Today, our guest is Midori, a legendary sex educator, author, and artist. Midori wrote the classic rope bible, The Seductive Art of Japanese Bondage, which was the first English-language book on shibari. We chatted about bondage’s roots in warfare, incarceration, and slavery, 1940s erotic imagery in the US and Japan, being part of San Francisco’s sex positive movement in the 1980s and why, when tying up a lover for the first time, it’s important to maintain eye contact.