Posts in category BDSM Icons

Reading Time: 2 minutes Let’s give Jacob Stromnis a huge welcome to the world of BDSM porn production. Or, rather, a huge welcome back! Jacob has been a big influence in the kink community for a very long time. …

Reading Time: 2 minutes Five years after their award-winning and critically-acclaimed, trans leather lifestyle BDSM documentary The Training of Poe, Bella Vendetta partners with Chelsea Poe — with the aid of two well-regarded performers and an impressive list of …

Reading Time: < 1 minute In an effort to spread the good news (and eye candy) of their original fetish photography, Wasteland has hand-curated a collection of Safe-For-Work photos and short videos for the ever-popular site, Instagram. Wasteland founder and …

Reading Time: 4 minutes As BDSM continued to grow in underground popularity starting in the 1960’s, film directors took note of this and began creating Bondage movies for theatrical release in “Blue Cinemas” around the US and Europe.

Reading Time: 3 minutes Some of the earliest references to BDSM date back as far as 2250 B.C. The academic historian and archaeologist Anne Nomis identified BDSM in ancient Sumerian texts about rituals to the Goddess Inanna. Nomis points to ancient writings such as the Hymn to Inanna, which mentions rituals of domination, cross-dressing, altered states of consciousness, punishment, moaning, and ecstasy.

Reading Time: 2 minutes In her book, “Darklady’s Carnal Archives and Mesmerizing Hate Mail”, Darklady literally knocks it out of the park with the collection of past writings, combined with fiction, excellent quotes, personal confessions and (my favorite part at times), hate mail from people that read something she wrote and pushed back on her with moral outrage!

Reading Time: 9 minutes Masochism is the tendency to derive pleasure, especially sexual pleasure, from one’s own pain or humiliation, and its named after Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1839-95) the Austrian writer who described it so well in his novels. “Venus in Furs” is probably his best known work, a romantic tale which has at its heart a sado/masochistic relationship. From this work the term ‘masochism’ was coined, and Leopold received the ultimate accolade of having a whole perversion named after him.

Reading Time: 2 minutes ‘The Story of O’, written by Pauline Reage (a pen-name), is a milestone of modern SM literature and a true BDSM icon. Graham Greene described it as ‘A rare thing, a pornographic book well written and without a trace of obscenity’. The novel (originally published in French as Histoire d’O) tells the story of a young Parisian fashion photographer referred to only as O and her introduction to the world of sado-masochism at the hands of her lover Rene, the enigmatic ‘Sir Stephen’.

Reading Time: 2 minutes BDSM Icon – The Marquis de Sade The fun-loving dude who gave his name to the word ‘Sadist’ which is, as we all know, a person who derives pleasure, especially sexual gratification, from inflicting pain, …

Reading Time: 5 minutes Back in the 1950’s she started out as just another cute body hustling a living at the seedy end of the ‘adult entertainment’ industry but by the middle of that decade she was probably the most famous pin-up in the USA and also notorious for her fetish images. Then, at the height of her fame, she suddenly vanished!