Bill Ward BDSM Art

De Sade State Hospital
a novel by James MacKenzie
illustrated by Bill Ward
BB - 31
Eros (Goldstripe) Publishing, Co.,
Wilmington, Delaware
1972

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During the 1970s, Eros Publishing Company launched the Bizarre Books series with diagonal Eros Goldstripe ribbons on covers. The series included male domination and female domination novels, often with forced transvestism, usually illustrated by a gifted artist.

Although no one has been able to prove it, Wade State Hospital has a whispered reputation as a place where patients are subjected to vile, painful punishments. Reporter Peter Massie's publisher asks him to learn the behavior of a psychotic and expose the truth about the treatment facility as an institutionalized inpatient imposter.

Brought in by police, Dr. Jane Carmines immediately restrains Pete in a straight jacket, ridicules him and tortures him by poking his most sensitive flesh with the heel of her shoe. In his padded cell, she walks on him in spike-heeled shoes. On a table, beautiful Dr. Carmines uses her shoe as a spanking utensil while Nurse Connie uses a scalpel to shave his head.

Dr. Jane has her new patient on his knees while she beats him with a cat-o-nine-tails. In her bedroom, she forces him to lick her thigh-high boots and then use his mouth to untie the laces. She demands body worship, hangs him upside down and installs a choke collar. While providing lip service to a nurse, Dr. Jane violates him with a broom handle. He's beaten with mace, whip, leather straps. While suspended from the ceiling, he's forced to satisfy the appetite of an orderly while a nurse swings a riding crop at him. In two scenes, Pete must wear feminine undergarments and heels.

The doctor and her cohorts treat the hospital's patients with a degrading regimen of agonizing punishments, insults, and sexual exploitation. The female staff dresses in leather and rubber costumes, corsets, stockings, high-heeled shoes and boots and long gloves. Their fetish attire is orchestrated to display their stunning femininity in ways that attract and tease male patients, while administering a strict diet of physical pain and humiliation. When inmates suffer, pretty staff members giggle.

While patients endure their cruelty, the women of the novel become sexually excited. In the isolated realm of secure hospital grounds, they experiment with many forms of sadistic entertainment.

While Bizarre Book volumes published in 1975 had 12 ink drawings, De Sade State Hospital, a title produced near the beginning of the series, has 16 illustrations by the Great Bill Ward. The Ward art in this set delineates spectacular female bodies with unusually good work on feet and footwear.

Except for advertising, the ebook has all the content of the paperback volume, including the color cover and back cover. Tasty fetish features of these voluptuous illustrations are repeated, enlarged, on separate pages. The ebook shows pictures on more than 40 pages.

Illustrations depict incidents in the story and the grand female figure of the mean doctor and a collaborating nurse. As permitted by story content, page sequence was revised to position each picture close to related prose, but not every picture is described precisely.

The text has been completely re-set for the ebook version. Editing changes spelling and punctuation. Some words were eliminated to relieve redundancy.

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