Reducing Anxiety

The NY Post has an article suggesting spanking can reduce anxiety and interrupt fretful thought loops. It’s probably just an excuse to feature a sexy pic or two, but I’ll take a mainstream article with a positive spin on kink. Particularly one that’s gender neutral and doesn’t take male dominance as the default.

I always used to find thwacky impact play soothing, but in the last year or so it has been more of a mixed bag. I think my skin has got more sensitive as I’ve got older and sometimes blows will trigger itching and an unpleasant heat. Maybe I just need to moisturize more. Certainly when I can get into the right zone, a good spanking is a lovely way to destress.

I’m not sure of the source of this photograph. I have a suspicion it’s really old. Not 100% sure but it reminds me of a spanking series that was floating around on usenet 20+ years ago.

Grief Encounter

This site gave me  bit of a scare this week. First I couldn’t update or create new posts. Then I couldn’t log in at all. Fortunately, the hosting company has efficient technical support and got it all sorted out. Normal service has been resumed.

I was actually a little surprised at how concerned I was. I’ve been blogging for a longtime now. When I started I had daily posts. Now it’s more like 3 or so a week. I occasionally wonder if/when I’ll stop. Based on my reaction to the technical gremlins, it probably will not be soon. Felt very weird not being able to log in and post.

Anyway, back to the Femdom salt mines, digging up imagery and links of interest. Here’s a nice case in point. The image is from a short film caused ‘Grief Encounter’.  It features a woman picking up people at funerals to take advantage of their ‘overwhelmed’ state.

The film was directed by Ellen Pearson and produced by Erika Lust. If the actress looks familiar, that’s because it is domme Eva Oh, who I’ve featured here before.

To Nut or Not To Nut

We’re out of Loctober and into No Nut November. It’s just an endless festival of none orgasms at this time of year.

I tend to subscribe to the views expressed in this Stockroom article about No Nut November. Loctober puts the focus on kink and is therefore sex positive. Even if the end result for participants is negative sex. NNN unhealthily shifts the emphasis more to shame and suppressing desire. That’s not surprising given it’s original growth in incel culture.

That said, there are people out there trying to reclaim it and give it a happy new home in kink. For example, the most excellent Maya Midnight posted this to Bluesky.

No Nut November actually started as a lame anti-porn thing but has since become a sexy chastity thing and I just think that’s beautiful

Let’s hope it keeps trending in that direction.

Mentioning Maya does give me an excuse to share this lovely image of her. I’ve always been a big fan of grey hair. And of men in cages of course. This is from her Bluesky feed. You can find her professional site here.

Down Boy

I’m a little behind on my internet culture. When I first spotted this on a tumblr I thought it was just a cute femdom drawing. However, apparently it’s a meme format based on a purported Archie comic from 1975. Redraws of it have been showing up over the last year or so with different characters. It’s not even clear if the original ever existed, although Archie certainly has form in this respect. Whatever the origins and the recent interpretations, I’m a fan.

I’m afraid I don’t know how created this redraw. I think it might be yet another weird internet culture mash-up of these two characters.

Levels of Spooky

One final Halloween themed artwork. This is by the artist KouYou. I’ve featured their work before, including this Christmas piece. I love their cutaway style drawings, particularly all the little details, and this one is no exception. The party at the top looks like fun, but things get serious the further you descend. I’d love to see a similar take on the nine circles of hell from this artist. I think it’d be spectacular.

You can find the posting for the original piece here.

Pumpkin

I’m continuing the Halloween theme with this artwork from Formant. I’ve enjoyed a number of inventive and unusual bondage scenes over the years, some where I was pretty squashed, but I can’t say I’ve ever been incorporated into a literal squash. This’d certainly make for an interesting porch decoration, but would it be a trick or a treat?

This is from a series Formant published to his twitter feed. You can find more by subscribing to his work here or buying his books here.

Witch and Familiar

As we head into Halloween, here’s some seasonally suitable artwork. It’s by Sean (AKA seansketches) and described as ‘Witch Ada and her Leon familiar.’ If you enjoy this piece you’ll be happy to know it’s one of a series of three.

I feel more witches should have Himbo familiars. Terry Pratchett has of course already blazed that trail with the story of Greebo in Witches Abroad.

If you’d like to see more of Sean’s work then check out these links.

The Chancellor

Here’s some cute artwork to head into the weekend with. It’s from a series of four drawings by Yumine Guo, based on a story by Lutarrel.

The Chancellor took the studious third-born, training him to be useful to her in many ways – in public he was her focused administrative secretary; in private he was her footstool when work was long, her punching bag when work was hard, and her personal whore when work was over.

That’s the kind of administration I could really get behind.

You can find more from Yumine on Subscribe Star and more from Lutarrel on AO3.