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More Mummification

I hadn’t intended two posts on this topic, but here we are.

Part of the reason is that Cosmopolitan also posted an article on it, and it contains just as much handwringing as they other articles I referenced in the last post. Apparently wrapping someone’s body in plastic wrap is a super advanced kink that you should never do at home. Weird. It goes on to advocate for things like using a weighted blanket or noise cancelling headphones, which is pretty weak sauce. How about just telling people to not put anything around or above the neck?

However, the main reason for a second post is that I saw this post on Twitter. It’s by LustTek and, as far as I can tell from other posts like this and this, they’re building their very own mummification machine. It’s the kind of crazy kinky idea that is both totally OTT but also kind of awesome. I love to see projects like this. Although of course, this one actually is really dangerous! You could solo wrap yourself to death. Let’s hope Euphoria don’t decide to use it in Season 4, otherwise hand wringing in the press will be off the charts.

More mummification does let me feature an expert in it – Mistress Hinako. I’ve featured her work before (for example here and here). The shot is particularly sexy, given the contrast between the extreme mummification and her casual pose.

You can find more from Mistress Hinako on her website, her blog, her instagram and twitter.

Euphoria

The HBO show Euphoria is generating a bunch of coverage for its depictions of kink. It’s not a show I care to watch, so I’ve no idea how fair (or not) its coverage is. If the goal is controversy and debate, it’s certainly managed that.

The latest kink it has drawn on is mummification. That in turn has generated a lot of hand wringing about it’s potential dangers. For example, this Metro article and this in LAD Bible.

The concern seems a little misplaced to me. Or, perhaps more correctly, doesn’t draw the right distinctions. Wrapping plastic over the face for breathplay is definitely dangerous and not for beginners. However, that’s a different thing in my mind to mummification. Wrapping the body below the neck is a lot less risky. It’s not something to undertake lightly. You should always make sure you’ve done basic research, go slowly and have safety shears to hand. But it’s not a high risk activity like breathplay. In some ways it’s easier and less risky than regular bondage. A simple plastic wrap has less chance of causing nerve damage or twisting body parts awkwardly. I’ve done mummification lots of times and always felt safe. Only a small fraction of those experiences involved putting anything over my face.

This mummification shot from The English Mansion does feature something over his face. However, I doubt he’s going to object too much in this case.

Medication

I was amused to spot this vintage ad targeting doctors prescribing Valium (via reddit). Apparently relating well to women with domineering traits was a thing men needed medication for back in the 1960s. It’s a good job we live in (slightly) more enlightened times, or I’d be dosed up to my eyeballs. Although in my case, domineering traits leads to tension that’s more sexual than psychic.

I feel they missed a trick with the models used. We all know sex sells. Surely this was the perfect excuse for some more obviously domme fashion choices of the era?

A Moment

Here’s a moment captured. Something lovely to start the weekend.

I originally stumbled across it via tumblr, but a bit of reverse image searching tells me this is Madame Lule, a Paris based Dominatrix and BDSM coach. She has any number of similarly striking photographs on her site, which is well worth exploring. If you’re in the Paris area, her session information can be found here.

Sleepytime

I’m always intrigued to discover new kinks I’ve not heard of before. After 20+ years on odd corners of the kinky internet this doesn’t happen too often, but occasionally I’m still surprised.

For example, today I discovered Anesthesia is a kink. I obviously knew of medical fetishism and breathplay, but hadn’t realized that the drugs and equipment for anesthesia was also a thing for people. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. As a process, it has all the kind of elements that get fetishized. Lots of control, ritual, uniforms and special materials/equipment.

Personally, while I do enjoy medical play and breathplay, anesthesia alone doesn’t do much for me sexually. However, I could get into fetishizing a really good nights sleep.

I found this image via tumblr. I believe it’s by Leela Lapin who specializes in these kind of heavy medical fantasies. You can find more from Leela via her links page.

Storage

I thought this was a pretty hot variation on a cage design. The outside is a standard cage, which is turned into a box with side panels, which in turn have slots for the shelves with limb/neck cut-outs. Combine it with the right bondage gear and it’d  be a highly objectifying set-up. Just imagine the door closing on you and the click of a padlock.

The creator is Mooser BDSM. Sadly they don’t appear to have a regular website, just an account on Twitter.

Shiny Maid

I’m continuing the maid theme from the last post with this image. As I’ve mentioned before, the French maid outfit isn’t really one of my kinks. However, if I was going to do it, this’d definitely be the way to go. I love how tight, shiny and restrictive this is. It’s both objectifying and aesthetically pleasing. And who wouldn’t want to be a pretty object?

Sadly I don’t have a source for this. I think I found it via tumblr.

Nothing Good

There’s been a lot of jokes about Kristi and Byron Noem in the last week. For anyone that missed it, Byron was outed for being into some mix of crossdressing / bimbo/ sissy fetish. Allegedly Kristi was also fucking her advisor Cory Lewandowski, so there’s also some potential for a cuckold kink in the mix as well.

People online have been having fun with it, but I just find it depressing. Liberals will say they’re not mocking the kink but the terrible hypocrisy of the pair. Conservatives will accuses liberals of hypocrisy in kink shaming. That is fucking ridiculous coming from them, but it won’t stop it happening. A good number from both sides will in fact mock the kink. Nobody wins and everyone suffers. Frankly, I couldn’t care less what happens to the Noems. They seem like terrible people. But it’s clearly not helpful to the kink community or anyone with similar fetishes.

A lot of domme’s were critical of the effort put into the crossdressing. I’m not going to do that. Who knows what the dynamics of it was. However, it does give me an excuse to publish a well executed sissy maid set-up. This is obviously from the English Mansion.

Medical Miracle

I found this Guardian article on the mapping of the clitoral nerves amazing. Unfortunately, I don’t mean that in a good way. The bits that amazed me were…

  • The clitoris did not even make it into standard anatomy textbooks until the 20th century.
  • In the 38th edition of Gray’s Anatomy in 1995 it was introduced as just “a small version of the penis”
  • The nerves of the penis were mapped 30 years ago, but it’s taken till now for the clitoris to get the same attention.

That’s an amazing lack of attention to a major organ possessed by 4+ billion people. According to this article it actual did get some minimal coverage in Gray’s early anatomy textbooks  but was removed in 1948! Then it re-appeared in the 1960’s, but incorrectly described.

Imagine if medical researchers paid a similar lack of attention to other major body parts?  “We’ve heard of these odd knee things, but we’re not sure if they’re really worth covering. Something to do with the bending of the legs? Seems a bit of a niche interest.”

Image features someone doing their own hands on anatomical research. Although maybe that should be mouth on research. Not sure of the original source. I located it via tumblr.

A Last Sniff

Finishing up my series of scent themed posts with a bottom shot. Although I feel that part of the body is in a bit of a different category to the others featured.

Armpits, genitals and (to a lesser extent) feet have an ongoing natural odor. Unless you’ve just got our the shower or have gone crazy with deodorant, there’s an underlying scent that’s typically there. Bottoms are a bit more binary. The either don’t smell or they smell in a very different kind of way. That kind of scent play has its fans, but it’s more of a niche kink I think.

I believe this is Cybil Troy. I’m sure her hygiene is impeccable and her bottom therefore scented like a summer breeze.