Jay Wiseman's Erotic Bondage Handbook
Jay Wiseman's 2000 Greenery Press guide to erotic bondage, from simple hand ties to spread-eagles and hogties, written to avoid complex knots.
Jay Wiseman’s Erotic Bondage Handbook is a book by Jay Wiseman, an American BDSM author and educator whose SM 101: A Realistic Introduction, according to English Wikipedia, has about 100,000 copies in print. It was published by Greenery Press; English Wikipedia’s list of his works dates it to 2000, while the bookseller Hares & Hyenas gives March 2001 and 323 pages. According to English Wikipedia, Greenery Press was founded by Janet Hardy in 1991 and merged with Jay Wiseman Books under the Greenery name in 1995.
The publisher’s description, as quoted by Hares & Hyenas, presents the book as practical advice for tying up a partner or being tied, from simple hands-behind-the-back experiments to spread-eagles and hogties, delivered with the humor and sense of responsibility for which it says Wiseman is known. It promises easy-to-follow methods without complicated knots and with many illustrations.
The description does not refer to Japanese rope specifically. Wiseman later wrote a shorter companion for the same publisher, The Toybag Guide to Basic Rope Bondage. This entry describes the book and does not reproduce its instructions.