Great news, but first a big congratulations to Matt Larkin for the indie release of his first book. For the last few years he’s been shooting the folks from Rites of Passage using ambrotype photography (ie. wet plate, a 19th century technique that’s rare these days). Click on the pictures to jump to BMEshop where it’s available (and visit Matt on IAM if you’d like to see more pictures).
I’m eagerly watching my mailbox for my copy, I’ve been looking forward to this book for a long time now!
So a little while back we got photos to BME from Steve Truitt of his girlfriend Kasja and a friend doing a “vagina pull” (a female pubic mound flesh hook pull). After seeing the photos, I wasn’t sure if I should be very amused, very turned on, or both! It’s not the first time that we’ve seen a pull of this kind (I think the first one took place at one of the Philly or NJ BBQs if I recall correctly), but Kasja and her friend looked like they were having so much fun that I had to talk to her about it.
Shannon: Could you tell me a bit about yourself?
Kasja: I’m twenty-one, born and raised in New Mexico, and I’ve been into hooks and what-not for a little over four years now. I plan to keep on playing for as long as I live — I think it makes me a better person.
Shannon: What do you call this kind of pulling?
Kasja: Well, one day I was bored and thinking of places I could throw a hook into myself. I figured it couldn’t hurt too bad on the mound, so I started thinking of names for it — haha! Steve calls it a “vag tug” but I call it a “cat fight”… Tacky, I know… The first time it was just to see if it could be done; this was the second time, just for the amusement..
Shannon: What’s it feel like to be in a cat fight?
Kasja: The piercing is awesome! It makes my whole body pull into itself, and creates a swarm of butterflies in my tummy. I loved it.
Shannon: It looks like you were both having fun…
Kasja: I was having a blast watching the skin pull away from the body. I though it was just too funny so I kept pulling but she ended up feeling sick.
Shannon: What did the pulling feel like?
Kasja: Pulling felt very awkward — not good awkward, but not bad. Almost sexy, had it been in a different situation.
Shannon: So there could be a sexual element in a different scene? — I know there are definitely people turned on by the pictures.
Kasja: Both times I’ve done this, it’s always been in a joking manner. We’ve played limbo, and are thinking of a jump-rope competition! However, there could totally be a sexual sense to a hook in the snatch! It makes you weak and vulnerable, but totally in control at the same time.
Shannon: And how did it feel the next day?
Kasja: Bruised, haha! But I love bruises.
Shannon: Finally, any advice to girls who’d like to give this a try?
Kasja: Pull hard!
Ribes and *Tummy Boy share some quality tummy torture time.
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Lunge here and here for more of the similar.
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The Doctor sends in these photos of people claiming to be forced into depravity by me… but I didn’t do it! They were that way to start with! That said, it’s not like I mind… or don’t encourage it!
To me, castration edgeplay and penectomy edgeplay is sort of the same death-wish thrill (at least in appearance) that you see in some of the crazy solo apnea/breathhold videos — it plays on a very, very fine line that if you cross it, your life will never, ever be the same again (but as you can see, there are many healed scars as well as the fresh injuries in the photos). In any case, I guess you could say the same thing about rockclimbing in terms of risky play that people find fulfilling.
First up is Chris (The old Memento Mori is dead. From now on, I am.. Chris) lapsing into a superman suspension..
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Then there’s this slideshow (courtesy of yours truly, and not half as fancy as the one above) showing some of the other suspensions that day..
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The protagonists are – Ken (clinging onto Capt. Stupid Head for dear life), Jessica, Michelle (not on IAM, yet), and of course Meme Chris!
All suspensions aided and abetted by the iWasCured crew – Shell, Jon, Phil and Mikey.
And of course, as always, the suspension space was donated by Badur, a.k.a. Hot Stuff.
Excuse all the links, it couldn’t be helped.
Here’s Tame, play pierced with 18ga through 25ga needles by FearAndLoathing in Wellington, New Zealand. I love this candid photo, but click through if you want a closer view.
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Here’s Koz, swinging around wildly in more ways than one, suspending at Steve‘s 30th birthday party (313 Suspension Team, photographs by Jeff C Fetish, Chicago IL).
If you’re wondering what Steve did for his 30th, he wasn’t just sitting back enjoying others putting on a show — also photographed by Jeff, here’s a shot of Steve doing his second four-point wrist suspension. I wonder what the “official” name for a wrist suspension should be. It reminds me of an escape artist act…
Ego Kornus, who runs Kavadi Blog, just did this amazing interview with Carl Vadivella Belle about his many experiences carrying Kavadi. Click through for the interview.
