Witchy

Those who like to mix spiritually and paganism with their BDSM may be interested in this article. It discusses some of the overlap between the two, both in the practices and the communities.

Alternatively, for those who aren’t so much into the spiritual side, but do like to see a sexy powerful witch, I’ve got you covered as well. Here’s Charlize Theron as the evil witch queen Ravenna from Snow White and the Huntsman. Not a great movie by all accounts, but Ms Theron can always brighten a film up.

EvilQueen

Caveat venditor

Top tip of the day: If an unknown person on the internet offers you a large sum of money for doing very little, it’s probably certainly a scam. The latest example of this comes to us from New Zealand, where women were offered thousands of dollars for photographs of their hands and feet. Unsurprisingly the money never showed up, but some of the photographs did make it to a fetish website.

Clearly the people that did this are assholes of the first order. Taking advantage of people is a shitty thing to do. However, if the worst thing that happens to you is untraceable foot photographs showing up on a fetish site, then maybe you can treat it as an important life lesson that was cheaply learned. Whoever you’re dealing with, whether it’s selling a sofa on craiglists or photographs for drooling internet perverts, always get the money up front.

I particularly enjoyed the byline to the news article – “Internet watchdog warns ears and elbows could be next as young people are being duped into sending pictures of body parts to fetish websites.” That makes it sound like there’s some bizarre hierarchy of perversion. Watch out kids, after ears and elbows, it’s just a small step to the serious hard pornography of armpit hair and nasal passages. These perverts are working their way around all parts of the body and they must be stopped!

Only a handful of people were scammed, so it’s probably the work of a single maladjusted fetishist with nothing but a gmail account and zero social skills. Somebody should tell the internet watchdog that pretty much by definition fetishists tend to have highly focused interests. They’re not going to switch their sexual attention from feet to ears just because their scam got spotted.

FetishGiven this post has been all about fetishes, you’ll have to excuse me if I indulge one of mine with this image. I’m always a sucker for an elegant and well dressed lady in a tight pair of boots.

Camouflage

I wonder who thought this was a good look to go for? Did they start with the outfit and then go looking for a matching chair, or vice-versa? Or was the outfit and the setting all just a lucky coincidence? Are there people out there with a leopard skin fetish? Or are they aiming for the camouflage fetish market? Does she curl up, concealed on the chair, waiting for her moment to leap out with claws unsheathed? Have many unsuspecting male submissives been surprised and mauled by that most dangerous of predators – the indoor leopard domme?

Miss HybridI’m not sure who this attractive but somewhat oddly attired lady is. I’d guess it’s from a more commercial and conventional porn shot than a femdom one, but that’s only a hunch.

Updated : Thanks to my wise and learned readers (specifically Simon) I can now attribute this to the Miss Hybrid site. I was partially wrong about it being from a conventional porn shot, as Miss Hybrid’s material definitely has a fetish and femdom slant, but there’s more regular sexual activity than the standard femdom clips. Also, for anyone reading this and wondering how I could be such an idiot as to miss the big logo on the image – I changed the image. The original had the logo chopped off, but thanks to the attribution I managed to find the original version with logo intact.

Ta-da!

Another image to add to the WTF category. I love their smiles, the plastic wrap bondage and her happy ‘ta-da’ pose. I’d like to think she just did a backflip and landed perfectly in penetrative position. It looks like the kind of pose a gymnast takes at the end of a routine. Except in this case I guess it’d be 9/10 for the mount rather than the dismount.

However, what’s with the weird room and that thing on the butcher’s hook at the back? I know butcher fetishes exist, but this doesn’t seem like that kind of scene. It’s such a strange contrast between their playful attitude and the environment.

Ta-daThis is Sebastian Keys (who has other excellent images on his twitter feed) shooting with Cherry Torn for Divine Bitches. I found it via the Happy BDSM tumblr.

No Safeword

I’m not a big podcast listener. I like the idea, I just don’t get the time or the opportunity to listen to them. That said, this Stranger article on the No Safeword podcast did catch me eye. I have to respect a podcast conducted from within a dungeon with a guy tied to the table in front of the mics. That’s really immersing yourself into the spirit of things.

It’s got a M/m focus, but they do have domme guests like Midori and Mistress Fyre, as well as well known names like Dan Savage. Plus, when it comes to toys and tips for submissive men, a lot of stuff applies no matter who is on the dominant end of the whip/sound/dildo. Some of the best gear for femdom comes from M/m targeted sites like Mr S Leather.

Mentioning Midori gives me an excuse to feature a shot of her in action. This is from a workshop she did on predicament bondage with Tony Buff at Seattle’s Center for Sex Positive Culture back in 2008.

Tony Buff with Midori

Not so super

The new Batman versus Superman movie is out and by most accounts, it’s fairly poor. I’m not surprised, given how weak the previous Zack Snyder Superman movie was. I’ll wait for the latest example to make it to cable before taking a look.

In the meantime, as a contrast to the crazy special effects and somber plots of today’s superheros, here’s a glimpse of a more lighthearted Superman from the Silver Age of comics (mid 50’s to 1970). The plot apparently involves alien possession which is cured (somehow) by a dummy and a beating. At least that’s the excuse the authors came up with for featuring Superman in bondage and a dominant Lois brandishing a flogger.

Superman's Girlfriend Lois Lane #73

lala land continued

After publishing yesterdays post, I had a couple of follow-up thoughts on the TimeOut pro-domme guide.

Firstly, the byline used for the article was pretty weak – ‘If you’ve suddenly found yourself in the market for a dominatrix…’ That makes it sound like a plumbing or electrical emergency. If you suddenly find yourself with a leaking tap, a blown fuse or a desire for kinky sex, then hey, we can point you in the right direction. It acts to distance the writer from the reality of the service. A more honest one would be  – ‘If you’re sexually interested in the idea of a dominant woman, but currently can’t explore that desire in a personal setting, then a pro-domme might be the answer.’ Of course they couldn’t use that byline as it puts sexual desire in the fore, and that would be taboo.

That brings me to my second thought, which is the fact this article would never be written for escorts. Which I think is a shame. In the non-professional realm, BDSM and sex are intimately intertwined. In the professional realm they’re strongly bifurcated. Pro-dommes don’t offer actual sex and therefore get written up in TimeOut articles. Escorts do offer sex and therefore get arrested, harassed and not featured in mainstream publications. I like the idea of femdom getting mainstream coverage but worry about what message the professional version of it sends. Our crazy laws have distorted the professional sex worker market in weird ways. I’m a huge admirer of pro-dommes and I’ve had some truly life altering experiences with then. But it would be unfortunate if the pro-domme model of femdom became absorbed into the mainstream and seen as the definitive model.

Of course, all these random thoughts do give me an excuse to feature another image from the TimeOut list. This is Mistress Iris.

Mistress Iris