In this video we get to see the popular bondage model Ashley Renee struggling helplessly in her ropes and sexy business attire. We shot the video in the Los Angeles studios of Dungeon Corp who operates a number of popular BDSM web sites including our favorite bondage site called Strict Restraint Their studio is quite large and has a selection of anchoring points in the concrete floor, some of which we used to secure Ashley. Dalton is a big fan of Ashley so he was quite honored to rip open her blouse and tie her to the floor. Ashley is such a tease.

Kink Engineering is an example of the next generation of kink manufacturer. Located in Toronto Canada, the kinky couple who are behind this new business are really into rubber and latex and already have a waiting list of customers who want to buy their products. Dalton and I had the opportunity to interview them on video and photograph their live-work loft during our trip earlier this year (2009) to Maxcita who is located a few hours from them in Ottawa Canada.

The Kink Engineering folks didn't want to show their faces in the photos, but they were more than willing to give is a demo of their gear. So far, their range products focus on variations of the traditional latex vac-sack. They strive to keep their retail prices low, and to do this they are supplying a light aluminum rod and rubber insert which serve to seal the entry to their vac bags. This substitutes for the traditional air-tight zipper. Other cost reductions include supplying a set of instructions for making your own PVC tubing frames.

As you will see in the photos, they showed us their version of a traditional horizontal vac-sack, and then two other designs; a tri-angular sack and a box sack. These were all quite fun, and would be a real hit at a kinky party. Their sacks included a one-way air valve which allowed the vacuum cleaner to be turned off while maintaining the suction inside of the sack. We were told that the key to maintaining the suction is not only the one-way valve, but to have a tight seal around the neck.

We had a great time visiting Kink Engineering and photographing their gear, and look forward to seeing their other kinky ideas come to fruition. They are really wonderful people and we wish them well as they ramp up their business. As a side note, we also enjoyed meeting their mascot kitty cat - who seemed to be more interested in playing inside of an old cardboard box than watching the latex vac-sack demos.

During our trip to visit Maxcita in Canada, Amanda Wildefyre and her subject set out to test some of Max's institutional restraint gear. In these photos you will see that a large number of white canvas Segufix restraint straps and magnetic locking posts were used to restrain the test subject to Max's stainless steel bondage table. The subject was first outfitted in a latex cat suit, Latex Maske gas-mask hood, padded helpless mitts, RoboJac automatic masturbation machine and ErosTek E-stim. Max had a large inventory of Segufix gear including long belts which spanned the width of the table and special straps which were specifically designed to hold the subject's head as motionless as possible.

Once the test subject was fully restrained with the straps it was determined that a different hood was needed to block his sight. This was facilitated by swapping his latex helmet with a unique inflatable leather hood with heavy built-in padding which was specifically designed to block all of the ambient room light. Air holes around the mouth provided easy breathing while the nose is completely blocked to prevent stay light. As you can see, once the test subject was fully restrained, hooded and attached to the various machines, he looked as if he were participating in some kind of bizarre scientific experiment. That was indeed the case, at the Maxcita Psycho Laboratory.

This is Amanda Wildefyre at her finest. In this video she's testing the strength and durability of Maxcita's custom bondage chair. Max talks about the history and detail of the chair while Amanda restrains her test subject Hudson. Once he's secured, Amanda hooks an E-stim to his butt-plug, clamps to his nipples, and the testing begins. This video demonstrates Amanda's finely honed dominatrix skills while orchestrating this intense scene.

In this photo set Amanda Wildefyre laces an unbelievable set of leather bondage gear onto her assistant Alice. She starts by lacing Alice into a full-body leather corset, which is not only an amazing piece of gear but took almost 45 minutes to fully lace up and adjust. Next was a leather single arm binder and locking read leather straps. Once Alice was completely immobilized, a very cute leather hood was pulled over her head and a red ball gag was stuffed in her mouth with the strap buckled tightly around her head. To finish off Alice's head bondage, Amanda laced her into a Muzzling Neck Corset which held her head in an upright and forward position and further prevented her from whimpering around the ball gag.

