Photograph – Femdom Resource

It won’t hurt a bit

Continuing the theme of AI imagery and kinky niches: Another group that has benefited is kinksters into medical fetish. Photographing those kind of scenes requires pretty specialized locations and equipment. AI might produce a fair number of wonky scalpels, but it makes creating fantasy backgrounds and furniture a lot easier.

I’ve mentioned Velvet Lash before, who has a nice line in heavy bondage medical play. Another example is hello22011, who has a lot of castration themed imagery. The shot featured below is from TheWriterThatsMad. His work tends to lean into the more sadistic side of things.

Size Matters

While AI continues to spread its slop across the internet, there are a few kinky groups who seem to be benefitting. One is those is the Macrophiles. That was definitely a niche kink for content in the past. AI has made it easy to create a lot of new material. For example, the shot below was created by sarah haras (aka sarah12345fr) on deviant art using Gemini. He also has a bunch of images combining Giantess kink and the US sitcom Married with Children (for example this). That’s a niche within a niche kink.

You can find more images from AI and sarah via his Deviant Art account.

Chyrpe

Chaining yourself to railings is a time honored protest technique. Femdom dating app Chyrpe gave it a new twist this week, using it as a marketing stunt on Camden Town High Street. They had a bunch of guys wear femdom themed t-shirts chain themselves to lampposts and railings.

According to the app’s marketing officer…

“Suddenly people that did not have a space to find their partners, because it was and still is a topic that is looked at with shame and embarrassment, can now be confident to find a partner and enjoy it.

“We have a community where men enjoy it when women make decisions and take action. Kinks are always there of course but it is an option and they don’t necessarily have to act with it.”

Ana Yuri – Chyrpe Marketing Officer – Camden New Journal

I’m not sure how effective it as an advertising technique, but it got them coverage in the local press at least. And I have to salute them for using regular looking dudes. If you’re doing a marketing stunt for a femdom dating app, it must be very tempting to put a hot leather clad lady domme front and center. That would be the fastest way to get press coverage, but would also undermine their entire message.

I wonder if these are real submissives or just volunteers and interns from the office?

Photograph source from the Camden New Journal article. The Chyrpe site can be found here.

Home is where the Dungeon is

For anyone thinking about building their own home playspace, the NY Times has an article with some inspiration in it. It’s more of a lifestyle piece than a how to guide, but it’s always nice to see a positive mainstream BDSM article, even if it does include the obligatory 50 shades reference. For NYC based kinksters there’s also a shout out to Lucy Sweetkill and Nicholas Knight. The latter looks like an excellent option for anyone after custom built furniture on the east coast.

Shibari seems to be a common interest, almost to the point of cliche now. Personally, if I was going to build a custom space, I’d go high tech. Lots of rubber, straps, chrome and things that go slurp. Something like Mistress Miranda’s BDSM laboratory shown below. Less natural wood and meditative bondage, more rich sensation layering and mad scientists toys.

You can see more shots of Mistress Miranda’s amazing space on her site and from this post when I visited it back in 2023.

Lydia and Owk

Here’s a final (for the moment) trip back down memory lane. In this case it’s a double header.

The site in question (despite the image logo) is OWK aka The Other World Kingdom. Possibly the only Femdom site with its own Wikipedia page. They launched in the late 90’s and have published a huge amount of content over the years. I’ve featured them several times in the past, for example in 2010, in 2011, in 2013, etc. I had assumed they’d shut down but based on their site and Bluesky feed they’re still going strong. That must make them one of the longest running femdom sites out there.

The domme in question is Lady Lydia McLane. She was my first domme and highly formative in my kinky journey. I’ve played with a lot of dommes over the years since then and she remains among the most talented and creative that I’ve encountered. Sadly, unlike the site, she has long been retired from professional play. I hope she’s doing well, wherever life has taken her since.

I’d guess this was shot in the early 2000’s. I believe she recorded a few different scenes at OWK then.

Julia Jameson and Leda

I couldn’t do a series of posts from femdom in the 90’s and not feature anything from Leda. This catalogue cover page feature Julia Jameson, one of their most featured dommes and a notoriously hard spanker!

