American Crotch Rope

Even before a regular diet of exposure to Japanese porn taught American kinksters how to tie a rope harness that combines aesthetics with function (holding nice tight knots right against her clit and looking good doing it) our homeboys were at least making an attempt to combine bondage and sensation. Not for nothing were the homegrown efforts referred to as crotch ropes; the lack of euphony matches the 1980s sense of (lack of) style.

simple crotch rope

Photo is from a 1983 issue of Hot n Helpless magazine.

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Imagine Her Relief

Did you hear the one about the hidden BDSM playroom? Versions of this joke go back at least to the 1950s:

A girl is picked up by a man who takes her to his apartment. While he is changing into something more comfortable she notices that the wallpaper design has crossed whips on it. Then she notices a large brass button marked PUSH ME. She pushes, a secret panel slides up, and there’s a fully-equipped home dungeon, with whips and chains and paddles and a spanking bench and a whipping post and an ominous iron cage. Suddenly her host enters behind her, and locks the hidden door before she can run out. He’s wearing nothing but an open bathrobe and he’s got a huge erection. “W-w-what are you going to do to me?” she asks worriedly. “I’m going to fuck you till your ears fly off!” So she says “Thank God!”

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Kept In The Hog Yard

Her master says it took her three days before she got hungry enough to stick her face in the pig trough with the rest of the animals:

pretty blonde on her knees eating with the other farm animals

From Kinky Delight.

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1980s Bondage Stroke Books

There are plenty of F.E. Campbell bondage fiction excerpts and Robert Bishop stroke book covers in the Bondage Blog archives. Both are from books sold by House of Milan (sometimes HOM or H.O.M.) in the 70s and 80s, including the HIT and Fellowes series by Frank Campbell (the latter illustrated by “Ashley”). As near as I can tell, full page ads in the back of HOM bondage magazines were a primary sales channel. This one is from a 1982 magazine:

HOM bondage paperbacks advertisement

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Joan Of Arc, Shackled By The Inquisition

This shackled heroine being dragged into a dungeon is as seen in the famous 1916 Joan of Arc movie by Cecille B. DeMille, called Joan The Woman:

Joan of Arc in heavy chains being led down some dungeon stairs by a hooded inquisitor. Two stiff guards follow behind

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Chained For Deep Throat

In Unchained Anal from Kink.com, one of the many hard lessons Liz Jordan learns from Tommy Pistol is that if you give a good enough deep-throat blowjob while chained on your knees, your master will be pleased with you. He might even unlock your chains. But of course, the reward for a job well done is always a harder job…

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Bondage Pussy Eater

Sometimes you just want to make an enthusiastic meal of her. Wet and sloppy and loud and vigorous and enthusiastic. You don’t want her slapping at your pinchy fingers or grabbing your ears, either. For such moments, bondage was created:

blindfolded and shacked woman is having her pussy eating enthusiastically and her nipples pinched

Artwork is by Hans Kovacq.

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