Iāve mentioned several times that Iām fond of jewelry-quality restraints. Engraved, inlaid, jeweledā¦.
I borrowed this image from a Deviant-art creatorā¦. Pretty much in line with my own ideas. Iāve wondered about the origins of this particular proclivity. I mean, most restraints are very simple and pragmatic. Cold steel, machined or forged into functional cuffs or collars. Simple locks.
Way back when I was a kid, I was fascinated even then by bondage⦠That was long before the internet and I had no notion of āpornā as a young Catholic kid in the 50s. So I looked for images in the popular media of the timeā¦. And there was a fair bit of people being chained or whatever.
But I remember one imageā¦. The old āMandrake The Magicianā comic strip back then had our hero, Mandrake (always in formal dress, including a capeā¦) and his trusty companion/servant, āLothorā. Lothor was a black man, who was oddly attired in a leopard-skin and a fezā¦. A bit stereotypical, but hey, a black man in a mainstream cartoon was something
Anyway⦠In one strip, Lothor had been captured by the evil bad guys, and he wore dungeon-style manacles that were engraved with floral figures! I thought that was really cool, and have retained that image to this day.