#303301 - Hard Knots 1 1985 London
Hard Knots, Number 1
London Enterprises Limited
Van Nuys, California
1985
digital replica
Four pictorials show good-looking models tied up mostly in warehouses. In a short story, a lawyer discusses his adventures in and opinions about bondage.
An introduction titled Bondage is Love places bondage in the realm of fantasy.
What? Love? How can it be love to tie someone up and make them totally helpless? Even spank their buttocks and tease and torment their bodies? And then to take possession of them sexually and spiritually, denying them all apparent consent and control?
Believe it or not, that definition of bondage fun and games as a loving act is real and sincere. This is not a perversion, a form of cruelty, or anything to do with rape. Such things are the realm of criminals and sick minds, and have no place in our brand of fantasy play.
Our basic creed here at Lyndon is one of mutual consent. The human body responds to all sorts of stimuli, but responds more intensely when those stimulations are not only physical, but also to the mind. The joys of role playing fantasy games are well known to psychologists. Why is it so very difficult to understand the wants and needs of loving, consenting adults to add fantasy to their sexuality. Pirate King and Captive Maiden. Cruel Inquisitor and Beautiful Heretic. Cowboy Buckaroo and Hog-Tied Heroine. Roman Master and Pagan Slavegirl. All of these games and more are available to loving partners with vivid imaginations of dreamers and the freedom of attitude to make their dreams come to life. This is the most trusting, sharing, and genuinely unselfish kind of love of all.
It is to help stimulate those imaginations, provide the jumping-off points for fantasy play and dreams that all of our words, pictures, and factual articles are about. We are here to give guideposts and suggestions, to teach and to share, and also to encourage you to do what dreamers have done since the dawn of humanity: don't merely dream it—be it, and if not in reality, be it in the pages of our many fantasy publications.
Helpless Margie
As shown on the cover, Margie is a strawberry blond who gets bound in rope. Dressed in a short bustier, French-styled garter belt and full-fashioned stockings, Margie gets tied with her hands behind her head. After she's gagged, many winds of white rope cross her chest.
Bound by Law — short story
A lawyer tells of varied encounters with women who are interested in bondage, beginning with a Mrs. Y, whose husband knew a lot about knots from his sailor days. In an L. A. love boutique, he meets Alice.
She struck up a conversation as we both stood surveying the black leather wrist cuffs, harnesses and headgear. She questioned me about what sort of equipment I used. When I replied that I didn't actually own any, she asked in a conversational tone if I wouldn't like to see what she had accumulated over the last few years. She said her collection was merely functional, but rather exciting and wondered if I would be excited by what she had at home. I was excited about what she had, anyway, regardless of what she had at home.
Ten minutes later we were in her apartment and she was pulling open dresser drawers and explaining the use of each article as she extracted it. I picked up a single wristless of wide black leather with a metal shank attached from which dangled a short length of chain. Before I could ask, she pointed to the upper corners of the French doors that lead to her bedroom. Affixed at not only the upper corners but the lowers as well, were stout ring bolts screwed deep into the wood. She explained that by adding a pair of ankle cuffs, a person could be totally immobilized in a standing spread-eagled position, accessible from both front and rear.
I said I'd never seen anything quite like it before.
"Would you like to try it?" Alice asked.
"Who, me?" I thought she meant would I like to try the position myself.
"No, I meant would you like to try it on me. I've tried binding men, but I don't get much pleasure out of it."
"Yes, I would." I said, and half-expected her to snap on the shackles, fully dressed, just as a demonstration. But that wasn't what she had in mind.
"Would you like to undress me?" she asked.
I did. As the clothes came off, they revealed a body that was not only boyishly slender but, to my eyes, nearly perfectly formed. . . .
Corset and Cord
Pretty Nancy shows off her shapely figure in gloves, bustier, garter belt, stockings, and platform sandals. Her lips are parted by a big ball gag as she stands beside a heavy plank that spans two stacks of boxes in a warehouse. Ankles and wrists and then knees and elbows get encircled by thick white rope as she stands on, sits on and gets tied to the plank.
Witch in Wicker
A man fantasizes about binding his statuesque co-worker to the bamboo furniture he builds. When Julie first appears, she's wearing a lacy something, and tied to a row of bare bamboo chairs. As pictures progress, more of her is revealed when her lingerie gets re-positioned. Eventually, she's wearing nothing at all and is tied lengthwise across the chairs.
Neat Package
Tied to a wood frame in a warehouse, Jane models a lacy garter belt, stretch nylons, bikini panties and black pumps. Ropes restrain her at knees and ankles while her wrists are tied to a horizontal wood beam. Between two posts, she's tied like a hammock and in the last few photos, her arms are pulled up and out behind her.
The ebook contains all content of the 48-page magazine. Page sequence was revised to obtain continuity of the short story and pictorials, including the back cover. All advertising pages were re-located to the end of the ebook.
Some empty margins, walls, and floors were cropped out. A few page layouts were revised. A sticker on the front cover was excised.
Brightness, contrast and levels were adjusted and shadows reduced. Photographs transposed to ebook format with clarity.
All new scans. Nudity.
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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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