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 (inset) and clone (left). Celebrity clones ... or CONSPIRACY??? Image source: publicity photo inset, found on Interwebs.
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:

BTied, hung upside-down and given a vigorous dildo fucking? Oh NOESSSSS!!!! Wait ... could be the Jutine Jolie... Image source: Hogtied.com 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!

Clone or not, Justine Joli is such a beauty! Image source: Justine being fondled by Isis Love in a WhippedAss.com publicity shot.

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.

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.

"Forced to cum between a married couple, literally!" Image source: kink.com shoot 22975 Chastity Lynn Training Day starring Chastity Lynn.
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 sexual 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: kink.com shoot 4913 starring Derrick Pierce and Savannah Stern.
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.

"Go ahead, put me on a pedestal! I dare you!" Pepper Kester in decidedly NOT lame-ass bondage. Image source: promo photo.
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

"Oh, no! The Man has totally got me down!"Image source: Rihanna in bondage for her video S&M..
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.

The Amazon Gets Explored

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