Anna Tyler is new to the Insex studios with her recent shoot for Infernal Restraints, but they promise we’ll be seeing her again. I really do hope so, because Anna is cute as a button and suffers well:
As innovative gags go, a happy sadist could do a lot worse than this cinched steel aircraft cable number. It’s both cruel and aesthetic, so what’s not to like?
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In these photos from Sexually Broken, Charlotte Cross does not seem as grateful as we might expect for the sequence of inescapable orgasms she is about to experience:
Of course, that’s possibly because she knows that in the hands of the Insex dudes, nobody rides for free! She’s got to earn those orgasms, one bondage blowjob at a time:
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I came across this pregnant-woman-in-bondage photo on Tumblr, and I just didn’t find it credible. True pregnancy-bondage photos are rare, and almost universally they are studio shots where the controlled conditions allow for maximum safety. Something like this, where the risk of an uncontrolled fall would be substantial, just didn’t seem likely. What’s more, her belly doesn’t look “right” to me:
Sure enough, a quick bit of checking turned up the original source for the edited image. It’s an old Insex.com picture:
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Back in April I wrote:
Word has reached me that, at long last, some of the old and fondly-remembered Insex.com videos are being re-released in the United States as special bonus material for members of Infernal Restraints. The old Insex movies no longer bear that famous brand name, though, nor are they locked in those unloved and unlamented tiny square RealMovie files. Now the movies are in 2xHD .mp4s, with a modern widescreen aspect ratio and the Infernal Restraints watermark.
The latest (July 13) original-Insex bonus scene features Marina being subjected to various astonishing indignities in a variety of cages, mostly indoors. But the scene concludes with her being lowered in a heavy cage into an outdoor body of water on what looks like a chilly autumn day. Once she’s submerged to the neck, she sits and waits (what else can she do?) for crabs and other aquatic creatures to come along and nibble her toes and tender bits.
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Bondage porn producer Dan Hawke of BestBound.com, who got his start before the internet was a thing, reminisces on a forum about the history of bondage porn production and distribution:
The younger [members of this forum] have no idea what a golden age they are living in. I bought some of my earliest 8mm loops back in 1971 or 1972. They cost $25 each for 8 to 15 mins of content. I actually discovered HOM before Blakemore! Although pre-Blakemore HOM was a very brief period. HOM and Harmony and Tao were all producing the same fairly tame tie-em-up and let them struggle bondage. It was weak, but it was all there was. These mags were in the $3-$5 range.
Adjusted for inflation the loops were like $80-$100 bucks in today’s dollars and the mags easily in the $15-$25 range. My first part time job paid minimum wage. I think minimum wage was about a $1.35 back then. Of course comic books were $.12 and candy bars (really big candy bars) were a nickel.
Today the amount of FREE bondage material to be found on the web is enormous. And if you consider the paid sites, they are nearly free if you join them only when their archive of material grows vast, you can get an hour of bondage video for about $.15 or so. I paid $99 for the first HOM/Blakemore VHS video, ‘Bittersweet Revenge’. And that price was still north of $60 for this type of content for years to come. At least with Blakemore you got really good content for pretty much the entire running length of the tape. Other companies may have had one or two five minute scenes that appealed.
So we are living in a golden age of porn in general and bondage porn in particular.
There’s much more. You should read it all. I find his take on the current state of the business to be spot on:
I was not the first private producer bondage web-site, but I was still pretty damn early. I wasn’t alone for long. There were dozens, if not hundreds of small bondage producers who popped up all over the web. Some of them were good, some of them were not so good, but they all made enough money to keep producing. At the first NY Bondcon I attended, in 2000 or so, there were a ton of small producers.
But today they are almost all gone. The membership model was largely a patronage model. You would vote for producer X to stay in business by becoming a member. And more critically for the smaller producers, remaining a member. Every update I put up would be a product I would have paid $50-$100 for twenty years ago. Every site that updated weekly had an archive of material that would have been valued at thousands if not tens of thousands of dollars a decade ago. Now it was all available for a monthly membership fee and some time to download it.
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Membership may still be the primary economic model, but it has cheapened the product to the point where your only product is your newest product. Once your material went up on the web, you quickly lost control of it. Kink.com figured out how to make theft of material work for them, and began giving content away. They were an early adaptor of the affiliate program. And armed with large profits, they slowly began to buy up the affiliate sites that sent them lots of hits. Thus the proliferation of Kink content on the web began.
Insex bucked the trend against memberships via a ‘community’ of members who watched their live shows, live. (These were stripped down to archival content later, but it was not the same as the live shows.) But others soon did likewise and when Insex closed down (to be re-launched as Hardtied) the efficacy of live shows was reduced. It is still a factor, but less valuable than it was for the genius who pioneered it, PD.
But the devaluing of inventory; through constant theft and re-posting of material, began to create a new barrier to entry. You had to have a strong marketing push, to maximize return. You had to spend money and time shooting content that became devalued the day it was posted. And you had to shoot, aggressively and continuously as you only value added content was what you put up that week.
Some small producers railed against piracy as did some larger ones, but it is the reality of how the web functions. Things posted to the web are out of your hands once posted. People expect to get everything dirt cheap. You can go crazy chasing those illicitly posting your stuff, but it is a game of whack a mole. For every one you whack a new one appears. And it is the world wide web. I mean I can perhaps shame a US based thief to pull my illegally posted stuff. But someone running a site out of the Balkan countries, or Nigeria? Good luck with that.
So I didn’t let that stress cause me an aneurysm, I simply accepted that it was what it was, and there wasn’t much I could do about it.
To some degree, this collapse also reflected a consumer judgment of my product, I realize that. But with the theft and the collapse of patronage membership, very few producers were able to survive. In fact all of the remaining producers work in a production house, with large staff, large resources and lots of capital behind them.
My site lingers as do a few others. But the independent small bondage producer is a thing of the past.
“I won’t have my men catching disease from the captive wenches. Make sure you sluice the filth off of them before you set them to service.”
Source uncertain, possibly Insex.
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This is a particularly brutal bit of electrically-powered dilemma bondage. As long as her muscle strength holds out, Elise Graves is fine. But as soon as she slumps, she lands on that big sheet of copper plate, her sweaty body completes the circuit, and then hot bad things start happening at the business end of that wired-up vaginal probe she’s got inside her:
This reminds me of a long-lost bit of Insex video (and good riddance, who still has a RealMovie player anyway?) of a wired-up suspended girl whose nipple clamps were trailing onto an electrically-hot metal sheet on the floor. It turns out she had the stamina to do a whole lot more abdominal crunches than you ever would have imagined she was capable of. And every time she collapsed hopelessly into the current, shuddering and twitching and wholly, defeatedly exhausted, they just turned it up a few notches, and suddenly there she was, heaving herself back up with newfound reserves of desperate strength…
Picture is from Wired Pussy.
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