But first, a digression of sorts…
When Murre asked me to do a theme on trees, her one cautionary note was about the role of “hanging trees” in the legacy of white supremacy in the US. (To this day, there’s a thing where many African-Americans view the forest negatively, because it has lingering associations with the KKK and general lack-of-safety.)
I am sympathetic to these kind of concerns, but they’re tricky. A lot of the imagery of BDSM is drawn from extreme power dynamics that include oppression: slavery, police abuse, war crimes, schools, hospitals, rape, the inquisition, domesticated animals, etc.
Producers and re-bloggers of pornography tend to either embrace these tropes in a fuck-you-it’s-all-in-kinky-fun way, or else avoid them altogether.
More on this in a second….that’s Pokemon Iris, by the way…
I love her expression.
Also…
Back in the day, Kinsey said that about 6% of Americans had had a sexual encounter with an animal. That figure was widely ridiculed, though later research tends to back it up. I think the problem is that when we hear “sexual encounter with an animal”, we immediately think of a guy fucking a goat or something. In fact, about 40% of American households have a dog, and it is hard work to keep dogs out of your crotch.
I’ve never fucked a goat (or etc.) But Murre and I can barely get in bed without our cat trying to sit on top of us. I expect this sort of casual, animal-initated “sexual encounter” makes up a lot of the total.
Summer :: yuji-moriguchi8SP.jpg picture by mermaidqueenie - Photobucket

1985: Virgin Sacrifice Woman in Box
Someone would rather get a peek than keep their sacrificial victim properly restrained. Tsk tsk.
Does this count as a face? OK, I’m done posting faces for a while.
Which is too bad, ‘cause I’ve got like 50 more, but there’s other stuff in the world.
(via marquisemsp)
Hmmm, M&S, I’m going to say that it’s mostly her clitoris that’s been left exposed. But still ingenious. And in her face, neutral as it is, I read some respect for that ingenuity.
Such an ingenious way of keeping the cunt open and ready for use.

I’m not sure that these are exactly netsuke, but whatever they are—and I’ve seen a bunch of them—they have a hilarious sort of modular component. (Collect them all!)
Beyond the possibility of bonus humiliation (which is strictly cultural), breasts offer some unique opportunities for bondage. Or, more precisely, large breasts do.
(Source: bbwbondage, via inquiver)
Finally, TLIT suggested Yomiko Readman from Read or Die. She is probably the most badass librarian of all time, and she’s a stone killer, though she’s not really a domme. Readman is a superhero who can control paper. (Think actual “paper tigers” that attack you.) She works for a secret intelligence wing of the British Library. All of which is pretty righteous.
But.
Like Oracle, this is a disability superpower: Readman has to read almost constantly, or she’ll die. More on this momentarily.