Gareth Williams: The Spy Who Should Have Thought Outside the Box

Do you have anything in a smaller size? I was thinking a briefcase ..." Image source: The Tight Package section of Erotic Illusions.
There are certain occupations for which a predilection toward extreme bondage is problematical, and being a spy is definitely one of them. As is indicated by the fate of young Gareth Williams, a British spy who was found naked, dead and padlocked in a North Face suitcase in August 2010.

Mr. Williams' sad fate is in the news right now because the results of the inquest into his death have finally been released. It took a long time, at least in part because Mr. Williams was discovered to have been into an extreme form of bondage called claustrophilia, in which you get off sexually from being in tiny, enclosed spaces ... like luggage bags.

The question at hand was, did Williams die a death by misadventure or was he killed as sometimes occurs to spies who Know Too Much or are In The Way or are simply Inconvenient to this or that spy agency. The key point for the inquest was that the bag was padlocked shut, and was on the outside of the bag. Could Mr. Williams have possibly locked the bag with the padlock on the outside?

That's how the inquest ended up, well ... we'll let scotsman.com tell the story:

Last week, Westminster coroner’s court was treated to the bizarre spectacle of escapologists attempting to zip themselves up in similar hold-alls to establish if someone of Williams’ build and expertise might have been able to padlock themselves inside, with one, Peter Faulding, telling the inquest he had tried and failed 300 times.

Source.

The trail of justice can get into some strange paths. The story has also been covered on The Daily Beast, with predictably more coverage of the fetish aspects than the criminal aspects.

It's looking kind of like murder now, or at least manslaughter (could have been a play partner who took a powder when it became evident that Williams had kicked the luggage) but who knows when or if the murderer will ever be found, especially as Williams may have been killed by his own agency ... another thing that sometimes happens to spies.

Hitting All The Right Spots

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When The Rain Cums

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50 Shades of Silly

I'm pretty sure the girl on the right is faking her orgasm. Image source: Whipped Ass.com.
I found a couple of amusing threads on the Web about 50 Shades of Gray as the clueless and the unlikely have done some Olympic style bandwagon-jumping, so I thought I'd take a break from Second Life Gor to tell you about them.

Let's start with the silliest. Kendra Wilkinson is a reality show star who has just signed up for a new We TV Channel show. A former Playmate, she is noted for her bleating laugh and goatlike stupidity. An article on Foxnews.com (my flying monkeys have no taste!) has Kendra saying this about her new show:

“WE TV represents women and empowering women, and I am so very happy to be a part of all that because I feel like it is time. I’m a woman now and it is time to break out of that shell and have fun and show everyone that it is okay to be a working mom and wife and still step out and be hot,” she told FOX411’s Pop Tarts column at last week’s Us Weekly Hot in Hollywood party. “It’s like the book '50 Shades of Grey,' I think my show has a similar theme to that."

Reading the quote, it is evident that Kendra has not read the book she is talking about. But that's not all. She has no idea what the book is about. Somehow, all the time she spent naked, tied up and ballgagged in Hef's mansion (she once was in a reality show about being a Playboy Playmate) did not connect in her mind with BDSM. It was just something related to sex somehow. (And I just know they gagged her because of that annoying laugh of hers -- she may not even connect being gagged with sex!)

I'm guessing somebody told her she should try to get on the 50 Shades bandwagon. They probably even tried to explain what the book was about. But clearly, it did not stick, and so we got the spectacle of Kendra blathering on about something she clearly knew nothing about. Now anybody who reads this blog regularly knows I don't go bangin' on mindless bimbos ordinarily. Because if you are watching a mindless bimbo for her hot bod, you have no business criticizing her for being a bad actress or saying silly things in her off hours. If her bod is worth watching, then respect her bod for what it is. Nobody criticizes Meryl Streep for not having 38DD breasts and a butt you could bongo on all night long. But this is RIDICULOUS! If you are gonna jump on a bandwagon, at LEAST have some idea what the bandwagon is all about!

