I found this to be a very interesting article on the Other World Kingdom commonly known as OWK. There’s also a Max Fisch thread on it with a couple of people who visited sharing their thoughts here and here.
While the idea of a Femdom focused micronation is a fascinating one, I always found the execution of it in OWK strange. It was set-up by a woman and allegedly run for the benefit of women, yet always looked to me like a male fantasy version of the concept. And not a well rounded nuanced fantasy. More the kind of erotic fiction that’s typed one-handed and late at night. The kind where big breasts and tight leather is compulsory but grammar and punctuation is optional. Where gaggles of gorgeous young women in boots are unspeakably cruel to naked men in dungeons 24 hours a day.
That’s not to knock anyone who visited it or enjoyed the idea of visiting. For people whose fantasizes aligned with it, or who just wanted to shoot kinky porn, then obviously there was a natural fit. It just seems a very narrow approach, which doesn’t seem ideal when you’ve got a multi-million dollar property to sustain.
There’s a lot of very classic femdom porn shots floating around from OWK (like this one), but I thought I’d try and track down a couple of the more interesting ones. The first features some unusual costumes and amused ladies. The second has more traditional fetish gear, but keeps the smiles going. It looks like a shot taken between scenes.
Although the facility itself has closed you can still subscribe to see the images and video from their online site.
Thank you for blogging about this interesting phenomenon. Curiouser and curiouser …
We never realised what OWK really implied and that it even existed. We may have seen the abbreviation in passing, but it never rang a bell. Such a shame it folded before it could be reformed and put on a solid, much more realistic and “future proof” footing.
I would have loved to visit the place with my slave – marga – and use their facilities; if they had allowed maso-submissive females on the premises.
One of these days I should ask auntie Google and uncle Bing if such places (still) exist and where. Lovely idea … a perverse holiday instead of one “run off the mill” ;-))
Regards from the Netherlands
Glad I could direct you to something new and of interest. Definitely a strange phenomenon. A very specific fantasy idea brought to live at huge scale.
The idea of a F/f pairing in the OWK is an interesting one. It seems like it would have run up against their fairly simplistic interpretation of kink and power exchange. The fact it doesn’t fit into their model is a pretty good example of why their model was not sustainable.
Anything that currently exists is definitely a smaller scale. I think the closest thing now is something like Studio Avalon ( http://studio-avalon.com/de/ ) and that’s nowhere near as big.
-paltego