Beautiful vintage illustrations of rope, restraints, captivity and elegant helplessness.
Les Callipyges, ou les Délices de la verge is a classic late-nineteenth-century French flagellation novel. It centres on a small group of fashionable English ladies (the Callipyges) who share both an exceptional physical attribute and an enthusiastic devotion to the birch and the martinet. Under the guidance of experienced schoolmistresses,…
Charles Maxwel Plaisted (1902 – 1956) was an American illustrator and comic artist best known for his work in the “spicy” pulp magazines of the 1930s and early comic books. Born in Penn Yan, New York, Plaisted studied at the University of Pennsylvania (1919–1923) and later at the Art Students…
Keiko Tagami (田上恵子) was a Japanese illustrator specializing in seme-e, drawings of women subjected to bondage and various forms of torment. Almost nothing is known about her personal life. No birth or death dates, no photographs of the artist herself, and no interviews have surfaced. Like many of the illustrators…
Bisare is an extremely obscure American underground publication issued in Chicago in the early to mid-1940s. Produced by the shadowy imprint Press Esquire, it appeared as a numbered series of small digests, each containing a fresh set of illustrations devoted exclusively to the themes of flagellation, chaining, bondage and spanking….
Kurt Faber (active circa 1929–1932) was a little-known German artist and illustrator from the interwar period. He is primarily remembered for his contributions to erotic and fetishistic works centered on flagellantism (whipping and corporal punishment scenes). His output consists mainly of drawings and especially distinctive photomontages (photomanipulations). His work appeared…
Max Kislinger (1895 – 1983) was an Austrian graphic artist, watercolorist, and folklorist whose erotic oeuvre stands out for its witty, earthy charm and masterful execution. Primarily working in the form of ex-libris (bookplates), often as woodcuts or hand-colored prints, Kislinger created highly personal and private erotic commissions that blended…