OT - Silly

Let it load, and wait a few seconds: http://producten.hema.nl

Someone doing their web site:

A) Has way too much time on their hands

B) Is obviously on "the pot"

C) Both

OT - kids these days

Serious - An interesting NPR Article about "play" and child development

Funny - Because anything serious always goes down better if you know that there's something funny as a reward afterwards :)

Spam! It's what's for dinner... and lunch... and...

I hate to be a negative nanny, but do you ever get tired of some forums where posters constantly banging on their drum and saying over and over "Hey look at me!!!" or "OMG!!! Look at her!!!"

Listen, I'm about as big an attention whore as the next person, probably more than most actually. But within the fetish scene (and that includes BDSM and D/s) the OCD fanboi and the plain old self promotion thing gets really old. It abuses the freedom of the forum.

I do understand the concept behind it. We've watched Paris, Lindsay and Brittany define it - "any attention is good" - right to the point where Las Vegas has an odds line on which one of them will die first; which I'm quite sure Brittany is leading these days.

But wow, get a grip here folks some of this crap is driving traffic away from a site that is your bread and butter for attention in the first place. There are even people who just do it to get pure attention. No profit, just attention. One guy on a fetish forum setup a picture blog recently. No info, just pictures. And every time he puts up anything he posts "Hey I updated!!!" - sometimes several a day! Dude, if I wanted to be notified of every update, I'd subscribe to it.

Oh well, I guess it's the nature of kids these days. It sure does make me feel like I'm wasting a ton of time wading through lots of muck to try to find something worth discussing. And my time is growing more and more valuable to me as I get older. *shrug*

/rantmodeoff

Don't lie to me

Fifteen inch corset. Yeah, right, sure...

Yesterday, I stumbled on a bit of publicity stunt farce, that is out there pretending to be a real news reporting: Jane Eyre's agony over 15" corset

Now, I don't blame staylace for passing along this story, but it's absurdly clear that it's nothing more than pure publicity bull. And what irks me is three fold. First, it paints a dishonest picture of what it is like to suffer in a corset. Second, it is a flat out lie about the size of the corset. And lastly, the idea of an actress actually *having* to adjust to a corset for an acting role is really hot in my mind. Especially if it is a really tight corset, and she really has to adjust to it - so don't go lying to me about it. This isn't anywhere near the same quality of corsetting and sacrifice that Kathleen Robertson did, which was part of what kickedoff this whole blog adventure.

Shame on the Daily Mail for writing such blatant lies: "She didn't expect to endure 13 weeks of torture herself... in agony after being forced to wear a tiny 15-inch waist corset."

So don't go giving me 15" - that's pushing towards the world record holders, who generally IMO look a bit absurd. I guess for them the corsetting is more about the body modification of it; than it is about the shape. But don't discredit their sacrifice. When Spook trained her waist down to a real 15" - it was a helluva lot of work. But all of that babble is another blog entry for another day.

And then the negativity and more lies, "'Poor Ruth was in constant pain,' said a BBC insider. 'She is naturally a very slender size 10 but the 15-inch corset that wardrobe gave her was simply minuscule and utterly restrictive."

What a load of garbage. Hell, I'm a guy, a size 12-14 in women's clothing, 5'10" and 170# full grown man. And with a a bit of dedication I was able to lace down to fit into a 24" corset... and sure it took some adjusting to, but constant pain? Give me a break. A body adjusts to it, after a few days of lacing she would get used to wearing something like what it seems she's wearing (a 26" or 24" corset) - without any big deal. She might have been laced into a 25" corset, but not 15". An ex of mine could lace a 20" corset closed. It was quite snug on her, and she was a size 0. A frickin size zero! Lacing down to 20" - a size 10, lacing to 15" first time in a corset? No way, no how.

Fifteen inches... I got your fifteen inches right here... *crotch grab*

Though, if the media told the truth all the time, it would be too weird

Hawt Heels - Part II

In part I I talked about how I don't feel that although I won't discount the physical affects of high heels getting a man's attention. The longer legs, the arched butt, the whole "sway" thing... I guess that I simply do not feel that it is the full explanation of why men are fascinated by them.

High heels are part of the world of women that is a total mystery to men. The idea of walking in heels, it seems as foreign as painting your nails properly on the first try. Like putting on eye liner without tearing up... it's one of those ninja skills like walking in an unbelievably sexy tight skirt. It is something that women are trained in from youth, and men... well we just can't ever do it (unless we're a rock star like Prince or were practicing since the age of 11.) At least that's how the perception of it that most men have.