In order for Amanda to install her helpless leather-clad subject into her new Hannibal Lecter bondage cart, she had to remove Alice's single arm binder and replace it with a pair of leather arm corsets and helpless mitts. At this point Alice was in no position to resist, or even protest. This amazing bondage cart was designed by Amanda and custom built by Dungeon Delights. All of the red leather bondage belts and straps were made by Sinvention. As you can see, the cart's frame is hinged so that Alice can be put in an upright position or a horizontal lying position. Once Alice was fully secured to the cart her red heels were removed and replaced with black patent ankle ballet boots. Naturally the ballet boots were secured with more locking leather straps. Unbelievable! Amanda creates the most amazing bondage scenes and should win some kind of special bondage award for her work. And a special thanks to MedicalToys for the use of their great facility.

This 30-minute video and photo gallery highlights a pair of new time release wrist shackles from Martin of RigidCuff which are available in November of 2009. These shackles incorporate a computer programmable key and lock which limits the opening of the shackles to a pre-determined time schedule (notice the red light of the key in the above photo which indicates that the time is not correct for opening the shackles). The 30-minute video offers a brief and simplified demonstration of how the shackles are locked, unlocked and programmed. Contact Martin of RigidCuff for details.

WARNING: The time release shackles featured in this video and photo gallery are quite real. The bondage scenarios which demonstrate the functionality of these shackles are provided for the viewer's entertainment only. Playing with time-release bondage - or any type of bondage - can cause possible injury or death. If you play with bondage, do so at your own risk. This video should NOT be used as an example, reference or aid for playing with bondage or purchasing bondage gear.

A special thanks to our friends Mummification Ed, Tim and Mistress Minax for participating in the video, and to the new Wicked Grounds café San Francisco for allowing us to shoot in their place of business.

In Part-6 of this series Amanda Wildefyre straps her subject Hudson into a custom Maxcita canvas straitjacket, hood and booties. The hood is a special order item which Amanda requested, and is not normally available on the Maxcita web site. Contact Max for details. As you can see the hood is quite visually striking and ads a lot to the overall scene. Hudson spends some time in Max's padded isolation chamber (which can be seen in a video in this same series), and then is secured to the floor by padlocking the ring at the top of his hood to a hidden bolt in the floor. Max thought of everything when he built this play room.

In this 10 minute video we see Amanda Wildefyre at work in the Maxcita high-security Psycho Laboratory where her patient is secured to a stainless steel autopsy table for therapeutic purposes.  Amanda has completely immobilized her rubber-clad patient with institutional straps and magnetic locks from Segufix. In addition to his padded isolation hood and helpless mitts, she has him wired for stimulation with an ErosTek and RoBoJac automatic masturbation machine. This intense style of therapy is quite the norm when visiting the Maxcita Psycho Laboratory.

In this photo set Mistress Bekah plays with Gumbi in his Studio Gum hood and inflatable bag. The inflatable bag consists of two bladders; one on top and the other on the bottom. The bladders are filled with air from a small compressor on the floor. The bottom bladder lifts Gumbi completely off of the bed while the top bladder squeezes him against the bottom bladder like a giant submarine sandwich. The inflatable bag is made from a very thick gauge natural rubber which is surprisingly heavy when it's all rolled up and ready to be stored. The manufacturer Studio Gum is located in Vienna Austria, so the cost to shipping the bag is rather expensive.

Bekah and Gumbi are playing on a heavy steel bed frame which was made by Martin of Rigid Cuff. The inflatable sack is secured to the bed with leather straps. If Bekah had not secured the bag it would tend to roll over because the bottom takes on a rounded form once it's inflated. Personally, although I'm a fan of Bekah and heavy rubber play, I find myself mesmerized by the images of Bekah's tight leather boots. I guess that's why she wears them... C'est la vie!

