Vintage Japanese Femdom

I spend some of this weekend ambling around various Japanese femdom blogs. It’s pretty hard for me to understand the text, even with the help of online translation tools, but images are a universal communication medium.

The two shown below are part of a set that I found on homer’s blog. As far as I can tell from his text it was shot in 1963 and the mistress/model was Keiko Otsuka. I think it’s a beautiful set of images. For a posed set of of shots it has quite a naturalistic feel, with just the rope and their semi-naked bodies. There’s no excessive fetish elements or exaggerated posturing. Just some tight bondage and a nice D/s dynamic. The bondage is also strikingly rigorous and efficient compared to the ‘3 lengths of clothesline draped vaguely over a limb’ style that was common in US bondage porn of that era.

Vintage Japanese FemdomVintage Japanese Femdom

Stupidest thing you’ll read today

I realize that as far as title’s go, that’s not one guaranteed to lure the reader in. I’m also aware that some people may be thinking “So how is that different to the rest of your posts?” However, I’m fairly confident that most people will agree that the linked article is even more ridiculous than my usual random rubbish.

The article in question is about pornography rather than femdom, but it was amusing/infuriating enough that I though it worth sharing. The title is “Pornography and National Security”, which would also make a pretty good onion article title. The author Jennifer S. Bryson (of the Witherspoon Institute) uses it to argue that widespread pornography may be contributing to the problem of terrorism. As far as I can tell she bases that on the fact that terrorists have been found with pornography and have been known to visit strip clubs.

It’s written in classic Fox news style, light on facts, but heavy on leading questions like “Is it possible that…?”, “Could it be….?” and “Are we as a society…..?”

Personally I wonder, could the author possibly have her head further up her ass? Is it really true that she doesn’t understand the difference between correlation and causation? Does she perhaps not see the contradiction between claiming that pornography is ubiquitous and simultaneously claiming that finding it on terrorists is meaningful of something? Would she be better off spending her time on her line of biblical coloring books rather than writing fact free articles trying to link 9/11 to pornography?

My favorite quote from the article is:

Would those terabytes of pornography and such more aptly be dubbed “terrorbytes”?

Errr, how about no? Although it does sound like a great idea for a Stephen Colbert monologue.

Compare and Contrast

This post was triggered by a comment left by Dishevelled Domina (DD) on yesterday’s post. She wasn’t a fan of the image, either from a fashion or an erotic point of view. That wasn’t a surprising comment to me. I wasn’t a huge fan of it from those points of view either, although I did like heavy leather strop being brandished. I mainly posted it so I can rag on the fashion disasters that so often crop up in this kind of corporal punishment porn.

As way of contrast, DD also provided a pointer to an image she loved and thought was a turn on. I’ve posted it below and I have to agree that it’s a great image. I like her smile. I like his reaction, and the fact he’s properly restrained. They look like a couple having fun. If I could choose an image to show friends what femdom is about, to break the cliches of whips/chains/boots and show how real people play, this’d be a good candidate. If I could only post one of the two images on this blog, I’d pick this one over the previous one everytime.

But…..it doesn’t turn me on. It appeals on an intellectual level, but does nothing to my libido. I’d swap places with the guy in a heartbeat, but as a trigger for my imagination this doesn’t give me much. This is more documentary than fantasy, and if I want real life I can think back to my own scenes with wartenberg wheels.

There’s a lot wrong with the other image. It’s certainly not one I’d pick to get off to. The fashion choices are ugly. I don’t role play, so naught schoolboy fantasies do nothing for me. And the POV shot with the domme staring sternly into the camera has been done to death. Despite all that, there’s something about it that invites fantasy. It gives me a jumping off point that the other image lacks. Which I have to admit is weird, because in reality I’ve no doubt that my only response to a strict school mistress in this getup would be laughter.

There are plenty of ‘good’ cliched images out there. I’ll happily defend the beauty of this image or this image, despite the surfeit of femdom porn stereotypes. But I wonder how images are around that can combine the realism and energy of the shot below, with the kind of libido button pushing that makes submissive males reach for their credit cards?

Wartenburg Wheel TortureImage was reblogged here by DD, originally posted on Fempower.

Comments

I always enjoy it when people leave comments. It’s nice to get feedback and particularly nice when it’s positive feedback. However, if you do plan to leave a comment, please try and make it relate in some way to the post or page it’s connected to. Don’t just leave a “This is great!” or a “Really enjoyed this post.”

The problem is that I get a fair number of spammers leaving comments, and one of their techniques is to machine generate generic positive comments on random posts. I’m guessing the idea is that I’ll approve the compliment without thinking too much, after which they’ll have an approved identity to use to create immediately viewable public comments on other posts.

