Take a good look ... this may well be the first image of a naked woman with her wrists tied to her ankles seen in mainstream films.
The image above is from the movie Haxan, aka Witchcraft Through The Ages, released in 1922 (in Sweden of course -- the US would never pass anything like that). It's raunchy stuff for 1922 -- quite a bod on that babe, woodcut though she is. It would be in the First in Bondage on Mainstream TV and Movies chart that I've uploaded to Bondagerotica this week, except that it's a drawing and not a photographic image, as my chart is concerned strictly with photographic images of women in bondage. Drawings don't count, even if they are embedded in a movie. (Besides, Haxan has photographic images of actual women in bondage.)
Anyway, if you like to nitpick and so forth, this chart is going to be great fun for you, because I'm pretty sure some of the entries are wrong and I know others are debatable. That's OK with me ... I like to nitpick, too. Basically, the chart is one huge exercise in nitpickery.
There are many, many other vidcaps linked to from the chart. Where possible I tried to include a vidcap of the scene being cited, but my personal collection left me unable to provide links for a large number of them.
The chart is divided into types of gags, forms of bondage, nude bondage, and bondage with sex. It also contains supplementary articles detailing how and why I organized the chart with circles and arrows showing what was to be used as evidence against. So, go over there check it out, and if you like, use the link to return here and make comments. Nice comments.
3 comments:
Pat: On your chart of firsts, under NUDITY, spread-eagle, face down, television, your entry is: NONE. I don't know when you put the chart together or how often you update it, but in any case, there IS an indisputable instance of that, in the series "Saving Grace," on TNT (not a broadcast network, but still a commercial network, and I'd think it has to be counted), the actress involved being series star Holly Hunter. I'm not sure of the year. 2007, I think.
You are correct, Daniel. I made up the chart before Holly Hunter's naked spreadeagle (to be fair, it's a face-down spreadeagle, most people think of them as face-up). But I should update, thanks for pointing that out.
All right, Daniel, Firsts in Bondage is updated. Thanks!
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