There was a time, most of a decade ago, when the Kink.com empire was just one site, and that site was Hogtied.com. For its time, the site was unique — the bondage was at once simpler and more rigorous than just about anybody else’s. Although Hogtied.com continues to produce lots of high quality bondage porn, stumbling over one of their oldest galleries is nostalgic for me. This recent example (seen on Kinky Delight in a much larger size) is what I’m talking about:
Another from the same gallery:
I don’t think it’s too strong to suggest that Kink.com exists today because of this particular style of bondage photography (and because, at a time when the porn industry was much more conservative than it is today, they weren’t afraid to publish more explicit shots in the same style.)
Elsewhere on Bondage Blog: