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ribbon_bondage isn't necessarily bondage

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BUR #4151 has been rejected.

create alias ribbon_bondage -> bound_with_ribbons

Under current definitions, bondage is always sexual and implies BDSM. Ribbon bondage, however, simply refers to being tied up with ribbons, and implies bound but not bondage. The tag name seems to be a direct calque of the Pixiv tag リボン縛り (ribon shibari)... but even as a literal translation, it's inaccurate because shibari in Japanese does not exclusively refer to sexual bondage.

So on closer inspection, it seems like many posts under this tag aren't even proper examples of bound and are more like entangled instead (post #4244280, post #4242007, post #4209580, post #4192099, post #4189295, post #4097663, post #4018887). Relatively few are the images that clearly depict actual bondage ties (post #4174075, post #4178407, post #4085088, post #4070106, post #3973772). Do we need an entangled_in_ribbons tag?

I was actually unable to find any proper examples of being deliberately physically restrained with ribbons that clearly had no sexual overtones. The closest thing I found was post #3685708, but even that treats the subject as (presumably sexual) property.

Also, some of actual-bondage-ribbon-bondage posts (post #4174075, post #4085088, post #3920137) are not tagged bondage. This might be because, based on the name, people expect ribbon bondage to imply bondage.

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