Creepy Bondage Initiation

This spooky and creepy fantasy of a bondage initiation scene by art student Mary Torrey Lear is a sort of frontispiece for the “Sororities” section of Iris, the 1912 yearbook of the Ward Seminary:

10 skeletal figures supervise a female sorority pledge bound in front of a flaming bonfire with a boiling witch cauldron as part of some eldritch hazing ritual

The artist, it turns out, was the object of a lesbian schoolgirl crush:

mary martin had a crush on mary lear

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Sorority Sister Dragged In Chains - Bondage Blog commented on April 30th, 2022 at 11:05 am:

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Kinkiness In Old Yearbooks - ErosBlog: The Sex Blog commented on June 15th, 2023 at 4:10 pm:

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