Miss Pearl has a thoughtful post on the way kink.com treats femdom as a separate thing from BDSM in general. It raises an interesting point that potentially reflects a lot of underlying assumptions people hold about femdom.
Now with the thoughtfulness for the day contracted out to Miss Pearl, allow me to take conversation down several notches and tackle a silly pet peeve of mine on kink.com – makeup. Specifically, the makeup used on the dommes. It’s like they’ve borrowed Homer’s makeup shotgun. I realize this is probably not the biggest problem facing femdom erotica, but what the hell, I feel the urge to vent.
For example, consider Mistress Madeline, who looks stunning in shots like this and this. So what would possess Divine Bitches to go with this look? Mistress T is another great example. She has an amazing classical natural beauty, as demonstrated in this kind of shot. So why the harsh makeup of the shots below? I want my domme to be severe when waving her whip, not when brandishing her lippy.
The overly done makeup is one of those tropes that I’ve noticed, but haven’t gotten around to complaining about. And similarly, I’ve also noticed the “BDSM vs FD” disconnect on many of the picture sites. It’s silly, when you think about it.
The make-up thing certainly isn’t unique to kink.com, but it does seem to be particularly prominent on their sites. I’ve also seen dommes complain about it with them. Mistress T even mentioned it in this post: http://www.mistresst.net/blog/uncategorized/1st-day-of-filming-with-kink-com/
BDSM being synonymous with male domination is another one of those irritating things that seems to just leak into popular culture.
-paltego
It goes with the whole kink.com feel which just doesn’t do it for me. I find it very obviously going through the motions in a brash way and everyone hamming it up. It’s not the only site to do so, but it’s so ubiquitous that it seems to hinder other material getting our there.
Personally I find it kind of a mixed bag. Some of the scenes are kind of brash and hammy as you suggest, but some work pretty well for me. I have to admit I’m not currently a member so I haven’t been tracking the trend of the scenes. A lot of the images from them I feature are years old, so it may have been getting worse without me noticing.
-paltego