Our next entry comes in the area of something strange rather than silly. A wedding planning website, wedplan.com, has an article entitled Starter Fetish Sex Toys During the Bondage Retail Store by something called onlinespring. Considering the fractured grammar in the title and the random links for a certain brand of tennis shoes scattered throughout the article, when I first read it I figured it would turn out to be one of those garbage sites. You know, a site in which a computer program is used to slap together a random collection of keywords with conjunctions to make something resembling an article which might fool a retarded person whose 45th language was English into thinking it was something other than a glob of keywords designed to show up high on search engine lists and get clicked on by people too stupid to breath.

But no, it is actually a readable article about various fetish sex toys you can buy and spice up your honeymoon with. What's more, the rest of the website appears to be a real commercial wedding planning website of SOME sort with all sorts of ways for young girls to bankrupt their parents as they plan their wedding. It appears to be based in Madison, Wisconsin, not Czechoslovakia or China. So ... legit, I guess, though I still regard it with deep suspicion. Maybe garbage sites are getting better, or real sites are turning to garbage. This site may be the Internet equivalent of those fossils that show one kind of thing evolving into another. If so ... blogging is doomed, possibly the Internet and humanity as well. Dammit.

Moving on, the Japanese used to have pillow books (basically, Japanese sex play information) for newlyweds that included bondage imagery in them. (But they did NOT include tentacles ... most of the time.) In America bondage and weddings are not linked, as a general rule. So ... this is new ... and offered without comment other than ... dammit.

Finally, an article in Adult Video News informs us that Adult Source Media's romance studio, Intimate Encounters, is slated to begin work on a hardcore adaptation of 50 Shades of Gray.

Now, I'm four fifths of the way through 50 Shades, and I am in a position to tell you that a hardcore version of the book might be of interest to the usual porn audience (men) but that it's very unlikely that it will do a thing for the mommies that have earned it the sobriquet "mommy porn." Aside from the hot sex scenes, and they are really hot and nicely done, the attraction of the book is that the delicate interplay of the two lead characters, especially the virginal female protagonists' attempts to get a relationship on something like reasonable terms with an experienced, handsome billionaire dom who has had many submissives as his playtoys over the years, and who has lots of Issues about physical and emotional intimacy. And to put it simply, porn actors typically do not handle nuance well. Frankly, I do not anticipate that the mainstream adaptation of 50 Shades is going to be able to do a decent job of adapting the book. a hardcore version? Really unlikely. Really fucking unlikely.

Well, there you have it. All sorts of strange critters are hopping on the 50 Shades bandwagon. Who knows where it will stop next? Wherever it is, you know that it will be a very silly place indeed!

How To Play Second Life Gor Part 2: Raiding

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How To Play Gor in Second Life

In Second Life Gor, captured panther girls in the northern forests are stripped and bound, preparatory to being shipped to a city and sold into slavery. Image source: Hogtied.com.
So, you wanna play at being a Gorean warrior, slave girl, Free woman, panther girl, scribe, merchant, slaver or what-have-you, but you don't know how. Well, in this post and several subsequent posts, I'm gonna tell you exactly how to do it, step by step, so that you can play the game confident about what you'll encounter and what kind of fun you'll have. Basically, this is intended to be a friendly doorway into SL Gor for anyone who wants to play, and for anyone who wants to know how it works. There's way too much to tell you in one post, so I'll just get you started in this one, enough to get you SL Gor and snooping about. Subsequent posts will tell you where the cow pies are.

First of all, you need to join Second Life. Go here and set up an account, pick out an avatar, then download the Second Life viewer. You're gonna want to switch to Phoenix or Forestorm shortly, but start out with the standard Second Life viewer.

Now about that avatar. Pick out whatever you like, don't worry about it. You can buy (or get freebies for) the avatar that will allow you to look like anyone you like, you can think of these avatars as very rough drafts for the character you'll end up creating.

You can have as many as eight avatars with a freebie account, so don't sweat that, either. Almost nothing in SL (Second Life) is irrevocable. But there is one irrevocable thing you should know about.

