Good Gorean Combat Video On Youtube

A still from a Gorean combat video showing a naked slavegirl just hanging around while a battle rages around her. Image source: TheGodofBeer's Gorean battle video.
The God of Beer, aka BradAtWar "Superman"Guardian has posted a few battle videos that give a pretty good idea how Gorean combat works, like this one here. It's basically Brad carrying a camera during a mass raid on the Agarath Vikings and camming around on various people as he fights. Or doesn't fight, you can't really do an effective job of fighting in an SL Gor Evolved if you are doing anything else at all. Brad gets downed twice, and I've been in fights with Brad, he's a legit super bow, and mostly it's other people who get downed when he fights. I think he was basically just doing the filming in this fight.

Experienced Gorean fighters will be able to easily figure this out, but I'll point out a few things for those who are not experienced fighters.

You'll note a lot of large pointed stake-like objects growing out of the ground. Those are tree trunks. They look like stakes because Brad has his alpha channels turned off, and the foliage on trees is normally rendered in the alpha channels. I know this for sure because when Brad is downed, no red bubble (also rendered in alpha channels) pops up around him.

Some Second life viewers, like Firestorm, allow you to place your camera so that it views another avatar in the same sim you are in with a mouseclick. That's what Brad is doing when the camera suddenly jumps to a different scene in the battle. He's watching others fight, basically.

Interesting bit at the end. There are various people lying on the ground bound in ropes. Brad takes one as a captive, leashing her up. (You do that by clicking on the ropes and then clicking on the popup menu that says "leash." You can then drag the person in the binds wherever you like.) And so Brad starts dragging his captive off to the docks, probably with a view to roleplaying with her for a time and thus encouraging the Agarath Vikings to raid his lands to rescue her.

But as he's leaving, he gets sniped by a defender, arrows hitting him from the fort. So Brad drops his captive since you can't run while dragging a leashed captive (in fact, you CAN run with a leashed captive in the game, but it's against the rules of battle on most sims). Once he's free of the captive, he starts shooting it out with the sniper, which typically would not go well for the sniper, but an Agarath Viking, unknown to Brad, makes a run out to where Brad is and sneaks up on him and downs him with a sword while he's engaged with the sniper. Excellent tactics.

Brad's former captor then proceeds to bind him, but she does not take him captive, when the video ends she is clearly headed away from the fort, which generally means she is going to sail him, the fate of most invaders who are losers in a battle. Generally just one or two are kept captive to be roleplayed, though sometimes virtually a whole group will be taken. It's up to the victors how many get roleplayed, and since that means committing an hour at least to interacting with the captives, there's a tendency for most to get sailed.

An important part of many Gor Evolved is missing here. Most Gor Evolved groups use Vent when they raid. It makes things a lot more exciting, hearing your friends voices as they shout on Vent, "Over here! I'm downed! My captor is in the red, you can take him down easy!" or "We got snipers in the tower to the southeast" or "Ok, lets stick together here at the gate and wear them down before we go in."

Finally, I do not believe this video is at all typical of Brad's performance in battle when he's not filming. He generally gets into the thick of the fighting and stays there. The filming made him hang back a lot, so in that sense it's not typical of Gor Evolved battles. Mostly you want to be in there, shooting and stabbing. But it still gives you some idea what goes on in a battle, and that's a good thing!

Kelly Rowland Gets Slavegirly In Music Video

Black people should be able to get in on the bondage fun, too. Here's Brit singing sensation Kelly Rowland dressed out as Catwoman in a leather suit, with whip. Image source: A pic snapped for a Halloween party at Tao in Hollywood.
Kelly Rowland, a Brit singer, has a hot new video out that features her in all sorts of slavegirl imagery of the barbaric slavegirl variety.

Most slavegirl imagery you see in videos is of the modern variety, which to my mind is not as appealing: the brass bangles, the gold necklace, the leather skirt and especially the big bondage collar with the heavy metal hasp all make her look like an extra from Barbarian Queen. (The song itself is not all that appealing, in my opinion.)

I personally have had a problem with images of black women in slavery because I find them depressing: they remind me of the slavery of black women in the American South, which still has ugly echoes in American society in the form of racism, and racism is nothing but ugliness. And the slavery in the American South was racism to the tenth power. Pure, undiluted ugliness.

