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Deathstalker: An Incredibly Gorean Movie

This is a review of the 1983 movie "Deathstalker" which will point out the Gorean influences in the film and also be pretty freaking entertaining. It's from my book "The Hottitude of Servitude: Slavegirls In The Movies and On TV" but has been revised and updated.

Watching this Youtubevideo about sexy 80sfantasy movies was a trying experience for me. The movie reviewer just kept missing the obvious Gorean influences on the scripts and in the scenes. The Gor novels sold six to twelve million copies in the 80s and 90s, HUGE for the science fiction and fantasy genre. We're not talking Fifty Shades of Gray here, but DEFINITELY a precursor... yet no one mentions them as influential. So let me be the one!

Take the opening of what is probably one of the best (maybe the best, certainly one of the most influential) of the 80s sword and sorcery movies, 1983’s “Deathstalker” (the first movie in the series). It is also arguably the finest Gor movie ever made, even if it wasn't called a Gor movie. Here’s a vidcap of the scene:

Half naked woman in bondage, check. Handsome hero with slave rape on his mind, check. Ugly barbarians in background, check. This is so fucking Gorean!

In this scene the mostly naked woman in the foreground is in bondage the whole time. She’s got a rope around her neck and her hands are tied in front. She is a captive of the slaver guy standing immediately behind her, and he's put her on the leaf-strewn rock table so he can rape her. The guys seen in the background interrupt his plan with their own plan, which is to kill him and rape the woman themselves.

Then Deathstalker shows up and kills all the ambusher guys. To show his gratitude the slaver guy offers Deathstalker the use of his woman, but then tries to kill Deathstalker, who is way ahead of him and kills the slaver guy easily.

Then instead of freeing the woman Deathstalker binds her by stabbing a handy tree with a big knife and draping her bound wrists over the blade, and then he starts raping her. But he's interrupted by a priest messenger for the king, who's got a mission for Deathstalker. Deathstalker talks with him for a bit and says "Fine I'll talk the king after I finish raping this woman"... only to discover that while he has been distracted by the priest-messenger, she had gotten free of her bonds (knives are a kinda of dumb thing to hang women tied by ropes from) and she has scarfered off into the forest.

Turns out Deathstalker is in the mood for some slave rape of the damsel he just rescued, too. Heroes and villains both have the same thing in mind for slavegirls. So Gorean!

Now THAT'S how you start a Gor movie! The poor, half-naked female captive is in bondage the whole time, captive of three different groups of men, all of whom want to rape her while she’s bound, including the titular hero!

And it doesn’t stop there. There’s Kaira, the naked female warrior whose wonderfully full breasts are on display almost every time she’s on screen (and she’s onscreen a lot) ably played by Lana Clarkson (RIP). And there’s a harem full of mostly naked cuties, sometimes caged cuties, one of whom is played by former Playboy Playmate Barbi Benton, who as a prize in a killing contest, gets a filmy negligee ripped off her otherwise naked body while she’s chained to a rock wall, followed by some barbaric smooging on her while she’s still chained up. And there’s women wrestling naked in mud as part of the entertainment at the same party where Barbi gets stripped.

Princess Codille loses the negligee and gets smooged on in the midst of a barbaric party in the castle.

There’s also a scene of a bunch of bad guys attacking a different woman than the one in the opening scene who’s also tied to a tree, though not as naked, and also rescued by Deathstalker of course.)

And there are tons of scenes of Deathstalker beating up bad guys with his fists and stabbing bad guys with his sword. Of course, that’s nothing new in a sword and sorcery adventure movie, but heroic adventure and fighting bad guys is also a part of the Gor novels, that and sporting with the slavegirls. A lot. Often while they are bound and gagged.

(BTW, the 2025 Deasthstalker movie has no, repeat, no, sex or nudity in it. I haven’t seen it, but one of the review sites straight out said “no sex, no nudity” and I watched a couple of reviews and none of them mentioned nudity or sexy times. To be fair, Deathstalker 2025 is generally praised for being full of really well-made fight scenes and lots of well done practical effects. It is probably the perfect pre-pubescent sword and sorcery movie, at least, for pre-pubescents who aren’t bothered by lots and lots and lots of gore. In fact, the right way to describe the movie would be, “lots and lots of gore, but no Gor.”)

