Some Writhing And “Bound Rubber Dolls” For Your Collection

Julie Simone's "Bound Rubber Dolls" is really a lifestyle purchase for our new austere times; we watch as lovely women attempt to writhe out of impossible restraints, the sellable goods only hinted at, in an orgy of mutual deprivation.

As in Ernest Greene's "O" movies but even more so, Simone's cast walks the talk in "Bound Rubber Dolls" (that is, if they are not gagged). An expert rigger, Simone trusses and hangs her models, sometimes wrapping them to obscurity like a pro-domme Shelob.

It's a kind of erotic that requires a lot of work, but many readers will recognize in these very adult games the same things they perpetrated on their playmates and toys while the household staff weren't around and Father was busy stabbing Damien at the church.

It is a business that Simone goes about gravely, a hard stare on her face, strong hands, and oppressive rubber riding her own curves, but to call it Joyless would be missing the point; everyone here, from the severe Rubber Necro and Nikki Sebastian, bound in representative warehouses and industrial spaces, to J.J. Plush, in nipple clamps on the pool diving board of what looks to be a standard-issue Porn Valley home, takes pleasure in her work, even if she doesn't appear to be breathing.

For me, the binding is fine as long as there's an unbinding and a chance to get at whatever was once restrained, but for "Bound Rubber Dolls," the bondage process in the payoff, and it's fascinating to watch.

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