Freize, Lesbians!

Found on the walls of an ancient Pompeiian villa, this fresco clearly reveals to the incredibly credulous that lesbian mistresses violating beautiful young slave girls with strap-ons were a thing in ancient Roman times.* Who knew? Image source: Whipped Ass.com.
The issue of whether or not ancient Roman women used strap-on dildoes is difficult to discover via Google, as any search with those key terms will turn up many, many porn sites whose answer is an enthusiastic "Yes!" but fail to back it up with anything but many, many, many videos and photos of modern women engaging in lesbian activities.

I found exactly one site that had actual cites, but they were mostly in the form of cites to books, not links, so I could not verify it but it seems kind sound so I'll cite it.

My considered answer is "Yes," this did occur, based on the link cited and what I've read in general articles about the treatment of slaves in the ancient world. If ancient Roman lesbian women had dildoes, some of them undoubtedly used them on their slave girls, there was very little in the Roman ethos about sexuality or the treatment of slaves to stop them. The freize above is a phtoshopped fake, based on the image below. It stuck me that Isis Love's pose had an "ancient world" vibe to it so I went with it. Who can blame me, really?


Isis love gives a blonde and bound Kink.com model a thorough pegging in this photo from Whipped Ass.com.
*This fake image proves no such thing, but that doesn't mean it didn't happen!

Trisha Hershberger Naked Nude and In Bondage

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Totally Spies Was Totally Kinky

This is an unusual bit of bondage gear in use. A collar is connected to a metal stock by a rod that passes between the wearer's legs. The stock passes under the wearer's knees, with cuffs that go outside the elbows. Renders the wearer very helpless indeed! Image source: Atelier Eisen site.
The bondage gear above isn't just unique, it's rare. I found a post related to it on the Bondage Blog site this weekend and it brought back some memories. The Bondage Blog post has a great John Willie drawing of the gear in use on an attractive lass.

A poster named Collarsmith pointed out that he had only seen gear like the one in the Willie drawing in one place: the Atelier Eisen website that is cited above.

I initially encountered the imagery in an episode of a kid's cartoon show called "Totally Spies" about the adventures of three beautiful young female spies who fight supervillains. I had looked around for art like that several years ago, in spring of 2002, and found the exact same image Collarsmith did. I used it in an article about that weird bondage scene on Totally Spies. Here's the Bondage Banter post from the Bondage Banter section of my old site Jollyroper.com circa 2002 courtesy of the Internet wayback machine.

Unfortunately, the key photo that really seals the deal on the Totally Spies imagery in that post has vanished into the aether. But no matter, it turns out that thanks to Youtube the entire episode that features the bondage can now be viewed. You're welcome.


Check this out: the Totally Spies girls in exactly the same bondage, in exactly the same position as the model at the top of the page. It's like the artist used it for a template. I think he may have done just that.
So I made some vidcaps from the Youtube video. Some of the vidcaps I made are not nearly so convincing as the one above, mainly because the episode suffers from major continuity issues. Sometimes the spies wear collars, sometimes they don't. Sometimes they have a rod running from the collar to the stocks, sometimes they don't. I don't think the continuity errors mean anything, they're pretty common in cartoons.


Here's an image that occurs just seconds before the one above it. As you can see, no collar, no rod. Why? No idea!
Totally Spies catered so assiduously to it's kinky fans that there's a wiki page about what a fine source of fetish fuel it is. Most of the speculation is based on the sheer volume and variety of fetishy scenes, costumes and situations that the series presented.

But here I think we have something approaching evidence that the fetish fuel was deliberately injected into the show (not that it's NEEDED, necessarily). Because this particular form of bondage gear happens to be so freaking rare. I think the artist probably copied it from what they assumed was an obscure bondage site. Of course, the artist might claim that he independently came up with this unique form of bondage ... but I think that's kind of revealing as well. So, in conclusion:

Gotcha!

Lena Dunham Nude With Her Finger In Another Woman or ... Cloned!

