Bondage Blog

Now who — what cruel cad? — would chain a girl and leave her in the pig pen for the boars to rut with?

Nasty.

Elsewhere on Bondage Blog:

• If Looks Could Kill...
• Bug Torture
• Severe Anime Bondage

She says “epic fail”, but she’ll always be the cool aunt:

*is an epic fail as an Auntie cause my niece stole my handcuffs*

Elsewhere on Bondage Blog:

• Bondage Tweet Of The Day: Kinky Cops

One thing I’m always on the watch for here at Bondage Blog is artwork that speaks to the common fantasies many people have that center around unwilling or forced bondage sex. These are often called “rape fantasies”, but I don’t much like the term in connection with the non-photographic visual arts; rape is a legal concept requiring a real human victim not consenting, and it strikes me as nonsense to be making claims about what various pixels or bits of pigment or ink might have consented to. But artwork showing forced sex, wild and violent sex, rough sex, apparently unwilling sex, in bondage? That I always pay careful attention to, and sometimes publish, because depictions like this are sometimes erotically useful in ways that photographs cannot be. A photograph, if it is not to be evidence of crime and thus inherently a boner-killer to all civilized men, is inherently limited in what it can show; artwork knows no such limits.

Now, it turns out that I don’t really publish very much artwork of this sort because my own tastes run to pleasure and beauty — when in doubt, I ask myself “Does this image fit with ‘taking pleasure in the beauty of restrained women?’ as the Bondage Blog motto demands?” And when you plumb the depths of the internet for this sort of thing, an enormous amount of what comes back stuck to the chewing gum on your plumber’s snake is extremely violent and ugly and bloody. I see a lot of this in my daily rounds of ‘teh internetz’, but I try really hard not to bring it home. Instead, I tend to prefer what is looming, what is threatened, what is implied but not shown.

But, in seven years, a few items accumulate:

• Ravished By A Pirate — Artwork by French illustrator Albert Dubout. A greasy hairy pirate has a girl hanging by her arms and is working her from behind. Dubout is essentially a comic artist, which makes this especially weird.
• Bondage Sex, Anime Style — An anime girl is tied on her back over a desk and surrounded by horny men with their peckers out.
• Raped In Hell? — Artwork by Suzanne Ballivet. It’s hell. There are demons and chains. Things are about to get ugly.
• Pole Ravishment — artwork by Fameni. Two innocent-looking girls tied to a pole and ravished vigorously by an ominous pair of hooded men.
• Japanese Rape Shunga — A traditional shunga print showing a samurai with a female captive. He’s got her ankles tied wide to a long piece of bamboo and his cartoonishly bulbous penis is about to strike home.
• Victim of An Audit — This is an ancient Chinese stone cut illustration showing a woman tied to a table while torturers bring in a horse. Both her genitals and the horse’s are cartoonishly exaggerated, so it’s pretty clear where the scene is going.
• Dragged Into The Woods — A villainously-drawn fellow (you can tell he’s an exaggerated racial caricature) has dragged some fair young thing into the birchwood and tied her hands apart to a pair of trees. The rest is as you would expect.
• An Homage To Dolcett — This post features the famous Dolcett illustration of a woman astride an erect man and forced by a neck rope that he’s holding (over a pully) to bounce up and down on his erection at his command. Also featured is an amazing but much gentler photographic homage to the image from Sex and Submission.
• Bondage Sex, Manga Style — A dynamic manga bondage sex panel.
• Aggressively Owned Twins — This is an example of modern graphic novel bondage sex art in what has become a very common style, featuring lots of rough bondage sex with girls who are enslaved and not showing any hint of being part of the fantasy. Very brutally drawn.
• The Difference Between Dogs And Werewolves — artwork by Grigbertz that includes a poor girl left in the pillory overnight and visited by a horny werewolf.
• Bondage ‘Toon Gets Ravished — Anime bondage sex; a handcuffed anime girl is ravished from behind.
• Straitjacket Sex — Manga style bondage sex with a woman strapped into a straitjacket.