The reality is that it just takes practice. And yes, heels aren't easy to walk in for long periods of time. And the higher they are, though tougher it will be. And 6" heels with 2" platforms are a little tougher than 4" heels, but not as tough as pure 5" heels. In the end, some people take to it more easily than others. It's a balance thing. But this myth of the impossible skill of walking in heels, It's just not true. But it is definitely tough enough that men are (well, at least the fetishists) are filled with both respect and awe. So if you want to do it, don't pickup a pair of super high heels and wear them off to the fetish party without practicing... a lot at home. The position of the leg and ankle and the pressure on your foot, it takes a lot of getting used to. Trust me on that. Some women who wear high heels very regularly get so used to the position and the arch, it becomes ingrained, and actually more comfortable then wearing flat shoes. And well, that kind of commitment to heels... it's just hawt.

Now, I have heard many a woman say "I don't need to wear high heels to feel _______" (fill in the blank with sexy, feminine, dominant, etc.) And the fact of the matter is - hey, that's great! I'm glad you don't feel that you need it. I don't think anyone *needs* it - or anything else. And I'm sure that many men will feel you are sexy or feminine, or dominant, or whatever shoes you choose. Now for a fetishist, or even just men who have specific inclinations, if you are going to wear those high heels - well it really pushes things further. Don't get me wrong here, I love some good New York style pizza, but a strip steak - grilled to perfection, well that is going to get all of my attention pretty fast. Would I want steak everyday?

Well, ummm... maybe. :)

Now don't go hating me for it. I cook up some steak too. And I have found that there is nothing quite like the reaction you get from a woman when you are strutting in some stiletto heels... some pretty weird reaction from men too - but that's not what I'm really looking for. Either way, the heels are fun. It's a fetish thing, and that's all there is to it. And it's up to you to go that mile. Do you *need* it? No, not by all means.

Pizza is a yummy dinner too. Who knows maybe it's good for your health!

Busy busy busy...

What a busy week. Sorry nothing exciting to add, but more on high heels tomorrow, I promise. Til then I have to share this fake poster I saw today. Too funny not to pass along.

We're all doomed!!!

Valentine's day is my single least favorite holiday in the world. I can say with confidence that I think flag day kicks it's ass. Why, well first if you aren't paired up with someone it is extra lonely. And if you are paired it is the "I expect you to prove that you love me and buy me something wonderful and romantic that I didn't expect, holiday."

Now, most women do their best to make it clear and have all the right intentions with the "I just want to have a nice dinner with you" talk - but the fact is they want more than that. They want roses (which are mucho inflated in cost because we're all stuck on getting them for that one day) they want a bubble bath, and they want a foot rub, and *THE* romantic dinner. And what means is: by candle light, it has to be deelish and they want it at a view that's better than you found. No matter if you have dinner at a fancy place over looking the sunset on the beach, it could've been a fancy place over looking the sunset in Paris - and every woman knows that. What's worse is some friend, or if you are lucky the friend of a friend, got a dinner like that. Or maybe it was in Rome or Barcelona, but you know what I mean.

We're all doomed I tell ya. Doomed!!!

My g/f has always been very cool about the holiday. Truly. She's a 10 out of 10 - but all those facts stated above are still true. It's one of those empirical rule things, like the way that the water goes down the toilet in one direction or that all rivers flow to the equator (except the Nile.) She can't help herself with wanting the candle lit dinner in the Eiffel tower with just the two of us, except for a violin guy and I'm wearing a tuxedo. It's a law of nature - she's powerless over it.

So, with that in mind, I'm still screwed. She's got to work, and I don't know how late. In the last three months, she's eating raw food 90% of the time, all organic and usually vegetarian and I can't cook that stuff? And there is no restaurant around that cooks it well enough to make her happy and WTF should I do? I've got the candle part covered, but other than that I'm in the wind. Yah I can get the roses... I can speak in French (which she hates btw...)

Maybe it's sunset in Berlin... *sigh* Doomed. Utterly, totally doomed.

Oh and if I ever run into one of you guys who takes a woman on a private jet to an exotic locale for a romantic sunset dinner on valentine's day... I'm gonna kick yer butt.

Hawt Heels - Part I

BP requested: "...how about a post about stiletto heels and how the clickety-clacks (among many other things) drive some of us nuts?"

In the world of fetishes, high heels are he #1 most accepted and acknowledge. They are the Great Wall of China and the Pyramids of Egypt wrapped into one. So I've really wanted to make sure I give this fetish it's fair due when I write about what is it that drives us nuts. And as a result this is going to be a multiple part entry.

Now, first off I would like to say that I have only recently become a high heel fetishist, only when I really started to get into cross-dressing did my fascination start. And that makes me a late bloomer, because it wasn't until I was 22 that I really started doing any dressing at all - thanks naughty miss N! *dreamy sigh*

For most folks, the fascination with high heels started much sooner - so I'm quite positive there are perspectives about heels that I will simply miss out on. And for that I'm sorry, feel free to add a comment and help me to learn more. I'm definitely not the end of all pervy knowledge.

Most people write off high heels as something that excites men because it accentuates a woman's body, enhancing curves, hip sway and puts the foot into a position that mimics sex. Mistress Ardenne posted on the hang about just that a week or so ago. Now, I don't disagree with that - but for me it is only a small fraction of why stiletto heels are appealing. And I think to write it off that simply is missing a great part of why high heels work. For me, I have to admit that I loathe chunky heels. Loathe them. It's not that they aren't "quite as hot" (the way that cork filters are compared to white filters on cigarettes) but chunky heels simply are lame to me. They're clownish and just not appealing at all. Yah, go and Goth punk your azz off, and have all the fun you want, but when I think of high heels I don't think of chunky clunky grandma space boots that the 70s glam men rockers would wear. Blech. But if the affect of heels on the body were the end all of my interest and appeal, I think clunkers would work just as well for me. The foot is arched, the body still sways to balance it's steps - right? Well, not for me. Wedges? Extra blech... and those heels that are really wide from the back view, but thin from the side... they're extra lame because they tease.

So, what defines the boundary between a stiletto and a clunky heel? I'm not sure I can explain it, but I know it when I see it. And I'm going to try my best to stick to stilettos. But before I do I have to tip my hat to the myriad of perversions that fall under the umbrella of high heels & foot fetishists. Some might see heels & feet as two separate worlds, and perhaps I'm showing how much a fetishist I'm not by putting them together, but hey... it's my blog. Now foot folks are a whole range in themselves. From tiny bound feet (my g/f has a fetish for that) - to the manicured nails, to high arches, to super dirty walking on the streets of South Beach barefoot kind of nasty feet (heya Sysyphus) to the super stinky tootsies... there is someone out there who's knees get week just at the idea of it.

And heels, well it's a world of things too. Open toes or closed. Natural nails or painted bright red, or black and purple or multi. Sling backs, pumps, space age or granny ankle boots... to the knee or thigh high. Suede, leather or PVC. A world of different specific colors. It goes on and on and some high heel folks are VERY specific - just like I am about chunky heels, other folks feel that way against platforms. And other folks are only into one particular item - like spike heels in black, white knee highs, and a red school girl skirt. Heck, I had one friend in high school who was ga-ga for white boots up to the knee. Flat or heeled, it didn't matter, but snug on the ankle. That was his thing. And looking back, I recall how everyone knew it, and it was never a big deal. High heels are a well established and accepted fetish. Heck, I have a group of totally vanilla friends who refer to going out to strip clubs as "going shoe shopping" since the strippers almost always are wearing 4" or higher heels. Either way, high heel fetishism is probably the most established and likely one of the most diverse fetishes out there, and I could go on and on... which is why I have to call it a day. More again soon.

Hawt Heels - Teaser

BP encouraged me to write up a bit about high heel fetishism, pretty much my thoughts on the how and why of it - and I'm sure he wouldn't mind some sassy pictures too.

But wow have I been a busy boy lately. Busy good... I was long over due for really being productive. But too busy for really organizing my thoughts. I'm shooting for tomorrow, if not on Sunday for sure. Either way, I thought this silly teaser that I did a couple years ago would at least hold all of you perverts for a bit ;)

The Cruelest Mistress : Golf

So I played golf this weekend. And I shot pretty well on a tough course. Normally I'd be relatively happy with my score, but it was such a tease & torment thing. I fell apart for 4 holes, and the rest of the round I was playing as well as I ever have.

But there is no "best 14 holes" score of the day, it's all 18 or nothing. "No room on the scorecard for a story," as a good friend of mine likes to say.

I didn't make any really long putts, no chip-ins. No super lucky bounces... actually two really crappy hops - heck I even hit one ball in the water, and I missed a pair of 5' putts too. And yet I scored pretty well because I played solid, consistent and surprising for me, smart golf... really solid. For 14 of the holes.
But I had a melt down from 7-10. Two doubles, and two triples. Ten over on just those four holes, and seven over on the other fourteen - all pars and bogies (not a birdie in the group) how cruel is that?

