News
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The Factory 2nd offering of our Bavarian Blonde
We realized recently most of our newest customers may not be familiar with a very unique and exclusive product we have offered in the past. First, a little history about...
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Tying in Playspaces: A Primer
Tying at a play party can be exciting and nerve-racking, especially if you've only tied privately. Watching others engage in intimate rope play or having others watch you may feel...
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Drill - How to Tie Your Shoelaces (or: the extraordinarily mundane act that will improve your shibari)
Serialized exclusive excerpt of Midori’s new rope bondage book in progress, only at Twisted Monk and Midori’s PatreonBy Midori www.planetmidori.com An exercise in sequence. This is not a speed drill....
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Green Flags for Rope Partners
Whether you’re new to kink, new to rope, or just looking for new playmates, it can be tricky to evaluate potential partners before playing. And that’s equally true whether you’re...
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Rope: Collaborator or Antagonist?
Big picture thinking about your scenes. If you are the one casting rope in a scene, are you helping your partner to stay in position? Or are you keeping them...
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Shop Phone Service Outage and Upgrade (FIXED!)
UPDATE 10/25/2022 New Phone Service Installed! Thank You For Your Patience. The bad news, the PBX serving the local area was the victim of arson! All phone service to...
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Looking for your confirmation email or response from Customer Service?
We have been getting reports from customers that GMAIL has been mis-classifying emails from @twistedmonk.com as spam. We work hard to respond to all customer inquires. Please keep in mind...
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The Two Ends of the Rope – Who Does What? Roles – Desires – Appetites
The constellation of participants in a rope scene may include one, two, three, or even more people. They will be the ones doing the tying and the ones being tied....
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Rope Bondage Beyond the Binary
How rope play can be gender-affirming for transgender bodies When we see rope bondage out in the world, it’s typically represented by slim, white cisgender women. “In general, heteronormativity in...
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Your Ableism is Showing
Have you noticed just how casual and acceptable ableism is? It is generally tolerated in most spaces, kink spaces are definitely not excluded from this phenomenon either. Ableism is the...
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The Damsel in Distress - Stella Harris
When I teach a beginner’s rope bondage class, people always want to know what they can do with what they’ve learned. What kind of scene can they put together with...
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New Educational Blog! Who was Bettie Paige?
Educator Stella Harris give us some history of this iconic bondage model and kink pioneer. Read the full article here.