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Thank you! It's interesting he chose the path with the rapier as I'd rather see him ballet dancing in that kind of attire. Let's hope the rapier is just a theatrical prop for "Romeo & Julian" 🤭

Thank you so much 🥰 The belted look is always surreal and beautiful - it's also rare to find any art like this online.

Very interesting story for sure, thanks for sharing! 😊

When actively searching something related to tight belts about 15 years ago, I stumbled upon some article about the Eastern Slavs who would wear not one but three belts at all times, one around the skin, one around the undergarments, one around the clothes, and some added the fourth one - a broad sash. It was done as a protective measure against evil spirits, but the belts also defined one's status - I guess wealthy people had ornate belts, while poor people had simple ones.

In some museums we can also find some metallic rings named Torcs (can look up "slavic torcs" or "celtic torcs"), that look like they can be open and closed, some have holes for a rope, supposedly to tighten them over time. They're similar to bracelets but too wide to wear on arms or legs. So it's commonly believed they were worn on necks but I highly doubt that - first I doubt anyone would wear such a strange thing on a neck, and when I see pictures of modern people trying to wear them on necks it looks incredibly silly; second why do they have holes to tighten them if they weren't meant to train some body part to be smaller and smaller? I think we have a yet another instance of scientists trying to erase all evidence of waist-binding practices from history 🤭

I was thinking that in all the dynamic movements expected from a ninja the body would pull on the ropes, creating even tighter tension and thus naturally training the waist over time 😊

I think making art of extreme achievements is like drawing your own money on paper. You can draw yourself a million overnight, at first making everyone laugh... But if you keep doing that for 20 years, you might get so good at it that people start getting jealous of your money, even if it's fake 🤣

I mean I can easily make his waist even smaller, I think the most difficult thing about this art is to make it believable, only bordering on surrealism but not crossing the line.

I think I've already seen something like that, I even remember finding some scans from an old book describing it... As for other cultures, only the Minoans come to mind - I had comments on DeviantArt a couple of times, mentioning Minoans were aware of corsetry and tight belts. If you look up "minoan art" you'll find a plenty of depictions of very tiny waists, normally with some cinchers around them, so I don't think it was a mere stylization of human proportions.

Unfortunately, scientists would rather talk all day long about Aztec cranial bindings than discuss something really captivating like waist-cinching in ancient cultures. Contortionism is also never discussed in any documents and literature. Guess I'm lucky to be into things tabooed even by anthropologists who'd readily discuss ancient Greek pedophilia, Chinese foot binding and all kinds of Roman emperor horror in great detail, but take anything related to waist cinching or contortionism and the same people pretend it never happened.

I was thinking of elastic bands used in gyms for muscle training - they wouldn't press hard immediately but shrink over time, giving the muscles and organs time to adapt, and as the waist relaxes the band sinks deeper and deeper. Several bands can be used for increased pressure but of course eventually it would be best to use something harder.

I've noticed it's become very hard to find any waist-cinching videos in the recent years - all the content I can remember is incredibly dated by now... So it's not surprising that many people are unfamiliar with the belly fetish, when social platforms seem to do everything to make such content unavailable.

It's very convenient to use a stick that you position along your spine, between the body and the cord, then turn it around like a handle, so it slowly begins to tighten the cord. In this case we use the power of levers instead of having to pull the cord apart manually, so it takes almost no strength to cinch incredibly tight. But still it must be amazing to bear so much pressure that the body is taken to the boiling point and literally starts sweating!

It was an illustration for an idea we had with a friend back in 2013, a post-apocalyptic world where tight belts were a mark of sex slaves captured during raids - it took several months to reshape new slaves to the proper form before they could be sold to various wealthy houses.

For free youths to wear tight belts was dangerous as they risked being taken for runaway slaves, but some were still too captivated by the fetish, and there was the brothel named "The Wasps' Nest" where verified clients could enjoy these two escorts who practiced waist-cinching as a hobby. Unlike the slaves, they did it with great passion and achieved amazing results, but had to keep this hobby a dark secret because of the world's rules.

Thank you for reminding me of some characters and pictures I almost completely forgot about! I think a thin metal ring or a firm cable is much more arousing than wider belts, slicing the body in two halves and when the halves occassionally touch each other it feels otherworldly. The abdomen surely has the most nerve endings in the entire human body, I can imagine getting a large mirror when squeezed like that is probably the easiest way to practice handless orgasms 🤭

I think it would make a great circus act, getting tied up ridiculously tight and having to find the way out of the tight ropes in under 5 minutes. I've actually always wondered what kind of a stage act could be done with waist-cinching, my only two ideas were belted bellydancing and being cinched by a tightrope that is loose at first and then is tightened up by assistants until it's so tight it lifts the performer in the air by the waist, allowing for all sorts of acrobatics/contortions on a tightrope while being bound by it.

The idea with the knots is great, would add a brand new show to their repertoire, an escapist act that still looks great even if the performer fails to escape in the end 🤣

Yeah, Hauru has very narrow hips and a baggy shirt that makes him look like a classical ballet boy. Seeing tighter belts incorporated into ballet outfits has always been a dream.

It's always fantastic to see guys who work toward ideal, captivating proportions. Especially in the modern world where we're forced to enjoy more and more disgusting human shapes, while enjoying truly attractive forms is almost considered a sin.

I agree it's very fashionable and the silhouette of the rounded lower abdomen is amazing. I think it would look great on a pirate costume, black tight leggings with an incredibly tight red sash.

Thank you so much! Probably a meditation before breakfast. The ninjutsu tradition says that one has to completely empty his bowels before being allowed the next meal, which allows to remove toxins and accumulate more energy. The process starts with using a system of water buckets to tug on an oiled rope, shrinking the waist to the backbone. Then several layers of cloth are wrapped tight around the cinched waist, the rope is released, allowing the waist to expand but not more than an inch. A large hourglass is turned to count around 40 minutes.

The whole ritual is often praised for its aesthetics almost like a tea ceremony, even though it was originally designed only as a cleansing procedure.

He was used to wearing tight belts before, maybe that's why it was the most convenient way to bind him 🤭

Thank you so much!! Looks like a soldier from some mixed epoch, called for duty in the middle of the night, his face still sleepy but ready for the acts of bravery 🤭 His commander needs to poke that belly and remind his fella to smoothen it out after closing the cincher!