Any material or production that has a sexual theme or contains sexually explicit images is known in Japan as ‘hentai’ (which means ‘sexually perverse’). Hentai materials come in a wide variety of topics and cover a vast range of settings. Hentai plots involve such common storylines as everyday work or school stories, to complicated stories of science fiction, fantasy, or even center around video games and their characters.
It has only been recently that individuals who do not live in Japan have been able to gain access to the mangas, anime or even pictures. In the past an individual had to either know someone in Japan or go to ‘specialty bookstores’ that usually had limited amounts and seldom carried a variety of issues. Bondage is one of the fetish topics that have become very popular in the past five years, but because of the extreme nature of the subject it was hard to find more than a few mangas (comics) or anime (cartoons) outside of Japan.
There are several ‘pay for play’ bondage sites that require a substantial monthly fee for membership (around $39 US per month), and this high fee rate has prompted the growth of several bondage hentai forums. These forms allow its members, where the membership is usually free, to discuss, rate, and download bondage hentai materials. Forms also allow an uncensored platform for the introduction of new materials or original art work. To become a member all one has to do is to submit a valid e-mail address, choose an online name, select a password and then they can read, post, and download all the information they want.
Because forums are usually created by ordinary users and maintained by its member’s, the material is usually up to date. Those who are into BSM will find all they need on a bondage hentai forum.