Funny to think that this dates to before the first widely used internet browsers (Mosaic in ’93). Publishing a catalogue for your VHS spanking tapes was an essential part of business back then. The world was just about to change.

I’ve posted about Leda/Nu-West before. Sadly the links in that post all seem to be dead. It’s frustrating how much information and history about kink is being lost as sites die off. I’m also annoyed at myself for not archiving interesting articles as I linked to them.

Continuing to Look Back

I thought I’d continue the 90’s theme from the last post. This is the unmistakable Isabella Sinclaire. I’m not exactly sure on the date or source of this image, but I’d guess it’s from the late 90’s. Her Ivy Manor series with Jewell Marceau from the early 2000’s was a treasured VHS possession of mine.

I was lucky enough to do a few sessions with Isabella when she was based in LA. Her reputation as a kink and femdom icon was well deserved. I thought she’d retired from sessions, but based on her website its seems she’s still taking sessions in Boston and NYC. She’s someone well worth reaching out to if you’re in that area.

Lamp Revisited

I made it all the way through 2025 without featuring a single shot of a submissive posed as a lamp. Shame on me.

My last entry in this niche but very important BDSM genre was back in December 2024. I think this is entry number 8 in the series, which have now spread over a 15 year period. Clearly it’s time to bring the glow back and shine a light once more.

The entry below is from Chicago’s Fetish Fellow, photographed by Lanee Bird and featuring Domina X.

Sourced via Fetish Fellow’s post on BlueSky.

That Holiday Again

Valentine’s Day has rolled around again. I can’t say I’m a fan. For single people it means being reminded that your single. For couples it’s pressure to deliver something special or overspend on a commercial romantic gestures. I know some people manage to make it work, but that seems the exception rather than the rule.

As a perennially single person, I didn’t celebrate it. However, if I was going to, a leather clad domme coming out of a big heart shaped box would have been a pretty neat way to do so. In this particular case it’s Adrienne Kay, a self described Erotic Dominatrix & (Kinky) Companion. I’m sure she’d be a fabulous person to celebrate the 14th with.

Adrienne is based out of Vancouver. You can find her professional site here and her Bluesky here.

Masochistic Hook-ups.

I thought this was an interesting Guardian article: I spent years meeting strangers for masochistic hook-ups. Was I a sex addict?

It’s written by Leesa Morris, describing her experiences with the aforementioned hook-ups. She left a vanilla marriage and leaned in hard to her kinks and desires. In fact she leaned in so hard that it became a dominating (ahem) and unhealthy element of her life, leaving her unsatisfied and unhappy.

There’s a couple of obvious takeaways. One is that anything can be unhealthy when taken too excess and dependency. The other is that if kink is an important part of your makeup, a monogamous vanilla relationship is unlikely to be satisfying over the long-term.

I thought it also highlighted a couple of interesting gender differences. Firstly, she describes the lack of aftercare in her transactional encounters in this way…

A solid part of healthy BDSM play is the cuddles afterwards. The official term is “after-care”, and it’s when the dominant heaps affection on the partner who has taken the punishment. Closing the loop, if you will. But because I wasn’t making meaningful connections, the guys would usually leave afterwards, and I’d be alone with my bruises.

I’m all for aftercare but I don’t think I’ve ever had a post session cuddle from a domme. Aftercare in professional sessions is mostly just 5 minutes to unwind, chat about what happened and drink some water. While I’m sure a lot of guys wouldn’t object to a cuddle and a lot of affection, we’re also happy to leave with just a hug and a bunch of endorphins to process.

The other difference was simply how many masochistic hookups she could arrange. A male submissive, outside of hiring professionals, could never make those connections so quickly and easily. While the difference in numbers between male submissives and female dominants may be over-blown, there’s clearly a big difference between the available of dominant play partners for female versus male submissives. And equally clearly, both dominant and submissive guys are more at ease with transactional encounters. That’s probably not going to make news at eleven.

I’m not sure if this is actually aftercare, but it certainly seems like a tender moment. I found this via tumblr, but I believe that’s French domme Mistress Ibicella. You can find her Bluesky here.