Four Really Bitching Sexual Bondage News Stories

1. the Hugo and Nebula Award wining novel The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi introduces the titular heroine with a really powerful lesbian dominance and submission scene in a strip club. I'm just past that scene which occurs very early in the book so I can't say if the book itself is any good or not ... so far, very William Gibson, but maybe it'll get better. (Gibson wrote some brilliant novels, but he's been done to death since then, especially, corporate dystopias have been done to death ... ESPECIALLY since Citizens United, the news sounds like it's doing Gibson.) No wonder it has won all those prizes!


This isn't an EXACT match for the scene, but it's close! Image source: Public Disgrace.com.

2. If you like hot, bluesy vocals AND damsels in distress -- and who doesn't? -- you'll like Idina Menzel's song Damsel in Distress. I looked all over Youtube for a video using it as background along with some tasty bondage imagery, but I couldn't. But the song is great, so here's a video based on the Tudors that uses it as background.

3. Over in San Francisco a group called Femina Potens will be hosting "An Evening of Wine and Bondage" on April 14th. Dominants and their submissives will attend. Both will be served wine. Dominants will drink from wine flutes. Submissives will drink their wine from dog bowls, and be blindfolded. An event like this in the Bible Belt would have to be held behind closed doors and kept secret, otherwise the Flanderses would mob it. Unless you could give it a Biblical hook of some kind, but of course, it would all be maledom/femsub stuff, since religion and gayness don't mix here in the South. (Yah, I like the maledom/femsub myself, but other peoples' tastes are their business, not mine, even though the feminist and gay bondage fans are not always models of tolerance themselves -- be nice if the feminists and gay bondage fans were more accepting of Gorean play.)


I'm thinking it will look something like this. Image source: The Upper Floor.com.

4. Fifty Shades of Gray is the cover story on Entertainment Weekly this week. Turns out a movie deal has already been cut. Surprise! The juggernaut rolls on. Could be looking at a real bondage franchise here -- so long as it isn't Disney that bought the rights.