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Hi All,
If you’ve ever used the “Advanced Search” facility on the site or looked at the “Daily Top Ten” sets, you’ll have seen that we categorise our photosets and sets according to keywords. So if you are only interested in handcuff sets or nude sets or ballgag or collar sets, you can select just those sets automatically.
We realised that we do not currently have a good list of keywords to describe the “storyline theme” or “feeling” of the sets. I wonder if you could help us come up with a list, that would help you select the sort of sets you like and let us know how sets of each type go down.
We have a few such keywords already- Self Bondage, Slave Training, Humiliation, CP/Spanking/Whipping for example, but we have not really got a definitive list. I can think of the following, do these sound sensible? Can you add any? A given set might end up in more than one category, which is fine, and quite a few sets might not end up in any category (like Ariel’s lexicon sets which are storyline free, or the recent Sophia Kept on her tip-toes set which is basically pure bondage).
How about…
Self Bondage
Love Bondage/Consensual
Dominance and Submission
Kidnap/Abduction
Slave Training
Pet Training
Damsel in Distress
Punishment bondage (where the bondage itself is meant to be a punishment)
Discipline/CP/Spanking
Interrogation
Torture
Revenge Bondage (like taking revenge on the bitch boss, etc.)
Office/workplace/Secretary bondage
Harem
Judicial/Prison
Humiliation
Predicament Bondage
Playing rough (here I mean girls pretending to be vanilla but into it really, I guess)
BDSM scene (like something you might see at a BDSM club night, quite a theatrical scene)
Realistic setting (like something set in a vaguely realistic office, say)
Elegant Fantasy Setting (like “RE mansion houses” and private islands)
Unreal Fantasy Setting (like unrealistic pirates, spirits of the air, science fiction spaceships, etc.)
Historical Setting (something meant to be at least vaguely real world in flavour, even if a bit “camped up”)
Pure Bondage (just a model being tied up and being photographed, nothing more or less)Does this sound like a good idea? Would you find it useful? Have you got any better categories or more to suggest?
Cheers, Hywel
I’d suggest adding a keyword like “Pleasure Bondage” or some such, for sets where the captive is obviously enjoying her bondage and/or is receiving forced pleasure.
Also, I’d suggest replacing “Realistic setting,” “Elegant Fantasy Setting,” and “Unreal Fantasy Setting” with “Present-day Setting,” “Elegant Setting,” and “Otherworldly Setting.” The “Elegant Setting” keyword would combine with and be orthogonal to the Historical, Present-Day, and Otherworldly setting keywords.
Thus Elegant Setting + Present-day Setting would be your private island, while a “typical” modern-day office would just be a Present-day setting. Likewise in a Historical Setting, the “Elegant Setting” keyword would distinguish between a captive princess in a richly-furnished bedroom of a medieval castle, vs a captive scullery maid in the workaday kitchen of that castle.
The list of ‘official’ RE keywords could be more prominently displayed. Maybe for the basic Search, add an entry for “add keyword,” followed by a list of the official keywords, to the “search any word/search all words” drop-down list. If the searcher picks a keyword, have the page add the keyword to his search terms in the text box.
On the Advanced Search page, maybe allow Boolean searches, instead of having a keyword drop-down list, and also give a list of the ‘official’ keywords along with a brief ‘cheat-sheet’ of the Boolean search syntax you use.
I can see the keywords are a good idea for those who are specially interested in particular types of picture/video but I wouldn’t worry about it too much. I am much happier browsing through the pages. What attracted me to RE (and continues to do so) is that it does not define itself primarily by content but by quality. So one of my trivial comments is that I would leave off the “Elegant” from “Fantasy Setting”. OK, you have occasions (like “Land Slave Girls” and “After the Fall”) where the setting isn’t exactly elegant but – face it – “elegant” is what you do.
Second trivial point: I wouldn’t use “consensual” as any part of your keywords. I think I know what you mean but you don’t want to give anyone an excuse for alleging that anything on the site is not 100% consensual.
I would keep keywords within the “search” facility. I keep worrying myself that once or twice you have done something that takes me by surprise and that I would have liked a warning about – but I think that’s a different topic.
Funny, but the two things Lurker puts together are ones I would keep well apart. So any categories will be imprecise and subjective.
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