#304312 - Binder 1 1 1975 House of Milan

Binder, Volume 1, Number 1
House of Milan Corp.
Los Angeles, California
1975

digital replica

In the premiere issue of House of Milan's Binder, the magazine announces its psycho-sexual premises, characterizing bondage apparatus as an alternative foreplay dress-up mode, a spicy condiment on the banquet table of desire when agreed to by sensuous adventurers. A page-3 editorial titled The Beguiling Beauty of Bondage exposes related ideas —

There is no one living who does not latently possess either some sadistic traits or masochistic yearnings. Bondage becomes the meeting ground on which these impulses may be translated into imaginative and fanciful erotic play leading to fulfillment. . . .

But when we examine bondage for what it essentially is, we see no such reason for alarm as the prudish purists would have us read into the term and practice. For the female, decorating her body with rubber or leather or kid, accentuating the sculptuary of her legs and hips with high-heeled boots or stiletto-heeled pumps, adorning her shapely arms with clinging latex or kid gloves, here is a narcissistic sensation of self-embellishment, as old as time itself. In the the days of the Pharaohs, attractive women adorned their bodies with colors, animal skins and clinging substances so as to gain more beauty in the eyes of their mates. Even if we go back no father than Dr. Sigmund Freud, who maintained that the draped or decorated woman is always more erotically stimulating than the nude, we perceive what greater erotic fascination the woman clad in bondage garments has for the observing male.

Nor is it true that the male who allows himself to be dominated by a beauty in bondage costumes is necessarily forfeiting his manhood or becoming effeminate, as so many purists claim. So closely is domination linked with submissiveness that the imaginative male will readily submit one night to his beautiful tyrannical mate, so that on the next night he may in turn impose bondage upon her. This makes for an enrichment of desire which is far more certain of guaranteeing a long, harmonious marital or amorous partnership than the monotonousness of coitus performed for relief and without imagination.

Bondage should, therefore, be recognized precisely for what it is and what it can be: an aid and stimulus to richer, more satisfying lovemaking unions. It richly satisfies the secret yearning for the master-slave fantasy which intelligent lovers cherish. It allows improvisation and, best of all, a kind of warmhearted candor that leads to sharing and discussion of sensations and pleasures; drawing the male and female closer together. As such, it is surely a joyous, welcome addition to games of sincere love.

Seven photo sets show pretty models in difficult predicaments. In each scene, photos carefully expose the varied elements that comprise bondage schemes, showing the complete assemblage and close-ups of each frustrating fetter. Everyone wears panties.

Cotton proves an abundant ingredient in these detailed pictorials. Many of the restraint ensembles that fix these comely damsels include cotton rope, such as that used for clotheslines.

Several scenarios employ strips of terry cloth towels to bind helpless beauties. Inventive gags consist of combinations of fabric strips and other materials, such as a sock or wash cloth.

Chains, sometimes hooked to clinical-looking wrist cuffs, hoist arms above heads. In one set, a sweet blond with lumpy terrycloth gag in her mouth gets her arms laced into a single-glove and the rest of her confined by nylon wire-ties, including two toes.

Settings include a bedroom, a kitchen, a closet, a photo studio and living rooms. Remember when our 12-inch vinyl LPs were arrayed against the wall on shag carpet?

The digital replica includes all content of the 56-page magazine, including advertising and two Robert Bishop illustrations, in the original sequence. A few page layouts were revised slightly. Empty margins were cropped out.

Brightness, contrast and levels were adjusted and shadows reduced. The tonality of images in the ebook improves on the photography appearing the 1975 magazine.

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