Victoria Beckham in bondage gear banned by BBC - November 18, 2007
Video clip deemed to raunchy to show before the watershed A video clip of Victoria Beckham in bondage gear was deemed too sexy to show on TV last night.
Posh is dressed in a raunchy La Perla satin 'cage' basque, black underwear from Agent Provocateur and Christian Louboutin thigh-high leather boots in the new promo for the Spice Girls' single Headlines (Friendship Never Ends).
The video was shown just before EastEnders at 7.55pm - but some of the footage of 33-year-old Mrs B in her undies was chopped because it was deemed too raunchy to be shown before the 9pm watershed.
Now all the Spice Girls are being lined up to pose in lingerie for Victoria's Secret.
Mel C, 33, Mel B, 32, Emma Bunton, 31, Geri Halliwell, 35, and VB are said to have stepped up their training regime to get in shape for the saucy shoot.
'The girls are working out like crazy to ensure there's no need for any airbrushing afterwards,' says a source.
'The shoot won't be tacky in any way and each girl will wear lingerie appropriate to their character.'
The pictures are expected to be released on 15 November – days before a Victoria's Secret fashion event at Hollywood's Kodak Theatre.
Source - Now Magazine
The Pleasures and Dangers of Bondage - November 18, 2007
Last week, the autopsy report was released for Rev. Gary Aldridge, who died in June of accidental asphyxiation while engaged in self-bondage and autoerotic asphyxiation. By now, you've probably heard something about the pastor of Thorington Road Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, who was a friend of Jerry Falwell and was found dead in lots of rubber with a butt plug in his ass. There have been plenty of blog entries about how he was yet another closeted, kinky, conservative hypocrite who preached salvation but practiced sin. But in reading the details—especially from the coroner's report—I was struck by something else: Man, this guy was really into bondage. He was found alone wearing two rubber wet suits, a face mask, a rubber head mask, rubber underwear, diving gloves, and flippers; the various ways he was restrained seem to indicate he was hogtied, which is difficult (but not impossible) to achieve by yourself. He was definitely not a novice bondage fan.
So, it seems, he died doing something he loved. Some people put themselves in bondage because that's their turn-on, but it's much more often a two- (or more) person sport. I wonder if Reverend Aldridge did it by himself because he couldn't bear the shame or potential exposure of sharing it with someone else. If he could have found someone to share his kink with, he might still be alive.
When many people recall their first experience of bondage, it usually reaches all the way back to childhood. As part of cops and robbers, cowboys and Indians, or another kids' game, someone had to be restrained at some point. You'd grab a necktie or a belt or something from one of your parents' closets and tie up the bad guys. Some people look back on those experiences as fun memories; bondage enthusiasts usually remember the first time they were tied up (or tied someone else up) with a lot more detail and glee.
For grown-ups, bondage is an erotic activity with endless possibilities. It seems to transcend categories: You don't need to be into BDSM to have tied up a lover or been tied up during sex. Self-described kinky and non-kinky folks alike incorporate different types of bondage into their sex play. If you've ever held down your lover's hands while you were fucking her or pinned him down to the bed with your body, then you've practiced a form of bondage. That's one of the bonuses of bondage: You can do it without any fancy equipment, and you can use whatever's nearby—a silk scarf, a pair of suspenders, panty hose . . . heck, I've used a rolled-up sheet in a pinch.
Of course, you can also invest in some elaborate accoutrements, from handcrafted leather and stainless-steel restraints to pretreated Japanese hemp rope. My first serious girlfriend popped my bondage cherry with a pair of fur-lined leather restraints. Since then, I've been bound with everything from balloons (imagine balloon animals kinkified) to athletic tape (when it came off, so did several layers of skin—ouch!).
Browse a list of workshops at a BDSM event and you'll see just how popular and varied bondage can be: rope bondage, suspension bondage, Japanese rope bondage, metal bondage, bondage for sex, decorative bondage, creative bondage, head and face bondage, genital bondage, hand and foot bondage, body harnesses, latex bondage, and predicament bondage.
I think one of the reasons bondage is so popular is that it's incredibly versatile. It can cover lots of physical and emotional territory, from sensual teasing to sadistic torment and everything in between. It's an ideal vehicle to explore explicit power dynamics, since restraining someone embodies dominance, control, power, and authority. And being restrained is a way to submit, surrender, and give oneself over to another. Bondage can also be incredibly challenging, physically and psychologically, for both partners.
