Bondage ebooks

Hogtie, Volume 2, Number 5
House of Milan Corp. (HOM)
Los Angeles, California
1973

digital replica

The editorial defines House of Milan's paradigmatic bondage ideal:
“The willing physical submission of one individual to another, symbolized and enforced by bondage, is a sophisticated expression of the sex drive and a legitimate stimulus to heightening mutual pleasure. This magazine does what it can to help our readers see that bondage, as erotic foreplay involving consenting adults, is a normal, healthy part of male-female relationships. Our stories and pictures try to reveal new techniques in this art and to demonstrate that the conspiracy of silence about it, enforced by our Puritan culture, can be broken through. (As we have continually stressed, this type of bondage is totally unrelated to the sadistic type in which a real victim suffers genuine torment at the hands of another. It is mutual pleasure that we recommend, not pleasure achieved at the expense of someone else.)

“In addition, bondage can provide aesthetic satisfactions - particularly when it is enjoyed through pictures rather than direct participation. These satisfactions are to be found in both the design and the novelty of a well-executed job of restraint. Perhaps it is that we fully appreciate the marvelous flexibility of the human body only when the possibility of movement is severely curtailed. Perhaps the impression of snugness, conveyed by the artful use of heavy rope, plays a part in these satisfactions as well. Whatever the source, we know that our readers do enjoy the painstaking symmetry of high-quality bondage and the creativity embodied in a new method of restricting a willing subject. To the utmost of our ability, we dedicate this magazine to all the readers who share these interests.”

From photography to rope work to printing, it's obvious that experienced professionals produced this issue of Hogtie. We often gripe about all the spot and speck retouching magazine photographs require, but very little of that was needed to make this ebook.

The 64-page issue brims with shapely ladies in bondage. Most are gripped by thick rope, tied in neat, symmetrical patterns, sometimes to chairs. In one 7-page pictorial, a cutie in tight panties has a leather strap buckled around her ankles.

Most photo sets are shown on three or four pages, as though the objective was a nice assortment of bound beauties.

In one pictorial, a brunette uses laced leather bands to immobilize her blond girlfriend at ankles, legs and thighs. A head harness device integrates ball gag and leather blindfold.

Other models are silenced by balls but a few have diagonal tape strips over their mouths.

Two essays explore the pleasures of sheaths and gags. Both of these pieces are illuminated by Robert Bishop's art, which also appears elsewhere in the magazine.

The digital replica includes all the content of the magazine, including advertising and personal ads. Page sequence was revised to obtain continuity of the letters feature and centerfold pictorial. Some page layouts were revised. Brightness and contrast were adjusted and shadows reduced.

All new scans.

In the 1970s, House of Milan pursued esoteric interests with a spectrum of engaging products. The bound beauties of Hogtie were models who played other roles in other magazines. Expert use of explicit bondage paraphernalia and the professional quality of publications had resonance with actual practitioners and built an international clientele. The ebook brings this fine work to life in the next century.

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