Good news! Fucked and Bound — a site which took bondage sex out further out on the grittier edge than most — is back, after three years of no updates. The word I’m getting is that it has a new director and a plan to be pumping out content for the long haul. That matches what I’m seeing; the aesthetic is not identical to what it was, but it’s pretty close! Here’s Coral Aorta in a recent shoot:
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So, it’s a Bound Gangbangs photoshoot that’s been blogged here before. But now I’ve got some more pictures from the photoshoot. It turns out, before we ever got to the gangbanging, there was a woman who found herself in the wrong bathroom. As our story begins, Candy Manson is hovering nervously as men piss in the stalls on each side of her:
Then one of the guys looks in over the stall top:
“Hey, boys, look what I found!”
“Before we play with her, I think we should make her clean this place up. It’s filthy! No woman wants to get fucked by six guys in a stinky toilet stall…”
“Yeah, we said lick it! Do I need to take off my belt and whip you with it?”
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Slave trainers often agree: if a girl is too clean, she’s less cooperative. This girl (Rain DeGrey) is too clean, but that’s about to change:
Now she’s dirty:
And by the time she’s clean again, she’ll be much more cooperative!
From Infernal Restraints.
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He may have gone fishing for mermaids, but it looks as if he has caught himself a potential wife:
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Time for bondage links? Again?
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It’s textbook procedure: first the sexual “softening-up” and then the interrogation:
From the KGB Interrogation Room comic by Montal for Dofantasy.
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I recognize and acknowledge a metric buttload of cold hard business truth in this blog post from Tim Woodward, who puts out the legendary Skin Two fetish magazine:
Fetish Business, Advertising and Amateurism
He starts with some observations on the hobby nature of most fetish businesses:
It’s well over twenty five years now since I gave up the day job – a decent career in the publishing industry – and decided to make Skin Two a business rather than just a hobby. That was my first mistake.
If you start a business without a solid, realistic cash flow and business plan, you are kidding yourself. It means that, whatever you may think, what you actually have is a hobby. You don’t have a business, you really don’t.
The following twenty five years have essentially been about trying to put solid foundations under a building long after it was built. That’s really not doing it the right way around.
Looking at back issues of Skin Two magazine over the years, you’ll find dozens of companies making all kinds of fetish clothing and products featured in the ads and articles. Very few of them are around today – just one or two survivors. Most have come and gone. And how many businesses have made it to that level where the owner can rest easy after the years of slog? Count them on the fingers of one hand. I could name maybe two or three. Maybe.
I don’t have Tim’s quarter-century in the fetish trenches, but after most of a decade of running a (perforce) hobby-business kinky blog, his words ring very true to me. The kinky business community is an (at best) modestly-sized market full of short-lived businesses that almost never advertise on any sort of regular basis. Most of the rest of Tim’s post (which I highly recommend) is about the challenges of being a kinky publisher in this community, and just about every line of his hard-won experience resonates with me. For instance:
Many small businesses take an ad here and there, but they simply can’t afford a permanent regular programme of advertising, to build and grow a customer base. Without regular advertising, sales go down. So income goes down. Then there’s even less money to advertise,so income goes down even further, so then there’s even less money. Well, you see where this is going… That’s why so many of the ads in our old back issues are from firms that closed down long ago.
Most Bondage Blog advertisers historically have run affiliate-style campaigns, where the ads appear only briefly and tend to promote some sort of specific trackable transactions. Brand and image advertising has traditionally been rare, and most of the advertisers who have done it didn’t keep it up (if they are even still in business). I’ve always attributed this to Bondage Blog’s fairly small size; we’ve got good traffic by blog standards and maybe by kink-community standards, but delivered impressions are tiny compared to mainstream popular websites or to the print publications where brand advertisers have traditionally placed their ads in big media buys. It’s been something of a mystery to me, though, why more kink-industry firms don’t place brand and image advertising on the larger kinky websites, of which Bondage Blog certainly is one. Tim’s observation that most kinky businesses fail to budget for regular advertising is a new thought to me, but it explains the behavior I’ve seen. And, of course, after a moment of introspection, I realize I’m part of that. Place paid advertising for Bondage Blog? It is to laugh! I don’t have any sort of budget for that…
Yeah. Not serious business.
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