Mysterious Ways

Apologies for the gap in posting. I’m traveling and that’s been messing with my schedule.

If I’m honest, I’m feeling a little maudlin tonight. I normally enjoy dining in restaurants alone. Being brought food and wine while I read a book is my non-kinky happy place. Seeing groups or couples having fun never bothers me. What makes me sad is couples who have nothing to say to each other. There was a beautiful and elegant woman who sat across the room from me tonight and totally pinged my domme-dar. She was with an older man, who barely said a word to her through a 2hr+ meal. I’d like to think she was a sex worker making serious bank for the hours they were there. But probably not. Life’s far too short to spend time with people who don’t spark joy.

This is by the Scottish painter Jack Vettriano.

The New Voight-Kampff Test

Ridley Scott’s may have produced a masterpiece of sci-fi in his movie Blade Runner, but he did get one thing very wrong – The Voight-Kampff Test. That was the test used to distinguish humans from the movie’s AI replicants. He imagined a series of questions designed to provoke an emotional response where, as we all know now, he should have just asked them to draw a pair of hands. AI might take just a few seconds to write an essay, beat a chess grandmaster and run a scam mimicking your grandmother, but it still seems to struggling to figure out fingers.

Here’s a good couple of examples from the Femdom realm. In the first one she appears to have two fingernails on her pinkie and his hand has been chopped off and dropped somewhere behind her. In the second her finger is merging into the phone. Its also unclear where her right leg is. Somebody needs to send these AIs to Anatomy 101.

I’m not sure who (or what) originally created these. I sourced them via Madam Is All.

Alexandra Aderhold

After last post’s old school domination theme, we’re moving onto new school kink and fetish. This image is by German photographer Alexandra Aderhold. It’s a stunning shot, pulling off the trick of being both aesthetically and erotically charged. I want to be in it and yet also have it hanging on my wall.

You can see more from Alexandra, including a book of photographs she’s published, on her professional site. There’s also an interview with her available here. I originally stumbled across the image via labstrakts.

Hanging Around

Some visual loveliness for the weekend. This is Angelina Pirtskhalava-Petrenko & Alexander Petrenko as photographed by Alena Rozbytska for Anoeses. They’re a Ukrainian based brand with some very sexy BDSM outfits and fetishwear. Given the current situation in Ukraine I’m sure they’d appreciate any orders we could send there way.

I sourced this via the labstrakts tumblr. It’s a great source for femdom shots in mainstream (or close to it) media.

Wise Words

@heavy, a very experienced bondage bottom, has some wise words on anchoring body parts.

Friendly reminder that when doing bondage, please remember what is anchored. If someone is standing or even kneeling and passes out/ falls and their balls, neck, hair, etc. are locked to something you are seriously going to harm someone. Potentially permanently.

I’d guess a lot of my readers are likely to be bondage bottoms rather than tops, but you should still be aware of what’s going on and willing to speak up if it looks unsafe. After all, it’ll be your delicate bits getting ripped off if the worst happens.

I remember doing a scene many years ago in a sex swing. I was on my back and the domme was tying various bits of me to the surrounding metal frame. However, the swing was a lightweight portable affair, built out of the kind of thin metal tubing you’d expect in a cheap sun lounger. The joints all seemed loosely pushed together, held with friction and I could feel it flexing as I moved. At one point the domme wrapped thin rope around my testicles and tied them to the overhead frame. Looking back now I shudder when I think of it, but at the time I was inexperienced, floating in subspace and nervous about topping from the bottom. So even though it felt dangerous, I didn’t say anything.

These days, if the same thing happened again, I’d speak up and pause the scene. If the swing had broken and I’d fallen then it could have been a very nasty situation. I’m a CBT fan, but getting my nuts ripped off by bondage on a shoddy sex swing is one of my limits. I should also add that the domme in question isn’t someone I’ve written about here or done more scenes with.

I’ll finish with a gorgeous bondage shot featuring Heavy and NYC domme Roxanne Waters, as shot by Natasha Gornick. All experts in their field, you can be sure any scene with them will be managed safely.

You can find Heavy’s twitter feed here and his professional HeavyBondage4Life site here. Roxanne Water’s twitter is here and this is her professional site.

Warmer Days

As an arctic blast of cold air settles across most of North America, here’s a shot to remind us all of warmer, sunnier times. I love the color coordination between her dress and his bondage accouterments. It’s those little touches that really make an image work.

This is Alexis Chantelle, a dominant companion based in NYC. You can find her professional site here. I sourced this image via this tweet.

Unhappy Feet

Here’s an unfortunate tale of a foot fetishist whose kinky confession cost him dearly. He used to give his wife foot massages and – presumably – she enjoyed them. After coming clean about his kink, she no longer wants to engage with him or accept a massage.

I do kind of get her initial reaction. There was a sexual thing happening that she wasn’t necessarily aware of or consented to. But I’d hope common sense and the idea of mutual benefit would win out in the end. If I discovered one of my friends was getting a sexual thrill from buying me expensive drinks it would give me an initial ‘ick’. But I’m pretty certain that I’d quickly get over it and line up some single malts. Let’s hope this man’s wife gets to the same conclusion.

I sourced this image via a tumblr. I’m afraid I don’t have an original source.

Street Pose

Here’s a group of friends having some fun at what looks like a street festival. Obviously I’m a fan of what’s going on with the couple in the center, but I’m also amused by the guy standing behind and looking down. I’m assuming he’s a friend of the guy on the floor and is slowly arriving at the conclusion that maybe his buddy is just a little bit more into it than he might have guessed.

I’m afraid I’ve no original source for this. I found it via a tumblr post.

Happy 2024!

A new year is upon us. I hope all my readers made it out of 2023 in good spirits and have a great 2024.

As far as kink goes, my 2023 wasn’t exactly overflowing with play. I did have some great sessions with Savannah when she visited Seattle and I got to meet up with the fabulous Mistress Miranda in London. Other than that, it was a quiet year. That wasn’t helped by a bunch of scheduled sessions in NYC getting cancelled due to my first dose of COVID.

I’m aiming to fit in more play in through 2024, getting back to my pre-pandemic average. Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago and a return to NYC should all be on the cards at some point. Given it’s an election year in the US, I’ll definitely need something to distract me from the insanity.

Good luck to any reader who similarly wants to up their kinky game in 2024. And if you’ve never indulged in kink but have been thinking about it, then maybe make it a new year’s resolution? That was pretty much how I ended up doing my first session (as I wrote about here).

I’ll leave you with a shot of someone who is right at the top of my list to play with again – Domina Yuki. She’s an amazing domme and I can’t believe we’ve not played together since my last SF trip back in 2020.