Connection
A word rope practitioners use for the link between the people in a rope scene, which some sources locate in the rope itself, above all in the working end.
Several rope sources use connection for the link between the person tying and the person tied. Anatomie Studio locates it partly in the rope itself: the working end is kept taut to maintain the link while the rest stays slack, and in traditional shibari the connection lasts until the last rope comes off, so untying is what closes it. Kinbakuwiki calls the nawajiri both a real and a metaphorical connection between the two people and, in Yukimura-ryū, a channel for nonverbal communication. In a Kinbaku Today discussion, Sin suggests that some people use rope as a way to connect with partners of the gender they prefer. The sources consulted use the word descriptively; none gives it a technical definition.