The top must create the ritual, calculate and execute the design, and even use physics (to make a safe and successful suspension, for example). The bottom must endure what may feel like an impossible circumstance for her body, let go of her fear, embrace her powerlessness, and trust her partner. But when some people are bound, they panic or fight to get out. They feel constricted, maybe even claustrophobic. I've seen people actually get angry when they're restrained—it just fucks with their heads way too much. Other folks give in to the experience and are turned on by the sense of powerlessness they feel.
Then there is a third group of people who, when restrained—especially in rope bondage—become totally relaxed and calm; it's surprising to see how serene someone can look when they're all tied up. At first, I couldn't understand how utterly peaceful some people get when they're in bondage, but then I read a fascinating book called Animals in Translation by animal-behavior expert Temple Grandin, who is autistic. Grandin recalls the first time she saw a "squeeze chute," a tight, confining chute that ranchers put cattle in to keep them completely still so they can be given immunization shots:
"They get really calm. When you think about it, it makes sense because deep pressure is a calming sensation for just about everyone. That's one of the reasons a massage feels so good—it's the deep pressure. The squeeze chute probably gives cattle a feeling like the soothing sensation newborns have when they're swaddled or scuba divers have underwater."
Grandin is credited with inventing the humane squeeze chutes for animals that are now used on cattle ranches all over the country. Reading Grandin's take on the squeezing immediately made me think of scenes I have seen where bondage bottoms look like they're in an awkward predicament but at the same time seem absolutely blissed out. To an outsider, rope knots rubbing against bare skin may appear abrasive, cuffs clamped tightly around ankles confining, but these things can actually be incredibly comforting to those who love to be put in bondage. That's what makes it such a complex, satisfying experience for so many: Bondage can be both beautiful and brutal—sometimes at the same time.
Source - Village Voice
Indulge your shoe fetish - November 18, 2007
The shoes are, quite simply, works of art, hand-crafted in Italy from exquisite fabrics, leathers and beads, the beech wood heels carved by the last living master cobbler in Italy. And Zoraide shoes, designed by Paola Bay in limited editions of seven styles for 400 pairs a year, are available at just one store in North America, Mona Moore in Montreal. (Barney's and Jeffrey's will get them next season.)
I test drove two pairs - briefly, on the clean wood floors of the lovely Sherbrooke St. W. salon. First: the Neptis, in embroidered brown velvet with a four-inch heel. I lurched forward, Achilles tendons screaming in protest, and when I had regained my equilibrium, I felt the balance, lightness and beauty of such a shoe. Then the Aurinia, a gold and silver tango style with modest three-inch heel. Much better.
A shoe like this costs $1,695, plus tax, and boutique co-owner Anna Maria Varriano says her customers have bought perhaps half the 38 pairs she and partner Lisa Bush bought in Milan.
"Lisa and I walked into the showroom - we literally died. "When we heard the prices, Lisa and I had to go outside. We took a breath. We just couldn't not have them."
Who's buying them?
"The woman who appreciates a good shoe. It's almost a fetish,'' Varriano said. And she said the price is not that crazy, considering the average bag or boot in the store costs $2,000, with some handbags hitting $3,000.
Source - Montreal Gazette
Hair fetish links murders in Italy and Britain - November 18, 2007
Police in Italy have re-opened the hunt for a killer who is believed to have murdered an Italian schoolgirl and a British mother.
Detectives have linked the murder of Heather Barnett, 48, in Bournemouth in 2002 and the disappearance in 1993 of Elisa Claps, then 16, in the town of Potenza, southern Italy, because of a bizarre hair-cutting fetish.
A lock of another woman's hair was found in Miss Barnett's hand when her mutilated body was found by her two children in her home, while 10 other women in Bournemouth told police some of their hair had been snipped off on buses.
About 14 Italian women also said a man had snipped their hair on buses near Potenza. A detective from Dorset is to appear on the Italian version of BBC1's Crimewatch programme tomorrow night.
Police have a suspect. The man lived in Potenza in 1993 and then Bournemouth at the time of Miss Barnett's death. Although he has since been arrested in connection with Miss Barnett's murder, he has never been charged.
Miss Barnett was hit over the head with a hammer-like object and stabbed several times. Her breasts were cut off and placed next to her body.
Miss Claps's body was never found, but a police spokesman in Italy said: "We are using cutting edge technology to re-examine the areas that Elisa was believed to have been in last."
Source - Telegraph Co Uk