Hows about a jigsaw of Ariel at her wedding and honeymoon I bet these would be best sellers and could start a new craze for jigsaws.

@arielanderssen wrote:

Hi Everyone,

Sorry (as always) for being absent from the forum while I’ve been balancing a location trip for RE with my own shoots around the UK and further afield. I’m back for a week, and working for RE again; so I wanted to take the opportunity to post about something that I’ve been wondering about for ages.

A blogger friend of mine recently started a poll on her blog; ‘What do you want to see from spanking porn’. It was an interesting read, but it suddenly made me consider something that’s been in the back of my mind for ages. IS what we shoot porn?

Obviously, I know the answer is both ‘yes’ and ‘no’ for lots of reasons. I’m aware that to some people any photography involving nudity is pornographic, whatever its intention. And I’m also aware that all sorts of things can be used for porn even if the intention of the creator was something quite different (I’m thinking of lingerie catalogues for example)

Now from time to time, both Hywel and I do describe our work as ‘porn’, but for me at least, that’s sort of a defence mechanism. If I call my work porn before anyone else can, it seems to take the power out of a possibly pejorative term, and I can’t be accused of disingenuously describing our work as something non-sexual, when it clearly has a sexual component to it.

But in all honestly, I don’t really think of Restrained Elegance primarily as porn. For myself, my bondage work represents a few different things;-

Firstly, its a sort of retrospective message to myself, and people like me. If I’d seen a site like RE when I was much younger and confused about my sexual identity, I think I’d have found it very comforting. So I sort of hope that people who are similarly confused will stumble across RE and be comforted that there are other people like them, and that bondage doesn’t have to be grungy, or woman-hating, or incredibly sexually explicit.

Secondly, I suppose I hope that it gives people ideas. That feels quite important to me. I hope that some of the things we’ve shot for RE have made people go and try versions of the ties, or the stories, or just the concepts themselves. I hope it sometimes helps people to work out what their kink actually is, if they’ve not tried much bondage yet. I like the feeling of being in the business of putting ideas about bondage onto the internet.

Thirdly, I hope it does turn people on. I really do, that seems like a good and important thing to do (obviously, not as important as some other jobs, I do see perspective is important!). But I’m not sure if that on its own actually makes a product into porn. Lots of mainstream films make me feel kind of sexy, if only because of the well chosen score, beautiful people, and exciting dramatic action. And that doesn’t really make the movie itself into porn (or not ONLY porn, anyway).

Fourthly, the bits of RE I’m involved with have become a sort of artistic representation of my relationship with Hywel. Which might sound sort of odd, but I think its pretty unavoidable, for me at least 🙂

So that’s probably enough from me. I’d love to hear other peoples’ perspectives on the subject if anyone feels brave enough to share their opinions!

I’m not at all opposed to, or upset by, the idea that some people might think ‘Oh, of COURSE it’s porn, don’t be so pretentious’ And I’m absolutely sure that some people do use Restrained Elegance for porn, and not for anything else at all. Which is absolutely, totally fine of course. But I’d be very interested to hear from anyone who, like me, doesn’t really think that’s ALL it is.

I would certainly say this is not porn there is no sexual act and there is taste , humour and great thought in the storyline none of this is found in a pornographic shoot. Lightspear states on his site that there is no porn here just fetish bondage images i agree Masterminty