After first-hand research-interviewing people about rope bondage before and after they tried it, I found that almost all of the respondents had a negative view of rope bondage before they tried it. To further validate this idea, and to see if there is a difference in the perception of rope bondage between the East and West.
I searched “捆绑”(Rope bondage in Chinese), “Rope Bondage” and “Shibari”(Rope bondage in Japanese) on Google Trends in the last five years. And organize and summarize the data to draw some conclusions. The Eastern stereotype of rope bondage is erotic. There really is a big difference between Eastern and Western perspectives of rope bondage.
For “捆绑”,79% of the related topics were related to sex. However, for “Rope Bondage,” the percentage dropped to 57%. Searching “Shibari” showed only 7% of the related topics to be related to sex. From the above data, it can be verified that the stereotype of rope bondage in China does exist and accounts for the majority; while most people in Europe and the United States searched related topics more about teaching and knowledge content, which shows this part of people have a relatively strong positive impression view of rope bondage.