So if I’m in any doubt I mark generic comments as spam. Only if I see that the comment was clearly generated by a human who actually read the post do I approve it. I’d hate new commenters to feel I was deleting their input, but I’d hate to get smothered in spam even more.

Kinky fashion throwbacks

Why is it that so much ugly and dated clothing often shows up in connection with the more domestic corporal femdom shots? I know some people complain about too much leather and latex in femdom porn. Personally I’ll take some stylish leatherwear over garments that look like they escaped from a 1970’s Sears catalog. Last week we had a rather distinctive skirt, and in this post features an equally striking blouse. I think she looks great. I like the stare and I like that heavy leather strop she’s sporting. The blouse I could do without.

My personal theory is that a lot of this porn is targeted at middle-aged males who grew up in the 60’s and 70’s. Since domestic discipline often has a school or family theme, they’re therefore aiming for a look that men associate with the female authority figures of their childhood. Or of course, they could just be throwing on the cheapest skirts and blouses they can find on ebay.

School mistress with leather stropI found this on the Femdom Marriage tumblr site. It’s originally from School Mistress Fantasy.

Good day at the office

I spend most of my day discussing (aka arguing), brainstorming (aka incoherently arguing) and pontificating (aka arguing when you know you’re wrong) about the right way to build really big computing systems. In this kind of group design work submissive tendencies don’t tend to do well, and anyone who knows me only via work will assume I’m a dominant personality type. However, when I’m feeling frazzled and tired after a particularly passionate discussion, I often long to sneak away to get the crap beaten out of me. Pain can be like a holiday from your brain, and sometimes that’s exactly what I need.

It looks like the gentleman below got just that kind of holiday, and with six very attractive tour guides. As it transpires in other photographs, they appear to have had a plumbing problem with the women’s bathroom. This has forced them to rig up some sort of makeshift contraption as an alternative, with him as an integral component. As this second photograph shows it looks a little intimidating, but I’d take it in preference to swearing at powerpoint for an hour.

Good day at the officeThe images are taken from the team rinryu blog. Warning – some of the other images on that site are pretty extreme, including some graphic toilet play shots. Don’t start browsing it unless you’re OK with that.

Ride ’em Cowgirl

What I know about rodeo you could write on the head of a pin, but I believe the general idea is to stay in the saddle as long as possible. That being the case, I think she’s onto a winner, as she appears to have her horse well and truly under control.

Woman in cowgirl position on a tied manArtist is unknown, although based on the style I think he or she has done a number of femdom illustrations that I’ve spotted floating around. I found on the snail meilke site.

Site Updates

I’ve been doing a little housekeeping in the links department.

To the blogroll on the right I’ve added a link to Mistress T’s blog and the ‘he stoops to worship’ blog I mentioned in yesterday’s post. I also deleted Cricketed’s blog which sadly hasn’t been updated since March.

To the BDSM articles page I added a link to the Masocast site. If you’ve never visited this site before, it’s a great resource for discovering all sorts of interesting and thought provoking opinions on BDSM and kink culture. You can easily suck up a bunch of time browsing its archive.

Finally, I’ve added four new tumblr sites to the Femdom Images page. These are Get on Your Knees, Lashkisser, AliasSlave and Loves to Lick. I also removed Intelligent Domination, which appears to have been killed.

The image below is of Mistress T, taken from one of her blog posts. I actually hesitated about using this, as it’s not what I suspect most of my readers would think of as a femdom image. But then I thought about the tagline to this blog – “The beauty of dominant women.” Mistress T is undoubtedly a dominant woman. And this picture of her is undoubtedly beautiful. So how could I not use it? Particularly when it makes me feel happy just to look at it!

Mistress T on the beachYou can see more of Mistress T over at her main site, or at her clips store.

It’ll be alright on the night

I’m a bit late to this, by several years in fact, but I just discovered the blooper reels that kink.com occasionally publishes. There’s one from 2008 available here, a 2009 one here, a 2010 one here and one from July 20011 available here. Despite kink’s claims to the contrary, they are not ‘laugh your ass off’ funny and sometimes its hard to figure out what the issue actually is. However, it’s always interesting to see the curtain pulled back and catch performers reacting naturally to unexpected snafus.

I think my favorite moment would have to be in the 2009 clip, at around the 5:30 minute mark, when Dia Zerva and Amber Keen just can’t stop laughing. It’d be a good sequence to show the next anti-porn campaigner who claims it’s all made my abused victims of the human trafficking trade.