
Untitled, Marc Radon
The punchline to the dragon-sacrifice motif is that the dragon eats the victim and she (or more rarely, he) dies. Sometimes the hero swoops in first to save the day, but the drama is always about getting eaten.
In my own fantasies, and generally in the kinky and infra-kinky versions of erotic peril, this final outcome is subordinated to the atmosphere beforehand. I don’t think there’s anything especially sexy about getting chewed up and digested, but the abstract idea of being tied up and helpless and waiting for the monster come….that’s pretty hot.
In “vore” fetishes, though, being eaten per se is the attraction, and it’s often treated with a kind of equanimity: this girl isn’t struggling at all.
So this is something else to discuss…
Speaking of D&D…..I don’t like pictures of elves.
I guess in this instance it’s moot, because of the dragon, but a whole lot images that are not otherwise genre-specific have pointy ears on the characters. So it’s gotta be elves, and whatever other story I might want to overlay the image with has to deal with the elf thing.
Very annoying.

In 1974, Gary Gygax produced the game Dungeons and Dragons. Aesthetically, it was very much derived from J.R.R. Tolkein (and other authors who were in turn Tolkein derivatives). But structurally, it was a radically new genre: a “board game” with no board, centered on a story-teller whose story was modified by the players.
I wasn’t even born in ‘74, and by the time I learned about Dungeons and Dragons, it had a spawned a whole slew of its own derivatives: role-playing games. They had also acquired a somewhat noxious reputation as escapist pursuits for geeky white boys (and, in other quarters, Satanic suicide cult demonic wa-wa).
Dungeons and Dragons had (and has) a fairly signature aesthetic, which easily spilled over into the erotic. This drawing is a perfect example.

Oooo, blood and dragons! Another two-for-one.
This is from Michael Manning’s version of the Nieblungenlied. Manning is probably better known to readers of this blog as a famous pen-and-ink fetish pornographer. Sigurd is making himself invulnerable using the famous dragon’s-blood-body-wash technique.

Of course, not all dragons are hungry all the time. And sometimes the chains don’t get in the way at all.
Two things bother me about this picture, and this whole slew of pictures, actually.
First, what kind of carnivore leaves behind clean, well-articulated skeletons? Only bugs and very small rodents. If you get eaten by a dragon, or even a bunch of pomeranians, your bones are going to wind up all over the place, and some of them will get buried in the petunias. Yes? OK.
Second….the girls who become dragon snacks are usually naked, which is well and good, but they are always chained up. The poor dragons must be all the time picking bits of chain out of their teeth.
(Source: olderoticart)
St George and the Dragon, Paolo Ucello, 1470
In Tolkein’s famous essay on Beowulf, he mentions that there are not very many dragons in European mythology, really. This is a bit funny, since Tolkein’s own Smaug would eventually become one of centerpieces of a whole genre based on emulating Tolkein’s aesthetic.
But he was right: before Smaug, there was St. George’s dragon (actually in Libya), and Fafnir, and Beowulf’s dragon. That’s pretty much it.
Above, George is about to rescue Sabra. Like most damsels in distress, Sabra has to marry whatever schmuck shows up to rescue her, even though in the original legend, she’s basically the one who saves the day, using the magic-virginity powers of her girdle…..?….? (That’s what she’s leashing him with).
And the poor dragon was only trying to sell astroturf.
Kojiro, 1999
Blood for my anonymous follower, and dragons for Murre.
You know what this picture reminds me of? In Winged Migration, which is pretty awesome, there is a scene where a pelican or something is flipping fish into its mouth, and it gets one stuck on its beak. And then, for several minutes, it does this complex series of flips and flops trying to get the poor fish into its actual gullet.
I think this dragon is about to have a very similar problem.

Murre would like me to post some images about dragons. I think she means sacrifices-to-dragons, but here’s a….well, I don’t know.
As DD points out, if he loses his erection, he’ll be punished. But if he get’s too hard, that’s really going to hurt. So it’s sort of like a seven-gates-of-hell. Only dragony.
(Source: gosposha, via dishevelleddomina)