Fifty Shades of Kinky Imagery in Mainstream Media

First published on 7/10/2012 Well the 50 Shades of Gray tsunami keeps rolling in, and as it rolls in gives mainstream sites all kinds of excuses ... er, reasons ... for showing images of sexy women in bondage. Here are a few more for your consideration:

Yahoo Lifestyle Australia has an article on 50 Shades of Gray spurring sales of sex toys that features a lingerie-clad cutie trying on a pair of black fur-trimmed love cuffs.

The Sun over in the UK boasts an article proclaiming that 50 Shades of Gray Fans Want Bossy Sex which features a large photo of a woman clad in a skimpy pair of red-hot panties with her cuffed hands crossed over them.

Mommy non-porn site The Frisky features an article entitled "Girl Talk: I Want To Be Dominated," about what a turn on it is to be dominated, that's illustrated with a cutie wearing red fur-lined love cuffs, white stockings and not a lot else.

Aaaand just to show that old dumb dies hard, Female First, which bills itself as a celebrity gossip and lifestyle magazine features an article entitled How To: Bondage," which is illustrated with an image of a well-endowed blond in a boustier, thong and blindfold being held by a romance novel cover-looking guy ... but no actual bondage.

Fifty Shades of Gray Brings More Images of Women in Bondage to Mainstream Media

First Published on 6/16/2012

Fifty Shades of Gray is still roiling around the media, totally overwhelming all other bondage-related content to judge from what my flying monkeys bring in, but this week I noticed a subtle change: more actual images of women in bondage associated with stories. I mentioned the naked woman in the cage in my story about the Swedish bondage bunker. But there are other stories featuring images of women in bondage. For example, on TV there was a talk show where a female participant was spanked while blindfolded and holding a ball gag in her hands, during a discussion of the Fifty Shades of Grey phenomenon. A discussion of the sexiest music on the 50 Shades of Gray playlist conducted by a radio station was highlighted on their website with a picture of woman in a leather bridal corset and lace with her hands cuffed behind her back. All of this stuff is weak sauce by Internet bondage porn standards, of course. But compared to NO femsub bondage imagery, which characterizes almost all of the stories I have seen about Fifty Shades of Gray, it is a definite improvement.