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Mark calls himself a student of the aesthetic qualities of bondage. He particularly admires a form adopted from Hojujutsu, the art of restraining and transporting prisoners in Medieval Japan during the Tokugawa period. Mark says that when Japan modernized, the technique evolved into an art form. “Bondage,” he says, “is just a very powerful experience...

Author: By Kevin J. Feeney, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sadomasochism Comes Out of the Closet | 10/28/2004 | See Source »

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