And I recognize that real life slavery has been nothing but ugliness wherever it has appeared, but there's very little echo of Greek and Roman life in the society around me, that is, I have never known anyone personally who says "vae victus" to justify slavery, but I've heard many people I know personally use the term "nigger" in a totally evil and non-ironic was. And if you have ever heard a racist southerner say "nigger" in just that way, you will know that the term as used by them is definitely hate speech. It's just curdled with hate.

But you know, watching Kelly and Rihanna in slavegirl gear and various black porn actresses doing the bondage porn thing, I thought, "If they wanna get past that whole pre-Civil War slavery thing and go on to the fun bondage slavery thing, I prolly can and should, too." So I'll do that, consider it past history and move on, and hooray for the black women who like the bondage.

And Now For Something Completely Different

"Help! I'm being menaced by ... neoprene!" Image source: this Youtube video.
We're gonna take a break today from our scripting duties because, well, we can. And besides, we found this really funny vid on Youtube from a movie entitled Tarkan Viking Kani or something to that effect. It's uploaded in segments, this one in particular has an actress clinging to a wooden version of a set of playground rings and screaming her head off at a "giant octopus" that looks a lot like something you'd expect to find floating in the water of a kiddie pool. Sort of the damsel in distress equivalent of the poor dude in a loincloth wrestling with a rubber alligator. Enjoy!


Now isn't this a LOT more dramatic? Granted the nudity would be a no-no, as would the vibrator, but the style of bondage and the spider gag would work just fine, as would the whipping, if the woman (Christina Carter, I believe) were wearing, say, a thong bikini. Image source: Whipped Ass.com.

Marie Claire: Mainstream Media Continues to Just Not Get Fifty Shades

"Well this is public, but I'm not sure it's revolutionary." Image source: Public Disgrace.com
The Autralian edition of Marie Claire Magazine's website is asking, "Has Kinky Gone Mainstream?" referring of course to the way 50 Shades of Gray has steamrollered its way into public consciousness via selling 50 million copies.

They ask in that lame, timid way that mainstream magazine articles typically do, "Has kink become mainstream?" Then they refer to a few experts, quote a few random people they know, and go on to draw some safe-sounding conclusions about not following the crowd and doing kinky stuff just because that's what's fashionable, and instead exploring what YOU want to do (or not do) is the key to have a fulfilling sex life. The painfully obvious disguised as wisdom.

And when they are not engaging in a festival of "Duh!" they are getting it wrong:

But is this anything new? “Nobody is reinventing anything. It’s all been done but differently,” says Dr Morrissey. “Think the Marquis de Sade’s The 120 Days Of Sodom written in 1785, Pauline Réage’s Story Of O in 1954, right through to Nancy’s Friday’s My Secret Garden: Women’s Sexual Fantasies in 1973. What’s revolutionary is the fact that it’s so public.

No, that's not what's so revolutionary about 50 Shades. It's the fact that it's MOMMY porn, not Daddy porn. It's a demographic that has never been associated with porn of any kind, and now they're going for kinky sex. THAT'S revolutionary! If GUYS had taken up some porny book big-time, if them mainstream even noticed, they would dislike it, thinking "Horny guys getting kinky, can't be a good thing."

But since it's mommies it IS revolutionary, which is why Marie Claire have no idea how to respond to it, and really don't "get" it. Really revolutionary stuff has a way of being hard to figure out.

Cyclops And The Slave Girls -- WTF Through The Roof!

Two frames from Cyclops and the Slavegirls, a video that has to be seen to be believed.
Cyclops and the Slave Girls is a dailymotion video that has me completely puzzled. Its theme seems to be cannibalism (the sexual fetish) and/or vore (another sexual fetish that involves being literally eaten, though typically by very large animals). It's about four beautiful, sexy, topless slavegirls who get eaten by a cyclops, after being roasted alive. You can find it here.

Well it's definitely not my cuppa, but that's OK, plenty of things aren't my cuppa, and that's not what puzzles me about the video.

What puzzles me is the enormous amount of trouble that Cine Lux went to through to create the video, and the curious animation technique he used. Take a look at the two images at the top of the post here. Apparently, he used photos of naked models ... they're in the credits, which he photoshopped a lot and then ... distorted the features of so that their expression ... varies. Its a primitive form of animation, perhaps the most primitive form, and it's not at all attractive. Their expressions consist of two different kinds of unattractive grimaces, and yes, their breasts bobble up and down in time with the changes in their facial expressions.