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Fifty Shades Seedlings

"Oh, so THAT'S what bondage is all about! Oh! Oh! Oh my!" Image source: Hogtied.com.
Kink.com is not the only bondage-related thing that is getting mainstreamed of late. "Soft" bondage, whatever that is, is also taking off according to a report in Entertainmentwise.com, which is not exactly a fetish site, as you'll note.

The article, basically a fluff piece, interviews James Deen (known well from Kink.com) who is fast becoming the go-to guy as bondage's most well-known star and a manufacturer of a line of sex aids/toys called Liberator (There may be some sexism going on here, there have been MANY well-known and successful women who have promoted and advanced sexual bondage over the years ... Midori, Lorelei Imboch, Chanta Rose, the list is very long indeed, yet James Deen is the go-to source for the press. Well at least they are going to someone who actually does bondage.)

The Liberator people obligingly ascribe the upward boost in sales of their products to an increase of awareness of "soft" bondage and interest in it, created by "50 Shades of Grey." And they're probably right. I'm seeing other articles in which bondage is being matter-of-factly described as a culture phenomenon rather than some bizarre fetish, like this one on celebrity bondage looks from Hollywoodife.com, which asks which actress looks best in leather "bondage" fashion.

What I see happening is that the effects of Fifty Shades of Grey are beginning to appear in our culture. Fifty million seeds have been planted, their effects are invisible as they grow in our collective unconscious, now we see the first tiny shoots poking above the unconscious into mainstream media. Gonna be interesting to watch and see what grows, and how it grows.

Kink.com Goes Mainstreaming

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Ultimate Surrender of The Lingerie Football League

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Greta Christina Works It Out -- Kinda

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Nigella Lawson Cruelly Edited

< Nigella Lawson demonstrates the dangers of saying a lot of things on video.
Enjoy this freaking hilarious video of Food Network celebrity cook Nigella Lawson saying many dirty, dirty things in the course of various cooking shows. It's sexy, it's funny, it's worth it.


Nigella Lawson waits patiently for a chance to appear on her cooking show, in what is euphemistically called "The Dark Room." Wait ... hold on ... sources are informing me that that is NOT Nigella Lawson in that photo, but a model appearing in a shoot on Device Bondage.com. Well ... a natural mistake, I'm sure we'll all agree ...

The Friendship Ballgag

Ah, two girls, naked and roped, and yet drawn to one another, attempting to kiss despite the fact that both are wearing a ballgag. Image source: Training of O.

Turns out that the girls are drawn to one another because they are both wearing the same ball gag! What a clever way to create closeness! Image source: Training of O.
I've seen one or two other images of two women sharing the same gag in the past, but they are quite rare. Given the general interest guys have in lesbian bondage, you'd think something like this would be commonplace. But it's rare. My suspicious is that the issue that keeps it rare is safety concerns. Chipped teeth might easily happen with the two girls' mouths tied that closely together. Not a lot of wiggle room there. Not that there's anything wrong with bound slaves wiggling!

Movie Reviews of Gor!

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Lost Girls Does Women in Prison Episode

Those are some BIG honkin' handcuffs. Guess the Fae might need something a little studier than usual. Some of them are werewolves. Image source: vidcap from Lost Girl.
I had the Season Three opener for SyFy Channel's Lost Girl episode and discovered to my pleasure that it was a full-bore Women in Prison episode. Something crooked is going on in the Fae prison, and Bo's lady love is now the prison doctor there, so Bo goes undercover to find out who's doing the crooked stuff.

I know the episode was consciously written as a Women in Prison story because it has almost every theme found in Women in Prison stories, some of them VERY well done, for non-premium cable TV.

For starters, it has a bondage scene, with Bo being hauled to prison in the biggest set of cuffs evah! A brief scene, but at least she is cuffed hands behind. Sadly, there is no body cavity search scene. Well can't have everything, and a LOT of Women in Prison movies lack even a bondage scene.