Until you are VERY familiar with the people you play with in SL, I would STRONGLY advise you not to reveal any personal information about yourself to anyone. It's really a good idea to keep your second life and your real life completely separate until you know the lay of the land, better yet, keep it secret, period. Cause once that cat is out of the bag, it's out of the bag: irrevocable. If you have told someone you should not have who you are in real life, you don't get to untell them. Keep your real name, real address, real phone number, real email address, and other such revealing information under your hat. It could save you a LOT of trouble.

Also, don't accept gifts from anyone you don't "know." There are people who are stealing stuff from SL residents (Linden dollars are real money, if not as expensive as real dollars) and the objects they give you will allow them to steal your money and your inventory.

But other than that, just wander around and have fun. Get to know the lay of the land. Second Life is atonishingly different from other computer games in many respects, and Second Life Gor is it's own special level of fun and weird. Have fun! It's supposed to be fun! You might just wind up visiting the sim where I play. Not that you'll ever know ...

(All of the following links are slurls (Second Life URLs). To use them, copy them from this page, then paste them into local chat on your browser and hit return. They'll show up in the chat window. Click on the url in the chat window and they'll teleport you to the sim.)

Here are a few places to visit to get you started. Caveats: Many Gorean SL sims are classified as "Adult" by Linden Labs. You will have to be age-verified to visit them. By all means do so. If you are not old enough to play Second Life, don't play Second Life. It'll still be there when you turn 18, and there are plenty of other games to play. In fact, what are you doing reading this blog?

Also, you may want to buy things in Second Life. You buy Lindens in order to do that. They run roughly 250 Lindens to the US dollar. There are lot of brilliant designers, weapon makers, scripters and builders in Second Life, and the virtual goods are often quite reasonably priced. As I've noticed elsewhere, Second Life is FULL of sexy clothing for slavegirls to wear. Have fun! But just so you can get kitted out for free, before you develop your taste for SL gear, I'm including SLURLs for a lot of freebie shops. Have at!

Gorean Welcome Center
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Big%20Serenity/64/242/33

This sim is designed to welcome new players to Gor. It has some excellent resources to help you learn how to roleplay, freebie kits for various kinds of Gorean roles, including clothes, and a large map of Gor with links to let you teleport to various Gorean lands.

Gorean Recruiting Center
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Hunters%20VIII/134/65/37

This is a great place to find Gorean sims to visit. Just click on the posters which will give you landmarks, or notecards with landmarks on them. (They look like pushpins). Click on the pins and they will pull up a graphic which will have a button called "Teleport" on it. Click that rascal and there you are! Also has plenty of freebies scattered about.

The Gor Hub
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Gor-jus%20Events/165/154/41

This is a place where Gorean congregate to meet and greet and find new places to visit. It's a good place to hang about and listen. There's also a giant map of Gor with many Gorean sims represented it on it. Good place to look around for lands to visit.

Port Haifa Freebie Market
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Haifa/199/240/21

There is a section of regular freebies to the right of the docks as you come off the ship. (Nothing metaphorical here, in most Gorean sims you materialize either on a ship or on docks, to make the the teleportation a little more plausible.) Also freebies hidden in barrels scattered throughout the market. And plenty of goodies to buy in the market. Have fun.

Freebie Temple
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Phoenix/31/39/30
Excellent source of freebie weapons and other Gorean RP items.

Sexy Freebies Paradise
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Sexy%20Freebies%20Paradise/60/135/21
This is a non-Gor freebie shop. YOu can get hair, avatars, skins, and a lot of other personal adornments.

Many Gorean sims have freebie costumes available in their markets or in their docks as well.

More to come!

Bluenoses Object To Kink Studio Tour

"And on your left you can see a naked submissive hung upside down by her heels, tied hand and foot, orgasming her brains out via vibrator."
Image source: Hogtied.com.
Well with all the good news and general acceptance of 50 Shades of Gray I've been reporting, you just know there has to be some bad news. And it's minor-league bad news, nothing like on the scale of all the good news.

It seems that Kink, Inc., the San Francisco-based home of Sex and Submission.com and Hogtied.com and a lot of other really good BDSM oriented websites (full disclosure: I'm an affiliate site of theirs, that is, you click on the photos from their sites that I use and then join their site, etc., and I get a portion of the money) offers tours of their studios.

