I’m still sorting through the detritus of my vacation. Nothing coherent to blog yet, so this is a random collection of stuff that was accumulating in my brain.
I was hopefully on seeing the first few seconds of the Straightjacket Supermodel video that someone might have finally done a good femdom video. There are some nice tools on display and flashes of interesting imagery. Unfortunately it quickly turns to crap. There’s a stereotypical domme doing porny come-hither dance moves to the camera, right up to the point she axe murders her submissive. Obviously somebody didn’t tick the ‘not being axe murdered’ box as a hard limit.
This post on building a predicament bondage device out of a Mattel MindFlex toy is pretty interesting. Personally I’m skeptical it’ll work. I suspect if arousal was this easy to measure, scientists wouldn’t still be using these kind of crude devices. But I do love this kind of hacking and experimentation, so I really hope it leads to something cool.
A BDSM event had to be cancelled because some children may have been vaguely in the same zip code at some point. Clearly BDSM people should follow the same rules as those applied to sex offenders and always maintain a minimum safe radius from anyone under the age of 18. Which would actually suit me fine, provided it was the annoying kids that had to move.
I’ve finally caught up with my comment responses. Apologies for the delay on those. I always enjoy getting comments, but I’m frequently surprised by my inability to predict what will trigger them. I’ll write something that I think it’s interesting and provocative and get very little response. Then I’ll mention say nipple clamps in passing, and get a whole burst of comments. I’m certainly not complaining. As I said, I always enjoy feedback, whatever the subject. I’m just amused by how unpredictable it can be.
The image is by Sergej Medovikov. I found it on the Marquise tumblr.
You’re right. The video is pure schlock. It’s everything I hate about BDSM. The Domme is mere wank-fodder for unreconstructed macho men, fumbling with the frisson of being in the power of a beautiful dominant woman, but not following through with the implications.
And let’s face it, there is a dark side of BDSM that simply reinforces an antediluvian patriarchal view of what women and men are.
The weird thing is that it’d actually be a lot edgier and probably more controversial if they left out all the murder and violence and finished with the dom/sub holding hands/cuddling/walking into the sunset/whatever. Make the statement that you can do crazy kink stuff and not be punished in life would raise hackles. Where simply turning it into another crappy shock horror flick makes it the same as a million others.
-paltego