From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Bondage pornography
Bondage pornography
Bondage pornography specializes in the depiction of sex- published by the same title. Such practice cut costs and
ual bondage or BDSM activities, as photographs, stories, allowed a streamlined output of material.
movies, or drawings. Another type of magazine was the "compendium
magazine", usually consisting of a large number of in-
Detective magazines, comic dividual photographs drawn from previous magazines,
without any linking story.
books and early fetish maga- Because of their relatively small circulation, com-
pared with mainstream pornography, most bondage
zines magazines were printed in black and white, except for
In the early 20th century, "Detective magazines" covertly the cover and centerfold. In the 1980s and 1990s, exper-
provided a way of publishing bondage imagery. Comic iments were made with adding more color content, but
books often featured characters being tied up and tying most magazine content remained black and white.
others up, particularly in "damsel in distress" plots. The attitude of some the early magazines could be re-
There were also a very limited number of specialist garded as misogynistic, in spite of editorial disclaimers
fetish magazines which featured images of bondage, such that the magazines represented only fantasies, as the sto-
as the famous Bizarre magazine published from 1946 to rylines deviated from the old-fashioned damsel-in-dis-
1959 by the pioneering fetish photographer John Willie, tress motif towards more restrictive and explicit BDSM
and ENEG’s Exotique magazine, published 1956-1959. Th- practices. However, in reality the opposite effect often
ese disappeared with a crackdown on pornography in happened: as a bondage performer was cast in more ma-
the late 1950s. New York photographer Irving Klaw also terial and engaged in more acts, she would often develop
published illustrated adventure/bondage serials by fetish a stronger fan base and became a recognized star in her
artists Eric Stanton, Gene Bilbrew, Adolfo Ruiz and oth- own right. Nikki Dial and Ashley Renee are two examples
ers. Klaw ran an international mail-order business out of of performers who won awards for their work as subs in
his store, Movie Star News, selling cheesecake pinups and bondage videos, and typically endured the most punish-
bondage/spanking photos. His most famous model was ment.
Bettie Page, who became the first celebrity of bondage In the 1990s, as homosexuality and bi-sexuality began
film and photography. to be more socially acceptable, magazine publishers
started to produce femdom material depicting men in
bondage, as well as portraying female models as partici-
Bondage magazines return pants in mutually satisfying bondage games, usually with
Dedicated bondage magazines again became popular in at least one actress performing as a dom and at least one
America in the 1970s. Publishers of bondage magazines as a sub. Sometimes, the roles of dom and sub would be
included Harmony Concepts, Inc. and the House of Milan reversed. Be Be LeBadd and Alexis Payne are two profes-
(HOM, Inc.), and Lyndon Distributors Limited. House of sional dominatrices who also found themselves on the re-
Milan have since been purchased by Lyndon Distributors ceiving end of a whip from time to time.
Limited. As the Internet becomes more widely available as a
These magazines were not generally available delivery vehicle for pornographic material, the bondage
through mainstream distributors, and were sold either in magazine market is beginning to decrease.
sex shops or by mail order. They contained little adver-
tising content, and were therefore entirely supported by
the cover price.
Bondage websites and bondage
Typically, each magazine consisted of several multi- imagery in mainstream
page pictorials of tied-up women, often with a fictional
narrative attached, and one fictional story of three or pornography
four pages in length. Sometimes pictorials were replaced As of 2003, specialist bondage magazines have been most-
by artwork by a fetish artist and/or included an inter- ly displaced by the availability of bondage material on
view with one of the performers in the industry. In the the World Wide Web, and the presence of bondage im-
case of House of Milan and Lyndon Distributors, the mag- agery in mainstream pornographic magazines such as
azines were simply illustrated text versions of videos Nugget and Hustler’s Taboo magazine.
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Bondage pornography
However, the tradition of bondage magazines contin- • Irving Klaw
ues in the form of "art books" of bondage photographs, • FM Concepts
published by mainstream publishers such as Taschen. • Bondage artist
Certain websites have begun providing bondage • Fetish photographer
videos and photographs featuring kidnapping roleplay • Bondage model
that has largely been the hallmark of ’detective’ style • Sadism and masochism in fiction
bondage magazines. These styles are much closer to the • Insex
style of bondage scenes in mainstream television. • List of bondage magazines
• Bondage rigger
See also
• Japanese bondage
External links
• Sexual fetishism • "Between the Rubber Sheets: A Look at Modern
• Spanking magazine Fetish Magazines", essay by D.K. Holm
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Categories:
• Bondage
• Pornography by genre
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