5
January

Feature: ***Screenshot Selection***

Below you will find a small selection of video screenshots from some of My recent femdom video productions. I would like to welcome all the latest subscribers to My Private Members Club and also wish all My loyal blog readers a happy, safe and prosperous New Year in 2009.

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23
December

Special: ***Merry Christmas***

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I would just like to wish all My friends & readers a Merry Christmas and a happy & healthy New Year in 2009. I would also like to remind you that My new Members Club will be opening over the Christmas period, already containing well over 100 videosets with new videos & galleries added daily. The rest of My archive, currently being uploaded, already totals over 150 scenes PLUS I release fresh new Femdom videos weekly only for My Members Club

18
December

Memorial: ***R.I.P Bettie Page***

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This entry is dedicated to Bettie Page, who died last week aged 85. I was, and still am, a huge fan. She was inspirational & influential to Me in numerous ways ( not just My fringe lol ) below are some extracts from a ‘Time’ entry the day of Bettie’s sad passing..

Fifty years after the fact, she earned pop-cultural icon status. There are a dozen books about her, and a half-dozen movies, including the 2006 biopic, The Notorious Bettie Page, starring Gretchen Mol. Not to mention a bunch of tribute songs, countless websites and, almost always, more than a thousand products for sale on eBay. For just $6.99 you could get a Bettie Page ‘Don’t Tread on Me’ Metal Candle Tin & Candle, which “features an image of Bettie Page in red lingerie and licking a whip.” And who’ll bid $19.99 for the Bettie Page Retro Cincher Corset Lot? The annotation reads: “Bring out your inner Bettie!”

The hallmark of modern pop culture is that everyone’s famous and nobody’s shocked. And when fans search the past, they look to venerate artists who were once pariahs. The movies of Bettie Page, the actress-model who died Thursday, Dec. 11, at 85 in Los Angeles after a heart attack, couldn’t be more infra dig: they were sold under the counter, mailed in plain brown wrappers. Yet decades later she was elevated to the status of pulp goddess. The beatification process began in 1980, when artist Dave Stevens created a Bettie character in his graphic novel The Rocketeer. Jennifer Connelly gave her full-figured life in the 1991 movie version, and the cult was under way. In a 1997 episode of The X Files, there was a talking Bettie Page tattoo, voiced by Jodie Foster.

But being a bondage babe wasn’t much of a distinction to the mass audience of the ’50s, who didn’t know Bettie Page existed. Back then, Bettie was caviar only to the purchasers of girlie mags, tatty titles like Wink, Whisper and Flirt, where she was the preeminent pinup queen of her day. In January 1955 she was also the 13th model to grace the centerfold of a new slick magazine called Playboy.

As a movie actress she had a different appeal, limited but intense. Bettie was rich Corinthian leather to connoisseurs of specialized, subterranean erotica — the kind that showed women, dressed in black undergarments and stockings, and pumps with six-inch heels, getting spanked, trussed and gagged. But primly; this was the 50s. And primitively: no retakes, no expert lighting, no dialogue, no sound. Just the girls. Rather, the girl. The Girl in the Leopard Print Bikini, as she was dubbed. Satan’s Angel. Bettie Page.

Bettie Page was the Garbo of bondage movies. Granted, Greta Garbo played Camille and Anna Karenina, while Bettie played Bettie — or, as it was usually spelled then, Betty — in five-minute, 8 mm epics with titles like Betty’s Clown Dance and Dominant Betty Dances With Whip. Garbo, in Hollywood, had Irving Thalberg, the prince of MGM, as her boss and protector. Bettie had Irving Klaw. Calling himself the “King of the Pinups,” Irving and his sister Paula ran a seedy Manhattan emporium called Movie Star News, which peddled celebrity glamour shots to the public and specialized photos and loops to a more discriminating clientele. A brunette Betty Grable type who wanted to be Bette Davis, Bettie couldn’t get a job as a Broadway actress. But on East 14th Street she was the star of Movie Star News, the big fish in a brackish pond.

