After mentioning the bad femdom porn of yesteryear in my previous post, it seemed a shame not to share some. This struck me as a particularly brilliant example. It’s so bad I think it actually becomes good again, by virtue of making me laugh.
The lady on the left is brandishing her flogger like it’s a long dead skunk that she wants to keep as far from her as possible. The lady on the right is falling out of her strange outfit, while expressing a strong revulsion to the idea of actually hitting the gentleman’s bottom. And for a man about to be trained by two wicked bitches in leather, he looks remarkably cheerful. He’s no doubt justifiably confident that he’s unlikely to need his safeword in the scene. What I find particularly amazing is that judging by the titling, this was the lead image for the magazine or the photo-spread. They must have looked at all the other shots and gone – “That’s it! That’s the one to lead with! This really sets the scene for the air of powerful dominance and complex sensuality that we’re trying to put across here.”
There’s a lot of justifiable complaining about bad femdom porn. I can’t deny that there’s a lot of it out there. But in an hour on tumblr you can find more good BDSM porn today than you could have found in a month of hunting in the 90’s. And I dread to think what it must have been like for kinksters prior to the spread of the internet.
I found this in a collection of vintage shots at Femdom Times.
These old pictures from the 70s always crack me up. The facial expressions are so over done for one thing. They seem right out of a comic book to me. In this one the lady on the right looks as though she has discovered something very unpleasant crawling up the crack in his butt.
I remember seeing photos like this when I was browsing through BDSM mags in the old porn shops that lined 42nd street back in the day. Those places were always dark seedy and smelled of cigar smoke.
The things that puzzles me is: Where the people shooting these old shots kinky or not?
If they weren’t kinky, why create this type of porn? It’s very niche and more legally dubious
But if they were kinky, how come they produced such poor material? As you say the expressions are ridiculous. I realize the digital photography and the internet has made life a lot easier for creating/publishing material, but I find it weird that kinky people wouldn’t at least produce material they themselves would like.
-paltego