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Pillory Table

James Piatt’s exemplary effort at bondage home furnishings was in the back of my mind when I mentioned Slave in a Box. Finally I remembered the magic words Pillory Table. When I frst saw it years ago I felt real regret that I have no ability with tools (so much for generalizations about men).

The mere discomfort alone is exciting.

Pillory Table Bondage Furniture

But imagine being forced to skip a couple of meals and then join your top at supper time.

Pillory Table Woman in Bondage

Bondage is kind of dreamy.

Slave in a Box

The first time I saw this sort of bondage it was a table. The slave’s head went through an opening at the cetner an the neck was then locked into place. If one were engaged in starvation play the owner could eat while the hungry bound slave watched.

Slave Boyfriend in a Box
Boyfriend in a Box

As BDSM boxing scenarios go this is a fairly light one. Some of my most psychologically brutal fantasies involve being boxed. Despite my real inclinations in the direction of emotional masochism I doubt that I’d really have the same capacity as I do with strong physical pain.

Boy Slaves

The title Boy Slaves is more exciting than what was a rather earnest 1930s RKO movie.

Boy Slaves Face the Whip

Just let your imagination run wild.

Chained Upside Down & Beaten

That hanging someone by their arms could seriously damage soft tissue was one of the first practical things I read about bondage. Since then I’ve read that during the pursuit of Roman Catholics in Renaissance England captured Jesuits were often hung by their own body weight as torture sufficient to extort a confession. If it was good enough for the Star Chamber I can easily admit it would be too much for me.

So all those dreams of being left hanging and helpless had to be put aside.

Legs are stronger aren’t they? Aren’t they?

Well, a beating is still a beating.

Upside down man in chains

Spoken Humiliation

Written as a reply to a question:

Femdom verbal humiliation
Illustration by Juan Puyal.

I think you’ll find that verbal humiliation is one of those things that grows easier as you do it. (BTW, I’m a fan of switches and interested in BDSM as erotic play, not a lifestyle.)

The most common form of spoken degradation is to attack the guy’s masculinity. Telling him that he’s a sissy, a bitch, wimp. Some men get a thrill out of having the size of their penises mocked. None of this works for me personally but this is the most popular kind of harsh talking.

Related is men who want to be condemned because of their gender. They are inferior because they are male.

Slut seems to be a frequent word. Again, not for me. But it always implies the man has a sexually healthy appetite in a backhanded way.

Much spoken humiliation is fairly generic: “You are worthless!”

From my own perspective what you say only matters so much. It is the harsh or sarcastic tone that sends my spinal column into a frenzy.

Some tops fear seeming too theatrical, stiff and fake. If a man is feeling submissive he isn’t usally in the mood to practice literary criticism. He just helplessly responds.

Generally I think it is a bad idea to humiliate someone for something that genuinely troubles him in everyday life. E.g., if he’s overweight. A very few find it therapeutic. But unless you are sure you may kill the scene, even the relationship.

What you know about him will really be your guide.

You don’t seem like the kind of person who needs to be reminded of aftercare. This can be a really deep form of power exchange.

Original context: Creativity & Variety in D/s

Vintage Male Bondage Photograph

As old posing strap model bondage photographs go this is more convincing than many.

Vintage posing strap model in bondage.

Sadistic Santa

This is why St. Nick keeps a list of all those who are naughty.

Sadistic Santa Flogging Boy

Slave on the Rack

I’ve been resisting the urge to post more photographs here. I don’t really want another image blog. But:

  • I don’t want the site to go so long without fresh material.
  • I’m not sure that I want some of this on Queer Pop Culture where I’ve allowed the kink quotient to rise higher than intended.

Thanks to the fantasy adventure movies of my childhood I saw men being tortured on the rack as a boy. As my youthful masochism emerged being stretched out and tormented on such a rack was frequent feature in the little sadomasochistic playlets I told myself in bed.

Knowledge may bring power but even more so an awareness of limitations. Joints and ligaments are easily overstressed or even torn. So barring an exceptionally able sadist in a very mild scene racks aren’t that great a reality. Especially as you age.

Male Slave on Torture Rack

Male Slave in Christmas Bondage

Holiday Bondage Cheer

Male slave in Christmas bondage, -gay man gagged as present.

Don’t unwrap until Christmas?

Master / Mistress Please Read Your Profile

You don’t have to be superhuman to write a tolerable personal ad or online profile.

Imagine Superman writing a personal ad

Elsewhere I’ve criticized and suggested ways in which submissive guys might improve their profiles and personal ads. But many dominant (men) are just as bad.

I wouldn’t bother to bitch about tops who don’t know the difference between dominant and dominate. Or the men who think the ellipsis a universal punctuation mark.

What startles me is the (hope to be) Masters who post a profile and obviously never look at it a second time.

There’s a fellow who claims to be searching for a 14/7 relationship. I don’t believe his profile. I bet he really wants a 24/7 slave.

Another top must have copied and pasted his profile text from a word-processing program. What he wants a potential submissive person to read is interlarded with the sort of metadata that you get from MS Word and the like.

Both of these profiles have been up for a long stretch. The author of neither has never gone back to read what he wrote. As the frustration of not hearing from anyone continues each probably feels picked on by fate.

Speaking for my own branch of submissive masochist: one thing that a top must inspire is respect. Not writing a minimally intelligible, readable profile is a sure way to prevent respect from ever developing.