“Deathstalker” is generally cited as the best of the sword and sorcery movies that came out after the success of John Milius’ “Conan” and for good reason. I totally agree with that assessment. I just don’t think its success was strictly because it was a knockoff of “Conan the Barbarian.” I think its success was because it was one of the few movies that had the balls to copy the Gor novels and give plenty of screen time to all the sexy naked slavegirls being in bondage and doing sexy naked slavegirl things along with all the swordfighting and general whupass. Most sword and sorcery movies concentrate on the whupass and feature a cookie-cutter plot and give scant screen time to their scantily clad slavegirls, which is a definite mistake, but one that B-movie filmmakers seem determined to make, over and over again. (Did I mention that Deathstalker 2525 has no sex or nudity? I believe I did.)

Sexy, sexy harem girl provided plenty of sexy scenery for the movie as well.

However, I did some research using Google’s AI search engine and was unable to find any evidence that anybody associated with Conan or Deathstalker had been influenced in any way by the Gor novels.

Except of course there IS evidence that Deathstalker was influenced by the Gor novels – it’s right up there on screen. There was NOTHING like Deathstalker prior to Deathstalker. Sure, Conan had slavegirls wandering around naked and harem slaves writhing naked in a throne room but they overall weren’t that sexy and there wasn’t a hell of a lot to them. Ultimately, they were just scenery, like most sword and sorcery slavegirls.

Deathstalker on the other hand used the naked slavegirls to drive the plot forward. The opening scene of the movie with Deathstalker, the slaver guy and the Ugly Guys fighting it out to see who’ll get to rape a half-naked woman in bondage set the tone for the movie. In fact the whole movie is a damsel in distress film, with Deathstalker charged with rescuing Princess Codille (Barbi Benton’s character) from Mad Monkar, the man who deposed the king and also deposing Mad Monkar if possible.

Lana Clarkson: not a slavegirl, but DEFINITELY a plot driver.

And Princess Codille winds up naked and chained to a rock as a prize for Monkar’s warriors. She’s just a member of the harem now, a toy whose sexual use can be given as a prize. VERY Gorean.

Interestingly, Codille doesn’t get a rape scene. She’s captured by Munkar’s minions (also not shown, but fair enough, the movie is about Deathstalker, not Codille) but all she appears to do in Munkar’s harem is stand around and be physically beautiful (which Benton totally has covered). And given the way the first scene (and a lot of other scenes) established that rape is definitely an integral part of the culture of Deathstalker’s milieu, you have to figure that Codille got raped a lot between her capture and her showing up in Munkar’s harem. But nooooo... the character Codille never has sex.

HOWEVER... at one point Mad Munkar transforms one of his men into the spitting image of Codille and orders him to find Deathstalker and distract him with Codille’s charms and then kill Deathstalker while he is distracted by Codille’s beauty. The soldier is not at all enthusiastic about this particular assignment, but that’s one of the hazards of working for an evil wizard named Mad Munkar, I guess. (Benton does a great job of playing the reluctant soldier, doing his duty because he doesn’t want to wind up in Munkar’s dungeon, but not crazy about it at all.) And he was right to be reluctant, on all counts. Deathstalker is completely fooled by the magical transformation and fucked the soldier/Codille. Then when the soldier tries to kill Deathstalker (and let’s face it, this was probably a personal thing for him afte being fucked) Deathstalker foils his assassination attempt and stabs the soldier, breaking the transformation spell and returning him to his soldierly form just in time to die on the bed he’d just been fucked on.

So... that was weird. Transexual themes were not common in 80s sword and sorcery films, as in, I’ve never heard of another one. And the weirdness went unacknowledged in the film, it was just another thing that happened. But whatever you think of the scene, I think it clearly shows that scriptwriter Cohen was willing to include stuff that was seriously out of bounds in his stories, and obviously no one else blocked the trans-themed subplot from being in the movie, either. So if you are thinking that Cohen and company backed off from some themes because they went “too far” think again. This was a Gorean sword and sorcery movie, dammit! (Not that Gor included a lot of trans themes either.)

So if you are thinking that Cohen and company backed off from some themes because they went “too far” think again. This was a Gorean sword and sorcery movie, dammit! (Not that Gor included a lot of trans themes either. It’s a very cishet series.)

No movie made before or since has matched Deathstalker in this regard, but one may have outmatched it in terms of getting into slavegirl psychology: Barbarian Queen. It will be the next movie we review.

Nude Nipple and Rope Bondage

"The weave on this dress is very coarse, but it fits very snugly, does it not?" Image source: unknown. Found it on a tumblr site. Let me know if you know.
I was initially attracted to this image because of the great beauty of the model, and the direct way she looks at the camera, with an inviting smile on her face. She looks like she is looking forward to something fun.