But what Garbo and Bettie Page both had was It — a radiance, a mystery of personality, that transcends technique and passeth understanding. Bettie had a message that defined her medium, and a magic that defied it. The dance films she did may have been cheesy documents of bump-and-grind; the bondage films, creepy if dainty invocations of sadomasochism. But what everyone remembers about Bettie, aside from her trademark bangs, is her smile. Guileless and guiltless, it conveyed an Edenic sensuality. To her fans and her official detractors, who might have agreed that sex was dirty, Bettie’s giddy energy said, “Heck, no, it’s fun!”

One last detail shared by Garbo and Bettie. Each retired in her mid-30s, preserving the movie image of her youthful allure. But unlike Garbo, who was often cornered by paparazzi in her Manhattan neighborhood, Bettie seemingly did disappear. She left New York for Miami, where she modeled for a few more years, then vanished, reemerging in Southern California in 1992.

In the decades of her silence, all manner of rumors spread. She had run afoul of the Mob. She became a nun. She had kids and grandkids. She was dead. All these speculations were wrong. The truth, as revealed in Richard Foster’s sympathetic and scrupulous book The Real Bettie Page: The Truth About the Queen of the Pinups, is even stranger.

Rest In Peace Bettie xxx

10
December

Flickr Feature: ***My Leather Corset Dress***

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Here I wear My black leather corset dress, black platform thighboots, white jodphurs, black leather Bolero jacket, and leather gloves. In this outfit I relax and enjoy a smoke. I love the coolness & smoothness of the smoke I get using My numerous classic cigarette holders. This one is a particular favorite of Mine.

4
December

Newsflash: ***Patience is a Virtue***

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I have some good news for all the impatient boys & girls who contacted Me incessantly during the past weeks regarding the opening of My Private Members Club. Well, the good news is My Members Club will open for subscription just prior to Christmas. In these grim times of financial downturn, joining a quality femdom site is probably not at the top of most people’s spending agenda.. but, if you are going to “live a little”.. then treat yourself to a Club Membership this Christmas.. “life’s too short” although obviously My list of worn out cliche’s is certainly not !

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28
November

Image Feature: ***My Punishment Board**

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This is a reduced sample image from My latest Members Club image gallery in which I wear a different traditional black outfit combination, this time including a tight black PVC corset, short black leather gauntlets, pencil skirt and heels. The gallery includes images of My ‘Punishment Board’ which I use to keep track of the number of strokes I am due to administer using the old fashioned abacus at the base of the board. This board is very old and a nice little piece of educational history that is sure to have itself witnessed the correction of numerous young gentlemen..

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18
November

YouTube Feature: ***Warming Up My Cane***

Here is a YouTube clip featuring a short excerpt from My recent video called “Tommy Triple Punishment”. The full length original video can be found in My Private Members Club

18
November

Image Feature: ***Black Leather Opera Gloves***

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This is an image from My Members Club Galleries in which I wear a classic black outfit along with a pair of black leather opera gloves. This is the combination I wore during My video production “A Gentleman Caning” ( also available in My Members Club ) in which I administer a good thrashing dressed in this lovely old fashioned black Governess dress with a high ruffled button collar.

11
November

Image Feature: ***Thighboots & Jodphurs***

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In this photoset I wear a beige jodphur riding pant, white shirt, black leather tie, tailored black riding jacket, and a pair of black leather platform thighboots with very high heels & silver spur detail. This is the outfit I wear in My forthcoming video series called “Punishment In Restraint” in which I administer a variety of beatings to an insubordinate male whom I tie securely to My punishment box. I also use a wooden leg spreader and rope to reduce any unwanted movements from the convict as his sentence is delivered mercilessly.

8
November

Video: ***Introduction to the Tawse***

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Above are original screencaps from My latest video “Introduction to the Tawse” in which I wear the outfit featured in the previous photos below. You can view the FULL PUNISHMENT VIDEO HERE >>

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