Femdom Resource – Page 178 – The beauty of dominant women

The Duke of Burgundy

As far as film titles go, The Duke of Burgundy isn’t an obvious one to use for a period piece movie focusing on a lesbian D/s relationship. It is also rare to see this kind of opening statement in a mainstream newspaper’s film review…

The Duke of Burgundy is the most tender love story you’ll see in which a woman forcefully urinates in her lover’s mouth

While it might be unusual, the majority of the reviews seem to love it. There’s that one in the Guardian, another in the Austin Chronicle and this one in the IndieWire. From their descriptions it seems to be a movie that really has an understanding of the dynamics of BDSM and some of inherent contradictions in a Dom/Sub relationship.

It’s not released until October 10th, but I’ll certainly be looking out for it after that. In the meantime it gives me an excuse to feature a fun vintage shot. These two ladies seem to be enjoying both nautical dress-up and spanking.

Songbird in leather

Celebrities strutting their stuff in fetish gear pop up constantly in the gossip rags (example case in point). The shot below is a little different. Eagle eyed readers may recognize the lady on the right. Yes, it’s Barbra Streisand in leather and brandishing (well limply holding) a whip.

You can see more shots from the same sequence in this article. It was taken in 1970 and was shot for a prop used in a movie called The Owl and the Pussycat. According to the article the prop was only used briefly, but they still seem to have shot an awful lot of images of Barbara posed a ‘cycle slut’. I guess I might have done the same given the chance.

The infinite virtual bookshelf

After my last post on the topic of inadvertent data sharing with family members, Servitor left a comment reminding me that separate user accounts can help solve the problem. That’s actually very good advice. All my laptops are Windows devices and it does an excellent job of providing sand boxed environments for each user. Keeping separate email and social media accounts for kinky stuff is an obvious thing to do, but extending it all the way to your local device also makes a lot of sense.

Unfortunately iPads and apps are terrible in this respect. The Kindle app is particularly bad. Not only does it show all your books in its library, but I can’t even find a way to delete stuff from the shelf. I’ve got all sorts of random porn and kinky writing mixed in with history books, classic crime novels and modern fiction. When I visit someone’s house I always enjoy being nosy and browsing their bookcases. Unfortunately the kindle app designer thinks that not only should your bedroom and living room bookcases be equally on display, but also those well thumbed magazines stashed under your virtual mattress. Now I live in fear that anyone using my iPad will browse my electronic bookcase and get an eyeful of some bizarre BDSM fiction that I purchased on a horny whim in a lonely hotel room many moons ago.

Here’s what I think should have happened to the kindle app designer the day after he came up with his initial design specs. Maybe an hour or two with these two ladies would have encouraged him to try a bit harder.

On edge

I’m feeling a little edgy right now. I’m kink deprived. My mother is paying a rare visit from the UK and has been staying with me for the last few weeks. I’m a less than perfect son in many ways, but somehow I can’t bring myself to claim I’m working late and leave her home alone while I sneak off to visit a dominatrix. My moral compass may not always point to true north, but somehow even to me that doesn’t seem right.

One thing I’ve discovered with her visit is how hard it is to sanitize my media devices. A few years ago I had a single computer running Internet Explorer. I’d clear the history and archive the bookmarks and I’d be good. Now with multiple laptops, iPads, browsers and apps, I’ve no idea when random porn is going to show up. Mom borrowed my iPad the other day and after she was done I noticed that one of the unselected Safari tabs was pointing at a femdom tumblr site and another at a pro-domme twitter feed. I could swear I closed them, but I’m guessing the software decided it knew better, and magically restored my old tabs. Fortunately she either didn’t notice or tactfully decided not to comment on them.

There used to be cheesy PC ‘boss’ programs that could hide whatever you were doing behind an official looking spreadsheet with a single button press. What we need now is the modern internet equivalent. I’ve got buttons on my phone that’ll summon a car, order a pizza and adjust my heating system. Can I not have one that’ll magically hide the adult content on all my various devices?

