Great-Great-Great-Grandaddy Hiram Powers

Nice butt on that statue!
I'm not one to brag on my long and proud lineage as a bondage artiste, but there it is: I have one. One of my most famous ancestors that no one has ever heard of is Hiram Powers, a sculptor. And the sculpture that earned him his place in the art world was a little piece called "The Greek Slave," an image of a naked, chained woman looking a uncertain and defensive, being naked and chained and all.

Here's how one of my favorite authors, James Burke (best known for his "Connections" TV series on the history of technology)
describes the work in his book American Connections in the chapter on Declaration of Independence signer John Morton:

Frances Trollope (author Anthony's mother) ... wrote "Domestic Manners of the Americans" (Brits loved it, Americans didn't) and set up a money-making wax-museum project entitled "Infernal Regions" featuring dummies, mechanical figures and electric shocks. Most of the show's figure-modeling work was done by young sculptor Hiram Powers. Who eventually made it to D.C., where he sculpted the president and other luminaries, then headed for Florence, Italy. In 1843 he produced his blockbuster (possibly the most influential American statue ever) Greek Slave. The statue of a nude, shackled slave girl, her pose evoking the thought of terrible Turkish perversions, toured the United States for two years to standing-room-only prurience.

Heady company, you betcha! The most inflential American statue ever! A naked slavegirl in chains! In short, the most influential American statue ever was SEXUAL BONDAGE PORN! The more you learn about history, the weirder it gets! And I'm part of it! You, too ... probably.

A Rare Ring Gag in A Mainstream Film

"Say AAAAAH? How can I NOT say Aaaaaaah?"
Seen here an image from "The Unborn" by all reports a mediocre 1990 horror flick about giving birth to the devil's child, or something like it. Odette Yustman's character voluntarily submits to bondage and gaggage for exorcism-related reasons. Gags like these show up in Japanese bondage imagery a lot, much more than in US bondage imagery. Guess this is an example of cross-cultural influence at work. Huzzah!

Slave Auction Mystery Solved

Won't somebody PLEASE take the lady with the skinny legs?"
Years ago ... a decade or more, in fact, I first encountered the mystery images of the slave auction, one of which you see here. For years I wondered about it and it led to my brilliant deduction that the photos were a documentary depiction of Kyle McLaghlan selling the mothers of the Spice Girls into slavery. Well ... I've discovered the true origin of the photos, you can read all about it here. Truth may not be as strange as fiction in this instance, but it's still pretty good!

Octoberfest Is Over!

And I don't care!
Our beerfest waitress is modeled by professionally-large-breasted adult model Chloe Vevrier, you can see more of her here.

When Tupperware Parties Go Bad!

It finally happened! Mistress had given her her very own plastic food bowl! She had coveted one for years!
Image source: this post originally had a completely different image, but I lost it so I replaced it with some AI art, because c'mon, 15 fucking years and people are still looking at this throwaway post?
Just a fun image I picked up on the web. Something about the lady in the background said "Suburban moms" so what else could this be but a tupperware party gone wild? The guys in the suits? Hey, whose idea do you think it was?

Bikini Jones And the Temple of Sexual Bondage

Rebecca Love does some oral loving while cuffed in this topnotch (for Skinamax) sexual bondage scene.
It's been 15 years since we had a sexual bondage scene this good in a Skinamax film, and it might be another 15 years before we do again. In fact, this Skinamax scene has something all the others do not ... lighting! Check out my review of the movie on Bondagerotica.

Shibari Goes Public AT DragonCon 2010

Every year Dragoncon manages to bring up a new surprise. So far as I can tell, for the adult-oriented costumers, the game is to come up with something that is as blatantly sexy as possible and sexual as hell that still does not get you thrown out of the convention or arrested. Given that the sexual mores get pretty damned relaxed during the Con, especially late at night in the bar areas, attendees have rung up some fairly imaginative changes on the nudity, sex and bondage themes that predominate among them.

2010 has been no exception and might well be a winner. Just check out this lovely bit of shibari bondage, worn atop the young lady's skimpy but definitely legally covering all the naughty bits and then some clothing. The ropes are obvious to anyone who knows bondage, particularly Japanese bondage, and of course, the reason why there's a great big knot right over the young lady's sweet spot is also obvious to those who know bondage. All in all, it's quite a daring thing to wear, and yet ... perfectly legal. Now that's plausible undeniability!

(I put the masks over the young ladies' faces because I had heard that some attendees who cavorted about in sexy costumes one year and whose images were then shown on a DragonCon website had faced the possibility of some job losses. These young ladies might be wiling to take such risks and appear in public thusly attired, but I'm not willing to take it on their behalf.