Kinbaku Lounge
A rope community and its dedicated venue in Valby, started as a community in 2013 and as a venue in 2015 by Scot and Namárië, with open rope nights on Tuesdays and Fridays, newcomer sessions, structured beginner-to-advanced courses and regular international guest workshops.
Kinbaku Lounge is a rope community and its venue in Valby, Copenhagen, run by Scot and Namárië. According to the founders’ own account, Scot has been part of the kinbaku community for more than 25 years and introduced Namárië to rope in 2008; the pair have taught and presented rope since 2012, founded their own community in 2013 and opened the venue in 2015. They say they have travelled to Japan repeatedly over the past decade to spend time with kinbaku masters, and they describe their approach as non-dogmatic, treating rope as sexual SM play, fantasy and polarity.
The lounge is organized around open nights and a ladder of courses. Kinbaku Tuesday and Kinbaku Friday are the open rope nights, and a Monday rope practice offers further tying time. Newcomers have their own entry points: Kinbaku Newbies evenings for people new to rope, a Lounge Newbie format for first-time visitors, an ichinawa “speed dating” evening reserved for newcomers, a recurring Rope Munch and a page for finding rope partners. Teaching runs from the beginner group course Kinbaku I (Explore Kinbaku) to Kinbaku II (Advanced Kinbaku), with seasonal courses such as Playful Bonds, Kinbaku Playground and Exploring Hashira, and private lessons at every level.
The calendar also includes international guest workshops, live rope performances, Kinbaku Croquis life-drawing sessions and Rope Talks. The founders’ own advanced workshops cover kinbaku history and Tokyo nightlife culture alongside dominance, aesthetic tying, floor play and suspension, and are meant for experienced pairs who already know each other well. The venue offers a lounge membership, sells rope through its own shop, Kinbaku Shop, which lists Ogawa jute rope from Japan and offers pickup at the lounge, and arranges private sessions, photo shoots, group events and talks for students and professionals. Most of the site is in Danish.