#301372 - Gwen's Pleasant Distress Eric Stanton

Gwen's Pleasant Distress
also titled
Sweet Gwen In Pleasant Distress
text by Ann Mammry
illustrated by Eric Stanton
E. Stanton
New York, New York
1987

digital replica

A gentleman in the UK recently requested this title. Back in the 1990s, we obtained our copy directly from Mr. Stanton.

The covers are heavy colored paper, the content was produced on a copy machine, the pages measure 8.5” x 5.5”, and it's saddle stitched with two staples. Construction is identical to Stantoon volumes but nothing printed in the booklet identifies it as a Stantoons volume.

The two characters and their kinky conduct were suggested by John Willie's masterwork, The Adventures of Sweet Gwendoline. In both the Willie version and Stanton's derivation, Auntie ties up Gwen, although in the original it's to keep the blond out of trouble and the hands of villains.

In Pleasant Distress, the Gwen character asks to be bound and offers Auntie a dildo or two. The first panel opens with these words:

The Further Adventures of Sweet Gwen, starring lovely Aunt Elizabeth, sadistic, diabolical and sinister and her beautiful niece Sweet Gwen — innocent, buxom and totally smitten with obscure forms of torture and sexual debauchery. . . . All of which Auntie willing provides.

The Maestro wants us to understand that his beautiful blond connects with her mischievous aunt as an avowed masochist. She enjoys constricting breast bondage and frequent whipping.

Like the Auntie of the original, Elizabeth sometime appears in equestrian garb with knee boots and jodhpurs. Both characters have splendid curves poised in high heels.

In the first sequence, Auntie uses rope, fish line, two vibrating dildos, and skewers. A few days later, Gwen prepares for Auntie's visit by lacing herself into a tight corset and thigh boots with high heels.

Auntie gets her submissive blond ready for a bondage dance contest by adding a single-glove, two dildos, cuffs, chain, leather helmet, gag, and a mechanism that encircles and pierces breasts. Then, there's some grotesque stretching accomplished with clamps and straps.

Auntie uses Gwen's fantasy proportions as a canvas onto which she inflicts bizarre anguish. Although Mr. Stanton designed Gwen as an eager masochist who derives pleasure from the torments inflicted by Auntie, his devices and circumstances are so outrageously brutal that the premise tests credulity. While aspects of some scenes are painful bondage, other contraptions wreak extravagant pain and abuse. Not for the squeamish.

Mr. Stanton produced images of exquisite females, intended to inspire desire and daydreams. His adroit pencil work here attends to bondage implements, buckles, nylons, and footwear as well as sexy female figures.

Most pages consist of a single panel with dialog surrounding a picture. A few pages have two panels.

The ebook contains all content of the booklet in the original page sequence. Panels with horizontal orientation were rotated for viewing convenience. A few words of dialog were re-located. Every page was placed at its original size.

Brightness, levels and contrast were adjusted. The ebook presentation reduces the darkness of backgrounds, yielding clarity and smooth edges. Enjoy the art using the enlargement feature of a .pdf viewer such as SumatraPDF.

All new scans. 40+ pages.

NOTE
Although some parts of pictures are obscured on this page, the ebook shows everything that's in the original.

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