There is an EXCELLENT nude shower scene, however! Image source: vidcap from Lost Girl.
The nude shower scene is PARTICULARLY well handled. No actual naughty bits are shown, of course, but they use silhouetting nicely to show just how naked Bo is, and there are half a dozen leering guards watching her as she showers. They're Amazons, you know ... Wonder Woman style Amazons. They love prison work! All that bondage and womanly love!


Dominatrix warden wearing black leather boustier. Check.

Dominatrix warden dominates Bo. Note thigh-high boots and fishnet stockings. That's doing it right! Image source: vidcap from Lost Girl.
This is probably the best scene in the episode. They've got Bo dressed in a very skimpy outfit, on her hands and knees, her large breasts bulging out at the floor-level camera, cleaning the floor with what appears to be a toothbrush so there is much jiggleatude. Dominatrix warden comes up from behind her and puts a boot on her skimpily clad ass, dominating her very nicely. Kinky to the max, you bet!


Later, the warden does some outright molestation of Bo while her Amazon guards look on. Also, lots of non-dominatrix lesbianism ... Bo is a bisexual succubus, after all, and she never squanders a chance for some lovin.' It's her thing! Image source: vidcap from Lost Girl.

The Amazon guards riot. Image source: vidcap from Lost Girl.
There's plenty of violence in the episode too, in addition to the guard riot, Bo dukes it out with a guard, gets beaten by the guards and gets doused with a fire hose. The other major themes of Women in Prison stories that was missing was trafficking the prisoners as prostitutes and/or strippers, but that's just a matter of where the story went more than anything else.

Where the story DID go was a surprise, and in keeping with the theme of Amazons guarding the prison. I did not see it coming. Where did it go? Well I guess you'll just have to watch the episode to find out. BWAHAHAHAHAHA!

Ksenia Solo as Kintze does not appear much in this episode, though she does make a few appearances, being anxious about Bo and all.

Getting Joyful With the Bondage

Reading Gor novel is fundamental ... if you're a slavegirl. Image source: The Joy of Bondage blog.
Having indulged in a little self-promotion by celebrating my millionth visitor, it seems only fitting to promote someone else's blog, and besides, it's a fun blog, "The Joy of Bondage." The blog skillfully conveys the pleasures of bondage. It consists mostly of photos, I suspect taken by blog author Andrew Conway, with some tasty commentary, including some nice bits from the Gor novels (especially nice is one photo, showing a naked slavegirl in a cage reading a copy of Kajira of Gor). The blog has only been up since November 2012, but it's worth checking out, so ... check it out!

Over One Million Served ...

A chart topper, indeed! Image source: me.
As the chart above indicates, Politically Sexy has crossed the one million hits mark. I'm not sure what this signifies, except that if I had a nickel for every page view my blog has had, I'd have $200,000 and that would be All Right with me, when in fact I'm pretty sure that if you counted my hours spent updating the blog at minimum wage and subtracting the amount I've made from it, I've probably lost $200,000 in "opportunity costs" on it.

Still, it's been fun. I tried to think of what would be the appropriate image to put on this post celebrating my blog's passing of the million page view mark, and I figured it out: what would a paga slut's heat look like after her millionth furring*? Probably something like this!


One million served and ready for more! Image source: Public Disgrace.com.
*Before you point out that it is absurd that a paga slut could fur one million customers, consider: in the Gor novels, Norman states that the stabilization serums allow Goreans to extend their lifespans well past 1000 years if they don't get their asses killed in all the fights and wars they have, and in the prime of health, appearing to be in their late 20s right up til the end. So a paga slut that has spent 990 years furring a dozen men a night in a tavern, every night, could fur well over 4 million men. Or one million men, four times each. So there! (And yeah, that's another reason Gor makes a better fantasy than it does a reality.)

Filthy Shades of Grey?

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Badly Written, Vaguely Alarming Report About Kink Regulations In England!

