Mainstreaming Bondage: Halloween 2012 Brings On The Gimp

First published on 10/3/2012

If you go to Target and ask them if they have a Gimp suit for Halloween, you'll probably get told "No.' But if you go to Target and ask them if they have a "Rubber Suit Man" outfit, they'll tell you yes ... and the costume you will find will be a gimp suit. Don't believe me? Check it out!

"Oh my!" as Anastasia Steele might say, and she'd be the one to say it, because you have to believe that the success of 50 Shades of Gray just might have gotten this particular outfit green-lit for Target. Now that's going mainstream!

We'll have to see if there's a backlash against the suit, now that it's being "noticed" by online media it'll probably hit the mainstream media soon.

The flying monkeys have been bringing in a LOT of negative stories about 50 Shades of Gray of late. The social conservatives never liked it, some feminists never liked it, and a lot of literary types never liked it, even a lot of bondage fans never liked it, and now that the books aren't making headlines by topping the bestseller lists week after week after week, the naysayers are trying to get some traction. And a backlash against 50 Shades could very well be accompanied by a backlash against kink. I hope the hell it doesn't happen, and if it does happen that it gets no traction in the media or the culture, but let's face it ... there's a lot of people out there who hate kink, 50 Shades of Gray and sex generally.

As always, I'll keep you posted.

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.