Bondage Blog

They do things a little bit differently in Toronto. I mean, if you’re going to hiring nude models anyway for your life drawing class, why not hire bondage models and get a bit of press buzz?

She’s young, fox-like, innocent, her arms bound tightly behind her back, twisted ropes digging into the soft flesh beneath her breasts.

Behind her, a second woman in red knickers and black elbow-length gloves raises a leather whip, poised to strike.

I swallow, and raise my pencil to the paper. But I can’t for the life of me remember a single thing from high school art class. I’m here in Studio B of the Lower Ossington Theatre for the regular Tuesday-night Keyhole Sessions, and from the moment the models reveal several thick coils of rope and sawed-off metal poles, it’s clear that this isn’t your typical life drawing class.

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Good rope work, Robichaud tells me, is always comfortable and avoids sensitive areas like the neck and insides of the wrists.

“It feels great,” says the model, a theatre student, who twists around to examine herself in the floor-to-ceiling studio mirrors. “Totally digging the ropes.”

She strikes a playful pose, sticking her tongue out at the class, and I bite back a wicked grin. I feel like I’m back in eighth grade looking at naked pictures of Angelina Jolie with the Google safety off.