Anyways I have no great excuses. I wasn't wearing my chastity belt while playing the round - though I've done it and it does make for interesting golf. Especially if you are playing with an attractive woman, or the refreshment cart girl is a cutie, and they usually are. I wasn't distracted by a smoking hot woman like Tea. Heck, even her husband, David Duchovny, has described her as a "superb smoker" and says "he loves when Tea smokes". Perhaps David has the fetish too.

Since I saw her in "Bad Boys" back in '95, I've had a thing for Tea. Aside from having what I consider to be the perfect body, and some stunning eyes - normally I'm in to dark brown even black, but her blues are just piercing... she has that raspy smokers voice that absolutely makes my heart skip a beat. And her smile, a playful smile with a hint of naughty in her glare, well she's got my number dialed, I tell ya that. Of course if I had any input on the movie, her character would've been punishing bad boys instead of running from them... and she would've had those lipstick'd lips wrapped on a cigarette at least a few times in the film, but alas... *sigh* The fact that I found her so insanely hot without all of fetish things says something.
And while I'm wandering all over the place with this topic, I think I should mention that while a pretty model like Diora Baird, wearing a pair of boy shorts and holding a golf club works for me, I like the real thing all the better. Give me a real pro like Sophie Sandolo any day.


I think those shots are from Ms. Sandolo's 2005 calendar btw.

Today's Funny: Misheard Lyrics

Pearl Jam - Yellow Ledbetter



And the supposed actual lyrics, but they aren't as funny.

Cigarette Fakes

Wow, I went all of January without a single example of what Photoshop can do, so I figure I owe you folks' a series. Years ago back in the dark ages of smoking fetishism, the # of pictures out there on the web we few enough that people started making fakes. One fellow who went by the name Ghostship was the person I first remember who made some quality fakes. His site is long gone, but I still occasionally see some of his work posted out there online as a "real" picture.

Some folks are usually surprised to find out that fetishists would go so far as to fake something as common place as a photo of a women smoking. Well they did, and some people still do. The simple fact is that for years we all looked saw lots of fakes. I would wager that 95% of the Virginia Slims ads from the 70s and the 80s show the women holding drawn in cigarettes. Don't feel badly, I never noticed it and I "studied" these ads very extensively - I promise you. But if you look carefully, the shading is wrong, and the cigarettes are often far longer than a regular 100mm Virgina Slims. Even a VS 120mm cigarette isn't nearly as long as the one shown in the second ad. There is a company that used to make 164mm cigarettes (they stopped though) - which are about the right length for that second picture. Heck, the cigarette in the first ad looks to be about as long as her head. That would make it closer to a 300mm long cigarette than the 100mm it is supposed to be. Either way, it seems that the ad companies found airbrushing in the cigarette was easier than having the model pose with a real one. And perhaps they made the cigarette so much longer to call attention to it. Eventually by the later 80s and into the 90s they had the models pose with real cigarettes, but they kept the cigarette unlit and then they would airbrush in the ash. Don't ask me where I learned all that stuff, I've digested so much stuff regarding fetishism over the years that I just am not at all sure. It might've been in a book called "Why Cigarettes are a Feminist Issue" - though I can't find it listed on Amazon or even on google, so perhaps that was the byline of the book. Or it might have been a research thesis. I used my time at the library at UF for all kinds of research that wasn't part of any classes. At least when I could research stuff and I wasn't being constantly distracted by the click-clack of high heels on the marble floors. *sigh*

Any way where was I... oh yes, cigarette fakes are a part of the past and even the present. Sometimes people put up fakes because they fantasize about a model or actress as a smoker. I don't mind it myself, as long as someone admits that it is a fake. Trying to pass it off as real, and catching them - well it's a past time of mine.

One of my favorite fakers is a guy who has made hundreds of fake ads. He let his little fetish fantasies really run, and created "Foxy" brand cigarettes - original site & backup site. Over the years the ads have had campaigns, and introduced different styles of cigarettes as he pretends to market them to specific women and girls groups too. All in all, it's good clean fetish fun. I am sure that I found it all the more entertaining since he and I seem to have similar tastes regarding celebrities and smoking styles/poses. It seems that he's stopped producing the ads in the last couple of years, but it's has been fun watching it evolve. It was almost as if he had a real knack for predicting actresses to become smokers, as several of the celebrities she featured in several ads have either turned up as real smokers years later or at least have been cast that way in several films. In addition to Ms Alba (above) some fine examples below:

Natalie Portman, foxy fake #1/#2/#3 More film & real life - info & pictures.

