Kinbaku Society of Berlin

Kinbaku Society of Berlin, 2019–, is a German magazine in the bakushi / kinbaku ecosystem.

Era: 2020s

Berlin-based kinbaku research forum and magazine project associated with Discover Kinbaku and Die Goldbomben. The official KSB site says the project began as a forum for studying kinbaku and the erotic / aesthetic ideas around it, then grew into a printed magazine with photography, poetry, fiction, essays, documentation, drawings and interviews. Discover Kinbaku describes the society as a forum with no formal membership, currently expressed through the KSB Magazine and Kinbaku Salon, and its magazine page frames KSB as a twice-yearly publication open to submissions and focused on Japanese underground culture, rope bondage, adult entertainment, aesthetics and Western reception. Nawapedia records the magazine as member-produced from December 2019 and rooted in a Studio 6x6 circle; Indiecon lists it as an independent publishing project by international artists researching Japanese rope bondage and related subcultures. The KSB contributor page lists Swen Brandy / Carnivore among contributors, and the official issue #4 page credits Carnivore for design. Die Goldbomben's current preorder page presents KSB Magazine N° I-26 as a 500-copy hand-numbered edition planned for the end of summer 2026, with original photography by Sugiura Norio.

People associated with Kinbaku Society of Berlin: Alexander MA, Natasha NawaTaNeko, Carnivore, Emily Ann, Norio Sugiura, Kitaro Kasukabe, Saara Rei, Manuela Schiano.