Kani (The Crab)

Once a basic bondage has been made, the fun can really start by adding more and more ropes. Your creativity can go anywhere. If you check the different erotic zones you can stimulate, there is a lot you can do.

There is a difference between the erotic impulse of a winding and a knot. A winding (or a couple of them) will stimulate one entire zone. A knot will stimulate a specific spot. In Sakuranbo for example the entire erotic zone on the upper part of the leg is stimulated, but the knot directly under the bottom-cheek will stimulate a specific spot within the entire zone. It works as an extra accent. Stimulating these zones will make the entire bottom extra receptive to stimulation. If you think that’s it, there are also impulses coming form the windings around the waist and the knots against the spine. This will eventually set the entire zone on fire, since it all works together. This is mainly why flogging or whipping now would be counter-productive.

Help your partner by letting her get used and by massaging body parts before they are tied up. If you are folding arms or legs. Fold them first with your hands, then tie them up.

Kani – Technical description
How about Kani (the crab)? If you want your partner to crawl about helplessly, try this one.

You start of with a basic bondage and then tie her hands to her back. Now have her sit on her knees, take a rope and make a couple of windings around the upper and lower leg at the same time. Wind the end of the rope around the previous windings, in between the upper and lower leg and tie the ends together. You do the same thing with the other leg.

She is now made to maintain a kneeling position and she can crawl about a bit, but only sideways. The experienced Nawashi, provided his partner can handle an even more intense situation, would not tie her hands on her back, but would tie her hands to her hair on either side of her head.

Here is how you do that:
If the hair of your partner is long enough, split it in the middle and make a tail at one side of her head. Take your 3 MM rope and wind it around the middle of the tail for about ten or so times, then fold the tail over these windings and make another ten. Tie it down firmly, wind the rest of the rope around her wrist (careful and not to tight, because this is only thin line) and there you are. Now you do the same thing with her other hand on the other side of her head. The real experienced ones are even more cruel: they will not tie the wrist, but just the thumbs to the tails.

You will find other hairbondage techniques elsewhere in shibari section section. These hair bondages usually make great additions to Japanese bondage, as a punishment, a humiliation or just a very intense, slightly cruel detail. For the subtle mental sadist, knowing about hair bondages is an absolute must.

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