Bondage Punishment For “Suffragists”
When the suffragettes first began agitating for the right to vote, a lot of people really didn’t approve:
The full-head press to keep her from talking is a particularly clever (if cruel) touch.
Elsewhere on Bondage Blog:
OK, someone has to ask. Why 56 pounds? Is there some significance?
Possibly a reference to Murial Matters, who took to the skies in an airship in 1909 in an attempt to drop 56 pounds of Women’s Freedom League pamphlets on Parliament?
[…] If this is what I think it is, it’s cruel propaganda from the British fight over women’s sufferage, as in this post: […]