42nd St Pete’s Extreme Bondage Collection

Vintage Erotica

After Hours Cinema

R1 DVD

For this 2 DVD set Pete gives us a specialist area of early erotica. We get twenty loops, mostly visualisations of the old “Roped and Raped” style of novel, from Tao Films.

These mostly put an unwilling girl into a situation where a predator could tie her up. The rest of the film was usually of the girl rolling around helplessly trying to free herself while the camera lovingly explored each knot and rope. In this respect the films were more fetish than pornography. Other forms of restraint and accessories like handcuffs, leg spreaders, etc often featured as well.

Popular themes included suspending a trussed woman from a convenient hook in the ceiling (thoughtful American homebuilders?), slavery, the masked intruder and the bondage dream that becomes reality. The titles reflect the content – Sold Into Slavery, Bought For Bondage, Maniac In My Bedroom, and so on.

A lobby group called Women Against Pornography managed to get a law passed that forbade any act of sexual penetration while the woman was tied up. This was now defined as rape. Emphasis was therefore on keeping the captive bound and getting her into that position in the first place. Much fondling, spanking etc followed but no actual penetration. In many the attacker simply disappeared once his work was done. Some loops had a woman as the attacker. What WAP thought of this is not recorded.

Pete remembers BDSM (that’s “Bondage and Discipline” and “Sadomasochism” ) fondly, especially in the days before WAP when the sex was kinky and less tame. You won’t see those loops in this compilation. As the style became popular bigger producers moved into the market and it all became invested with the bland sameness that haunted American porn (and still does).

The style was also popular in Japan. Pink Eiga has re-released films like Shogun’s Joy of Torture which features bondage extensively. Unlike the American loops shown in this compilation the Japanese films were better produced and featured a plot that didn’t stop once the ropework was done.

As with many of Pete’s compilations the quality of the loops is poor, reflecting how much use they had while they were popular. As usual After Hours Cinema has included their detailed sleeve notes.

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