You are entering what Dr. Frahnk-en-shteen would refer to as "the nonsensical ravings of a lunatic mind". If you have time to kill or a psychology paper to write, read on. If you're just interested in something more specific, hit the links to the right to jump to it. Otherwise, onward!
How can I contact you?
You can contact me at mailbagATstraitjacketed.com. You know what to do with the "AT" there.
How much are you charging for your subscription-based content?
Subscriptions are $19.95 for the first month, then re-bill at $14.95 per month thereafter.
When do you update the site?
The Pay Load subscription-based content is updated once a week, usually on Fridays. Free Load content is updated less frequently and not on any set schedule.
How can I join your site?
Go here to join.
How can I cancel my subscription to your site?
Go to the join page. There you'll find a link called Customer Service/Cancel Account leading to a ccbill page where you can locate and cancel your subscription. Ccbill will ask for two of three pieces of information from you and then list the subscription(s) you currently have open with them. You can then cancel recurring billing from there.
What sort of content can I expect with a membership to the subscription-based area?
Photo sets and video clips, with one new photo set and video clip added every week. All photo sets uploaded to the membership area from the site's beginning are available for veiwing and download. Video clips will be rotated off the site during updates. As one new clip is added, the oldest will be removed. See the Archives page and the green-bordered clip(s) to know which are the next to be removed. There will be at least one year's worth of video clips available in the membership area at any given time.
So those old video clips that have been removed...are they gone for good?
No. Clips rotated off of the site here will end up over at our clips4sale page.
So are straitjackets all we're going to see here?
No. It's just that your resident bondage perv is obsessed with straitjackets. Fortunately, I'm also a fan of bondage in general so you'll infrequently get other forms of restraint here, too.
Do you take requests for stories or artwork?
No, sorry. Having said that, please feel free to send me feedback about what you like and might like to see. I cannot promise that those suggestions will make it into any future stories or artwork, but they might if something you mention inspires me.
Do you accept submissions of stories and/or artwork?
Absolutely, that would be great. The more the merrier. The only caveat is that it's gotta be your own stuff so there are no copyright issues. Also, depending on the nature of the content not everything submitted will be posted to the site.
Straitjackets? Really?
Yeah, that one puzzled me for a lot of years when I was younger. I never came up with the big one reason why within the context of the overall bondage fetish, I somehow preferred straitjackets as a method of restraint. In the end, I accepted an “If it’s wrong, I don’t wanna be right” perspective and gave up wondering. However, I did come up with some smaller reasons why along the way.
Reason 1: The basic engineering. Primitive and barbaric. It's naught but a shirt with extra long sleeves. Yet with a few minor modifications, a strap to connect the sleeve ends, at least one strap on the body of the jacket to prevent the arms from being lifted overhead, plus a crotch strap, and you have a completely unyielding, totally inescapable restraint. They’re overkill by their very design. You could just cable tie somebody’s hands behind their back and essentially achieve the same results. A straitjacket, with their size, material, and fastenings, are grossly over-qualified for the task to which they are assigned. I love watching movie or tv melodramas where the heroine is tied up by the bad guy, but always manages to escape. The garden shears syndrome. You know, she manages to find a pair of garden shears in the shed she’s tied in or whatever, rubs through the rope binding her, and she's off and running. If the bad guys would just straitjacket these women instead, they’d never have a problem. The epidemic of TV and film escapes as we knew them would stop altogether. A proper straitjacket is a permanent straitjacket. Once you’re in, you have no hope of escape unless someone else releases you. That's appealing.
Reason 2: The look. I love dance/exercise-wear and to me a snug-fitting straitjacket and crotch strap call to mind a leotard. In fact, my ideal straitjacket design is basically a leotard with closed sleeve-ends. A leotard and glossy tights is as sexy to me as the most revealing lingerie. Thank you, Solid Gold dancers. I was never quite sure why I loved that show so well as a boy and tuned in every week. Turns out, it wasn't because of Marilyn McCoo's singing.
Reason 3: The look - part 2. I’m fine with the "coverage". One of the main reasons I love bondage is what the stress of a given position or tie can do the female form. The human body is the most beautiful thing on earth, and women have, far and away, the better looking version of it. I love to see the female body stressed into positions it couldn’t otherwise achieve but for the bonds that make it so. As much as I love straitjackets, the art of bondage, that being the careful manipulation of the female form, doesn’t get any better than the ultra-strict nude hogtie. My very favorite part of the female body though, is from the waist down. The callipygian buttocks, the stepped, flaring hips, the pleasing curve of the thigh, the bulbous flesh of a well developed calf, the graceful arch of a sexy foot. The bottom line is that the entirety of a woman’s upper body being covered by something akin to a burlap sack (hopefully a tight-fitting, well-tailored one, at least) is not an irritant to me. The tightly bundled top and the waiting, vulnerable bottom is a big draw. The upper part of the body, the dangerous parts, the fists and elbows, opposable thumbs, and nails, all safely remain pocketed away while below the waist, well, anything can happen. Part of the idea of the straitjacket incorporates the crotch strap as a kind of chastity device. All one need do is unbuckle it...
