite rope scenes.
In this episode, you can hear about one of the favourite rope bondage scenes of these rope susperstars:
• Anna Bones
• Knothead
• Voudou Ropes
• Ceci Ferox
• and Mya!
As well as providing a diversity of fascinating insights into others’ play, the episode can ins...
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December 1, 2024 • 16 mins
Mya shares her new erotica shorts book- which may or may not be inspired by some of her earlier adventures with Fox.
In the episode Fox asks her what the book is about and why she chose to write BDSM erotica. They also discuss some of the constraints on writing this kind of work.
Mya then reads a short excerpt from one of the stories in the collection.
Finally listen to Fox announce the next book he’s working on!
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November 17, 2024 • 30 mins
Stuck for a Christmas, Hanukah or Thanksgiving gift idea? The Rope Podcast has you covered!
Listen to the episode to hear Fox and Mya talk through 50 - yes, 50! - different present ideas for all occasions that you can buy your play partner, lover, polycule member, friend, or local rope studio. They cover the range from a few dollars to a thousand so plenty of range for a variety of budgets. They own many items themselves and shar...
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October 27, 2024 • 27 mins
Fox and Mya, the hosts of the podcast, met doing rope, and so when it came to planning their wedding, it seemed a no-brainer to include it. In this episode, they discuss their recent rope wedding, choices they made, and the creative compromise they made to enable them to tie their harnesses before the ceremony whilst also keeping the tradition of the groom not seeing the bride before the ceremony!
Listen to hear them discuss:
• W...
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