There’s a lot to dislike about this image. It’s got the classic 70’s domme stare, the limp whip holding and the collar that’d be better suited to a submissive. Not to mention the weird crossed swords behind her. Who ever though that fake medieval weapons were a good look for a room?
On the plus side, her boots, gloves and natural beauty do make it work. However, what really sold me on it was the fetishistic apron-like dress. There’s something both disturbing and sexy about that. What’s going to spurt, splash or squirt that she needs protection from? And not just a small amount of protection. That’s a waist to heel cover. She’s ready for things to get seriously messy.
Another gratuitous rant against the photographers and the models who pioneered kinky imagery and the early work they produced. Please don’t do that again, paltego. Those women and men deserve better, no matter the quality of their efforts.
After the punk movement exploded, a lot of spunky girls and young women started wearing dog collars in public and in broad daylight; if only for the hell of it. A lot of girls and women in the goth scene still do.
So maybe the woman on the photo just liked or loved that collar. Or she was confident enough in leather not to reject it, when asked to wear it for the photographer. Who knows?
As for the whip; the photographer might have asked her to hold it that way in order to keep it’s image in line with the top/bottom centre line of her body and in doing so achieving a rather ridiculous looking result. Again, who knows?
Pioneering kinky images without a mental – if not a cultural – database of kinky imagery to fall back on and to work from is difficult. Not all models knew how to present themselves and were also confident enough to express and to project kinkiness. And obviously not all photographers knew what worked and what was ludicrous.
Those pioneers were groping in the dark. But occasionally they got it right and produced something that inspired further development.
Here and now in 2018 it’s so easy to type in a URL, look, snicker and feel superior. Visit for example the anything but kinky http://olgas-house-of-shame.tumblr.com/ just once and you know exactly what I mean.
So please, no more cheap shots at the pioneers whose work made so many kinky little lives a little bit – or a hell of a lot – nicer and richer and more livable. And never forget where we would be without them.
Hard to know exactly where to start with this particular comment.
Firstly, the post isn’t a rant. This comment might turn into one, but the post is relatively short and balanced. I list a few things I don’t like about the image, a few things I do like, and one thing I really like. If anything its overall net positive. Not exactly the sign of someone speaking at length in a loud, impassioned and wild way,.
I’m also not sure where you get the idea it’s ‘another’ rant. I think the last similar post I had was back in Summer of 2017 (http://www.femdom-resource.com/2017/08/04/old-school-tenderness/ ) and was similarly balanced and broadly positive.
You seem to imply my comments show a lack of respect for the model. That’s your implication and assumption, not mine. I’m very comfortable looking at the aesthetics of the shot from a modern viewpoint without feeling that I’m making a personal attack on people involved or the context they created it in. I’ve endless respect for the early kinky pioneers, but that doesn’t mean I’ll only consider what they shot in a purely historical way. After all, I’ll look back at old images of myself from decades past and marvel at some of the fashion choices I made, but that doesn’t mean I think any less of myself now or that I was stupid at the time.
Finally, as for the ‘please don’t do it again’, I’m afraid that’s not how this works. This blog costs me time and money, but in return I get to share whatever thoughts I have. Readers get the option of engaging or not engaging with it. If I’ve attacked or maligned a specific person unfairly then I’ll absolutely do what I can to fix that. But commenting on the aesthetics/fashion/composition of kinky image is part of what this blog is about.
-paltego
Thanks for the link. I’m digging Olga’s.