In a few days I’ll be on my lonesome again, and free to indulge in whatever perverse sexual practices I like. Until then I have to be content with admiring images like this one. That’s the kind of blissed out mental state I’m looking forward to achieving when I get chance to play again.

I found this on the Femdom Forever tumblr. I’m afraid I haven’t managed to track down an original attribution.

Memories of beatings past

A final image in my trio of spanking related shots. Like my previous post this features a red bottom and a happy couple. Although judging by the crop she’s holding, this could have been more of a beating than a spanking.

When I first spotted this (on the Work Is Never Over tumblr) it seemed vaguely familiar. I thought I might have featured it in the past. However, hunting through my old posts I found this one, which looks like a shot taken earlier in the same scene. I’m not sure if I should be impressed or troubled by the fact that I could make that connection back to a post from 2011. I can’t help thinking that the brain cells that remembered this couple would be better used for other things.

The image is taken from the now long defunct Young Goddess site.

Nails on a hot ass

I’m continuing the spanking theme from yesterday’s post with another happy lady spanker. In this case, judging by his red cheeks, it looks like a shot from towards the end of the experience.

She appears to be dragging her fingernails across his well warmed bottom, which is a deliciously evil thing to do. I both love it and hate it when somebody does that to me. With the tender skin it hurts like hell, but the intimacy of the physical contact can be electrifying. It’s both playful and sadistic, which is one of my favorite combinations.

This is Princess Kali from a Men in Pain shot. You can see another happy shot from the scene here. I found it on the Femdom Men In Pain tumblr.

Reclaiming spanking

I’ve featured articles by the spanking enthusiast Jillian Keenan in the past (here and here). Her latest in Slate is an effort to reclaim spanking as a purely sexual activity. She’s fed up with people accusing her of indulging in an act associated with children and the overtones of pedophilia that go along with that. It’s an opinion I’ve a lot of sympathy for. It seems perverse in all the wrong kind of ways that striking children is the socially acceptable version of spanking while consenting adults having fun is the screwed up one.

Of course her article gives me a chance to feature an entertaining spanking shot. This lady looks like she’s having a good time with her wooden spoon. And when she get’s tired of it, there’s a whole array of whacking tools lined up to try out.

I’m afraid I’ve no attribution for this image. I found it on the Women Who Spank tumblr.

The million eyes of Sumuru

Based on its imdb page, the million eyes of Sumuru was a pretty terrible movie. Despite that, I have a soft spot for these kind of cheesy 60’s exploitation flicks. They’re impossible to defend on an artistic, cultural or political level, yet hard for me to resist when I stumble across them late at night with a drink in my hand. I love the over-the-top poster below, and I’m guessing that a lot of my readers might enjoy this clip from the movie.

You can see the trailer for the movie here. In typically culturally sensitive fashion, the ‘asian’ Sumuru was played by the wonderful but very non-asian Shirley Eaton (famous for her role in Goldfinger)

More chains, leashes and countryside

I’m back in Seattle after my adventures to the North. Hopefully at some point soon I’ll have time to create some more thoughtful and weighty posts. In the meantime, here’s another image continuing yesterday’s theme of chains and leashes in the great outdoors. Unfortunately, also like yesterday’s post, I don’t have an original attribution for it.

I found this on the Design Domme tumblr.

Still Alive

I think this must be the longest I’ve ever gone without a post in 3+ years. No major problem I’m happy to report. Just stuck in the wilds of British Columbia for the weekend without an internet connection. And when I say the wilds, I mean a house on a beach with a hot tub, grill and well stocked fridge. For me any accommodation without high speed internet and room service is akin to 19th century arctic exploration. Fortunately I wasn’t compelled to eat any traveling companions, although several bottles of red wine were sacrificed.

I’m afraid I’ve no kinky fun to report. It would have been the perfect place for this kind of outside leash play. There were plenty of chains around, I just lacked a lady to hold the end of it.