Bondage Blog

The latest column from Mistress Matisse contains an interesting interview with Lochai, the well-known rope bondage rigger who recently got hired to be the new director of Hogtied.com. Talk about a dream job! (Except, well, not my dream job, exactly; I am astonished by the precision of visually excellent bondage, but I don’t have the patience to do the stuff myself. My ropes are always sloppy, and I’m quick to reach for the cuffs and the snaps. I wouldn’t want that job — despite its many awesome features! — because I would suck at it, and that’s never fun.)

Interview Excerpt:

What have people’s reactions been like when you told them?

I got a lot of “fuck you, I’m so jealous!” But seriously, my friends and family have been 99 percent positive. Only one person said he was disappointed that I chose to do porn. I’m just glad I’ve been out to my parents for years—this is a blessing in their eyes, because I’ll finally be getting paid for what I love to do. My rabbi even collects my photography.

So, to run this blog, I’ve always got to be watching out for bondage imagery to feed the insatiable blogging machine. Today, I stumbled over what looks like an old “production still” (in scare quotes because these promo photos often don’t have much in common with scenes in the actual movie they are advertising) for a blaxploitation-ish looking movie called Black Socks. The still features blondes chained in a dungeon, that’s an instant blog post. But today, I thought I’d run through my “blog production” process for you and show you more steps than I usually do.

It starts when I find this image, doesn’t matter where. Today, as it happens, the source was a random image blog, one that I’m not going to link because (1) everything on there they borrowed from somewhere else without link credit and (2) they don’t have any outgoing links of any kind so (3) fuck ’em, they don’t play nice. Here’s the image as I found it, gray and grainy (click for full size):

This image I would normally not show you in its original form. Uncropped, it’s too small (at the 320 pixel size I like to use) and gray. Sure, I can link the original pic as I found it, the way I’m doing today, but my server stats say I’m wasting my time; most folks never click.

Nope, what I normally do is crop and clean and brighten and sharpen the best bondage detail, thusly:

There you go, blonde wenches in chains, that’s what you came for, my work here is done.

Sadly, I’m not a photoshop wizard; difficult originals like this one, there’s a limit to what I can do, and a limit on how much time I’m going to spend. What you see is what you get.

Today, however, the process became — more involved. I was halfway through the standard quick process when a previously unnoticed detail caught my eye. Hey, what’s that down in the dark corner I’m about to crop away?

What it appears to be is an absolutely marvelous stocks/pillory item, with holes for head, hands, and legs, perhaps not all to be used at the same time. To me it looks like it came straight out of some sort of trendy 1960s Scandanavian home furnishings design contest:

Check it out, it’s sculpted, it’s modular, it’s stackable, it’s unstackable, the holes are shaped to fit smoothly around captive limbs, and it’s doubtless made of Norwegian wood or a “high quality” wood-grained plastic imitation. Somebody put a lot of creativity and contemporary design sensibility into their dungeon props for this movie; either that, or they just borrowed what was in the director’s personal playroom. Either way, I want one!

A five hundred year old engraving showing the bondage fun you can have with wrought iron:

Found here.

Elsewhere on Bondage Blog:

• Titanium Chastity Device With No Key?
• Chastity Enforced By Steel Bondage

Is chaining girls in your basement and whipping them a lot, a hobby? I guess it could be:

From the bottom of somebody’s email:

“Honestly, if I wanted your opinion, I would remove the duct tape.”

War plunder?

I was thrilled to get the word that Kink.com, the world’s greatest bondage pornographers, are now sneak-previewing a new site (due to go live October 1) called Public Disgrace: Women Bound, Stripped, And Punished In Public. The site features public humiliation and BDSM on the streets of San Francisco — one of the few places in the world where, if you are reasonably considerate of others, the cops are cool enough to let you get away with filming a thing like that.

Here’s the advance sales copy for the new Public Disgrace bondage site:

You may have come across a picture or a small clip of some public nudity or BDSM here and there, but this site takes it to a whole new level. PublicDisgrace.com will feature amazing footage of hot girls bound on busy streets, dragged and displayed — girls bound and sucking cock in public, tied up and ass-fucked for all to see.

Not to mention good old-fashioned public puppy-girl play:

Interestingly, it looks like the humiliation aspect of the new site will be keyed to the models’ natural shyness about being nude and chained and made to do embarrassing things (like eat from a doggie bowl) in pubic — Kink.com has never gone in for the extreme verbal humiliation and simulated abuse of their models that the gonzo porn people like to use, and I don’t expect them to start now.

I find these screencaps from the teaser/trailer to be promising indeed. Poor slave! It’s hard enough for a chained girl to lick smelly dogfood from a bowl in front of God and everyone, even without the added complication of somebody zapping her bare bottom with an electroshock rod. Jump at just the wrong moment, and her new nickname is gonna be Alpo-face!

Update: I am only speculating that this site will feature shoots in San Francisco; this first shoot, as several people have pointed out, was done in Budapest, Hungary, apparently another cool place or at least a place where the rules can be relaxed if you know the right people.