Well, since his site is all about silk and satin blouses and silk scarf fetish, I guess it isn’t going to be to one’s taste if one prefers nude damsels. The blouses are his primary fetish, I think, since he also runs a non-bondage blouse fetish site (http://www.blousesforsex.com).

It’s a perfect example of not being able to appeal to everyone. I’m sure his members absolutely adore the fact that the girls are wearing blouses, and the blouses don’t disappear as soon as the ropes appear. So whilst he might be able to appeal to a different audience running a nude bondage site, that isn’t likely to be of interest to his existing membership… and probably not to him, either.

So the business-empire-building thing to do would be to launch more sites covering a wider range of interests- like nude bondage (or barefoot bondage, or gags, or whatever).

I’ve noticed that photographer who branch out into fetishes they don’t really share often run into problems. It is why I don’t shoot fem-dom, despite having tried it once or twice and having been approached to do it more often. There might be money in it, but I don’t get the fetish so I don’t see the little details that make the difference between a site that looks superficially OK, and one which really works if that’s your fetish.

For example, MadMax commented that Bhowani’s ropework looks top notch- something you get, because you are into bondage, and Bhowani delivers because he is also into bondage, and RE hopefully also delivers because we too are into bondage. Look at the bondage websites which are part of the mainstream porn production houses, and the bondage is often desultory or lame, because they DON’T get it. Which means it is very disappointing – and is why niche bondage websites like ours can still exist even though we’re not part of a larger conglomerate.

In the end I think each photographer and producer has to shoot what appeals to them, and put it out there primarily for people who are into the same things to enjoy.

Cheers, Hywel.

I love the clothed damsel, “Lois Lane” type of photos. I know I am showing my age (59) but I grew up with the Confidential Detective magazines that almost always depicted a clothed damsels in distress.
Depictions of real life tie-ups are very stimulating to me.

John Willie, Sally Roberts, Kane, Rope Expert, Bindher etc proved that a lady does not have to be totally nude with all kinds of devices stuck in varies parts of her body to be appealing.
I love the old fashioned, lurid, tied to a chair in an old dark basement to be the best.
In my opinion some of the best work I have ever viewed revolve around Ariel and Bindher.