Shibari and kinbaku in United States
United States hosts 162 documented bakushi / kinbaku entries: studios, events, communities and practitioners with city-level locations or public country context.
Cities 44
- Ann Arbor, MI
- Atlanta / Decatur, GA
- Austin, TX
- Bellingham, WA
- Boston, MA area
- Brooklyn, NY
- Burlington, VT
- Chicago
- Dallas, TX
- Denver, CO
- Detroit, MI
- Fishers, IN
- Fort Worth, TX
- Honolulu, HI
- Horse Shoe, NC / Asheville area
- Houston, TX
- Indianapolis, IN
- Lancaster, PA
- Long Beach, CA
- Los Angeles, CA
- Madison, WI
- Manassas, VA
- Memphis, TN
- Miami, FL
- Nashville, TN
- New Orleans, LA
- New York
- Oakland, CA
- Orlando, FL
- Philadelphia, PA
- Phoenix, AZ
- Portland, ME
- Portland, OR
- Raleigh-Durham, NC
- Richmond, VA
- Salt Lake City
- San Antonio, TX
- San Francisco Bay Area, CA
- San Francisco, CA
- Santa Cruz, CA
- Savannah, GA
- Seattle
- Spokane, WA
- Washington, DC metro / Maryland
Approximate anchors 18
Entries with public country context but no source-backed city. The map keeps them visible with deterministic approximate coordinates.
- Lee Harrington US English-language rope / kink education stream; no single city in public sources.
- Damon Pierce US Western bondage / adult-media rope-craft context.
- Claire Adams US Western bondage / adult-media rope-craft context.
- JP The Pope US Western bondage / adult-media rope-bondage production context.
- Knot_head US bondage rigger / Knot_head Nylon context.
- Lew Rubens Stranger Tickets says Lew Rubens started his bondage career in the Seattle area in 2001; current sources keep his public work broader than one city.
- Bodacious_Minx US rope switch / self-suspender, Tying in the Tropics presenter.
- Air US queer / disabled NB-trans rope educator; no single city in public sources.
- Eve US Shibari Academy online education context.
- Topologist Official bio says Topologist has been teaching rope bondage throughout North America since 2009; no single city is assigned.
- RopeDaddy US RopeDaddy Studios / Indy Rope Expo context.
- AuraLee33 US RopeDaddy Studios bottom-education context.
- Miss Fay Dark Tantra Temple lists Fay-led rope / Knotty Yoga / somatic rope events in Saco and Portland, Maine, in June 2026.
- La Virgen Blue Official Meet Blue text describes Blue as originally from the desert of the United States.
- Kinbaku Boyscout Search-visible public Beacons profile identifies Kinbaku Boyscout as Chattanooga, Tennessee-based.
- Fred Rx Rome Bondage Week billed Fred Rx Barbee as `Gainesville, Florida, USA`, while his official site frames him as an itinerant rope-nomad-photographer; presented as a country-level US location because Gainesville is not currently mapped in CITY_COORDS.
- JC Stark Alt Fit Jax's 2024 shibari photoshoot post credits @jcstarkphoto for photos, and the official Alt Fit Jax site places the studio in Jacksonville Beach, Florida.
- Hudson Valley Rope Official site lists HVNY Rope in Kingston, NY; the current Bluesky profile frames the project as a Hudson Valley rope-bondage community.