Hi All,
I’ve got a fun and different week- working, but almost like a holiday. I’m helping out as crew for Dreams Of Spanking then doing the lighting for the last shoot for an indie film.
It is soooooo relaxing not being the producer, it not being my responsibility to solve every problem and make sure everything and everyone works OK. I just get to concentrate on my actual job. Best of all, I even get paid at the end of it, instead of having to write thousands of pounds worth of cheques and hope I make the money back eventually! 🙂
Anyway I’ve got a few minutes before I head off so I thought I’d post about a couple of ideas we have for knew bondage videos for Restrained Elegance.
Would you be interested in watching videos in either of the following occasional series?
Maximum Bondage
There are some ties we don’t regularly do on video because once the model is in them, she can’t really do much struggling- she can barely move a muscle. In the course of a dramatic story, that can be tricky because the video wouldn’t have any progression or variation to carry the video through.
These tougher ties are also something she might not be able to stay in for very long so our shooting time could be very limited.
Ariel suggested it would be hot to shoot some videos which are just that- a girl in a very demanding or stringent bondage position, shot for just the few minutes she can stand it, with her really not able to do much at all.
Like a short sharp shock- Maximum Bondage.
Is that something you’d like to see?
Politically Incorrect
As responsible producers, a BDSM couple who play in our real life and (hopefully) as decent human beings, we are thoroughly opposed to discrimination, sexual stereotyping, lack of consideration to others and the principle of consent for absolutely everything we do with and to each other as reasonable intelligent members of society.
We often make films about kinky girls who like to be tied up, because in real life we think you only should tie up someone who wants to be tied and who enjoys it. This makes us a bit reticent about portraying scenes which could be seen as misogynistic or non-consensual, even when it would be hot to inject a bit of that.
I know I definitely feel a reticence to put some storylines down on paper because I worry about how it might look to non-kinksters. Which I tell myself is silly, because the people who pay to watch are probably kinky!
And as kinky people we know- sometimes the hottest fantasies are about vanilla characters. Kidnap fantasies are hot. Slave girls in the fantasy don’t always have to have signed up for it. Interrogation fantasies are hot. Objectifying a person can be hot.
The actors or players in a BDSM movie/scene could be playing vanilla roles. The actors/players are there consensually and are enjoying it, but the characters they are playing in the scene do not.
All sorts of things we think are a really bad thing in real life are hot in fantasy if you do it right. One of the purposes of a bondage website should be to explore those fantasies in a safe, sane and consensual context so you KNOW the people in the movie were having a good time making it.
It would embolden me to write more powerful/dramatic/full-blooded/non-consensual storylines if I could tag them as being part of an occasional series, so that the people who really prefer our love bondage/funny/consensually kinky videos don’t get a nasty shock.
Restrained Elegance Nights was our first go at this, but I’d like to shoot some with other models as well as Ariel sometimes. So I was wondering if you’d be interested in watching some “politically incorrect” videos with bad stuff happening to vanilla girls?
(Politically Incorrect may not be the best name for the series- anyone have a better title for it, by the way?)
Love to know what you think!
Cheers, Hywel.
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I like to see some interaction in a bondage video, but I came across a nice one the other day that had the model talking to camera at first, then doing a voice over once gagged, so that’s one thought for how to add some interaction to maximum bondage videos. That level of restraint is interesting, but the video risks quickly getting dull.
As for Politically Incorrect, how about “Forbidden Fantasy”? Kidnap is a hot fantasy, and while I generally like romantic, I am curious to see how this could turn out 🙂
“Maximum Bondage” sparks my interest but also sends my mind into loads of over-analysis and complex issues, some of which involve the safety of the model (where I know you would never actually compromise your standards). Perhaps better for the moment to keep these ties within the mainstream, judging each one whether it works in terms of its own story and the standard criteria of the site.
As you say, the site is already full of the politically incorrect: slavegirls, kidnapping, sexual harrassment of employees etc etc. Perhaps the name for a special set should emphasise what it is – fantasy roleplay. What about something like, “Darker Fantasies”, “Ultimate Unreality” or “Even Further Fetched Fun”?
I love both of these ideas so much – they properly hit a lot of my buttons in that I do have darker fantasies and I adore strict bondage… How about Distressed Elegance for the politically incorrect idea? Or even just keep it in the Restrained Elegance Nights ‘branding’?
I would cautiously recommend the latter, although both are interesting – and I would second the suggestion that you choose a different name than ‘politically incorrect’. I think celebrating (or appearing to celebrate) political incorrectness would put you in the company of some genuinely morally ugly people – the Richard Littlejohns of this world – whereas what you are proposing to do is just to make some sexually exciting stories, which seems perfectly nice and reasonable to me!
Your project made me think of something else: the early twentieth century pulps were full of stories of this kind. Innocent heroines would regularly wind up being kidnapped, bound, losing their clothes etc. In Edgar Rice Burroughs Mars stories the heroines spend most of their time in the nude and being captured; in the darker stories of someone like Russell Gray the fantasies become downright sadistic and disturbing, practically torture porn.
I mention this because you talked, a while back, about the problem of making a kinky film that was art. These stories were deeply kinky, but they were also artistic, albeit in a trashy or geeky way – some of the better ones told stories in which you were genuinely concerned about the fate of the characters whilst also enjoying them on an erotic level. It depends, I suppose, on how far you want to push things into horror – something like Russell Gray’s “Fresh Fiancees for the Devil’s Daughter” is quite difficult reading precisely because it moves back and forth between eroticism with an edge to it (hunting naked women! crazy 1930s dominatrix!) and absolutely horrifying, upsetting torture (in which two women are burned to death). So there is definitely a balance to be found!
Of course, better storytelling is just one way that you an incorporate art into porn – the French and Japanese are particularly good at doing it in other ways. But it might kill two birds with one stone, so to speak, to mingle bondage with an element of danger or terror.