#538 - Tortured Relations Bill Ward We All Need Someone

Tortured Relations
a novel by Frank Craig
illustrated by Bill Ward
Tortura Press TP-102
Hilbarth, Inc.
Buffalo, New York
1971

digital replica with optimized pictures

and

We All Need Someone
Bill Ward's Bizarre Beauties
Eros Publishing Co., Inc.
Wilmington, Delaware
1972

digital replica

Tortured Relations
The novel reveals a sexscape of bdsm modalities, explored by Lisa and Bart, an affluent, attractive married couple with two teenagers. In the first chapter, he disobeys his wife and she gives him a spanking.

By correspondence, they're introduced to Helen and John, who have a little more experience with kinky marital sex and paraphernalia to go with it. At their home, the women dress in leather and high heels. The dominant wives swap husbands and wind up whipping them. They add pain and humiliation with strap-ons.

At an S/M club orgy, Lisa and Bart watch two young beauties wrestle in the nude. Then, Lisa gets whipped while two women stripped Bart out of his clothes. They bring him to a bedroom, but there they inflict frustrating anguish.

They force him into another room, where a sexy brunette in a corset orders him to kiss her boots. She flogs him and demands body worship.

The book takes us on a tour of various “sadomasochist” permutations. Unlike other Tortura novels, this one has chapter titles, such as Dildos and Clamps, Feather Torture, Horrible Revenge, Torture Tub, and
Married Games of Pain. The torture theme mixes characters and roles, but Bart usually gets the worst of it.

The writer provides detailed descriptions of fetish costumes, bizarre punishment implements, and incendiary torments that delight sadists and assail their prey. With lots of dialog, his prose is easy to read.

The text has been completely reset for the ebook iteration. Except for spelling and punctuation, few changes were made to the professional prose.

In the paperback, one Bill Ward illustration precedes each of the nine chapters. Tasty fetish details from the art have been repeated, enlarged near text that describes them. Optimized pictures appear on 25 pages. The brightness and contrast of illustrations was adjusted.

All new scans.

We All Need Someone
This magazine-sized publication collects more than 120 illustrations by the Great Bill Ward. Some are ink renderings, others show his skill with conte crayon.

Each cartoon has a caption intended to make a joke out of the scene. Many quips reference cultural idioms popular in the early 1970s — commercials, television, black power, feminism plus some desperate puns.

Nearly all of these pictures show his voluptuous female ideal in fetish attire. Sexy beauties appear in nylons, boots, high heels, long gloves and corsets.

Some of these pictures may have come from novels, others have accompanied short stories in magazines. Many have punishment themes.

The ebook presents all of the magazine in the original sequence, including three pages of advertising. A few page layouts were revised. Brightness and contrast were adjusted.

All new scans.

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