Elsewhere on Bondage Blog:

• Seven Years Of Prison Camp Bondage
• Seven Years of Bondage Miscellany
• Seven Years Of Bondage Blowjobs
• Seven Years Of Bondage (Blogging)

Could a bondage stroke book cover possibly be more exploitative? “After the Arab leader had finished with her, Beauty was staked out upon the hot desert sand to let the insects finish her off…”

Elsewhere on Bondage Blog:

• Hot Dusty Girl, Arab Captive
• Bondage Harem Girls
• Chained Harem Girl Pinup
• Arab Slave
• Making A Harem Slave

One of the things that I don’t like about the serial blogging format is that posts and content keep moving inexorably into the past. When a post is lame, I guess that’s a good thing; but when it’s good, that’s a pity. Archives and “related post” links can only do so much — most of the old content is dead content. And Google is no help — at its best, it only keeps 500 to a thousand posts in its active index, so you can’t even search easily for a lot of the goodies in the Bondage Blog archives.

So, in honor of yesterday’s 7-year anniversary, I propose to make a few “best of” posts containing thematic sets of deep links into Bondage Blog’s past. Our first topic is the humble bondage blowjob:

• This is one of my favorite bondage photos ever. It’s old, it looks amateur to my eye, and it’s additionally taboo because it features a mixed-race couple. And, of course, she’s tied up on the bed and giving him a blowjob.
• This post is consistently one of the most highly visited from Google Image Search. And I can see why, it’s fantasy fuel of the first water. Crudely drawn? Sure, but still: It’s a cheerleader, on her knees, tied to a stake, giving a blowjob. What’s not like?
• I don’t post enough from the vast wealth of bondage stories that float around on the internet. It takes an enormous amount of time and effort to weed through them to find the good ones. But I’ve found some gems over the years, and this bondage blowjob comes from one of them.
• I think this is a nurse. She’s wearing some kind of uniform hat like a nurse’s, anyway. I’m in no doubt about the bondage blowjob.
• This post celebrates the first gallery from Sex and Submission that really got down and sticky with an explicit bondage blowjob featuring steel restraints and a blindfold. Five years later it’s still fresh.
• Goerges Pichard was the master of the graphic-novel bondage blowjob, usually in some abjectly-helpless context. This poor girl in ropes and servicing an entire line of military centurion-types is no exception.
• I have a weird little micro-fetish for bondage blowjob scenes where you can’t really say what’s going on, but you’ve got a slave girl tied up with her face in his crotch, and why else would she be there? Fortunately, Hogtied.com has indulged me often over the years, with content for posts like these:
  • Hands Full of Blowjob
  • Most Classic Bondage Position
  • A Little Help With His Zipper
  • Kneeling Slavegirls
• A genre of media I don’t know as much about as I’d like to is the Italian fumetti comics. This vigorous face-fucking of a woman with her arms restrained above her head is one of the reasons for my interest.
• Did you know that a woman wearing a scold’s fiddle restraint could still give a perfectly good blowjob? It works great, at least if the guy has equipment that’s capable of reasonable extension. Learn something new every day!
• Anime, oh anime! Where would Bondage Blog be without anime? Nowheresville, that’s where. And this simple frame from an unknown anime movie, starring an anime girl kneeling over a school desk, wrists tightly tied behind her, sucking some mostly-offscreen guy, is a classic example of why.
• This is by far the oldest bondage blowjob photo on Bondage Blog, and I love it because it proves that our kinks are timeless.
• This is not the first roundup of bondage blowjobs I have done. One Friday, I got bored…
• In fantasy and cartoons you can do things to a girl that would in practice tend to put her dinner in your lap. Like tying her head lower than her feet across the front of your Range Rover before introducing her to the dubious pleasures of your African pirate fiefdom.
• This vintage blindfolded bondage blowjob photo is another perennial favorite with the Google Image Search traffic.
• No bondage blowjob roundup would be complete without a manga girl in chains getting her suck on.

