Hentai Bondage:
The Art of Japanese Bondage

Bondage anime defines a place for the most extreme of sexual compulsions to be carried out. Anger, contempt, and other reactions to everyday contact with pain and boredom are let loose in the highly intimate works of hentai bondage. Japanese bondage differs from its western form in the sense that it is concerned with the issue of the normal, rational human being affected by the perversions of her everyday world. Western conceptions of bondage usually involve a master-slave relationship at heart, and reflect the culture's struggle with its nihilistic tendencies.

"Hentai" is a westernized term for what the Japanese call "H-art". "Hentai" bondage would literally mean "perverted, unusual" bondage, while H-art is simply the Japanese term for adult-oriented art and can come in the form of paintings or drawings, manga comics, graphic novels, or anime. The Japanese "hentai" tradition ultimately comes from an art form called ukiyo-e that began in the seventeenth century. Appropriately, this form was established as an alternative to the traditional Buddhist mindset of escaping from the repetitive and painful world.

It makes sense then, to see the brutal and painful realities depicted in the extreme violence of bondage anime. The Japanese bondage artists take their fantasies quite seriously, and are not afraid of carrying them through to the end; even if the result is a bloody mess. Hentai bondage is an exploration of the darker side of sexuality that many would like to ignore; yet still bondage anime is incredibly popular, due possibly to the fact that the cartoons and comics created in Japanese bondage works, aside from being highly sexually charged, are very contemplative as well.