Then I looked more closely and saw this:


Now THAT is an ingenious use of a nipple piercing and rope. The ends of the bar are pulled up and over the ropes, pulling the nipple out with it. Tasty! I'll bet her nipples are feeling it every time she so much as blinks.

Daniel Craig: Bondage Master ... Or Is It A Clone?

James Bondage, you betcha! Image source: Break the Logic's photosteam.
Well I don't generally go looking for male celebrity clones, but I found one while looking at some VERY nice shibari suspension bondage on Break the Logic's photostream. The guy who has bound and gagged the woman so nicely is clearly a clone of Daniel Craig's. Now as to why mad scientists created a celebrity clone of Daniel Craig, I think that's fairly clear: it is to cloud the minds of women with fantasies of being bound by Daniel Craig. So whatever you do, female readers, don't fantasize about Daniel Craig tying you up and subjecting you to all sorts of sexual delights. It's what they WANT you to do!

Dylan Ryan Speaks Out On Jezebel.com

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Midori "Gets" Fifty Shades of Grey

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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.

Optimism

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Getting Bendy

Many people pooh-poohed her for visiting the chiropractor, saying his treatments were not really medicine ... but they felt so GOOD ... afterward ... Image source: Bobbi Starr on Hogtied.

New Girl: Called It

An image you will not see on "The New Girl." But it's the sort of image they SHOULD show. Image source: Fucking Dungeon.com.
A while back I ran a piece on Carla Gugino's upcoming role in the TV comedy "The New Girl" which was hyped as being straight out of "Fifty Shades of Grey." As I noted, the indicators were that Carla would be a femdom to some male character in the series. And I pointed out that this was not what would attract readers of "Fifty Shades of Grey" because that story was all maledom/femsub, as are the romance stories that most Fifty Shades readers enjoy.

Well a vidcap from Carla Gugino's scene has come out in this article, and as you can see, it's the guy being tied up.

I'm right again. And I'm also right that "The New Girl" will not get a big ratings boost from its femdom/malesub story, because most people are not into that. The ones who ARE into that will love it, and that's all right. But it's not ratings fodder.

World of Warcraft Second Life Gor Mashup: Boss Drop

The guild's prayers were answered when, having defeated the boss, it finally dropped what they REALLY could use ... naked slavegirls! (Click on the pic for a much larger version of the image.) Image source: Azeroth!
Just a little World of Warcraft and Second Life Gor mashup I thought would be fun to create. Naked slavegirls are sadly lacking in the game, but hey, I hear the night elves will dance almost sexily.

For more on Second Life Gor and how it's NOTHING like World of Warcraft, visit my introduction to Second Life Gor.

BDSM Sex Club Discovered In Historic Louisvile, Kentucky

Him: "This is SO MUCH fun! We shouldn't keep it to ourselves, we should share it around. Start a club or somethin'."
Her: "Mmmmgh!"
Him: "I knew you'd see things my way!
Image source: Fucking Dungeon.com.
Deep in the bowels of Louisville Kentucky, historic building renovators have discovered a secret BDSM sex club hidden beneath the very streets of downtown. An entrance under the basement of a disused historic building leads two stories beneath the streets of downtown.

The creepy, dingy underlit club, unused for decades, features a rack and some really badly decomposed furniture, and some of the most ugly-ass painting I have ever seen on it's wall. Really, check out the story, if there were ever paintings that were designed to put you OUT of the mood for sex of ANY kind, these are it. If I walked into a Gorean paga tavern and saw art like that I'd walk right out and I wouldn't stop walking til I had reached the docks and sailed.

I'll stick with this guy's art, thankyewverymuch. Or even photos like the one up top.

The club started back in the 1970s and continued to the 1990s. "We got the paintings because the basement location just was not dingy and forbidding enough on its own," said a nonexistent former club member. Well no one said, that, I made it up. SOMEBODY needed to say it.

Jenna Louise Coleman Part 2: Even More Naked, Fucked and Tied or ... Even More Cloned?

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Bondage-licious Youtube Videos

10,000 views and no flaggings! Keep your fingers crossed.
Found a couple of Youtube videos that really push the boundaries of what Youtube allows to be broadcast, and yes, I mean bewbies! Also, pussy! A tiny bit, anyway, in the second video. Wow. The first is a series of nice black and white still photos with some dramatic music, the second is a brief video of a woman in a hogtie, with some mmmphing. Check 'em out and enjoy them, my flying monkeys have been doing topnotch work of late.