The Internet coupon firm Groupon has for the second time offered a coupon for Kink, Inc., tours, and this has roused the ire of a group of prudes called Morality in Media to call for a national boycott of Groupon, according to this report from Grub Street in San Francisco. I was expecting the usual craven response of businesses to ANY pressure from right wing groups, but instead Groupon stood their ground. They said (paraphrasing here) "We vet our businesses carefully, and Kink.com is a responsible member of the business community."

So I guess this is good news, so far. Morality in Media gets a thumb in the eye for their efforts. It couldn't happen to more deserving people. My hope, and my expectation is that their boycott will go absolutely nowhere. But we have to keep an eye on these jerks, they are relentless in their fetishistic desire to control what others can watch. And like rapists, they are ALL ABOUT the nonconsensual.

Hey, the article mentions that Kink is opening a restaurant! I bet the service there will be TERRIFIC!

Sites of Grayness

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50 Shades of Gray Is A Game Changer

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Karg Now Available For Sale on Amazon

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Stuffed Submissive

"When they said I'd be stuffed after dinner this was NOT what I had in mind!" Image source: Sex and Submission.com.
Let's see: "Hand in mouth, check. Butt plug in ass, check! Cock in pussy, check! Hands tied behind, check! Legs tied together, check! Ok, now we gotta slather her in body oil and fuck her for 45 minutes, then she'll be all nice and tender and ready for bed."

Introducing The Hello Kitty Ball Gag

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Blood Meridian: When Bridesmaids Go Bad!

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Art of Bondage: En Pointe

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Following Up

The only appropriate prison garb for a crime of this magnitude! Image source: Yandy.com.

Well first of all, good news! Remember the Portland couple who got arrested playing bondage games with her tied up in the back of his car on Valentine's Day, who got reported by a concerned citizen? Well the outcome I'd hoped for ... a chewing-out with no charges ... was the one we got. Huzzah!

In other news, the 50 Shades of Gray media juggernaut continues to roll. Found a column by Maureen Dowd ... Maureen-fricking-Dowd! ... writing about her experiences reading Story of O as a teen and now 50 Shades. Oh my! The tone of the column is distinctly kinky erotica friendly, which is a big change for mainstream media writers, who generally have not been able to communicate on the topic of bondage kink without bookending anything they say with "EEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWW!!!!!" Which frankly tended to drown out the rest of what they were saying. So ... WTG Maureen!


"Sir! I can hardly assassinate you properly while in doggie style! Image source: vicap from Sexy Assassins.
Finally, I was working with my TV on in the background the other night, when I kept looking at the actress who was humping the guy in the Skinamax film that was on. She looked kinda familiar. Looked closer. She looked like ... looked like ...

FELICIA DAY!

It was not Felicia Day of course, Skinamax flicks are not her thing. It was Felicia Day's celebrity clone Justine Joli, starring in "Sexy Assassins," a 2012 Skinamax film that just HAPPENED to have come out recently. Good lord, the woman is everywhere!

So, if you want to see a scene where an actress who looks kinda like Felicia Day has full-on softcore sex with a guy then ties his wrists together (of course, Skinamax is all about dudes in distress) and finally smothers him to death with a pillow ... you're in luck! It's in rotation on the HBO digital cable channels right now!

April Is Sexy Bondage Lingerie Month

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Charlize Theron's Hacked Bondage Sex Video

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Dr Who Lesbian Orgy With Jenna Louise Coleman

"Are you SURE you're Daleks?" Image source: Public Disgrace, inset, publicity photo.
It's recently been announced that the latest addition to Dr. Who's long list of comely female companions will be played by the British actress Jenna Louise Coleman. And Coleman is comely indeed!

However, the moment I saw the publicity photos (see inset) I knew that I'd seen that face before. And so I have ... check out this image from Public Disgrace.com which clearly shows Jenna Louise Coleman (or her clone) being molested by half a dozen women getting all in her business like Dr. Who gets in Daleks' business, only with less cries of "Exterminate! Exterminate!" It looks like the next season of Dr. Who will take a direction never taken before by the long-running series.

