Femdom Fiction, Photography & Art ebooks

Leather: The Ultimate Fetish, Volume 1, Number 5
Hudson Communications, Inc.
New York, New York
1984

digital replica

The album presents alluring models in leather, rubber and other shiny materials. The assortment of photographs consists of solo shots and twosomes, most of which involve a male on his knees. Men provide boot and body worship, get ridden or trampled.

The page-3 editorial provides the collection's premise:

Leather has long been acknowledged as the fabric of sadomasochistic play. Authority and fashion savvy is only part of the allure. Cured skins glorify the female body as no other material on earth, natural or inorganic.

Mistresses love leather's look, feel and smell. Slaves respect its power and worship its mystique. Discover the enchantment of the most provocative material in the world.

S&M, leather and fur! It's a killer combination that's been enthralling slaves since the Romans invented decadence!

Two lengthy essays wind around the photographs, their themes and artifacts. Exploring fur and leather fetishism, the second essay works to connect fetishism with masochism.

Fur and leather fetishism has long been closely related to some facets of sadomasochism. Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (whose name was the origin of masochism) paid tribute to his mistress with a ship in Venus In Furs. The English artist, Aubrey Beardsley was a noted masochist, whose drawings often included a dominating woman in furs.

In Venus In Furs, we can see the development of one particular form of fur fetishism, although it can take on many other facets as in any form of fetishism. Although presented in the form of a novel, the work is highly autobiographical, telling of a young landowner named Severin who allows his mistress to bind him up and flog him, while she wears furs.

While the story is filled with sadomasochism, the fetishism is also quite evident. In fact, some forms of sadomasochism are quite often tied in with fetishism. In the book, Severin admits that the furs excite him as much as the flogging, going so far as to sign a document that allows her full power over him so long as she wears furs to enslave him.

To be sure, some leather and fur fetishists may be latent in their feelings for animals. Many horsewomen are fond of leather, and are often able to achieve an orgasm while riding their mounts. But their fixations with leather usually take on a more covert tone in adulthood, their feelings of dominance over the animals being more psychological than physical.

Often the attraction to leather and fur is more visual than tactile, especially in cases where sadomasochism or other ritualized forms of sex are carried out. However, in most cases the sense of touch plays the dominant role in arousing the fetishist sexually. . . .

The strongest correlation between another deviation and fetishism is often cited as being that of masochism and the leather fetishist. To the individual involved in sado-masochism, leather represents a garment of strength and virility. The texture also arouses his tactile sense — it is smooth, but at the same time tough and durable. He may want to be dominated by what it represents, even if he wants in no way to be punished in a physical manner.

In this way, the masochistic nature of the leather fetishist differs from the popular concept of the true masochist. The leather fetishist is sexually satisfied with abuse and humiliation from the person who wears the leather, but his peculiarity usually stops short of receiving actual pain.

He may allow the leather wearer to subject him to more than verbal abuse on some occasions, going so far as allowing the person to force him to perform an oral act, but generally avoids the use of whips. In some instances the dominant member will wield a leather whip, such as a riding crop, but this only appeals to his leather worship and acts as a threat.

Shapely models wear an assortment of boots and heels, corsets, nylons, garter belts, gloves and dresses. Some hold whips, crops or spankers.

The ebook contains all content of the 48-page magazine, including ads on one page, in the original sequence. A few page layouts were revised slightly. About 75 photographs.

Interior photography was accomplished with professional lighting. Competence abounds. Brightness and contrast were adjusted, shadows reduced and many specks retouched. The ebook presents pictures with clarity.

All new scans. Nudity.

The publication collects a wide assortment of provocative models from the early 1980s. Many photos continue photo sets that appeared in similar magazines of that era.

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Although some parts of pictures are obscured on this page, the ebook shows everything that's in the original.

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