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Huffington Post Gets All Naked and Tied Up!

This is why I don't like image of women with pubic hair. Vaginas are pretty, pubic hair obscures them, and frankly, makes them look dirty. And yes, sex is good sometimes when it's dirty ... but not THAT kind of dirty. Image source: The Huffington Post. I kid you not.
So my flying monkeys brought in this article about Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki in the Huffington Post's Arts & Culture section. Apparently, he's a bad boy in Japanese photography circles, doing lots of nudity and bondage. In fact, we've covered him before on Bondagerotica, for doing a nude bondage photoshoot of Lady Gaga for the September 2009 issue of Vogue Hommes Japan.

But the point of this post is not Mr. Araki, it's the Huffington Post. Just a few days ago I noted in an earlier post regarding an article on IO9, Why Do Geeks Like Kink?, that big sites on the Web that copy mainstream media have also copied the uneasy relationship that mainstream media have with sexuality and sexy imagery. That is, they don't show explicit sexual images, or any nudity at all, as a general rule. When they do cover stories involving nudity and sex, they tend to write about it in a coy, adolescent manner that's distinctly off-putting to those who are used to the direct, adult (in the "mature" sense of the word) manner that websites that deal directly with sexual issues use. Like this one! (OK, keeping it real, I am quite capable of being coy and adolescent if I think it will get a laugh. See: cough! But I'm kidding when I do that, the "mainstream" websites are for real about it, sadly so.)

So, it's kind of AMAZING to see a raunchy pic of a Japanese woman stark naked in full suspension with her labia lips sticking out from a nest of pubic hair for all to see, on the Huffington Post.

I can't help but think that the Huffington Post editors may be taking a cue from Fifty Shades of Grey and getting jiggy with the kinky nudity because, hey, people seem to be ready for that sort of thing. Or they may have just now realized that they are publishing on the Web, and the rules are different here.

Will this become a trend at HuffPo? Among "mainstream" sites? Time will tell, I got NO idea on this one!

Magi Slave Girl Anime

It's not what you think it is, I think ... though it is Slave Morgiana from Magi Slave Girl. Image source: vidcap of Magi Slave Girl.
Found this on a site called "Sankaku Complex." While images like this and MUCH more explicit than this are commonplace in hentai and ecchi, the toon this vidcap is from is apparently an actual anime. So anime fans who like a little slavegirl hottitude in their stories might want to check it out. I personally have grown tired of hentai and ecchi, they're too porny and predictable nowadays. Call me jaded.


Image from the hentai Maison Plaisir. The male characters' mother and sister prepare to have a cocksucking contest. Hentai may be predictable once you've seen a few, but they're still fucking weird. Image source: vidcap of Maison Plaisir.

Super Happy Japanese Breast Bondage Fun Time

"Japanese scientists and engineers struggled for weeks to contain the huge breasts that threatened to overwhelm Japan's bondage industry last week ..." Image source: the pic says bakushi.com but it redirects to another site full of Japanese bondage imagery, so let me spare you the redirect.
Comments? What else is there, after "Whoa!"?

Lifespan: Sibari From the 70s

Shibari, aka kinbaku in its consensual sex fun form, has been around in Japan since at LEAST the 17th Century and probably well before that. But it never made it to a mainstream venue that US audiences could enjoy until the 1970s, in the form of an odd little scene in an odd little European SF flick called "Lifespan." It seems that the local hottie who's been sleeping with all the smartest mad scientists has been sleeping with a mad scientist who has discovered what might be the key to immortality. It has something to do with DNA and the double helix, all very scientific you know, and not a mere excuse to show the exquisitely beautiful Tina Aumont tied up in shibari bondage because it contains the "double helix knot."

There's an article about it on my site, with pics of Tina all shibaried up. Check it out right here.

Oh, and the truly weird thing: despite the vastly increased awareness of Japanese bondage practices thanks to the success of adult manga and anime in the US, it hasn't showed up in a mainstream venue again since "Lifespan." Weird, eh?