BDSM Art

This attractive UK artist has put together a personal site filled with original creations of dark erotica with a somewhat gothic feel. His artwork often features long legged women in nice high heels involved in some form of fetish or alien sexual act. The lines are spidery and fluid, at once very feminine and threatening. Genitals seem to sprout from unexpected places in the background, sometimes becoming almost plantlike or serving as a sort of border for the rest of the picture. Women are often sprawled out, pulled open, or presenting themselves in obviously sexual ways. There is a sort of "off" quality that pervades all of these images that sets your teeth on edge and makes you a bit nervous, even if you don't take into account what the images are putting across more obviously. Aside from the visual artwork, he has a selection of his poems and a short artist bio that includes how to play games with him online. An interesting individual with a distinctly unsettling vision of sensuality. I have no idea if his pieces are for sale, but he does have contact info on the site and says he can be reached for commission work.

Date Reviewed: 2005-06-28
Cost: Free Advertising Content: Low
Category Listings: BDSM Art, Goth / Vamp

This site takes the damsel in distress to a different level. There are galleries of women tied to railroad tracks, threatened with beheading, worried about explosives, and struggling not to be drowned in a tub. Even more extreme distress is applied to the computer generated women and photoshop manipulated images. There is very little nudity on the site, and no traditionally sexual images. The site also manages to avoid any gore, so while you see distress you won't see guts or blood (even the virtual sort). While this sort of imagery may be shocking to some, I'm not sure it will really hit the target audience as intended. The image quality is often a bit low. The photo manipulations and artwork are not very convincing, and the real life bondage scenes often aren't pulled off very well (the rope often looks loose or not applied well enough to really hold someone in place right). That said, some of the galleries are extremely hot (especially the drowning ones). The site works on a bee-token system, so you only purchase the galleries that you are interested in. The previews give you a good idea of what you are buying into, so there are not a lot of surprises. If you like extreme distress without the gore, this website might be for you!

Date Reviewed: 2005-02-17
Cost: Bee Token System Advertising Content: Low
Category Listings: BDSM Art, Female Bondage

Well, I have to be honest and admit my bias in this review. I was at a show where Tormented Artifacts was displaying some of their goods, and I fell in love with their product from across a crowded room. I literally ran up to the booth and grabbed one of their gasmasks (Ogre) and declared that it belonged to me before I even knew the price! Ogre has become one of the hottest pieces of fetish gear in my rubber inventory, so I obviously have a very high opinion of these artists personally. I found the owners to be very polite and helpful, and when I came to them with questions after the fact about care of the product they were quick to assist me. On this site they offer a wide variety of custom handcrafted leather and plastic masks, rubber and leather fetish accessories, occult themed wall scrolls and gasmask art. Pictures, descriptions, and prices are given but there is really only an email address available for contact info. This is obviously an early effort in establishing an online presence, and so the shop isn't really looking very professional at this point. Shipping, returns, privacy, and contact info is lacking. That said, I have had a great experience with them personally and am completely enamored with their gasmasks and rubber gear. » More Info!

Date Reviewed: 2005-02-14
Cost: free Advertising Content: low
Category Listings: BDSM Art, BDSM Gear, Latex / PVC / Rubber

This is the site of Peter Grigg, a fetish photographer in the United Kingdom. Membership to view his galleries is via AnyPay, and 2 pounds sterling per month. At time of review he had about 75 images posted. They are all black and white, as advertised, and are all of a dark fetish nature, and quite good. Photo prints are available for sale, and all are hand printed by the artist. Up front on the home page are 10 thumbnails of samples of the work. » More Info!

Date Reviewed: 2004-08-22
Cost: £2.99 per month, not rebilled Advertising Content: low
Category Listings: art / digital art, BDSM Art, Fine Art Prints

Indivia creates Poser artwork mainly themed around spanking. This site has dozens of her creations, all thumbnailed and linking to fullsized images. Some are M/f, some F/f, some are solo women with the aftermath of spanking evident. This is better than usual Poser artwork, IMO. In the sidebars you'll find links to all sorts of spanking themed websites, along with super-short stories (55 words or less!) by Indivia and her husband. » More Info!

Date Reviewed: 2004-07-21
Cost: Free Advertising Content: Low
Category Listings: BDSM Art, Spanking

Dirk is an artist from the American midwest who works in multiple media. His photography is dark and fetishy, with little of it actually unclothed but much of it provocative. In addition to his photography he does pen and ink and multimedia illustrations. He offers prints of some of his photography via secure PayPal cart, and has plans to offer prints of the other art in the future. » More Info!

