What Should A Slave Girl Look Like? --Stringent Bondage

This image is courtesy of the former Shortfuse Productions, a commercial bondage site and a damn good one until its owner Cory Thompson died. There is much that filmmakers, especially R-rated filmmakers, can learn from commercial bondage filmmakers.

For example, this slave girl outfit is something that almost any primitive society might easily make. It's all leather straps and steel rings. Replace the steel with bronze, iron, or even carved wooden rings (or don't if your budget is sufficiently low -- just paint or electroplate the steel rings to look like bronze) and you're on target. Replace them with the undyed brown leather that is more commonly associated with ancient times, and you're even better. But the ancients had the ability to dye leather too, so it's hardly necessary.

Ratings concerns can easily be satisfied here. Put your actress in a leather bikini underneath the straps and you're in PG territory. This outfit was made for an R rating though. Just look at the beauty and power of this image of a naked woman's gorgeous curves encased in nothing but leather straps. I especially like the way the leather straps isolate and accentuate the roundness of her breasts. (I also think the leather strap that encircles her hips below the iron ring is a mistake -- the woman has gorgeous hips, much better to let their lines flow cleanly from her waist strap to the joint of her thigh.)

This outfit fits comfortably within the R rating since the joy strap covers her pubes, and as we pointed out in "What Should A Slave Girl Look Like in A Sword and Sandal Flick?" the far end of the R rating apparently already accommodates naked pubes, even naked pubes extensively visible onscreen, so long as they're not being stuffed with anything or anyone. Covered pubes, however scantily covered, aren't anywhere near the edge of the envelope where the R rating is concerned. In fact, in the 1998 Skinamax comedy The Key To Sex had a close-up of actress Jacqueline Lovell's crotch covered by a much narrower strap than the one seen above. The R-rating envelope easily accommodates this image.

Jacquelline Lovell's sweet bits are covered by a narrow strap in a close-up from 1998's R-rated "The Key to Sex." A much narrower strap than the one worn by the model in the photo at the top of the page. Point made, I hope.

There are any number of viable rationales for displaying a slave girl bound as stringently as seen here. She could be a misbehaving slave girl being punished by being put in harsh bondage. She could be the heroine or other female victim captured by evil bad guys who bind women up like this because they're evil bad guys. (Imagine a Princess Leia-like character captured by the bad guys and then seen naked and bound like this -- powerful stuff.)

The slave girl could also be a new capture, still wild and escape attempt-prone, put in tight bondage to calm her down and convince her of her helplessness.

Bondage like this is dramatically powerful, and also inherently beautifying, as the straps contrast nicely with the soft, curvy flesh of the woman. The gag is especially dramatic, with the slave girl's mouth force wide open and her eyes closed as if she is engaged in a struggle to remain calm despite being so completely helpless, unable even to close her mouth.

It's powerful imagery. Some intelligent filmmaker really ought to steal, er, "borrow from" it.