Hardcore

An important lesson to learn early in any kinky journey is that no matter how hardcore you think your activity is, somewhere out there, somebody is doing a far more extreme version. I think learning that can temper the initial inclination to always keep pushing limits. It becomes more about finding the right limits for you, rather than thinking you can become baddest kinky motherfucker in the world.

What brought all this to mind was some tweets from Ron, one of the main people at Team Rinryu aka Yapoo. Longterm readers or those who enjoy more extreme femdom content will know that name. They feature human toilets, heavy whippings and beatdowns that can make you wince. Personally, I’m a fan. That might be clear from how often I’ve featured them here in the past (e.g. here, here, here, etc.)

It’s pretty obvious that filming for them must be intense. However, I hadn’t realized how extreme they can get. Some of their movies feature a man kept in a cage and brought out for ‘playtime’ each day. According to this twitter thread from Ron, he actually did stay in the cage for 2 weeks, being brought out each day to be beaten and fed the domme’s piss and shit. Nutritional supplements were the only additional food that kept him alive. Incredibly, that wasn’t even the record. He cites two other men who were caged under similar conditions for 3 months and 9 months!

The only bit of movie fakery was the fact that in his case the cage was resin. He’s claustrophobic and a cage he couldn’t ultimately break would have triggered that. The men who made it for months didn’t even have that mental escape hole and used real cages. Mind blowing.

I like this shot from Team Rinryu because of  how sweet and innocent the domme looks. But you just know from the context, set-up and open mouth that some serious shit is about to go down. Pun definitely intended.

Pulpy Goodness

I always enjoy this kind of pulpy cover art from the 50’s and 60’s. It was an era where mainstream media was incredibly straight and conservative, at least compared to the media of today. And yet, the pulp magazine publishers apparently discovered the cheat code for using kinky sex to sell magazines in mainstream stores.

I also like the fact that femdom scenes were featured so frequently. I’m sure there’s a bunch of theories about why that was. They probably focus on their violation of cultural norms, given the patriarchal and conformist nature of the society at the time. I like to think it was because publishers like money and lots of men like femdom content.

I sourced this via Femdom Days Twitter feed.

More Mummification

I hadn’t intended two posts on this topic, but here we are.

Part of the reason is that Cosmopolitan also posted an article on it, and it contains just as much handwringing as they other articles I referenced in the last post. Apparently wrapping someone’s body in plastic wrap is a super advanced kink that you should never do at home. Weird. It goes on to advocate for things like using a weighted blanket or noise cancelling headphones, which is pretty weak sauce. How about just telling people to not put anything around or above the neck?

However, the main reason for a second post is that I saw this post on Twitter. It’s by LustTek and, as far as I can tell from other posts like this and this, they’re building their very own mummification machine. It’s the kind of crazy kinky idea that is both totally OTT but also kind of awesome. I love to see projects like this. Although of course, this one actually is really dangerous! You could solo wrap yourself to death. Let’s hope Euphoria don’t decide to use it in Season 4, otherwise hand wringing in the press will be off the charts.

More mummification does let me feature an expert in it – Mistress Hinako. I’ve featured her work before (for example here and here). The shot is particularly sexy, given the contrast between the extreme mummification and her casual pose.

You can find more from Mistress Hinako on her website, her blog, her instagram and twitter.

Euphoria

The HBO show Euphoria is generating a bunch of coverage for its depictions of kink. It’s not a show I care to watch, so I’ve no idea how fair (or not) its coverage is. If the goal is controversy and debate, it’s certainly managed that.

The latest kink it has drawn on is mummification. That in turn has generated a lot of hand wringing about it’s potential dangers. For example, this Metro article and this in LAD Bible.

The concern seems a little misplaced to me. Or, perhaps more correctly, doesn’t draw the right distinctions. Wrapping plastic over the face for breathplay is definitely dangerous and not for beginners. However, that’s a different thing in my mind to mummification. Wrapping the body below the neck is a lot less risky. It’s not something to undertake lightly. You should always make sure you’ve done basic research, go slowly and have safety shears to hand. But it’s not a high risk activity like breathplay. In some ways it’s easier and less risky than regular bondage. A simple plastic wrap has less chance of causing nerve damage or twisting body parts awkwardly. I’ve done mummification lots of times and always felt safe. Only a small fraction of those experiences involved putting anything over my face.