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Warning Tremors

"It's fun to whip her, but it's quicker to lick her." And the guy in this image is teen-girl-popular porn star James Deen. Image source: Sex and Submission.com.
Found an article on Alternet wondering when BDSM became so wildly popular. The interesting element of the article was its date: it was published in June 2010, well before the advent of "Fifty Shades of Grey."

The people at Alternet definitely showed some prescience in running such an article just ahead of Fifty Shades of Grey, clearly someone at the progressive site was feeling the advance tremors of the cultural volcano that is Fifty Shades of Grey.

The tremors were as nothing to the explosion, of course. What the article cites is things like the success of Kink.com and kink no longer being considered a mental illness and Christina Aguilera's kinky outfits she wore in music video, and Aguilera's predecessor, Madonna with her Sex book back in the 80s (which if I recall, was a bomb).

All in all it is weak beer compared to Fifty Shades of Grey, the equivalent of the filler material my flying monkeys brought in for posts to jam in between the tons of stuff they brought in about Fifty Shades this summer -- only scattered over a couple of decades instead of a few months, because there just wasn't that much going on in the mainstream wrt BDSM.

When you got the top three books on the New York Times bestseller list containing a story of bondage, dominance and spanking, fifty million copies sold mostly to soccer moms, and James Deen (see above) an idol of teenaged girls in America, well you are in a WHOLE DIFFERENT BALLPARK. But to be fair, Alternet's contributors knew SOMETHING was up, more than you could say about a lot of the mainstream media.

Of course, some people, such as me, were feeling the tremors six years ago. What can I say? Prescient!

Form Follows Function

What could you possibly need a fingertip control that looks like this for? (Really, who wouldn't buy switches shaped like this?) Image source: Training of O.com.

Why, to release the Kraken, of course! Image source: Training of O.com.

What's Better Than ... ?

Bellydancers by 14girlwatcher
What's better than bellydancing? NAKED bellydancing! Here we have a whole bevy of cuties bellydancing via Dailymotion. Enjoy!


What's better than a blowjob? A PUBLIC bound blowjob! Who can forget that great scene in The Story of O where a bound O must kneel before her Master Sir Stephen and suck him off while Sir Stephen embraced two of the cuties at the Chateau and Sir Stephen's buddies watched, all of them looking down on her and commenting as she sucked. Not just submission, but a very public submission. This image, from Public Disgrace, captures the feel of the scene very well, with the submissive gazing up worshipfully at the dominant while she sucks, tied and helpless.

Needs A Gag!

When the Mistress played rock paper scissors in her own special way, the poor slave found herself screaming every time the Mistress chose "paper." Image source: Public Disgrace.com.

2012: Afterthoughts

Leftover candy canes, anyone? Image source: Down the Rabbit Hole blog.
OK, let's get this out of the way: by FAR the biggest thing to happens in the realm of bondage, ebooks, erotic fiction, romance fiction and arguably publishing itself was "Fifty Shades of Grey." I've already written at length on the topic, so I'll keep it brief. The thing that made "Fifty Shades" special wasn't just that it was a book featuring scene of bondage and dominance, but who read it: it was women, mostly, lots and lots of women, and not just young Goth girls looking for something to read while getting a skull tattooed on their butts, but older women: "soccer moms" which is THE prime demographic for many, many advertisers.

The news that soccer moms like to read about women in maledom/femsub relationships did not surprise me at all: I RP in SL Gor, where women outnumber men almost two to one, and all a guy has to do to find a naked slavegirl chained to him is stand still long enough for them to find him. But I think the news that ordinary women like bondage set the mainstream back on its heels, even though the romance genre of which erotic fiction is a subset has always had more than its share of "bodice ripper" stories.

Nothing else that happened in 2012 that I know of had anything LIKE the impact of 50 Shades of Grey on the bondage community/industry/whatevs (though having said that, I am totally prepared to find history proving me wrong).

Another trend I am liking is honest, straightforward blogging by women who are either real life submissives talking about their lives like the author of Down the Rabbit Hole, or sex industry pros like bondage model Cherry Torn and former prostitute The Honest Courtesan, who are talking honestly about THEIR lives and interests instead of just using their blogs as marketing tools.