First Ever Politically Sexy Video News Report

I did a NEWSY type video today, the first ever Politically Sexy News Report. Uncanny Vallerie is the host, she'll report on events of the day, hopefully improving her diction, as she has a bad case of Squeaky Robot Granny voice at present.

The first report is about 50 Shades of Gray of course, it being the Big News in the bondage world at present. It's actually a near verbatim copy of the story I wrote up here, updated a bit and tucked and nipped here and there, but basically the same story.


Uncanny Vallerie, star of so many riveting videos about Second Life, now hosts the Politically Sexy News. Cause she knows how to fill out a teeny-weeny bikini. It sure isn't her voice! Image source: me.
I hope to get the learning curve down to a reasonable level and get an improved voice for Vallerie, and turn these things out regularly in the future. If you have any suggestions on the voice issue, or for the show you know where the comments go!


Coming soon to the mind of a woman near you ... these fantasies! Image source: me.

Second Thoughts

"What have I got myself into?" Image source: Whipped Ass.com.
I feel like I'm on a roll with the images of damsels getting all expressive on us. Here we have a naked tied damsel on a bed looking all wistful, very second-thoughty, very much "I wonder if this is as good an idea as my genitals think it is?"

But it's not just her, the domme, played by the inimitable Sandra Romain, looks down at her, all "Mmmmm, what will I do with this toy I have all naked and tied up?"

A very evocative photo, indeed!

"Oh, THAT'S what I got myself into!"

I'm Pretty Sure These Damsels Are Not At All Distressed!

Smiling in  the stocks, probably because she's got a comfy rock to sit on. Source: TrainingofO.com.
What better way to start a weekend than with a whole trove of happy people engaging in sexual bondage? My flying monkeys brought in a clue, in the form of this post on Fleshbot, entitled "Bondage is Joy" showing a couple of naked, bound women laughing their asses off, and why should they not? Check it out!

LShe's definitely looking forward to something! 
Image ource: SexAndSubmisson.com.
I did a little more research and found the mother lode, however, the Happy BDSM Archive. It's a tumblr full of images of bondage models and amateurs engaging in bondage and so forth, mostly bondage, grinning like fools while they're at it. It's mostly women in bondage, but there are some men in bondage, so if that squicks you, be sure and take a good look at the thumbnail before you click on it. Basically however, this is the biggest trove of silly-ass grinning bondage fans I know of.

None of the photos in this post are from the Happy BDSM tumblr archive, they're from the good folks at Kink.com. Lot of grinning people there, too. Source: This one is from TheTrainingOfO.com.
So enjoy the happy bondagers, and have a great holiday weekend!

Error in Translation

Her friends kept telling her never to order from the portion of a Chinese menu written entirely in Chinese because you never knew what you would get. "But that's EXACTLY why I order from the Chinese text!" she had responded. She wished she had ordered TWO of this, kinbuku youyou, or whatever it was. Image source: Fucking Dungeon.com.

Dramatic Nude Bondage

The Hogtied.com version of a three-legged race is a six-legged race ... and it's WAAAY harder than a three-legged race. Image source: Hogtied.com.
Alternatively: The thing that made their hearts beat faster was that he had told them he had left to go to the store and get MORE rope!

Alternatively Alternatively: (ONe day about a year from now) "I HATE the way Hollywood COMPLETELY ignored the story in 50 Shades of Gray, but some of the imagery WAS nice." (Bret Easton Ellis is very eager to do the screenplay for 50 Shades of Gray, I can't imagine a person less likely to do a good job, or to understand the underlying appeal of the story. If he writes the script, look for something like this.)

50 Shades of BDSM Stereotypes

I hope he steretypically fucks my brains out!" Image source: Sex and Submission.
Ran across an article on the Huffington Post that did an excellent job of disputing the stereotypes about male dominants that float around in the culture and are unfortunately confirmed by the Christian Gray character in 50 Shades of Gray. Best of all, it disputes them with some good clean science! Nice to see something fairly substantive showing up in my flying monkeys' grab bags. Most of the articles they find are rather shallow, but whaddya expect, they are flying monkeys and a lot of the stuff they find are from the more mainstream-ish sites.

I don't think the character was created by E.L. James to confirm such stereotypes. She just wanted to create a brooding hero like the male lead of Wuthering Heights. But there is is, she sure did confirm the stereotypes. I'm so pleased with her success, but I guess you gotta take the good with the bad.