Not just occasionally. Constantly. Like I said, not attractive, though technically I suppose it is a step up from previous films by Cine Lux, where they simply pasted cut out photos of the actresses with no attempt to animate their features as they spoke via word balloon.

The video spends a lot of time setting up the characters and backgrounds of the three hotties of the story, given that the whole point of the film is that they are cooked alive and then eaten by the cyclops. It starts out as a story of slavegirls in the ancient world and turns into … well .. the bulk of the film consists of vore/cannibalism porn. These scenes are not all that horrific, as the animation is so crude and not at all disgusting, compared to what it might have been. Plus the slavegirls are witty right up til the end.

That's another thing, the dialogue is witty in spots and generally kinda sharp. There's a clear humorous intent to the film along with the cannibalism. Though I suppose if you were sexually aroused by cannibalism, it might be necessary to cultivate a sense of humor. It looks like a children's cartoon created by a madman.

All of this, especially the bizarre animation technique, combines to create a tremendous WTF factor for the video. It's mind boggling. Watch it, at least for a few moments. I didn't watch all of it, I did a lot of skimming, cause the cannibalism part is boring if you are not into cannibalism.

The other thing is, the film is so labor intensive. He had to edit it on a frame-by-frame basis. (I don't know that the creator of the film is male, the credits imply a huge team of people made the film, but I don't buy it for an instant.) It must have taken a log time to put the elements together and get the film moving. Which is probably why it moves at a snail's pace. There are easier ways of achieving much more sophisticated animations.


"With an impressive name like Cine Lux, this has to be a good movie I'm in! They said I'd have lots of sizzling scenes, too!" Image source: Hogtied.com.

Sexy Rope Bondage's Appeal Beautifully Explained

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50 Shades of Gray Update: 20 Million Sold Worldwide

Picture this, times 20 million, in the minds of women worldwide. Oh, the times they are a-changing. Image source: Hogtied.com.
To a certain extent, writing about anything other than 50 Shades of Gray feels almost futile, it's that big a phenomenon. New sales figures show the book has sold 20 million copies worldwide.

I think by now the explanation for its success is in part its success: it now has "plausible deniability" going for it. The fact that everyone else is reading it makes it OK to read. You can enjoy the dirty, dirty scenes in the book knowing that you are not an extraordinary freak, or even out of the ordinary, while doing so. Like Slave Leia, it's entered the popular culture. It's "OK" to enjoy it.

But here's the thing. It's being described as a new "tentpole" book by traditional publishers. Such publishers have pretty much neglected their midlist books ... once the staple of the publishing industry ... in hopes that sales of one or two bestsellers will compensate for the lack of the lower-profit books.

Here's the thing, though. 50 Shades of Gray owes NONE of its success to the big publishers. It was a runaway bestseller as an e-book, long before Vintage Books moved in and made E.L. James a multimillion dollar offer she would not refuse. All the Vintage Books people did was add traditional sales to the success of 50 Shades of Gray as an e-book.

So, there is no guarantee that publishers can generate such sales in the future. They did not create the book's success in the first place. All they can do is jump on the bandwagon and hope that fan writers or erotic romance writers sends a new tentpole their way. It's no way to run an industry. In fact, it's down right stupid. Then again, we've seen bankers and politicians behave like idiots for years. Why shouldn't traditional publishers do the same? Personally, I hope the lot of them go out of business, if they can't do better than they have done.

A Damsel In Distract

Have we beeeeeeennnnnn innnnnnnntroduced? Whoa! Image source: Hogtied.
Continuing with our theme of damsels in various forms of emotional expression. Here we have a distracted damsel, and understandably so, hung up by one leg, the other leg frogtied naked, hands tied over her head, clothespins on her nipples, and having her "down there area" relentlessly vibrated. How do we know she's distracted?


Check out this closeup of her face. Not a whole lot of iris visible in those eyes!

Bluenoses Object To Kink Studio Tour

"And on your left you can see Chloe Camilla tied naked to a bondage frame with a ballgag in her mouth and a dildo pole in her ass and another one in her pussy and another woman fondling her pussy. No wonder she's looking sweaty! And on your right..."
Image source: Kink.com video 10443, "La Seduction de Chloe Camille," starring Chloe Camille (tied down) with Lorelei Lee, Aiden Starr and Maitress Madeline (showing mostly just their hands.)
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!