Well it beats Dr. Who having an invisible alien friend whom only he can see and hear.

Of course, it COULD be a wayward clone of Jenna Louise Coleman, or even someone who merely kinda looks like Jenna Louise Coleman who is in the employ of Kink, Inc., but come on, who would believe a thing like that? It is to laugh!

For more on Jenna-Louise Coleman's celebrity clone, porn star Melissa Jacob,check out this post.

Is Anyone Else Finding The Pics Missing On This Blog?

Because I sure am! Got no idea what's up at the moment. I checked the links for the picks, they look all right, though I notice some of my text links are now directed to the UK. Weird. Anybody who has a clue what this might be, please let me know.

Felicia Day: Nude, Bound, Gagged ... or Just Cloned?

Felicia Day and Justine Joli (right). Celebrity clones ... or CONSPIRACY??? Image source: Hogtied.com, right, publicity photo, left.
In a previous post I noted that Felicia Day had a celebrity clone that had done some nude modelling, specifically posing in and out of a Slave Leia outfit.

But you know how those Celebrity Clones are. Turns out that Justine Joli, the model who was clearly cloned from the same DNA as Felicia Day by mad scientists posing as sane scientists, has been doing some other modelling as well.

Modelling like this:


Ball gagged, tied spread-eagled and given a vigorous lesbian dildo fucking? Oh NOESSSSS!!!! Wait ... could be the clone ... Image source: WhippedAss.com, inset, publicity photo.

Seems Justine Joli is or was a kink.com model, showing up at several sites and doing the sort of things that are done at those site. Isn't that just the way it goes when you clone celebrities? If only those mad scientists were sane enough not to do this sort of thing!


You'll just have to take our word on this one! Image source: WhippedAss.com.

The Art of Hardcore Porn

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The Virgin Mary in Bondage

Mary goes beyond contrary to perverse! Image source: California Newswire.
An article in California Newswire reports that a portrait of the Virgin Mary showing her collared and shackled has stirred controversy ... who'd a thunk it?

The portrait, entitled "The Lady of Nazareth Chooses To Play Along" is by Marilyn Artus, an artist and feminist who created it to protest the way Catholics and various prominent conservatives are encroaching on women's rights ("the war on women" as it's been called). There is all sorts of symbolism in the work beside the bondage (a coat hanger, a scarlet letter, etc.) but somehow, I don't that other symbolism is going to be what attracts attention, if any mainstream media pick it up.

I say "if" because the article seems to be searching for outrage but not finding any. An interview with an Oklahoma City Catholic (where the art will be exhibited as part of a tour) found him expressing the eminently reasonable position that it was all right for the artist to use such symbolism to express her opinions.

Still, with "50 Shades of Gray" growing in popularity by leaps and bounds, you have to wonder what kind of weird cross currents are going on out there in that great big culture of ours.


"Mary, is that you?" "Mmmmfgh!" Image source: Hogtied.

Beach Heat: Miami And A Dungeon

Chasity Lynn puts the heat in "Beach Heat: Miami." Image source: vidcap from Showtime's "Beach Heat: Miami" series.
From time to time I've taken pleasure in spotting bondage actresses getting their groove on in mainstream films, mostly Skinamax films that can be seen on late night cable fare. I haven't done so in a while because it has become old news. A lot of Internet bondage porn actresses do mainstream televised porn, and why not?

It's a bit ironic, since Skinamax films remain totally oblivious to bondage themes, and when they do run a bondage theme, it's generally very brief, lame, or involves a dude rather than a damsel, with rare exceptions like the bound blowjob scene in Bikini Jones: Temple of Eros.

Showtimes' Beach Heat: Miami series is no exception to the rule, the bondage scenes are rare, brief and crummy. But what piqued my interest is that I recognized three of the four female regulars on the show as bondage models. That was new! Chastity Lynn, Pepper Kester and Savannah Stern have all showed up in the Dungeon bondage sites, Chasity and Savannah in the Fucking Dungeon, Pepper in Strict Restraint.


