In 1950s–1960s Soho, an anonymous photographer known as Jack the Binder obsessively documented extreme breast bondage. Recruiting models with large breasts, he tightly roped, whipped, stretched, and deformed them—sometimes evoking lactation—in raw, grainy black-and-white photos. Bert Sliggers’ book unveils 125 images from original negatives, preserving this clandestine fetish legacy. Continue reading Jack the Binder, Rare Vintage Breast Bondage
Before 1930, erotic spanking films were extremely rare, consisting mainly of short, silent French stag reels produced clandestinely in Paris during the 1920s. The most notable survivor is The School of Spanking (c. 1925), featuring playful schoolgirl and group spanking scenes. Earlier examples (1890s–1910s) were comedic novelty shorts with light punishment gags, not true fetish erotica. These fragile films mark the dawn of specialized corporal punishment cinema. Continue reading Pre-1930 Spanking and Fetish Films
Pierre Molinier (1900–1976), the reclusive Bordeaux artist, transformed self-portraiture into a private ritual of fetishistic liberation. Through obsessive photomontages of stockings, heels, masks, and autoerotic acts, he externalized his all-consuming eroticism, blurring gender, pain, and pleasure. “I suffer from a very serious sickness named eroticism.” A true shaman of solitary transgression. Continue reading Pierre Molinier
In the mid-1960s, Joseph P. Mawra directed the notorious Olga series—White Slaves of Chinatown, Olga’s House of Shame, Olga’s Girls, and Mme. Olga’s Massage Parlor—featuring a sadistic dominatrix involved in drugs, bondage, torture, and prostitution. Shot on tiny budgets with striking black-and-white visuals and Audrey Campbell’s chilling lead performance, these cult exploitation films shocked audiences, faced obscenity trials up to the Supreme Court, and helped erode censorship barriers in grindhouse cinema. Continue reading The Olga Series
Der Flagellantismus als literarisches Motiv (Flagellantism as a Literary Motif) is a pioneering, multi‑volume study by German author, occultist, and early sexologist Ernst Schertel (1884‑1958). Issued in four volumes between 1929 and 1932 by Schertel’s own Parthenon Verlag in Leipzig. The work stands … Continue reading Flagellantismus als literarisches Motiv