Karg Now Available For Sale on Amazon

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The Evolution of Erotic Gifs, Betty Page: Girl Scout and Fosbury Floppers

Sometimes, all you have to do is point and laugh. Juxtapoz comes up with some great stuff at times. Ladies and gentlemens, I give you the evolution of erotic gifs!

And while we're just pointing out he funny, here's an Historic LOL featuring Betty Page.

Aaaaaand let's throw in a gratuitous bondage image while we're at it.


Wow, West German Olympic training techniques really WERE harsh back in the Cold War days. Here athletes learn the Fosbury Flop -- the hard way! Image source: Hogtied.com.

"When I flip for a guy, I STAY flipped for a guy," said Slave Slippery.
Image source: Hogtied.

Three Headlines, One Illustration

Just when the party is getting good, some guy with a machine gun has to break things up!
The cover of this venerable sweat mag has three headlines:
10 Ways To Tell If You're Sexually Maladjusted
Sex Is Driving College Girls Berserk
and
Bring Out the Chained Beauties of Hitler's Torture Compound

And you know, when you think about it, the cover illustration would work for ANY of them! BRILLIANT!

(Yes, I know, there's also "The Tragic Scandal of Our Homosexual Athletes" but I think we can safely rule that one out.)

Image Source: The Men's Adventure Magazines blog, of course.

Jessica Alba: Naked, Tied Or Just Cloned?

"I'm pretty sure there's a no-nudity clause in my contract! Can't we just leave my undies on and gag me? I have no non-gag gag clauses in my contract, I'm sure of that!"
Once again, we have semi-irrefutable evidence of yet another celebrity gone all naked and bondage-y! This time it's Jessica Alba, seen here naked and tied in suspension with her nipple showing and everything! She doesn't look too happy about it, and who can blame her, since she is one of the few younger actresses who refuses to do nudity?

Of course, it's not the bondage that bothers her, she's shown up bound and/or gagged plenty of times in her film career, most notably in "Into the Blue" where she's handcuffed to a dead guy and is tape gagged.


When it comes to bondage, Alba is a trooper, alrighty! Image source: vidcap from Into the Blue.

I've included two images of closeups of Alba's face so you'll know that it's her alrighty. I know what you're thinking: a fake, a photomanip, a MacFukkin. Nope.

Of course, if you want to get TECHNICAL about it and do some RESEARCH -- which I seriously advise NOT doing! -- you might discover that the person in the image is the bondage model Kristina Rose doing a video about kinky vampires for Sex and Submission. Those guys again! Wouldn't you know it? So ... don't do that research! Sometimes, ignorance is bliss!

Poor Planning For Double Bondage Blowjob

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Sign of the Times

"I shoulda known," she thought. When she saw the ad offering $100 an hour to serve as a nude human sign for a pawnbroker business, she figured she'd be standing in a store window and waving at passers-by. But noooooo ...

Image source is the good folks at Sex and Submission.

Chained and Gagged And In The Closet

...it was about this time that Sophie began to realize that coming out of the closet would be a lot harder than she thought it would be ...

Image is a vidcap from the 1969 Italian soft-core sex flick The Laughing Woman with gorgeous Italian actress Dagmar Lassander spending some time in the closet. They've only now started making them like this any more ... in the mainstream. You don't see a lot of strap gags on film even now, much less hogtied suspension with a head harness and a leather kink suit. Sweet!

I Think Somebody Rocked Her World

"Fank ewww, mafftah!" The very picture of a good time. It’s the eyes that really do it … rolling back in her head.
Image source: kink.com shoot 43592 starring Maya Kendrick, Lauren Phillips and Seth Gamble. Pictured are Lauren and Seth.

Hostel 2: It’s All About Plausible Deniability, Man

“We’re just not seeing things the same way any more, baby.”

I really dislike horror movies, but I was intrigued by the whole “torture porn” thing that occurred with Hostel 2 so I had to have a look at it, like it or not. And I didn’t. But I was rewarded for my perseverance (though not monetarily OF COURSE): I discovered that the whole “torture porn” thing was all about plausible deniability. So there's that!

The Good Old Days

Slave Marie found herself thinking back to the good old days, when relationships were complex and sexual positions were simple.

Image courtesty of advertiser Sex and Submission.