In Part-4 of this series, Amanda Wildefyre (and her crew of nine) take her captive to dinner in a local café in the popular Castro district of San Francisco, and then onto a public Street Car and Cable Car. Along the way we find that Amanda's leather-covered captive attracts little attention in public. We end up in a bar in the North Beach area of the City and after a drink or two we all get loose and start dancing. Amanda shows off her red leather Butterfly Straitjacket dress to the owner of the bar as JG-Leathers flouts his breasts and shoots video of the whole affair. What a night. A god time was had by all.

During our trip to visit Maxcita, we ended up at a local BDSM club in Ottawa called Breathless. A local rubber guy volunteered to try out Max's rubber Vac-Sack and Inside-out Straitjacket. The Vac-Sack is similar to a sleepsack with traditional internal sleeves, however the Vac-Sack allows the air to be completely sucked out of the bag, or for the bag to be inflated. By attaching a vacuum cleaner to the bag all the air can be removed which collapses the bag like a vacuum package of meat you would find at your local grocery store. The Sack has a valve so that once all of the air is sucked out the vacuum cleaner can be turned off and the Sack will maintain its vacuum seal. This vacuum seal is accomplished with air-tight zippers and an internal rubber seal around the neck.

The inside-out straitjacket is interesting because the subject's arms are caught up in a rubber pouch which is inside of the front of the straitjacket. This allows the subject to stay in the straitjacket for a longer period of time without fatigue of the shoulders. Max says that his Inside-out straitjackets (in rubber or canvas) are far more inescapable than the traditional two-sleeve straitjackets we are all familiar with.

This was one of our more fun photo shoots with Ashley Renee. We were shooting in the Los Angeles play room of Robert Fluty who runs the popular yearly kink event Kink in the Caribbean. Dalton had brought his infamous bondage board and a ton of leather straps, and before we knew it Ashley was naked and all tied up. Without skipping a beat Dalton had her in a heavy posture collar, leather hood with only nose openings, and a pair of sound-isolation headphones (hey, where did he get those?).

Robert Fluty was on the phone in the back room, so I called to him and suggested that he come see Ashley in this eye-popping bondage. Once Robert got involved he and Dalton added the Hitachi vibrator and nipple clamps to Ashley's already helpless state (Robert is in the blue jeans in the photos). I love shooting with Ashley because she's always willing to deal with whatever bondage we throw at her. She's been in the business a long time and really ‘knows the ropes'... except that we don't usually use rope for our bondage. Leather hood and straps from Mister-S, ball gag from Medical Toys.

In Part-3 of this series, Amanda Wildefyre and her crew arrive at the Mister-S store with her Captive still securely strapped down in the bed of the tuck. With all hands on deck and the traffic looking on, we carry the Captive into the store while he is still strapped to the metal pipe frame. Once inside the store the fun begins when he is transferred to a custom suspension rack which is raised into the air with a chain hoist. The store customers look on as Amanda and her assistant Alice molest their poor overhead helpless subject. Alice is then strapped into a leather straitjacket and hood and the Captive is lowered over her for more fun and games. Only at the legendary Mister-S store do such things happen on a regular basis.

In this photo set, Mistress Bekah puts her rubber-clad subject Gumbi to the ultimate test on our ‘Bishop Device'. This device was created by Dalton, and was inspired by the popular 1970's bondage drawings by The Bishop. This device holds Gumbi on in a kneeling and vulnerable position on an elevated platform. The platform's height is set so that Mistress Bekah can have easy access to Gumbi's torso and apply her magic. Bekah loves to torment her helpless bound subjects, and as you will see in the photos she gets a big smile on her face every time she elicits a loud yelp, scream or groan from Gumbi.