"Yoo-hoo! Boys! Look what I got here! Come and get it!" Image source: vidcap from Fucking Dungeon video.
The actresses all use the same names for Beach Heat: Miami as they use for their bondage videos, hence they're not trying to conceal their identities, a Google search gives up the goods on all of them instantly. (The fourth actress, Kiara Mia, does vanilla hardcore modelling, also under the same name she uses in Beach Heat: Miami.)


Savannah Stern in one of the few bondage scenes in Beach Heat: Miami (season 2, episode 13 if you're interested) in which she impulsively gags herself with a tie during sex. As indicated earlier, it's brief (just a few seconds) and crummy (the tie is never tied in back of her head, it just hangs there after it's placed. Image source: Miami: Beach Heat vidcap.
Many bondage models used to use different aliases for Skinamax softcore work, I guess there's no longer any opprobrium attached to being a bondage model, at least where softcore porn is concerned. Yay! Then again, it's kinda surprising that there ever was any opprobrium ... it's not like softcore porn has STANDARDS. But there it is ... change. Though I guess they do have kind of a standard of doing little, lousy or dudish bondage, and of doing sex scenes in positions that clearly do not promote genital to genital contact, but acting like it's really intense sex. So they've got THAT going for them!


Now THIS is more like it! Clearly, Stern is up for stronger bondage scenes when she gets the chance. Image source: vidcap from Fucking Dungeon video.
In addition to Savannah Stern's lame-ass gag scene, Pepper Kester has an even more lame-ass cuff scene in Season 2 episode 12 where she's arrested for murder. It's pretty much the sort of routine cuff scene you see on prime time TV. Sad, really.


Pepper Kester in decidedly NOT lame-ass bondage. Image source: promo photo from the Strict Restraint site.
I don't do much coverage of Skinamax films nowadays, the simple reason is, the dearth of bondage scenes on them. But hey, if their casts are becoming all bondage models, all the time, perhaps the actresses will INSIST on some good bondage sce ...

Sigh. Who am I kidding?

Linking Abortion to Sex Slavery

"Help! Come and see the violence inherent in the System! The Man has TOTALLY got me down!" Image source: Hogtied.com.
I think we can all agree that my flying monkeys have been hauling in some weird shit of late. And today's post is no exception: some femininsts are advancing the argument that the best way to defend abortion rights is to argue that the people who are advocating against abortion are attempting to continue the enslavement of (especially black) women from the days of slavery, and detailed by this article on The Nation's website.

I'd advise reading the article for the best understanding the argument, but to summarize: author JoAnn Wypijewski talks about the work of Professor Pamela Bridgewater, who has done a lot of historical research on slavery and discovered quite a few facts, like the fact that female slaves outnumbered male slaves two to one in the slavery era and for good reason: they were the preferred gender, being the gender that could produce more slaves. Allow me to quote:

We don’t commonly recognize that American slaveholders supported closing the trans-Atlantic slave trade; that they did so to protect the domestic market, boosting their own nascent breeding operation. Women were the primary focus: their bodies, their “stock,” their reproductive capacity, their issue. Planters advertised for them in the same way as they did for breeding cows or mares, in farm magazines and catalogs. They shared tips with one another on how to get maximum value out of their breeders

Now here comes the legal angle: when the 13th Amendment was passed, prohibiting slavery, the American courts ruled in a succession of cases that the Amendment also prohibited slavery's "badges and incidents," i.e., all the things that went along with slavery. So since inhibiting a woman's reproductive freedom was definitely an essential elements of slavery ... and the history is quite clear on this point ... then inhibiting a woman's reproductive freedom is illegal under the 13th Amendment.

It's a really nifty legal argument, linking the Civil Rights struggle for black women with the struggle of women generally to control their reproductive destinies. I personally doubt it would fly with the present Supreme Court, because although legal types LURVE a good, solid legal argument, my cynical self suspects that they tend to be more swayed by legal arguments that are in line with their personal belief systems ... and it's not for no reason that Republican presidents have nominated four successive middle aged white Catholic men to the Supreme Court.


"We've come a long way, baby!" Or ... not ... Rihanna in bondage for her video S&M.

The Amazon Gets Explored

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