Date Reviewed: 2004-05-23
Cost: free Advertising Content: low
Category Listings: art / digital art, BDSM Art, Fine Art Prints, Photographer Portfolios

All original art here, by photographer Luis Durante, and offered in either English or Spanish. I'm a bit conflicted here. I got lost a few times navigating around this site, and there are the occasional pop-ups selling his art book and such that you have to close, but through it all the mesmerizing imagery of his photographic eye continually brought me back and kept me going. Some of it is kinky, some merely sensual. Along with his erotic photographic art are a handful of movies - and I do wish the sound tracks didn't boot up when you go to the site. Overall, yeah, I got grumpy like I mentioned above, but it's a free site with some very nice photography » More Info!

Date Reviewed: 2004-01-01
Cost: free Advertising Content: as above
Category Listings: art / digital art, BDSM Art, Fine Art Prints, Photographer Portfolios

William specializes in artistic, imaginative and sometimes fantastical photography. His work is largely bdsm and fetish oriented. With incredible skill in digital enhancement and graphic arts, the studio can create just about any fantasy, and they do custom work if you have a particular image in mind. There are some gorgeous shots in here. Photos archival printed on canvas range from $55 for an 8x10 up to $375 for a 24x36 image. Images are thumbnailed, opening to a medium sized version. Ordering is secure via PayPal. » More Info!

Date Reviewed: 2002-08-20
Cost: free Advertising Content: none
Category Listings: art / digital art, BDSM Art, fine art nudes, Fine Art Prints

It is hard to find the proper words to capture what Geoff Cordner has created here, but while I looked over the site the term "gritty modern vintage" came to my mind. Yes, I know that seems like a contradiction in terms but this whole site is a contradiction, so I believe that it suites it. There are about 430 fine art photographs (mostly black and white) that artfully use setting, shadow, and mystery to capture amateur models in moments that seem timeless and aching in a way rarely seen in modern photography. The photos avoid the overly polished or airbrushed perfection though, and instead shoot for the late night murder mystery theater black and white realism and gritty feel. You can smell the cigarettes and the cheap booze. You get snapshots of a punk goddess in men's underwear staring down the camera, a delicate and dangerous punk baby girl sucking her thumb, working girls dancing for a dollar, and ice queens sucking on cigs. In addition to the photographs, there are also around 13 stories of punk rock depravity written by folks such as Heather Corinna, Geoff Cordner, Shawna Kenney, Vaginal Davis, and Cara Bruce. This isn't your everyday erotica, it is sweaty and it is on the way to the bathroom to screw after a speedball. Hot, unique, and well done! We've featured this as a site of the day before, and it just keeps getting better. Prints are available of the shots inside » More Info!

Date Reviewed: 2002-04-29
Cost: free Advertising Content: low - popup on index
Category Listings: alternative / sci-fi erotica, art / digital art, BDSM Art, BDSM Fiction, fine art nudes, Fine Art Prints, Goth / Vamp

Katheryn Hitt has a fine artist's eye, and says she wishes to 'portray the beauty and honesty behind everyone's sexuality without shame.' It's a noble goal, and so far she is hitting it on the mark. She has a distinctive style, and it speaks well of her work that by far the majority of her work has been sold into private collections. Her work is all on the site, sold or not, and original works may be purchased via secure cart with PayPal. I saw no provision for prints, only the original works. I saw nothing on her site I wouldn't be proud to have on my own walls. Here's hoping for a long and prolific career for her. » More Info!

Date Reviewed: 2002-04-02
Cost: free Advertising Content: none
Category Listings: art / digital art, BDSM Art, fine art nudes, Fine Art Prints

kikkou.com is a legend amongst lovers of Japanese Rope Bondage! It was unavailable for a time due to changes in Japanese porn laws, but it is back now! It is simply THE source for inspiration, breathtaking visuals, and online study for those who have a real love for the artform. Well known figures such as Sikou Sima and Randa Mai illustrate how to create beautiful bondage masterpieces through words and photo illustrations. Aside from the elaborate how-to section, there is also a beautiful JPG Gallery. In it you'll find thousands of the best bondage pictures of Japanese women in bondage you've ever seen, period. The pictures are sensual, hardcore, and works of art all at once. Speaking of art, there is an Art Gallery featuring some of the most amazing artists that concentrate their inspiration into bondage themed images. If you enjoy words more than pictures, there is the Tokyo Bondage Report. It includes scene reports and other details of the bondage and SM scene in Tokyo, and gets you inside the lives of the bondage artists. Chat is available on the site, so you can speak to others that have your interests as well! I could go on forever about this place, since it has been a personal source of inspiration to me for quite some time. My only suggestions? The cancellation link should be easier to find. It is in the Terms & Conditions statement that you can reach through the Join form. There are a few tech glitches, but nothing major. If I had to suggest one site to the lovers of Japanese Rope Bondage, this would be it!