Adriana Lima, lots of foxy fakes: #1/#2/#3/#4/#5/#6/#7. Links to her actual smoking info & pictures.

Christina Aguilera, foxy fake. Of the pictures showing her with a cigarette, most are just posing in magazine photo shoots, but she is rumored to smoke IRL too, and her photos from her "Pussy Cat Dolls" stage show certainly make it look like she at least knows how to smoke. Links for more info & pictures.

Sarah Michelle Gellar, foxy #1 & #2. Some links for more film & real life (she's been rumored as a real smoker forever) - info & pictures.

One of my personal favorites is Jennifer Love Hewitt. While she didn't get inspired to start smoking by her foxy fakes, #1 - #2 - #3. And her smoking on screen is clearly acting (and she is a poor fake smoker at best) she curiously seems to land a lot of smoking roles: info & pictures & more pictures. One of my all time favorite scenes of her is in "Confessions of a Sociopathic Social Climber" (a the spectacularly awful movie btw) - where she not only seems to smoke constantly, and always smokes 100mm all whites, but she even smokes during sex, while acting like a total bitch. Her absolutely fake smoking notwithstanding, that kind of scene just makes my chastity belt all kinds of uncomfortable. And that scene is only the second time in a mainstream movie where an actress smoked during sex that I know of. The other instance I know of was Joanne Whalley-Kilmer in "A Texas Funeral" - and she definitely knows how to smoke! That movie makes my top 10 for pure smoking fetish entertainment (not for the dramatic quality) as her character is rarely shown without a cigarette and the filming and lighting (particularly during the love making scene) makes me wonder if the director has the fetish.

Anyways, being as prolific a producer as Foxy was, sometimes the quality wasn't always there. As I enjoyed his work I figured I'd try to help him a bit and sent him detailed Photoshop instructions and information on improving them. Here are four samples that I sent off to him, though I don't think he used them, he never replied. So here they are: #1/fixed - #2/fixed - #3/fixed - #4/fixed

And that's a wrap for today's photoshops for smoking fakes. I'm sure my fellow fetishists will have plenty of surfing links for you perverts ;)

Fetish: Lipstick

Yes, lipstick. I know it seems so every day. It seems so "non-fetishy" but hey... I'm the perv here and if I tell you that I have a lipstick fetish, you have to take my word on it.

There is a forum for it at - lipstickfetish.org, so I know that I'm not the only one out there ;)

For the record I'm definitely more into the crimson and burgundy than the pinks or bright red. But it is more important that it matches the overall look, and maybe that's saying something about what I like with the overall look. The weirder colors, black, white, even blue... well they're just weird. Unless you are doing a Halloween costume I'd suggest just sticking to the vampish dark red - and you've got me totally mesmerized.

The whole lipstick on me thing is obviously something that appeals to my dress up side. I sometimes wear a beard and at those times it's totally out. Some folks might like the humiliation of facial hair & lipstick - it's just not my thing.

And lipstick kissing on lipstick it's like some kind of absurd moments for. The mind runs away with... this is going to make such a mess and it's so f'n hot that I want do to it, but I don't want to ruin your lipstick... Aaeeeeee! *sigh*

Ok, where was I... yes, and shiny over matte every time. Sticky and gooey - I can go either way on that. In some ways it's really hot. Obviously it's a bitch to maintain. And if you kiss something, or drink anything, or smoke a cigarette well lipstick is all over the place. And needs to be fixed. And that's both really hot and kinda annoying and well... hey I'm a fetish snob, what do you want? The lipstick on the cigarette filter falls under the "mad crazy" fetish for me. I think that's largely why I prefer the white filtered cigarettes to the "cork" brown ones. The lipstick on the filter, gah... it's like a landmark - HOT WOMAN WAS HERE! Not unlike high heel pock marks on a wood floor, it's just... so... hot.

Oh, more pictures... of course, for research purposes only, right? :p Celebs Set 1 & Celebs Set 2

I have become so conditioned to it, that the smell of some brands can get me going. L'Oreal Colour Riche really gets me. I don't know what it is. The smell, the taste... I donno, but it makes my heart skip and extra beat. Oh, and color #746 "Pure Burgundy" is really hot if you have dark enough hair to pull it off - or just a feisty attitude ;)