J. Ashely’s Bondage And Spanking Furniture
“I never thought having having my legs behind my ears could be so easy.”
That’s a line that made me literally laugh out loud while I was reading a blog post at DoctorClimax.com. Yes, dear readers, I genuinely LOLed.
They were talking about dungeon furniture. Spanking benches, yes, but also bondage beds and chairs, “specialty” headboards, sex slings designed with BDSM in mind, and even hoary old favorites like big freestanding St. Andrew’s crosses. When it comes to legs behind ears, the classic solution — covered in the Dr. Climax blog article — is the headboard with designed-in attachment points for ankle restraints. But in my life as a BDSM blogger, I’m awash in more fanciful notions from the realm of BDSM art. So my mind went instantly to the work of bondage artist J. Ashely:
Ashely drew pretty girls in bondage, sure. But it sometimes seemed almost as important to him that they were properly affixed to proper stuff. He drew a lot of fancy bondage furniture in pursuit of that goal.
Was some of Ashely’s bondage furniture maybe a bit more intricate or impractical than what you can buy today? Sure. Nobody outside the 1% is going to have a spanking device with a decorated wrought-iron pussy jack that forcibly elevates the girl’s bottom. (Although wouldn’t you like one?) But most of the furniture in Ashely’s illustrations is highly practical stuff: solid wooden benches, chairs, tables, and trestles, with lots of places to attach bondage gear.
When I say practical — well, practical only goes so far. Any kind of fun dungeon stuff like this, you need private space to keep it and play with it. But clever design can ensure that you’re making good use of that private space. Take this combination unit: it’s a bondage table and it’s a pillory. Two large handy toys in the space and footprint of just one!
And there’s really no arguing with the utility of this next heavy slab of a bondage table. Strong wood, lots of steel rings, and a nice low design for easy access to whatever part of your BDSM victim needs accessing in the moment. You never thought keeping your playmate tied right where you want them could be so easy!
A fun thing about bondage furniture is that there’s a fine line between “hold them there while we do fun stuff” and “that evil thing is tormenting her and I don’t have to lift a finger, I can just stand here and practice my nasty-villain laugh!” As a bondage artist, Ashely wasn’t the least bit scared of crossing that line, because in his fantasy worlds, nobody has to worry about joints, nerves, and circulation. And that freed him up to imagine constructions like painful wood-and-steel bondage horses. This one will do to wrap up with:
