Comments on: Giving Back at Suit Supply: Terry Richardson for Vogue Paris http://www.tinynibbles.com/blogarchives/2010/12/giving-back-at-suit-supply-terry-richardson-for-vogue-paris.html Journalist and author Violet Blue's site for sex and tech culture, accurate sex information, erotica and more. Tue, 26 May 2015 17:18:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Blueworld http://www.tinynibbles.com/blogarchives/2010/12/giving-back-at-suit-supply-terry-richardson-for-vogue-paris.html/comment-page-1#comment-10408 Blueworld Sun, 12 Dec 2010 22:13:36 +0000 http://www.tinynibbles.com/?p=7071#comment-10408 I'm surprised to find I think that this picture is much less sexy than the Suit Supply campaign. I think it's because this one is even more contrived. The women have been posed above an exposed man, but they don't look like they could dominate their way out of a wet paper bag. For one thing, they look totally uninterested in him, and the one holding the brand is in a weird position. Dominance isn't necessarily about physical power, but there's a physical tool being used here and I don't believe these models are actually strong enough to pick up the branding iron in the first place. Also, I wish we could see his ass better. I’m surprised to find I think that this picture is much less sexy than the Suit Supply campaign. I think it’s because this one is even more contrived. The women have been posed above an exposed man, but they don’t look like they could dominate their way out of a wet paper bag. For one thing, they look totally uninterested in him, and the one holding the brand is in a weird position. Dominance isn’t necessarily about physical power, but there’s a physical tool being used here and I don’t believe these models are actually strong enough to pick up the branding iron in the first place.

Also, I wish we could see his ass better.

]]> By: Bacchus http://www.tinynibbles.com/blogarchives/2010/12/giving-back-at-suit-supply-terry-richardson-for-vogue-paris.html/comment-page-1#comment-10283 Bacchus Fri, 03 Dec 2010 14:17:56 +0000 http://www.tinynibbles.com/?p=7071#comment-10283 For some odd reason I woke up thinking about this and trying to think if I'd ever seen a similar image with a roped <b>woman</b> being branded like cattle. Sex blogging since 2002 my visual vocabulary is very large -- it's not possible for any one person to have "seen it all" but I have seen a lot. Oh, my children, the things I have seen. But there must be one hell of a set of taboos around this, because I have not seen it. Actual female branding in voluntary body modification and BDSM/slave contexts, I have seen aplenty. And the fantasy version in prose (Pauline Reage, John Norman, a million imitators) of the female slave branded by her master, often against her will, I have seen. Likewise in graphic novel form. (Guido Crepax, Gary Roberts, et al.) I have even seen dungeon/torture/inquisition style scenes of threatened or simulated female branding, in BDSM photo shoots ranging from the HOM-style magazines of the 1970s and 1980s through more modern productions. But something analogous to this photo? A visually light-hearted play on the western tropes of calf-roping and cattle-branding, featuring a woman in the position that the man is in, above? Nope. I've seen women being herded, women being lassood, women being led along at the end of a lariat, women being auctioned and sold, even anime of them being ear-tagged and locked into milking machines, but roped like a yearling and branded on the ass? Haven't seen it. I have faith an example can be found out there; it never pays to bet against Rule 34. But right now, I can't bring one to mind. (Interestingly, I have no trouble at all thinking of a porn example starring a male in the branded role -- there's an old Stantoons comic by Eric Stanton in which a rapist cowboy gets branded just like that by a couple of his former victims.) For some odd reason I woke up thinking about this and trying to think if I’d ever seen a similar image with a roped woman being branded like cattle.

Sex blogging since 2002 my visual vocabulary is very large — it’s not possible for any one person to have “seen it all” but I have seen a lot. Oh, my children, the things I have seen.

But there must be one hell of a set of taboos around this, because I have not seen it.

Actual female branding in voluntary body modification and BDSM/slave contexts, I have seen aplenty. And the fantasy version in prose (Pauline Reage, John Norman, a million imitators) of the female slave branded by her master, often against her will, I have seen. Likewise in graphic novel form. (Guido Crepax, Gary Roberts, et al.) I have even seen dungeon/torture/inquisition style scenes of threatened or simulated female branding, in BDSM photo shoots ranging from the HOM-style magazines of the 1970s and 1980s through more modern productions.

But something analogous to this photo? A visually light-hearted play on the western tropes of calf-roping and cattle-branding, featuring a woman in the position that the man is in, above? Nope. I’ve seen women being herded, women being lassood, women being led along at the end of a lariat, women being auctioned and sold, even anime of them being ear-tagged and locked into milking machines, but roped like a yearling and branded on the ass? Haven’t seen it.

I have faith an example can be found out there; it never pays to bet against Rule 34. But right now, I can’t bring one to mind.

(Interestingly, I have no trouble at all thinking of a porn example starring a male in the branded role — there’s an old Stantoons comic by Eric Stanton in which a rapist cowboy gets branded just like that by a couple of his former victims.)

]]> By: V http://www.tinynibbles.com/blogarchives/2010/12/giving-back-at-suit-supply-terry-richardson-for-vogue-paris.html/comment-page-1#comment-10273 V Wed, 01 Dec 2010 20:22:52 +0000 http://www.tinynibbles.com/?p=7071#comment-10273 Oh! Love it, maybe you could write something about the clothes=power conundrum and how it's used in porn. Japanese hentai is really into this, you usually only see a guy's dick in the nude. Oh! Love it, maybe you could write something about the clothes=power conundrum and how it’s used in porn. Japanese hentai is really into this, you usually only see a guy’s dick in the nude.

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