While Western BDSM art often involves costumes (nurse, police, leather daddy), Japanese BDSM art usually strips everything away. The victim is often wearing only a kimono that has slipped off one shoulder, or a stark white loincloth. The whiteness represents death and purity. The red of rope, the white of the linen, and the pink of blood-blush skin form a symbolic tricolor representing the Japanese flag of the flesh.
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