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AtHerHeels1 -> RE: Tell your story... How did you discover you were kinky? (5/22/2010 1:58:30 AM)
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ORIGINAL: jbcurious
It's amazing the effects that shows like Batman and the Avengers seem to have had on so many of us.
As kids we used to roleplay scenes from our favorite shows. I remember one boy who used to want to play the Batman/Catwoman scene where Catwoman would make Batman dance...
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ORIGINAL: auditguy
I blame the TV.
What a delightfully timely thread, in that I've had a couple of accidental 'flashbacks' into my own kinky history just in the last day or so! I blame the TV... sorta. I can reach back to some foggy memory at age 3 when I enjoyed playing in the basement and doing strange things. I distinctly remember tying myself up using ropes and belts at a very early age, even suspended upside down! (A psychiatrist speculated this and some other personality traits are clear evidence of early molestation which I may have repressed... I dunno about all that!) But to the point... many of the TV shows and toys really made me realize what I was.
I've since gone on to write in a Word document about two pages, single-spaced, tracing every media influence I can remember from the sixties to the 'oughties' that influenced me or resonated with me in some way in a BDSM or Femdom kind of way. While it's entertaining, I'm sure it's far too long for a posting here, so I'll hit the highlights. I'll leave some detail from the sixties, since these were early childhood encounters for me (uh... I mean, I saw them as a child as RERUNS on TV Land... yeah... that's it! [;)]).
Sixties: Early on, when I was just four or five, I was enamored of Morticia Addams, all decked out in black and sitting on her high-backed chair, and liked the way Gomez fawned over her and knelt to kiss her hand. Later, as several others have mentioned, there was Catwoman (my personal fave was Julie Newmar). In the late sixties there was "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." wherein there was always some hot female THRUSH agent capturing male agents Solo or Kuryakin and doing dreadful things to them. In particular, I still recall even the title of one episode which impacted me greatly as a boy: “The Gazebo in the Maze Affair.” It included a torture chamber complete with wall chains and a rack. You can read the episode synopsis and do the math (or check out a few of the photos HERE):
Episode 27, "The Gazebo In The Maze Affair" Synopsis: Solo, Illya and Mr. Waverly are held captive in the private torture chamber of a former THRUSH agent.
Star Trek: TOS – I’ve heard Gene Rodenberry was in the lifestyle, and several of these had strong BDSM themes, notably “The Gamesters of Triskelion” (Triskelion? Hint-hint!) and “Plato’s Stepchildren,” and then there was perhaps the worst episode ever, “Spock’s Brain,“ its only redeeming quality being that it featured a planet ruled by women. The women lived in safety and comfort underground, forcing the men to survive on the surface and only taking them below ground to serve as slaves or breed. The women controlled the men with remote-controlled shock belts, and the men described the women as "the givers of pain… and delight." Sound familiar? [wink] [sm=applause.gif] Oh, and let’s not forget Jane Fonda as “Barbarella!”
A few others down through the years:
Then in the seventies, there was Charlie’s Angels, The Bionic Woman… and Wonderwoman, the Amazon woman with her crown, bustier, boots, and golden lasso of truth (Lynda Carter was SO hot!)
The eighties brought us Eurythmics “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)” which informed us (as if we didn’t already know), “Some of them want to use you; some of them want to get used by you; some of them want to abuse you; some of them want to be abused.” And it brought us Elvira, Mistress of the Dark.
In the nineties, USA Network treated us footboys to Rhonda Shear, who kept us “UP All Night.” Really.
Star Trek: The Next Generation reprised the idea of a FemDom planet with its episode “Angel One,” with the guys basically filling the role of housewives, right down to effeminate looks and clothing. Riker comes in and tries to spoil everything by encouraging them to stand up against those evil dommes and fight for their rights!
Yep, blame it on the TV. But then there were the TOYS.
My favorite was the 1971 Aurora “Monster Scenes” (interesting name, huh?) model kits: No. 635 “The Pain Parlor,” No. 636 “The Pendulum,” No. 637 “The Hanging Cage,” and No. 638 “Vampirella.” Oh, then there was No. 632 “The Victim” (female in this case). I’ve since found out that these were so widely protested by various groups that they were yanked from the market and brought down Aurora’s empire. The toys are now rare, and are bringing about $100 each on eBay. I had them all, well-maintained and complete, and I’m kinda pissed at my mom for making me clean out the basement and give them away (not to mention amazed I was allowed to buy them and play with them in the first place!) But I’ll never forget my older cousin coming to pick up some of my leavings for her innocent darlings… for some odd reason, she didn’t want this wonderful set of snap-together models! Here’s one description from a website:
“First released in 1971, the Monster Scenes provided kids with a plastic “Victim”—a nubile young 70s hottie in torn halter top and cut-offs who looked like she stepped straight out of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Sweet Hitchhiker” or any rock group’s gaggle of groupies—to presumably be tortured or experimented upon in a snap-together torture chamber, handsomely decked out with immortal horror trappings like Edgar Allan Poe’s Pendulum, The Hanging Cage (replete with brazier of red hot coals and pokers), and the subtly-titled Pain Parlor playset. Presiding over this deviltry were the loathsome Dr. Deadly and, like a plastic dominatrix, the scantily-clad Vampirella kit, the most un-loathsome sight imaginable.”
Yep, that was my favorite of them all! [sm=mistress.gif]
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