Top Chef

I recently added the ‘Sadist Next Door’ to my blog roll. It’s written by Mistress Crimson, a professional dominatrix from Chicago. She has a number of interesting posts, but one that really caught my eye was about food. She quotes Anthony Bourdain on eating as an act of submission.

It is about giving up all vestiges of control, about entrusting fate entirely to someone else. It is about turning off the mean, manipulative, calculating and shrewd person inside of you and slipping heedlessly into a new experience as if it were a warm bath. It is about shutting down the radar and letting good things happen. Let it happen to you.

Antony Bourdain, from his book ‘The Nasty Bits’

As both a huge food fan and a submissive I can completely relate to this. Some of the best meals of my life have been when I’ve simply entrusted myself to the chef and let him completely direct the flow of the meal. On the flip side, I also get very frustrated when I’m eating with people who keep trying to grab control from the chef and mess around with elements of the meal. I guess that’s the dining equivalent of topping from the bottom.

Of course as in any D/s relationship, you have to be sure the dominant knows what he or she is doing. A masochist’s delight in suffering doesn’t translate to the food domain quite as well as a submissive tendency does!

Fuchsia

I think this is a great drawing, although I’ve no real idea what the artist was originally trying to convey. The rod and apple have fairly obvious symbology, but the collared chrome pig and the initialed dog dish are a little more puzzling. At first I thought it was a fetishized femdom version of a political cartoon. It feels like there should be a caption about decadent fat bankers in thrall to cruel Mistress Capitalism. But as far as I can tell from the artist’s comments, it’s just a drawing of and for a friend, in a style inspired by the famous Hajime Sorayama.

Fuchsia by PapaNinja (Serge Birault)The artist is Serge Birault. He goes under the handle PapaNinja at his deviant art site, and he has a gallery site where you can purchase his work.

Chin Up

A few years ago a Japanese company was working on Internet smell-o-vision. Given the lack of scents wafting out of my new laptop, I’m guessing they never quite managed to figure it out. Which is a shame, as some images really cry out for an aromatic accompaniment. The brilliant John Waters was of course ahead of his time in this respect.

Chin UpThis image is originally from brutal-facesitting. I found it on the un-des-sens tumblr site. It’s a interesting tumblr site, as it has a lot of artist black and white photographs, rather than the usual grab bag of random reblogged tumblr porn. However, a fair number of the images seem to have started life as conventional porn, and then been manipulated to create slightly more interesting and distinctive pictures. Or manipulated to create artificially pretentious arty images, if you’re feeling cynical. Personally, I liked it a lot.

An arch of needles

I love everything about this image. The symmetry of it. The precision of the needle line. The sense of calm intensity. The shadowy figure of the domina, imposing and yet not defined. It’s probably my favorite image of all that I’ve posted to date.

Domina YukiIt’s taken from Domina Yuki’s tumblr site. She’s a professional dominant, working out of San Francisco, Her main website with details on arranging sessions can be found here.

I think my reaction to needle play was one of the biggest surprises I had (out of many) when first getting involved in BDSM. It had zero appeal at a fantasy level, and was something I’d recoil from if I came across it in femdom porn. In reality it turned out to be an amazingly intense and enjoyable activity. Although I have to admit to almost fainting on my first attempt, so minus several masochist points there. Fortunately, I have got a little better since then.

I was actually in a similar position to this gentleman a week or so ago, but instead of an arch across the chest, the mistress (Lady Lydia in my case) placed pairs of needles at the top of each arm, my hips, my shins and the edge of my hands. She then zigzagged cord back and forth between them under the table, anchoring me in place with some deliciously painful predicament bondage. That of course then left her free to start work with the needles on the nipples….

The new bed+chair combo from IKEA

Here’s an intriguing but slightly ominous piece of furniture. It becomes even more ominous when I tell you it’s taken from the same site that I based this previous post on.

As a bed it leaves something to be desired. There’s no padding and it’s not long enough to support the legs fully. But the chair part looks more comfortable. There’s a nicely padded box and a fabric back support.

Bed / Chair / ToiletSure enough, when you get to see it in action, the ladies seem quite happy about their side of the deal. Unfortunately it’s a little tricky to read his expression. The view may make up for the discomfort. But I’m guessing a hard surface to lie on is probably going to be the least of his problems by the time they’ve finished shooting the scene.

Bed / Chair / Toilet in useThis is from the Team-Rinryu site, which is associated in some way (not sure exactly how) with the yapoo market femdom series. Both these sites feature some very intense femdom content with all aspects of toilet play featured. If you’re at all squeamish about that kind of thing I’d suggest extreme caution if you follow those links. There’s some distinctly disturbing images there.

It’s not just for bad breath

Mistress Matisse had an interesting post last year about using Listerine strips in a scene. However, it turns out she’s not quite the original I thought she was. It seems that the artist annmo night had already sketched a few ideas around Listerine as a torture device, as the image below shows. It’s quite an inventive approach, as you’d expect from him. I suspect that there’s no scenario where the submissive wins. It’s just a question of which mistress wins when the submissive loses.

Listerine Roulette by Annmo Night