Bondage Blog

I am not an expert on real world VR porn developments, in the realm of BDSM or otherwise. But it would be impossible to deny my more than passing familiarity with hentai bondage art of all kinds. I am particularly interested in the creative ways that hentai artists hint and gesture at fetish concepts that aren’t easy to depict literally. It’s easy to show a tentacle monster buttsexing some helpless bondage heroine. But how do you show that someone is fantasizing about helpless tentacle butt sex? This is just one of the many high-meta problems that hentai artists tackle every day. And one of their tools, these days, is to use depictions of VR goggles to hint that what we see on the screen is someone’s fantasy or carefully-chosen virtual reality programming.

It seems to me that there are at least three ways to use virtual reality tech in BDSM scenes, whether real or fantastic. A person in bondage can have sensory input imposed by a dominant as punishment or torment — perhaps unpleasant or scary input. Horror scenes, intense boundary-pushing sexual scenes, or incongruous cute videos that clash with their physical sensations in restraint. Just another mindfuck, in other words. Or, a person in bondage can enjoy supplemental VR headset inputs that reinforce their pleasure, allowing them to travel out of the physical scene and into the scene of their fantasy. And finally, VR can be used by the top to imagine themselves in a scene or to change how they experience a scene. Art is not always going to tell us outright which of these uses we are looking at. In this picture, for example, is the person with the headset on actually fondling the breasts of her tied-up lesbian lover? Or is she squeezing a couple of plush toys while enjoying a particularly lush VR bondage movie? The joys of viewing art is that we get to decide what we’re looking at:

It seems to me — and you all would be well within your rights to disagree with me — that this is intended to be an example of pleasure-enhancing VR programming being enjoyed by a tied-up woman:

And these, perhaps, are a couple more of the same, combined with complicated sex toy machinery that may not be available in the real world. Something like the programmed nipple vibrators is probably close to off-the-shelf hardware in 2020, but the robot breast-squeezing hands are gonna be expensive custom work if you can get ’em at all:

In these last three scenes, I imagine from the looks on faces that the VR programming is intense or dismaying.

What are these ladies seeing, as the machinery they’re captured in stimulates them? That’s the beauty of art like this: we each of us gets to decide what’s going on inside the goggles.