This animated .gif is almost certainly not an actual movie clip. It looks rather like someone painstakingly constructed it in a .gif animator, working from some of the famous Bettie Page bondage photosets by Irving Klaw. However, it’s still rather a lot of fun:
It’s the Fifteenth of April, which in the United States is a time of great wailing and gnashing of teeth, because personal income tax returns are due. Here’s the best anti-IRS image to appear in my mailbox this year, captioned simply “Internal Revenue Service Agents Conducting An Audit”:
Upon close scrutiny, the image actually appears to be an ancient Chinese engraving. But it wouldn’t suprise me if the caption (which you can just see at the top of the image) translates to “The Emporer’s Tax Collectors Conducting An Audit”.
Here’s a fun comic book panel from alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.bondage:
I’ve heard of nurses (that is a nurse hat, yes?) giving blowjobs, but never on their knees before. And never when they didn’t have a choice!
Update: a commenter tells me that this is artwork from Dee’s Diary, a BDSM comic that was originally serialized in Pleasure Bound magazine. A bit of searching tells me it was drawn by artist Jorge. Maybe Dee’s not technically a bondage nurse, but I don’t care…
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If you like nose hooks and face bondage, you’ll love this page of Japanese nose bondage art. Lots of yummy stuff like this:
Thanks to Violet Blue for the link.
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After having said in my earlier post that it was rare to find actual bondage in classical art, here’s another rare example. This looks like an engraving from the era of the Caribbean plantations, and is almost breathtaking in its brutality:
A useful reminder that the fantasy bondage themes we like to play with here are powerful precisely because of their resonances with non-consensual historical antecedants.
If you every grow weary of the bullshit in the BDSM community, this speech by Laura Antoniou will seem a bracing tonic:
For crying out loud, people, if you really want to be known as Mistress Anorexia of the Clan Slimfast, I don’t care! No one cares! But when you try to tell people that your secret clan of ninja BDSMers goes back 100 years to the founding members in Budapest, and these are the secret rituals and clothing styles passed down by the Daughters of Dementia, and then you pass this kiddie crap off as real – come on. Just because a lot of people are gullible doesn’t mean everyone is. Pull the hype back a bit and cop to the fact you made it up.
Link via Mistress Matisse.
Funny thing about classical art. Usually there’s no visible bondage, because even the slaves were kept more by fear than by actual rope and chain. This image from ancient Egypt is a rare exception:
This image comes from David Redford’s 1984 book “Akhenaten the Heretic King” and is said to depict a decoration on the base of Queen Tiy’s throne, circa 1440 BC.
