Graydancer's Ropecast is a podcast

Podcast

A podcast is a series of digital media files that are released episodically and often downloaded through web syndication...

 devoted to the art of erotic rope bondage

Rope bondage

Rope bondage is bondage involving the use to rope to tie and wrap the body as part of BDSM activities.Most modern rope bondage techniques derive from the erotic Japanese bondage art form of shibari, which was in turn developed from the now-defunct Japanese military restraint technique of...

 with an emphasis on Japanese bondage

Japanese bondage

' means 'tight binding ' which literally means 'the beauty of tight binding'. Kinbaku is a Japanese style of bondage or BDSM which involves tying up the bottom using simple yet visually intricate patterns, usually with several pieces of thin rope–often jute and generally around 6 mm in...

. The podcast has been in continuous production since 2005.

The podcast is produced by Graydancer in Madison, Wisconsin

Madison, Wisconsin

Madison is the capital of the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the county seat of Dane County. It is also home to the University of Wisconsin–Madison....

; The A.V. Club

The A.V. Club

The A.V. Club is an entertainment newspaper and website published by The Onion. Its features include reviews of new films, music, television, books, games and DVDs, as well as interviews and other regular offerings examining both new and classic media and other elements of pop culture. Unlike its...

called Graydancer "one of the region's leading sex educators," and featured his website as a prelude to Valentine's day

Valentine's Day

Saint Valentine's Day, commonly shortened to Valentine's Day, is an annual commemoration held on February 14 celebrating love and affection between intimate companions. The day is named after one or more early Christian martyrs named Saint Valentine, and was established by Pope Gelasius I in 496...

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A typical episode includes announcements of upcoming rope bondage events, listener mail, a discussion on topics of interest to the BDSM community, and occasionally an extended interview with luminaries of the BDSM

BDSM

BDSM is an erotic preference and a form of sexual expression involving the consensual use of restraint, intense sensory stimulation, and fantasy power role-play. The compound acronym BDSM is derived from the terms bondage and discipline , dominance and submission , and sadism and masochism...

 community. In the past, the interview has featured Jay Wiseman

Jay Wiseman

Jay Wiseman is an American BDSM writer and speaker.In 1991, Wiseman started the Greenery Press publishing house with his partner Janet Hardy, author "Lady Green" of The Sexually Dominant Woman...

, Claire Adams, Mollena Wiliams, Twisted Monk, Cunning Minx, Tristan Taormino

Tristan Taormino

Tristan Taormino is a feminist author, columnist, sex educator, activist, editor, speaker, and pornographic film director . She graduated Phi Beta Kappa with her Bachelor's degree in American Studies from Wesleyan University in 1993...

, among others.