Scot
Co-owner and instructor at Kinbaku Lounge in Copenhagen, listed as starting rope in 1997 and teaching since 2012. With Namárië, Scot founded the Kinbaku Lounge community in 2013 and its Valby venue in 2015, and teaches and performs in Denmark and abroad.
Scot is a rigger, teacher and host in Copenhagen and a co-owner of Kinbaku Lounge, a dedicated rope venue in Valby. The lounge’s staff page dates Scot’s start in rope to 1997, the earliest of anyone on its team, and lists Scot as teaching rope since 2012 and as an instructor at the lounge since 2013.
Kinbaku Lounge
Scot and the rope model and teacher Namárië, whom Scot introduced to rope in 2008, have taught and presented rope together since 2012. They founded the Kinbaku Lounge community in 2013 and opened its venue in 2015. A 2016 Vice Denmark report described the basement space near Ny Ellebjerg station, its weekly open Tuesday for newcomers who want to try rope, and Scot’s work there giving demonstrations, private lessons and group workshops. The article said Scot had been tying for about fifteen years by then and had started when Japanese rope bondage was almost unknown in Denmark.
Approach
The pair describe their rope as centered on sexual SM play, fantasy and polarity, and call their approach non-dogmatic, developed through intensive play and practice. Over the past decade they have traveled to Japan repeatedly to spend time with leading kinbaku teachers there, whom their workshop page does not name, and say these teachers keep challenging and inspiring them. Speaking to Vice, Scot said that rope always has a sexual side, built on the interplay of sexual energy and pain and on close intimacy with the person being tied; that a session ends early if the partner is not engaged; and that it is better for someone to leave wanting more than to have their limits crossed.
Workshops and performance
Scot and Namárië have performed and given workshops and rope talks in Denmark and abroad. Their two-day workshop Kinbaku Maniac, taught in English, combines the history of Japanese kinbaku, especially its underground sexual side, and the atmosphere of Tokyo’s nightlife with advanced floor work and suspensions. Participants explore seduction and dominance and take on the role of the nawashi; riggers need advanced experience, and rope models must be comfortable in basic suspensions.