Over the years I’ve poked fun at a fair number of domme outfits. This vintage photograph is one of the rare examples where the WTF factor is all about the submissive. I’d love to know what the thinking was behind the spikes. Shouldn’t it be the submissive in the predicament situation, not everyone around her? That rather striking domme is going to feel pretty silly if she stabs herself while trying to apply her flogger. Perhaps it’s designed as an all body chastity device? No matter how cute she might be, you can’t get close enough to enjoy any sort of intimate encounter.
According to this tweet, it’s from Studio Biederer around 1935.
The only idea that springs to my mind is that the spikes were meant to prevent the object from lying down and to sleep. Sleep deprivation is the most efficiant punishment/torture and in real slavery back in the old days, collars with long protruding spikes were uses as punishment.
Interesting thought. Hadn’t thought about that angle. It’s obviously posed, so actual sleep deprivation could be involved, but maybe it is drawing on those old ideas. Thanks for sharing!
-paltego