Reason 4: The look - part 3. Style, baby! I’ve got a rainbow of jackets. Different textures, materials, and colors. Each with their own cut, fit, and method of fastening. I have strictly aesthetic ones that are playful and sexy but don't really restrain, and I have hyper-functional, seriously intimidating ones that would have even the strongest, most resourceful woman totally and inescapably bound. And there’s a million and one more variations yet to be seen. I’m driven to get all of them, like some kind of twisted Pokemon. Gotta get 'em all! And God willin' an' the creek don't rise, you'll see all of them here on straitjacketed.com.
Here I'll pay respect to those who have influenced me in some way. Apologies up front to anybody I might omit. Like not remembering the album you wanted to buy until after you've left the record store, I’m sure I’ll remember others I wanted to mention later. If not for many of these people, myself and many others wouldn't understand that they're not crazy, and they're not alone. Thank you.
Favorite Models:
Michelle Bauer/Kim Bittner/Pia Snow - My all-time favorite bondage model. Like all the great models, she’s so much more than simply good looking. She radiates her personality through the medium. To see a Michelle Bauer set is to see a woman in the moment, demonstrating full commitment to the scene. Her stuff was always a degree or two hotter than most other models. I remember the first time I really noticed her. I was working in a porn shop at the time, pre-internet, and during dull periods I’d head over to the magazine bins (where they would bundle three old mags together and sell them) and check out the bondage mags. One day I opened one up and saw one of the hottest photo sets I’ve ever seen. Michelle in a tank top and panties, dominated by a beautiful blonde woman. She ends up in a tight red leather single sleeve, a red leather muzzle/trainer gag, and some steel cuff saround her ankles. It went on for pages and pages, in color and B&W, and it just absolutely blew me away. To this day, I’ve only seen a shot or two from that entire set online, and I regret I never kept that magazine. It started a love affair with her, though. She’s the gold standard.
Elkie Cooper - Wow. The first time I saw this woman she took my breath away. I believe if I walked up to a magical vending machine that dispensed Dream Girls and deposited my money, the girl that popped out would pretty much look exactly like Elkie. The face, the hair, the body, the demeanor, the look, everything. Still, I’d seen so little of her compared to many other models, and then *poof*, she was gone, given up bondage modeling for good, which makes me weep. I have a confession to make, Elkie. When I karaoke “Mrs. Robinson”, I replace Joe DiMaggio’s name with yours. If you ever feel like making a come back...start here. I've got an extra-small with your name on it. *Update!* A little birdie told me that Elkie is modeling again. Glee! The world is a better, more lovely place in the gleaming, golden light of that information. *Double Update!* I've failed you, and myself. I approached Elkie for a shoot and she politely declined. sigh C'est la vie.
Dina Davis - As far as I know, she only models for Imago Studios, and even then, I haven't seen her around in a while. Think we might have lost her. Alas. I’m torn between being happy for them that they have such a tremendous, exclusive model, and being selfish enough to want to see her on every site on the net, in every set on those sites. Dina has got “IT”, whatever it is, and she’s got it in spades. And the figure. Good Lord, the figure. One of the great attributes of the female form is the ability for the woman with a lithe torso to be flexible enough to arch her back in such a way so that it almost seems as if her pelvis dislocates from her spinal cord and can move around independently from the rest of her body. The challenging and alluring positions this kind of flexibility allows is incrediblly sexy, and Dina’s the queen. It just came naturally to her. I really hope that Dina genuinely enjoys bondage, because all of her work just screams, “Born To Be Bound“.
Jordan Berlin - The best actress/model out there? Certainly there's nobody better. Again, another model who appears to work exclusively for one producer, aesproductions. Jordan brings a level of commitment to her scenes that honestly just shames other models. In the acting, sure, but especially when she’s tied. She continues to give maximum effort from beginning to end. She also must be some kind of pervert herself, or at the very least, the consumate professional as she seems to know exactly what we want to see from her in her ordeals at any given time. Spitting, cursing, and defiant, or resigned, broken and sobbing, she can do it all, and do it all incredibly well. I love her stuff.