Our friend Louis loves military and institutional garb. In this set of photos we see him restrained to a serious metal bed frame with a nice selection of Humane Restraints and a leather muzzle from Medical Toys. In addition, Louis' torso is held down by a parachute harness which is connected to the top of the bed with more Humane Restraint leather straps. This seems to be a very effective combination of restraints - Louis wasn't going anywhere.

This gallery contains a hodgepodge of photos from our trip with Amanda Wildefyre to Medical Toys for their 2009 New Years Eve party. The highlight of the evening was a full body fiberglass mummification which Amanda and her crew performed on our friend ‘Bondage Roadie'. At the stroke of midnight an unidentified naked woman celebrated the New Year by lowering her naked breast into Roadie's mouth - poor guy! You will also see some photos of Amanda's new ‘Hannibal Lecter' bondage cart. I understand that this cart was a prototype and that there are other versions in the pipeline. It is certainly a cool idea. Bondage Roadie was in the fiberglass cast for 3-4 hours, and it was around 3am in the morning of New Years day, 2009, when we found ourselves in the parking lot cutting him out of the mummification with a pair of cast saws. What a party.

In this fun photo set we see Ashley Renee in a unique canvas straitjacket which is designed to feature Ashley's large breasts. This new straitjacket is available from the Stockroom in black leather, but the canvas version Ashley is wearing was a special order piece. Nurse Samantha keeps an eye on Ashley as she flounders in a cage made by Dungeon Furniture. Have you ever seen a hospital which employs a naked nurse, exposed breasts straitjackets, and allows the patients to wear high heels while restrained? Where do I sign up?

In this unique 40 minute video Mark interviews Max of Maxcita.com about his canvas and rubber bondage products, his business, and his life-long interest in the art of ‘escapology'. It turns out that Max is a hard-core bondage enthusiast of many years, who enjoys being restrained in his own gear as much as he does putting someone else in bondage. Max has performed escape artistry on stage in front of large audiences, and enjoys the challenge of straitjackets. His canvas restraint products have long been a standard for magicians, and naturally cross over into the world of bondage, kink and fetish. Max talks about how his products evolve, materials, safety while playing, his personal web site DrMadMax.com, and the time it takes to deliver his orders. This video is a must-see for those who already own Maxcita products or those who are considering the purchase of his gear.

In this 30-minute video Mark has the privilege of interviewing Harold Cox, a collector of serious bondage gear and the owner of five jail cells which are installed in his mountain cabin in Pennsylvania. Harold has been a long-time collector of institutional restraint gear, having purchased his first set of handcuffs at age 15. At 78 he's still as keen as ever when it comes to locking someone in metal shackles and inviting them to spend the night (or two) in one of his serious and intimidating cells. As you will see in this video, Harold's fascination with jail cells has actually motivated him enough to seek out decommissioned prisons and arrange to buy pieces of barred walls and cell doors before they're sold for scrap. Many of us dream about doing this very thing (myself included), so it's a pleasure to interview a man who has actually gone to the trouble and expense to gather all of this heavy and cumbersome gear to use for his own pleasure. If you are wondering if this was worth all of Harold's time and effort, listen to the sounds of the electrically operated cell door in the video, and imagine yourself shackled to the wall as the lights are turned out for the night. This is nothing less than a Rite of Passage for those who yearn for this kind of experience.

In a publication titled ‘Checkmate' which Harold and his partner Bob published during the 1990's, they featured an article about jail cells titled ‘Recreational Cell Stays'. To this day that title still sends shivers of excitement through my entire body. With Harold's permission, we will reprint that article on SeriousBondage.com in the future. A special thanks to Harold and his partner Bob for inviting us into their home and allowing us to film this highly unique interview. Also, thank you to Max of Maxcita.com for arranging this trip and introduction.

In this ten minute video Mark and Max of Maxcita.com discuss molded rubber hoods which incorporate gas-masks from various counteies around the world. These unique hoods were made by Polymorphe, however they are no longer manufactured and there are only a few available from Max.