Date Reviewed: 2002-01-26
Cost: $49.95/1st mo., recurs at $39.95/mo. Advertising Content: Low
Category Listings: BDSM / Fetish Video, BDSM Art, BDSM Resources, Female Bondage

Great stuff here. This is exotic erotic art at it's best. Pornotopia will show you from the very first splash page exactly what you're getting into. Visitors have a nice tour showing much of the diversity of the artistic minds behind Pornotopia, and members - a 30 day pass, which does not automatically renew - see everything. And everything, to use their text, includes "Nasty nymphs, nixies, ogres and orcs. Fantastic fancies of elven magic, princesses, anthropomorphic objects, tribal tributes, Celtic myth and more..." and they aren't kidding. This is high quality art from wonderfully twisted minds. You can buy reprints on two different levels of quality and expense, or you can also buy CD-rom's. Ordering is via secure shopping, however if you email them and describe what you're looking for they are just as happy to help you. Worth a visit. » More Info!

Date Reviewed: 2001-11-26
Cost: $19.95/30 day pass Advertising Content: low
Category Listings: anime / toons, art / digital art, BDSM Art, BDSM Fiction, Fine Art Prints

This fine showplace for the fetish fashion photography of Robert Chouraqui shows the various sorts of work he does quite well. From Paris, he has done magazines ranging from SKIN II to Playboy, bookcovers running the gamut from a Phillip Jose Farmer novel to John Warren's "The Loving Dominant", many posters and other work, all of which are sampled here. He has four books published of his own work and this site links to foreign and domestic outlets to purchase them. His work shows a focus more on interesting faces with fanciful posings that happen to have beautiful nude bodies rather than the other way around. His views are indeed exotic and should appeal to a wide audience. Of the six or eight galleries here about half have enlargeable thumbnails. I'd love to see all the work full size but I can appreciate an artist not wanting to have his work stolen. Prints are available. The site has both French and English text and if you can speak either language you should be fine here. Even if you don't speak English or French, you can find your way around satisfactorily by braille. Well worth a visit! » More Info!

Date Reviewed: 2001-04-08
Cost: free Advertising Content: low
Category Listings: art / digital art, BDSM Art, fine art nudes, Fine Art Prints, Goth / Vamp

JetM is a fine artist in digital art. She shows here about 9 galleries, most of them erotic. The art is well done, and the imagery is clever and well thought out. There is a lot of hard work on display here and you can't beat the price. Do enjoy her 'Rants' page as well. She speaks as well as she composes. JetM also links to a site where you can purchase prints of her work. » More Info!

Date Reviewed: 2000-09-08
Cost: free Advertising Content: low
Category Listings: anime / toons, art / digital art, BDSM Art, BDSM Fiction, Fine Art Prints

A pleasant journey can be had through this free art site, especially if you've been out cruising the commercial hardcore mainstream. Nothing overtly sexual here, although the images are often adult in nature. How to describe Bajema's art? Some is recovering goth, some looks fairey-ish, some appears to be HR Giger on his kinder gentler feminine side. And none of my characterizations does her honor; it's all fine work. She also includes samples of her fiction, links to associated artists, and prints of selected of her work are available. » More Info!

Date Reviewed: 2000-06-12
Cost: free Advertising Content: low
Category Listings: anime / toons, art / digital art, BDSM Art, fine art nudes, Fine Art Prints

This fun little free site looks like it'll be worth revisiting from time to time. DeLano is a tall good looking gentleman who respects and worships Bettie Page, Simone Devon, and Mistress Stephanie Locke, and considers their form of thoroughly-enjoying-themselves bondage to be an art form as well as an eroticism. His plan is to do his best to emulate their out-of-the-dungeon ordinary life setting style of aesthetic bondage, with himself as the person bound. What we reviewed included both photography and fiction. He has a couple of Pro Dommes who assist him (tying oneself up is not that easy), and it looks like he plans monthly updates. As he told us, the site still has a few kinks (har har) in it to work out, but nothing that interferes with viewing it. We'd like to encourage him to continue --- it's a fine mission to accept and he has a good start going. » More Info!

Date Reviewed: 1999-05-07
Cost: free Advertising Content: low
Category Listings: BDSM Art, BDSM Resources, Black, Male Bondage, men

Marvelous! I really like Barb's work. She offers art in the way of drawings and paintings that beautifully illuminate her vision of spanking and discipline. She feels that her "art illustrate(s) adult sexual fantasies with humor and satire, and touch(es) upon societal issues beyond the obvious erotic content", and says that she hopes that by viewing her art people may "address the issue of sexual anxiety without guilt or shame. I believe that those who strive for emotional freedom live healthier lives." I hope she'll take it as the compliment it's intended to be, that I look at her vision and style and see in her art what Norman Rockwell might have done, had he shared our perspective on life. The site is cheap, and updates monthly. She also has archives of past month's work available inside the member's area. Up front there is sufficient of a sample tour that a visitor can decide if they like her work. » More Info!

Date Reviewed: 0000-00-00
Cost: $10/month recurring Advertising Content: None
Category Listings: BDSM Art, Female Domination, Spanking