Emi Addison - Another of the too rare “IT” girls, who just “gets it“. A while back I had arranged a shoot with her, but I had to back out, which absolutely killed me. You understand if you’ve ever seen Emi. Lately, Emi has been showing up in a lot of straitjackets. Repeatedly. So much so that I’m beginning to wonder if another one hasn't crossed over to the dark side (I count Dorothy Laine among the converted). It doesn't matter why she's doing so much straitjacket work, I'm only glad that she is. When we spoke, she was particularly interested in one of my latex straitjackets. *sigh* Did I mention I had to back out of the shoot with her? Oy. Recently I saw her on Bondage Cafe and Jim mentioned she asked specifically to be straitjacketed. Atta girl! Anyway, in addition, Emi seems the second coming of Jordan Berlin in the acting department when she wants to. An incredibly intense and committed actress, I’ve seen one clip of hers where she struggles so wildly that I think she genuinely unnerved the rigger. That made me chuckle, and also made me wonder if I could have handled her in that same situation. She’s amazing.
Honorable Mentions (or, If I don't stop now we'll be here for eternity): Kobe Lee, Amber Michaels, Christina Carter, Ashley Renee, Darling, Sadie Belle, Masuimi Max, Darby, Andrea Neal, Melissa of Aussie Rope Works (great ass, or greatest ass?) Bianca Beauchamp, Arafel, Kate Blonde, Kelsie Chambers, and Lisa Tyler (grrr...)
Favorite Producers:
Jim Weathers - It’s his world, and I’m just trying to scratch out a place in it. What this man has done in the past, what he is currently doing, and what I’m certain he will continue to do, is work on a level that nobody else can touch. Everything, from the quality of the image, composition, theme, subject, the meticulous and inventively diabolical ties, the sharpness and cleanliness of those ties, to the almost always beautiful and flattering outfits (ie, very little to no stripper-wear, the bane of pornography and my existence) and sensual stockings and hose, it‘s just top level stuff across the board. I believe if I were a fetish model, there’d be nobody I’d be more interested in working with than him. The Weatherman always makes ‘em look like a million bucks. So much so that sometimes I’ll have to double-take a familiar model just to be sure it’s the same woman I’ve seen elsewhere. I could live to be a thousand and have full access to a troop of contortionists and still not come up with half of the shit I’ve seen him do. There’s almost never an ornamental rope involved. The genius of his intricacies is that every strand of a tie serves the larger overall purpose of the rigging. And like a great director, he seems to mine from the actor, or in his case model, a level of refinement and production rarely seen from them elsewhere. In the Weatherman’s world, everyone brings their "A" game. He’s just…I’m going to go cry now.
PJW - My personal savior and the guy I most want to be when I grow up. Finding his work online through the newsgroups via WebTV back in the day (and I presume at this point that’s the modern equivalent of a grandparent relating a story about listening to the radio programming in the time before television) was a revelation. This guy was in my fucking head. The look of much of his work resembles so many of my own fantasies and desires. His black and white photography is some of my very favorite art. I just think he’s exceptionally talented, with that Midas Touch that great artists have that can turn a picture into a photograph. His camera captures more than a simple image. It captures drama, and playfulness, and sensuality and sexuality, in less varnished, more gritty, real-world brush strokes than his contemporaries. To this day, his black leather straitjacket makes me swoon. That thing is nothing less than a work of fucking art. It seems to shrink to fit what ever model is wearing it at the time, and always appears to be the proper size. That is to say, too small.
Sean Harper - I think you can see a pattern emerging. A lot of shiny stuff like dancewear, spandex, hose, sexy shoes, and great ties. When I started viewing and collecting bondage imagery, much of it was pretty much just “Harmony”. As I got more familiar with the material and it became more granular, and I started to learn the producers working within the Harmony structure, I began to realize many of the photo sets I had collected over time were all produced by the same man, one Sean Harper. Again I just believe some of our aesthetic proclivities overlap which helps make me pre-disposed to like his work. Or, his shit was just really great looking, consistently. Whatever floats your boat. His work had an elegance and a maturity that was very adult, very sensual. I don’t want to use “classy”. That’s almost a pejorative anymore.
Felix Dartmouth - Cranked out some pretty great straitjacket stuff in his own right, but also gets the nod for running archives-bbs for years and years. For the longest time, this site was my daily stop, perusing the day’s goodness from the groups and padding my collection with lost and hidden gems. I just have to recognize and say thanks.
Craig from Conversaion Piece/Quality Control - Merge his love of tights/hose with PJW's straitjackets, and you have, uh, me. I love his style. In fact, I'd say he's the modern-day Sean Harper, minus all the shower-cap and white tennis shoe buisness (sorry, Sean). He also gets the cutest girls around to model for him. It's great to see the fresh faces on his site, and to see otherwise ubitquitous faces in a different light, through his prism. He also does, by his own admission, some really unique video work that I love. His stuff has only gotten stronger since I stumbled on it years ago, which as a fan is awesome. He's even incorporated some custom straitjackets and segufix stuff into the mix, to my great delight. He's just a youngster too, so hopefully he'll keep producing for a long, long time.
