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
October 19, 2025 • 26 mins
Fox is thrilled to share his new novella, Blood Ties, where rope, vampires, and a lush French medieval world collide. Expect vivid sensory detail, authentic rope play, and a story that’s equal parts seductive and thrilling.
In this episode, Mya and Fox explore the inspirations and ideas behind the book, including:
- Why vampires? And how vampirism mirrors aspects of Fox’s sexuality
- The unexpected parallels between kink and vampi...
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October 5, 2025 • 20 mins
Workshops aren’t just about what you pack-they’re about the mindset you bring with you. In this follow-up to Part 1, Fox and Mya dive into the mental and emotional side of preparing for a rope workshop, so you can show up curious, confident, and ready to grow.
In this episode, they explore:
• Handling different values between you and your educators
• Why curiosity, respect, and an open mind matter most
• How to set yourself up f...
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September 21, 2025 • 26 mins
Getting ready for your first (or tenth!) rope workshop? Fox and Mya have been to plenty of in-person rope events, and every time they pick up new tricks to make the most of the experience.
In this episode, they share their best prep strategies so you can walk in confident, relaxed, and ready to learn. They cover:
• What makes a rope workshop different from your usual rope play
• Smart packing tips (so you don’t forget the essenti...
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September 7, 2025 • 43 mins
Whether or not you think that there is a higher incidence of neurodiversity in the kink scene, research shows that around 6% of adults are affected by ADHD, which means over a rope career if you interact with different partners, at some point you’re likely to tie with someone with the condition.
In this episode, we ask listeners to share their lived experience of ADHD, to better understand the potential symptoms, and how it might...
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August 24, 2025 • 20 mins
One of Fox’s favourite ties for smexy times is the ‘Crab Tie’, so he’s excited to share some of his ideas, tips and experiences in this episode which focuses on the tie.
In the episode discover:
• The structure of the tie
• How to use it for play versus in a photo
• Easier and harder versions for both the top and bottom
• How to use the crab tie in suspension
• Some on the spot labbing!
• What are the risks and tips for saf...
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August 10, 2025 • 26 mins
Bayowolf and Wolfspearl have been married for 42 years and partners in kink for the last 13. Shibari has become a central part of their journey over the past six years, deepening both their connection and their creativity. About a year and a half ago, with open communication and a deep commitment to their marriage, they chose to begin tying with other people—an experience that has expanded their skills and enriched the bond they sh...
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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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