1. What the hell is going on here?
That should be obvious. Alien spiders are taking over the Earth and using this website to soften up Earth's moral resolve before digesting it.
2. Does your mama know you do this stuff?
C'mon. Of course not. No regular guy tells his mama about stuff like this.
3. What is the purpose of this site?
To make money for me and also entertain persons on the web, possibly informing them about sexual bondage imagery as I do so. But probably just entertaining them. That alone works for us.
4. Who's this "us" you are talking about?
It's the editorial "we." Which means me and my worldwide network of evil minions who assist me in my plans for achieving world domination, when they can get time off from work and so forth. Mostly they're fans of mainstream bondage imagery in particular and sexual bondage in general.
5. Why do your articles and reviews have this fixation on sexual bondage imagery in mainstream media? Commercial bondage porn not good enough for ya?
In a sense. For me, mainstream scenes will always have an illicit thrill that commercial bondage scenes do not. Commercial bondage filmmakers know what they're doing when they create a bondage scene, that's why they're so good. They're dealing directly with the sexual aspects of the scene, fully informed by their own bondage fantasies as to what they should be doing.
Mainstream filmmakers have no idea what they're doing. Mostly they're working strictly from their subconscious, which explains why their work is often half-formed, badly thought out, badly lit and generally plays out like something you might see in a dream. Half the time the bonds are in serious danger of falling off the damsels if they aren't careful.
Because they don't know what they're doing, they're often more revealing, in an unintentional sort of way, than those who know what they're doing, i.e., commercial bondage filmmakers. Mainstream filmmakers and TV producers are like mental patients who try to carefully present the "right" mental state to their keepers, but who unknowingly reveal themselves when asked to examine ink blots or make drawings.
I think most of the time when there's a bondage element in a mainstream movie or TV show, the subconscious motives work in parallel with the dramatic motives for the scene. That is, you tie up a damsel so there will be suspense -- will she escape, or will she be rescued before something bad happens to her. And if something bad does happen, how bad will it get?
But in the matter of the sexual element, things tend to be murky, because most of the time the directors and actresses playing the damsels aren't dealing directly with it. A commercial bondage actress who's tied naked in a hogtie and ballgagged with another naked woman tweaking her nipples and rubbing her pussy understands that there's a sexual element to her bondage. An actress standing fully clothed with her wrists tied together in front of her might not understand it. (Her director certainly does not understand it, or she wouldn't be tied like that.)
What's this stuff you keep blathering about with regard to your bondage erotica, about your being a hentai-style writer?
I call myself a hentai-style writer because hentai combine strong plotting and (sometimes) strong characterization. There are some cultural differences between Japanese and U.S. culture that give hentai a great advantage over U.S. adult films. Simply put, the Japanese are capable of presenting sexual elements in a story in a direct and unembarrassed way, something that's very hard for U.S. or European filmmmakers to do. When there are strong sex scenes in a U.S. or European film, they tend to BECOME the film. It's porn or it's mainstream and nothing in between.
In the literary world, this bifurcation has more or less disappeared, with mainstream writers expressing themselves freely on matters sexual, including matters relating to erotic bondage. To name three off the top of my head, The Collector by John Fowles, The Fan Club by Irving Wallace and Johanna Lindsey's A Pirate's Love need only increase the frequency and intensity of their sex scenes to qualify as full-on bondage erotica. Arguably, Lindsey and Wallace's works don't have to increase theirs a LOT to qualify. Some would say, they're already there.
Most especially there is John Norman's brilliant series of Gor novels, fantasy novels set on the planet Gor which feature the adventures of slavegirls and barbaric heroes. They feature strong plotting, interesting societies, and (sometimes) strong characterization.
Sadly, bondage erotica writers are still noodling around with no plot and characterization to speak of except for shabby constructs that shore up the sex scenes and do very little else. They tend to feature mysterious and pointless Academies and secret societies filled with people who really want to tie other people up, and people who really want to be tied up. So the people who like to tie people up tie up the people who like to be tied up. The end.
I think the bondage erotica writers would be smart to integrate strong plots and characterizations with their strong sexual content, just as hentai creators in Japan do with their adult anime. And that's what I'm trying to do here.
Wasn't your old site, Jolly Roper, an out-and-out porn site?
I called it that, but it never was much of a porn site .I think erotica is a better fit for the stories I write, and the articles, although they deal with sex and bondage, aren't pornographic in nature at all. So the mainstream approach seems more fitting than the other.
So how's that plan for world domination going?
So far, I may have intimidated about four square meters on the northwestern coast of Iceland. There's work to be done! |