julia whalen

A night in a Japanese love hotel

By Julia Whalen (The Aquinian) A photographer takes her quest to present the complexity of gender to the S&M scene in the love hotels of Tokyo FREDERICTON (CUP) — Photographer Nathalie Daoust spent several months in a Japanese love hotel exploring female sexuality and the subversion of gender stereotypes. She had no idea the people she met would be so special and kind. She also didn’t expect to be tied upside down by a shibari master — a specialist in Japanese bondage. “He said that I should try it if I was going to photograph his model in this position. I…

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