I think it's great that these voices have found expression online, and I hope they become more popular, and teach everyone that people who are submissives or who work in the sex industry are not mysterious others who can be marginalized and ignored, they're people, just like anybody else. Soccer moms who took the dare their subconscious minds made with them, perhaps.

People call this the "mainstreaming" of BDSM, as if it were merely the inclusion of BDSM topics in mainstream media, but I see it as something more profound, or at the very least, I HOPE it is something more profound, a sort of cultural maturing about matters sexual, a recognition that sexual power fantasies can be acted out in real life, that does not make them any less fantasies, nor justify treating people as the object of such fantasies without their consent.

Now, would somebody please call the prudes and the prudo-feminists and let them know we have this matter all hashed out?

Why Can't WE Have Commercials Like This?

THIS is bondage! And yet ... no reason it couldn't be FASHION bondage! Image source: Public Disgrace.com.
So, flying monkeys found an INCREDIBLE commercial for Axe body spray from France recently. A nice little update of the damsel in distress cliche for the era of 50 Shades of Grey. It's freaking hilarious, and sexy, too. But mostly, hilarious! I know that Axe commercials generally get the ladies at Jezebel.com in full twisty-panty mode, but damn, there was some wit and intelligence going on in that commercial. Keep chopping away, Axe!

Also, a bit of end-of-the-year silliness from the fashion industry, a survey of bondage-inspired fashions from 2012 entitled Fifty Shades Of 2012: Year Of The Bondage-Inspired Outfit on StarPulse.com, which proves conclusively that all a garment needs is black coloration and one or more straps to get labelled "bondage-inspired." Note that there are no fashions that involve anything being, well, um ... bound to anything else. Proof positive that the fashion industry knows diddly about bondage.


Many bondage ties you see on this site wouldn't work on a runway because with her legs tied to things, the model can't really walk. But it doesn't HAVE to be that way. This is the same model in the same bondage as at the top of the page, she's standing and can walk easily, because her legs aren't fettered. She wears a ring gag, a leather collar, a leash, a rope breast harness and her hands are tied. She's in bondage, and looks it! Why can't fashion designers come up with inspired ways of interpreting actual bondage gear and ties rather than putting black stripes on a shirt, or otherwise create completely lame designs? Is this the age of 50 Shades of Grey or not? Image source: Public Disgrace.com.
The slideshow features Anne Hathaway, Kim Kardashian, Rihanna, Krysten Ritter, Krysten Stewart, Lea Michelle, Carmen Electra, Katy Perry, Stacy Keibler, Ke$ha, Lady Gaga, Miley Cyrus, Nicki Minaj, Paris Hilton, Katie Price and of course, Madonna, none of whom is tied or bound or chained in any way. Frankly, for many of the images, if a fashion blog had not informed me that they were bondage-inspired outfits, I would have had no idea.

Here's a Pinterest board that the flying monkeys found that has actual bondage imagery, just to get the bad taste out of your mind. And of course, our image up top makes the point. Bondage be bondage, bitches!


Here's another bondage model, in what's practically a fashion runway scenario. She wears a rope harness, her hands are tied behind her back, and she is paraded before a crowd of seated individuals while wearing a delightful blue negligee. True, she has a handler showing her around, but that could work in a runway environment very well, and is not needed anyway. Of course, no reason designers should restrict themselves to rope or exactly copy shibari harness rigs ... but they can do a LOT more to be bondage-y than they do. Image source: Public Disgrace.com.

Music to Eat Greens and Black-Eyed Peas By

Above: what we imagine the boning in the song lyrics might look like. Image source: Public Disgrace.
Well if you've got to eat greens and black-eyed peas on New Years Day for luck, I've got the PERFECT music for it, Bone Me Like You Own Me by Barbara Carr, a bluesy ballad full of nasty lyrics and growly bluesy sexiness. Don't say we never did you any favors!