This mummification shot from The English Mansion does feature something over his face. However, I doubt he’s going to object too much in this case.

Ada

As regular readers may know, I occasionally like to feature women who weren’t sexually dominant (as far as we know) but were amazing and impactful historical figures. For example, a couple of past examples include Julie d’Aubigny and Beryl Swain.

Today, inspired by this article on the Blue Stocking site, I’m featuring another – Ada Lovelace. Given I’ve spent a large part of my life writing software, she’s a figure near and dear to my heart. Her notes on Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine are the first example of what we think of today as computer programming. They pre-date the work of the equally brilliant Alan Turing by 100 years. From this article…

She then summarises how a sequence of computations would work on the Analytical Engine; with “Operation Cards” to define the operations to be calculated, and “Variable Cards” to define the locations of values. Lovelace discusses “cycles” and “cycles of cycles, etc”, known to contemporary programmers as loops and nested loops. She gives a mathematical notation for them, which comprises the first instance of a recorded software loop.

She then moves on to Note A, wherein she portrays an extraordinary concept of a general-purpose computing machine– a simply unparalleled vision.

Sadly, she died young, aged just 36. Babbage’s analytical engine was never built and history had to wait until the 1940’s and 1950’s for computer programming to return. That historical gap presents an interesting ‘what if’ moment that fiction authors have enjoyed filling.

There is a programming language named after Ada , although it’s sadly not a widespread one these days. That’s a shame, as I’d much prefer writing in something called Ada rather than the unimaginatively named variations of ‘C’ that are now common.

Image of Ada Lovelace as featured in this article on her in the New Yorker.

Dreaming

From a modern artist in my last post to a vintage one in this. The artist here is Bernard Montorgueil, whose work dates back to the 1930’s.

I think this is lovely idea for a drawing. You have the sleeping man and his dream, a beautifully attired but translucent domme riding his naked body. This was a new image to me, which seems kind of odd for an artist whose work is almost 100 years old. It’s nice to discover something new in something old.

You can find this and others at the Honest Erotica site.

Kami Tora Appreciation

I was left a comment by marc on this post pointing out that Kami Tora’s website had gone offline. I’ve also not seen any new content in his very distinctive style for a good while.

That’s a huge shame, as I’ve always enjoyed his blend of the playful and the erotic. Lots of tease, denial, chastity and milking, but with a healthy dose of humor. In fact on the first day of this site – back in the distant past of 2010 – I posted some of his work and added him to the artwork section.

Whatever he’s doing and wherever he is now, I hope he’s doing well. I’ve taken great pleasure in his work over the years and offer my thanks for all the wonderful art he has shared. Here’s a couple of them that caught my eye for this post.

While his primary site may be gone, you can still find his artwork in other spots. For example here.

Medication

I was amused to spot this vintage ad targeting doctors prescribing Valium (via reddit). Apparently relating well to women with domineering traits was a thing men needed medication for back in the 1960s. It’s a good job we live in (slightly) more enlightened times, or I’d be dosed up to my eyeballs. Although in my case, domineering traits leads to tension that’s more sexual than psychic.

I feel they missed a trick with the models used. We all know sex sells. Surely this was the perfect excuse for some more obviously domme fashion choices of the era?

A Moment

Here’s a moment captured. Something lovely to start the weekend.

I originally stumbled across it via tumblr, but a bit of reverse image searching tells me this is Madame Lule, a Paris based Dominatrix and BDSM coach. She has any number of similarly striking photographs on her site, which is well worth exploring. If you’re in the Paris area, her session information can be found here.

Sleepytime

I’m always intrigued to discover new kinks I’ve not heard of before. After 20+ years on odd corners of the kinky internet this doesn’t happen too often, but occasionally I’m still surprised.

For example, today I discovered Anesthesia is a kink. I obviously knew of medical fetishism and breathplay, but hadn’t realized that the drugs and equipment for anesthesia was also a thing for people. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. As a process, it has all the kind of elements that get fetishized. Lots of control, ritual, uniforms and special materials/equipment.

Personally, while I do enjoy medical play and breathplay, anesthesia alone doesn’t do much for me sexually. However, I could get into fetishizing a really good nights sleep.

I found this image via tumblr. I believe it’s by Leela Lapin who specializes in these kind of heavy medical fantasies. You can find more from Leela via her links page.