Oddly enough that’s really just a small fraction of the blowjob-related goodies featured here on Bondage Blog over the last seven years. (Most of the rest is findable by typing “bondage blowjob” into the search box in the right sidebar.) I hope you enjoy revisiting it as much as I have!

This is silver screen actress Betty Blythe, tied up in 1925 for the movie Chu, Chin, Chow:

Elsewhere on Bondage Blog:

• Lois Collier In Bondage
• Terry Torday Captured
• Peter O'Toole In Bondage
• Candice Michelle In Bondage
• Lena Headey In Bondage

Yes folks, that’s right — today marks the 7th anniversary of the first post to Bondage Blog. Back then I wrote:

For all the sex blogs, kinky blogs, and BDSM / slave journals out there, there’s never been a blog devoted to exclusively to bondage. Now there is. Bondage Blog is intended as a celebration of the beauty of the tied female form and the pleasure to be found in consensual bondage sex. Expect links to entries at other blogs that talk about bondage, links to news stories about bondage, and links to bondage art and erotica wherever such goodies may be found.

I also expect to show a fair number of bondage pictures and artworks here – whatever tickles my fancy or might tickle yours.

I think back over these last seven years and it’s amazing how much has changed in the bondage world. For one thing, before Sex and Submission launched in 2005, nobody in America was making BDSM porn that mixed bondage and explicit sex. They didn’t dare; it was considered too risky. The only exception was in print — Taboo Magazine from Hustler. (Most of the photoshoots from that magazine since its inception are available online with a Hustler’s Megapass online subsubscription, which I consider one of the best deals in online porn for this reason alone.) But online? Until Sex and Submission, you had a lot of faked stuff — where penetration and bondage never happened in the same shot — and some isolated European arty stuff, and that was about it. When I blogged here about the new site, I said:

It’s always been puzzling that we combine bondage and sex in the bedroom, but we can’t get them combined much in our porn. I’m hoping Sex And Submission is the start of a new trend that fixes that glaring omission.

And was it ever! Bondage porn hasn’t been the same since. Once Kink.com took the risk and proved that sex and bondage wouldn’t result in instant obscenity arrests, there was an explosion of sexy bondage porn, and we’ve been reaping the benefits for half a decade.

There have been a lot of other changes, too, in the seven years that I’ve been blogging about bondage. Just a few of the others include:

