Two Knotty Boys Back on the Ropes
Two Knotty Boys' 2009 sequel from Green Candy Press, a photo-led rope bondage guide with more than 750 photographs by Ken Marcus.
Two Knotty Boys Back on the Ropes is the second book by Two Knotty Boys, the teaching name of the rope instructors Dan and JD. Green Candy Press published it in 2009 as the follow-up to Two Knotty Boys Showing You the Ropes (2006).
The publisher’s description, as given by the Melbourne bookseller Hares & Hyenas, restates the idea behind both books: in their classes the authors had found that people learn rope best when they are shown knots, and the ways of combining them into bondage, close up. The book recreates that with more than 750 photographs by the fetish photographer Ken Marcus and captions written in a light-hearted tone. Microcosm Publishing’s catalog describes the contents as basic knots and sensual techniques in full-color photographs, in a layout that can lie flat during practice.
Listings disagree on the length: Hares & Hyenas gives 119 pages and Microcosm 80; both give the ISBN 9781931160698. In the same year JD contributed an essay, “The Way of a Zen Rope Master”, to Lee Harrington’s anthology Rope, Bondage, and Power. This entry describes the book and does not reproduce its instructions.