Clean-up Crew

This image caught my eye more for the dominant’s outfit than anything else. I always dislike it when a domestic scene is portrayed, and yet the woman looks like she’s spent the last hour being squeezed and buckled it the latest creations from her local leatherwear emporium. Admittedly it’s probably not the most practical get up for doing housework in, but that’s what the naked slave is for. She’s just giving him a few last minute pointers on exactly how shiny the floor should be by the time she returns from her evening out on the town.

Clean-up CrewImage is originally from Woman Worship. From a quick scan of their updates page it looks like they have a lot of material in a similar vein.

Kinky Installation Art

This made me laugh. It’s a short film that manages to depict trampling, bondage and spanking (among other kinky things), whilst also showing no naked people whatsoever. The umbrella towards the end looks particularly painful to be on the receiving end of. Note that there’s music that accompanies it (a rather well chosen European electro-pop number), so be prepared for that if you are viewing in a quiet environment.

Elektrotechnique from Lernert & Sander on Vimeo Link courtesy Bondage Blog

My kind of interrogation

After writing my previous post on extreme interrogations, where I happened to mention sadistic secret policewomen, I thought it be fun to find a couple of suitable images. These come courtesy of Domina Yuki’s tumblr blog, and are much more in line with my idea of an entertaining way to extract a bit more information than simply name, rank and serial number. I like the idea of having her equipment laid out on the table, ready for him to see and anticipate once the bag comes off.

Domina Yuki - InterrogationDomina Yuki - InterrogationDomina Yuki is a pro-domme operating from San Francisco. Her session request form is here. I’m going to be heading down to S.F. in May, so may well try and find out what being on the end of her tortuous tools is actually like!

An extreme scene

This post is a little outside my usual material, as it features a scene description with a female submissive and at least one male dominant. However, I found it a thought provoking read and I’m guessing others may feel the same way.

The scene in question is a lengthy interrogation, featuring several dominants and submissives, and incorporating a lot of the techniques the US military have used. For example, stress positions, loud noise, sensory deprivation, breath control and, the really controversial one, water boarding. Emma Jane, one of the female submissives interrogated, wrote a detailed description of it on her blog. It’s an intense read.

This is the second time in the last few days that I’ve linked to what I would call an extreme activity. The previous post on scat and toilet play generated some interesting comments and can be read here. Both of these activities fall well outside the conventional BDSM play that takes place every day in bedrooms and pro-domme dungeons. But speaking from a personal perspective, I actually have a much easier job understanding the appeal of the scat play than I do this interrogation scene. I may not want to be a human toilet, but I get the buttons it pushes in terms of worship, service, intimacy and a kind of personalized objectification (if that’s not a contradiction in terms). This kind of interrogation seems to go way beyond that typical power exchange, and into a brutal stripping away of power. I always feel that even in very cruel sadistic play, the dominant has some sort of emotional connection with the submissive. It might be a twisted complex connection, but it’s still there. This scene appears to try and do everything possible to remove that, which makes it really difficult for me to get into and understand their headspace.

This isn’t to say I don’t understand the appeal of interrogation scenes. I can certainly imagine role playing an exciting scene with sadistic secret policewomen in their underground torture cellar (to pick a random example from my fevered imagination). Some old fashioned electrodes on the testicles or needles under the fingernails seems so much more personal and understandable.

I also struggle a little with the idea of doing water boarding scenes. Not from a safety or play perspective, but from their current political context. It makes me sick to think that the US military has tortured prisoners, and it somehow seems wrong to adopt their latest techniques for our ‘entertainment’. I realize this isn’t an entirely rational viewpoint, but closeness in time and space to awfulness does seem to matter. Role playing a Vietnam POW torture scene today might be weird, but I don’t think anyone would be too upset. It would have been a lot more troubling to do in back in the 60’s when American POW’s were actively suffering.

Anyway, while I might not personally be queuing up for an afternoon in the woods with this group of dominants, I do admire the courage and dedication it take to go through with this type of play. Not to mention the level of trust needed, and the skill required to pull it off properly. My thanks to Emma Jane for the fascinating write-up.


Buckles and Pegs

This looks like a very intense but interesting predicament to be in. I always find there’s some pleasantly objectifying about using lots of buckles and straps. Rope bondage can often be relaxing and comforting, the rope hugging the body and creating a sense of security. But using straps seems much more business like. A quick and efficient way to completely immobilize the thing in question. Rope bondage can seem like an end in itself. But when you strap someone down it’s because you really don’t want them moving for what’s about to happen next. In this particular case, it looks like a lot of creative placement of clothes pegs and a big metal sound was what happened next.

Buckles And PegsI’m afraid I’ve no attribution for this image.

A stereotype rejuvenated

If you asked someone to describe this picture I think it would sound like a million other femdom images. There’s a mistress flexing a cane and staring into the camera. But this is that one millionth and one image that somehow makes the stereotype seem fresh again. I like the feet casually slung onto the desk, with the just hint of stocking showing. And I’m a sucker for women in glasses. But it’s that quirky smile and slightly off center glance that really makes this work for me. She looks like she’d very much enjoy wielding that cane.

Mistress VeronicaThat’s Mistress Veronica, a pro-domme located in downtown NYC. She also has a blog you can find on my blogroll in the pro-domme section.

Can you milk a pony?

I guess according to this, the answer is yes. There are certainly a lot of fetishes crammed into this image, even on top of the milking aspect. There’s the cute girl, who obviously at some point in the past was clearly a boy. There’s the pony outfit with the sexy bit gag. There’s the anal plug. And of course there’s the efficient and vaguely nurse-like figure doing the milking itself.

Unfortunately there’s no signature on the image, but it looks very much like a Dmitrys work to me.

Milking a pony girl

Hard Limits

I don’t have a lot of hard limits when I play. This certainly isn’t to say I’m any kind of super-submissive or ultra-masochist. There are definitely activities I sometimes struggle with. It’s just that I’m wired to enjoy D/s and power exchange, and therefore like almost any kind of interaction that facilitates that. I think this tends to be in contrast to those submissives who fetishize a certain style of play or type of activity, and therefore have much stricter lists of what is and what isn’t acceptable. Plus, I’m a big believer in Sir Thomas Beecham’s dictum: “In this life try everything once, except incest and country dancing.”

However, one hard limit I do have is scat play. I get it on an intellectual level. After all, I do like piss play, and in someways that can have a similar dynamic. But just on aesthetic and health grounds, I can’t never ever see me putting scat play on the menu (if you’ll excuse the expression). That said, I was interested to read Mistress Kendra Knight’s writing on ‘Shit-play and toilet slavery in dominance/submission‘. It didn’t change my mind at all about the activity, but hearing about it from a well known dominant and a couple of her slaves did give an insight into the mindset of people who do enjoy it. I think a lot of people would be surprised to hear them use such words such as spiritual, sensual and sacrament in the context of eating excrement. And even more surprised to see someone inspired to write poetry written about it.

Note that the article is text only, split over 6 pages, with no pictures, apart from of the beautiful Mistress Kendra herself. But despite the lack of graphic images, the text is fairly explicit in describing this extreme activity and it’s probably best avoided if you’re squeamish.

Devil and Angel

This image makes me think of fairytale stories. A devilish witch doing bad things to an angelic innocent. Oddly, it also makes me think of cosplayers. Partly because anime and videogames tend to surface the underlying moral traits of characters in their appearance. But mostly because cute girls in wigs and monotone fetishwear is popular in cosplay.

Black And WhiteSadly I don’t know of the original source for this image. I found it at the latex thing tumblr site.