Picture O’ Doom

“Hope you ladies don‘t mind if I butt in …”
Image source: could NOT find the image I originally posted here anywhere, so here's a pretty good damsel in distress scene from the series, featuring actress Julie St. Clair and some guy in a leather mask. Oopsies! 
Here’s an image of a damsel in distress scene from the short-lived “Conan” TV series that I think explains in part why the series folded.

First and foremost, there’s the man-butt shot that dominates the image. Instead of focusing on the damsels in distress, we get a shot of the rescuer. And his butt. If you are seeking a straight male audience, this is a mistake. The fact that you made it means you are either gay or dumb. Neither condition augurs well for a person heading a TV show about Conan the Barbarian.

Second, if you’re gonna send Conan around in a leather diaper and nothing else, how about baring some female flesh as well? The women are well dressed, the rescuer is pretty much naked. Once again, gay or dumb.

Third, check out the damsel to the left. The one that’s farthest away from the camera focus. What a great rack she has! She’s the person a regular guy wants to see in this scene, especially with her hands tied behind her back so those enormous tatas of hers right out there. What the fuck is she doing way in the back there? Put her in the front, put Slab McLargehuge in the back. Doing otherwise is just dumb.

My feeling is, if you fuck up a DiD scene this badly, your chances of doing the rest of the show right are pretty much nonexistent.

Every picture tells a story, indeed.

Sometimes Wishes Get Rewarded

I'm not sure what it is about this photo ... maybe the casual pose and come-hither look, and the way the 3/4 pose of her head makes her nose look even snubbier than it actually is, or it COULD be the chains, but ... damn!
This is Jakki Degg, who started out as a very popular page 3 girl in England and has gone on to become a general professional model, successful enough to put out her own calendar every year. I came across this photo while doing a search for someone else, and was knocked over by her facial beauty, not to mention her sleek bod.

WJakki is no stranger to bondage gear.
The bondage itself is simple in the pic below, which is the finest bondage image I'vwe seen from the mainstream in quite a while. Degg's wrists are secured behind her back by black tape. But it's the pose that really makes this pic: Degg is stark naked, kneeling, her face pressed against the floor, her butt in the air, gazing at the camera with that gorgeous face of hers bearing a hot come-hither look. Considering Degg's stunning beauty, it's one hell of a great bondage image. And the thing is, it's not at all unusual for models and/or celebrities who don't ordinarily do bondage imagery to do the occasional bondage-oriented shot. In fact, I would imagine it's fairly rare to find a top fashion model out there who HASN'T done at least one image of herself tied up, cuffed or chained.

Jeebus! Oh, to be behind her with my hands on her hips and ...
But when these models do their bondage shots, it's almost always very weak imagery. The bondage is often sloppy, verging on being loosies. But most of all, the poses are most often typical fashion model poses, with the model stretched out and looking very comfortable. They rarely look submissive, much less posed in ways that suggest they are presenting. (A term used to describe primate females who are posing in ways that invite males to have sex with them.) Even more rarely do they pose in ways that both constitute presenting and are submissive.

But sometimes, you do get lucky.