May 18, 2012

Class and Skill

Dedication is an exceptional attribute. I’ve always respected people who excelled at their jobs, whether they were waiting tables, working leather or resetting my dislocated joints in the emergency room.

So even though I’ve never met her – outside of her approving my MySpace friend request years ago — I hold professional disciplinarian and spanking video star Cassie Hunter in very high regard.

Ms. Hunter is certainly a poised and beautiful young woman, but her videos demonstrate that she’s also extremely proficient with the strap, hairbrush and cane. Plus she can accurately administer running strokes – something almost nobody else does.

Cassie recently launched a new website entitled Captured by the Huntress. As you might expect, the photography is spectacular. It’s definitely worth a visit if you enjoy fine fetish imagery and the disciplinary work of this fierce and elegant lady.

Nu-West Spanking Comics

For the sake of posterity and historical perspective, here’s some pre-Internet spanking nostalgia for you. (Click on the thumbnails to see larger images.)

The time was the glorious 1980s, when my computer was a Commodore 64, the compact disc was the cutting-edge media format challenging the vinyl LP record, and the country’s biggest fear was the threat of thermonuclear war with the mighty Soviet Union.

Out in California, a pioneering spanking content company named Nu-West/Leda was producing gritty, realistic spanking videos and publications, including a series of adult comics “for the connoisseur of corporal punishment and home discipline.”

The Nu-West Comics were primarily 16-page, black-and-white publications with cardstock covers, and many featured illustrations from talented spanking artist Stephanie Burke, whose work has always seemed particularly authentic to me.

Back before the days of free blogging and Internet image searches, these comics were quite unique. A CP enthusiast might find the occasional adult spanking drawing in a book or magazine, but complete illustrated stories were a rarity.

I asked Ed Lee over at Nu-West/Leda if I could post a few of these old comic covers for you. Here are a couple of historical factoids he shared with me:

“Some of the comics have stories behind them and some don’t. The House in Virginia was based on a real situation except the real house was in Michigan. Many of the comics were drawn by an artist who did a lot of work for Marvel.”

I believe that some of these publications may still be available for purchase on the Nu-West/Leda website, in case you’d like a piece of classic spanking memorabilia for your personal collection.

Q&A with Fetish Model Venus O’Hara

Photo by Andrew O'Hara

 

Last month I posted the short film Love Me Like You Hate Me, directed by Swedish filmmaker Erika Lust and staring fetish model Venus O’Hara in seven different kinky roles – including strict teacher with a ruler and a lazy student in French class.  

As luck would have it, the website Spanking Starlets has just published an original interview with Venus that showcases some of her fun fetish photography and presents her juicy insights on spanking, modeling and BDSM play.  

It’s not your typical spanking interview, but I think you’ll enjoy it. Venus has both a way with words and an extremely spankable bottom. (And she likes to play the schoolgirl.)  

Ava Garter and the Spanking Machine

Ava Garter’s Spanking Adventure from Mark Mori on Vimeo.

Burlesque artist Ava Garter gets the spanking machine experience at the opening of the Bettie Page: Heaven Bound art exhibit last spring at the World of Wonder Gallery in Hollywood, Calif. This video clip was filmed by the crew of the upcoming documentary Bettie Page Reveals All, directed and produced by Academy Award nominee Mark Mori.

Video: Love Me Like You Hate Me

 

I haven’t seen it posted anywhere else, so I thought you might enjoy this strange little movie from Swedish filmaker Erika Lust exploring the dynamics of female/female dominance and submission — including spanking.

The first half of the eight-minute production touches on domestic servitude, bondage, confinement and verbal abuse – which may or may not be your thing. But then it segues into a traditional strict tutor/schoolgirl fantasy. The actual butt smacking is a bit dramatized, but the dialogue and role play hit all the right buttons.

The film has also inspired a forthcoming book, which you can learn about at Love Me Like You Hate Me.

If you’d like to see a bit more of Venus O’Hara, the actress and fetish model who stars in the film, just click on the banner below.