As a not-so-proud owner of an officially bad back, this kind of shot always makes me wince. I can’t imagine my physical therapist declaring it an approved way to stretch. On the plus side, this set-up does at least have a lot of padding for his wrists and ankles, making it better thought out than similar ones I’ve seen. He just better hope she doesn’t stand up and try pump the swing high like we used to do as kids.
I believe this is by the French visual artist Eric Madeleine in a series titled Corps-objet (Body Object).
I tried this once a very long time ago and it was a disaster. My ankles, wrists, back and knees ached for days afterwards. Worse still when my Mistress started to actually swing on me, the back and forth motion made me feel seasick, and whilst I wasn’t actually sick, I felt terrible for the rest of the session.
Oof. That sounds bad. I’m not too surprised about the pain in the joints, but the issue of seasickness never occurred to me. Sounds miserable.
I do want to do some more suspension scenes, but definitely not going to add anything like this to the list! Thanks for sharing.
-paltego