Honorable Mentions: MSP, Dorothy Laine, Imago Studios, House of Gord, A Fetish Page, Dominic Wolfe, Phil Carson, Captive Culture
The Manufacturers:
Somebody has to create these incredible restraints. They don't materialize out of thin air, however awesome that would be. These guys make the stuff our pervy dreams are made of. See them if you want a dream of your own made real.
Christopher: Made the custom red and black leather straitjacket for me. An absolutely amazing piece of craftsmanship. He consulted with me every step of the way to be sure the jacket was exactly how I wanted it. I think we made some innovative choices with the design, and it ended up turning out even better than I'd hoped. I'm extremely happy with it, and I hope to work with him again in the future for more custom gear. Visit the links page for a link to Christopher's blog. There you can follow his other projects, or even contact him for one of your own.
Max Cita: Made two custom Psycho models for me, to my exact specifications. I wanted one that was less strict looking, and would allow for more movement and struggling, and one that was as gnarly and binding as possible. They also needed to fit a small model snugly, so he sized them small and corsetted the bodies wonderfully. Really fantastic, artistic workmanship. Two of my most special jackets to be sure, they're just so well-tailored and lovingly crafted. You can't go wrong with Max. Not many people are doing what he's doing, at the level he does it, if any at all.
Leather Creations: Made my super nice black leather straitjacket. As ever, the idea for this jacket was to be an approximation of PJW's pretty little thing. It's close. Unfortunately when I needed to provide measurements, I didn't have a curvy 5'4"-ish woman on hand to take the full suite of measurements from. Consequently while it's slim-fitting everywhere else, it's long in the torso, relegating it strictly to the taller models that can wear it well. Also, when I first received the jacket from them, it was obvious it wasn't made from the measurements I sent. They had me box it back up and send it right back to be re-made. True to their word, the one I got back was just what I was looking for, so I know they'll stand behind their work. Easily one of my favorite straitjackets.
JT Posey: The prototype. Plenty of copycats around, particularly on ebay, but those guys just can't compare. Super functional, but also beautiful in their sleek utility, their no-frills, nuts and bolts design. Maybe they don't want their stuff associated with the pervs, but nobody loves them like we do. It's true.
No Escape!!!: Another restraint ar-teest extraordinaire. Torsten from No Escape!!! practically specializes in custom work. He made a gorgeous red and black satin lined and covered straitjacket for me that I adore. He works fast and works well. I'll certainly be buying from him again in the future when I need a straitjacket of a material and design that simply cannot be found anywhere else in the world. Thanks, Torsten!
CJ's Leather: These fellows made a bananas custom straitjacket for me using a fantastic looking antiqued brown leather, exactly the kind of look I wanted. The craftsmanship is superb. Once again though, they didn't seem to use the measurements I sent to put the jacket togehter initially, resulting in a hulking, huge thing. I was able to send it back and have them tailor it back down more towards the size I wanted, so again, I know they'll stand by their work.
Also: To everybody online who contributes something, somewhere. To everyone who sends updates to sites like Greggerbits’ or Brian’s Page. To everyone who captures content-rich scenes from movies and tv and then posts them online. To everyone who writes stories or creates fetish art. A special thanks to everyone who provides their favorite site with a personal item to enhance the work. I'm thinking of sj enthusiasts in particular. There’d be so many fewer sets out there if guys like Harry, Richard, myself, and I’m certain many others, didn’t loan their jackets to various sites for shoots over the years. Big ups!.
And finally, his own special acknowlegdement:
Greggerbits - His site has existed for years as a beacon in a safe harbor for straitjacket pervs to find out about the latest media available. There was a time when I was just getting on the net and his site was still young, that I had scoops to give him on scenes in movies or shows, as did many others. My reserves ran out quickly though, and he’s been keeping on, keeping on, as he turns up more and more hidden gems with help of a vast armada of contributors. Practically my bondage homepage. The day his site is updated with the URL to this site will be one of the highlights of this whole endeavor. I don't think any site on the net has meant to me over the years than Straitjacketed Women in Mainstream Media.
To all, thank you, thank you, thank you.
Interested in modeling for straitjacketed.com? Can you get yourself to Rhode Island, where I'm located? No experience is necessary. The only prerequisite is a nice figure. Contact me at mailbagATstraitjacketed.com with "modeling" in the subject for more information.