• Bondage porn blogs themselves have exploded, and are starting to diminish again. When I started, blogging was huge on the mainstream web, but sex blogs were fairly new and novel, and somewhat rare. There were lots of BDSM lifestyle bloggers, especially on places like LiveJournal, but nobody much who was blogging about bondage porn and pop culture. Within just a couple of years, though, there were dozens, then hundreds, then… the number became uncountable. For awhile, there was money to be made (a little anyway) by setting up a free blog somewhere like Blogspot, feeding it with porn via the RSS feeds provided by affiliate programs, linking it with a network of similar fully-automated robot spam-porn extravaganzas, and letting the search engines feed you enough traffic to make a profit (not hard since your costs were close to zero). That’s mostly stopped now, due to the free services cracking down on spammed porn, plus changes in the porn business.
• Culturally, people are a lot less excited about blogs (and about the web in general) than they were seven years ago. Back then, the web was spiffy and exciting; now, it’s just a background utility, like the electrical grid. People are no more excited about “going on the web” than they are about “going on the street”. People still look at blogs — and I still have traffic — but they “live” other places on the internet — on Facebook, in their Twitter feeds, on Tumblr dashboards, and gosh-knows-where. One measure of this is that I get way fewer comments on my posts than I used to, despite having far higher traffic levels than I did “back in the day”. People are coming and people are looking, but they aren’t as engaged. This kind of blog isn’t the kind of place where they interact with the internet world any more.
• People buy a lot less bondage porn than they used to. I do this for fun, but it’s also a business; I’ve got advertising and affiliate links and a managed hosting package that isn’t cheap. And as businesses went, it used to be pretty simple. Get traffic, send traffic, make sales, profit. But in recent years — really the last three or four, according to my sales statistics, but especially in the last two — there’s been a sharp decline in the number of people who are ready/willing/able to purchase online porn. They still come, they still view, they just don’t whip out the credit card. That’s caused … interesting … waves throughout the business, with lots of porn producers going out of business or having financial difficulties or … as is typical whenever business are in financial difficulty … getting hinky about paying their debts to people like the affiliates (raising my hand here) who send the traffic. These changes are probably structural and probably permanent, like the ones that shook up the music industry starting back in the 1990s. They make it more of a challenge to pay the expenses of keeping the blog going and to keep me in beer, and they change who is making porn, but so far, they don’t seem to have really reduced the amount of cool bondage porn being made. So, not yet time to panic. (Another nice thing about these changes: since there’s no longer much easy money to be made selling porn as an affiliate, the huge spammy networks of automated porn blogs appear to be dwindling and going away, presumably due to lack of profitability.)
• Our U.S. culture has become much more accepting of BDSM and kink. Obviously there’s still a long way to go here. But when I started writing this blog, it was still routine for print magazines to run jokey articles about kinky topics full of “look at the freaks” derision. These still crop up, but are becoming rare; and in their place, we are getting more and more fetish fashion shoots in mainstream fashion magazines, more sympathetic kinky characters in movies and on TV, more handcuffs on the fashion runway, more celebrity interviews where we hear an unabashed fondess for kinky sex… Kink is coming to be understood by vanillas as something that happens throughout our culture, not merely as something that only a few weirdo freaks do. It’s not mainstream, but it’s becoming an accepted alt culture, and that’s really refreshing.

So, what does the future hold, for bondage and for Bondage Blog?

I think the bondage porn business is going to continue to change radically. Right now all the major porn producers (not just the BDSM producers, but including them) are scrambling wildly to figure out how they can survive in a world in which few people pay for porn, and the old “monthly subscription” model has gone the way of Lindsay Lohan’s virginity. Frankly I don’t have a clue how it will shake out, but I remain supremely confident that my fellow kinky horndogs will want to keep looking at freshly-made dirty pictures and movies, and that some sort of economic model will evolve to allow them to do so.

As for Bondage Blog, I plan to keep with it, unless technology and internet culture changes so much that nobody comes to look any more. I’m also trying (see my new Twitter account ) to follow some of the bondage conversations to where people “live” these days, so that I can bring some of that back to the blog. (I welcome suggestions on how to do that better.) Business-wise, the handwriting is on the wall — I’m not going to support this enterprise by taking an affiliate cut of (non-existent) porn subscription sales in the second decade of the 21st century. The recent redesign offers more valuable display advertising options to advertisers, a few of whom have taken advantage of the new zones; that may serve until the next internet business model comes along. We’ll see. It’s tough to plan a business model for a porn blog when the big guys who make the porn don’t know how or whether they are going to survive the next nine months. Luckily for me, my costs aren’t so very high, and Bondage Blog has always been in substantial part a labor of love. I can keep doing it for a long time — not forever, but for a long time — before the profit problem looms too large.

First and foremost, though, I plan to keep doing what I’ve always done — showing and linking my visitors to the best bondage pictures and resources I can find. I’m also trying harder to provide good identification for the pictures and artwork that I post; the longer I do this, the more frustrated I become by the people who strip away attributions and hide sources. So, when I can, I’m trying to improve my own practices, documenting where stuff came from to the best of my ability.

As I mentioned above, I’d love to hear your comments and suggestions on how I’m doing, or how I could do it better! What do you think I should do, to make Bondage Blog vital and interesting for the next seven years?