[NylonLover]

The Restrained Elegance Lexicon of Slavegirl Positions
Lexicon Photoset (256 photos) starring Ariel Anderssen added 20 July 2007
When Ariel accepted the position of Restrained Elegance resident slavegirl in training, we wanted to come up with a series of elegant, sexy and submissive poses, postures and positions for her to learn. We intended them as a mixture of ways in which she could be tied up and stress positions which were inherently hard to hold but which looked gorgeous.
I'd vaguely remembered that the John Norman Gor books had a bunch of slave positions, but not having read them for twenty years I decided to work on our own lexicon of poses and positions first. When I did finally go to look up the Gorean ones on the web I was surprised by how few there actually were, and how simple most of them seemed to be. I think I prefer our version!

[NylonLover]

Long Term Bondage Part Twelve
Long Term Bondage Video (18:53 minute video) starring Ariel Anderssen added 20 July 2007
It was first thing in the morning, and I'd woken before Ariel (who seemed to be sleeping quite soundly in the cage). I figured a demerit to wake her up would be just the thing... and since she's really hated the bastinado so much, what better way to say good morning than by chaining her feet in the air and lashing the soles of the her feet until you can see the stripes glow red? Cruel, but she needed it. And she wanted it.

[NylonLover]

Long Term Bondage Part Thirteen
Long Term Bondage Video (13:35 minute video) starring Ariel Anderssen added 27 July 2007
She still has demerits to pay off- so it is a spiky time for Ariel! First she is made to stand on the dreaded spiked board, barefoot, then I made her dance a little with the pinwheel on all the most sensitive areas of her body... which of course made her try to get away, which of course meant she kept shifting her feet on the spikes!

[NylonLover]

Long Term Bondage Part Fourteen
Long Term Bondage Video (13:23 minute video) starring Ariel Anderssen added 24 August 2007
It was nearly 24 hours of bondage, countless demerits, and her first night sleeping in a cage... we have reached the end of Ariel's Long Term Bondage! Just one more demerit to pay off and then she will be free!
Of course I wasn't going to let her off easy... so the last demerit was electric shocks with the violet wand... but still standing on the horrible spiked board!
Thank you for the kind comments and constructive criticism we've had about the Long Term Bondage series. I'm glad that we stuck to our guns and really went for it this first time- I think if we do a sequel we will probably go for more cameras, a cameraman or two, and some more creative editing. But there was definitely something to be said for seeing things exactly as they happened with just the two of us in the studio.
Thanks to those who have posted in the forum too- I know Ariel has really appreciated the feedback on her ideas! We have lots of exciting (and painful!) things in the pipeline for Restrained Elegance Nights!

[NylonLover]

Half lotus, reverse prayer
Tutorial Photoset (116 photos) starring Ariel Anderssen added 4 September 2007
You may recall a month or so ago there was a thread on the forum where people were trying to guess which of the France preview photos were taken by me and which by Kate. Steve won, and we said he deserved a prize. Kate, Ariel and I put our heads together and came up with the idea of doing another photo tutorial for Steve as a fitting prize... so we did! This wicked reverse-prayer half-lotus tie is one of the cruel predicaments we put Ariel into

[NylonLover]

Slave Dance
Restrained Elegance Nights Video (08:40 minute video) starring Ariel Anderssen added 10 October 2007
One of Ariel's duties as the Restrained Elegance resident slavegirl is to perform to perfection. Knowing that she used to dance professionally, I set her an assigment: to devise a slavegirl dance.
Don't let her hear this. The results just blew me away. I don't know quite what I was expecting, but I don't think I ever dreamed she would put so much work and effort into devising such a beautiful, graceful dance with such amazing attention to detail. Foot fetishists like me will surely appreciate the moves where she shows off the soles of her feet, bondage fans will love the way she moves from reverse prayer to strappado to box to hogtie and frogtie. And if you've seen the lexicon of slavegirl positions you'll notice she worked in an amazing number of those into the dance too. I hope you will enjoy it as much as I did.

[NylonLover]

Kneeling Strappado
Tutorial Photoset (90 photos) starring Ariel Anderssen added 12 November 2007
We had a little competition on the forum, to see who could tell my photos from Kate's. Steve was the winner, so as a reward Ariel and I ran a little tutorial photoshoot for him. Steve had liked some of the sets we'd done where the lights were shining on polished black floor and oiled tanned skin... so out came the baby oil, into a wicked kneeling strappado went Ariel, and of course it wouldn't have been complete without a drool-inducing big red ballgag. Mmmmm!

[NylonLover]

Bondage Driving Test (Part One)
Bondage Driving Test Video (13:45 minute video) starring Ariel Anderssen added 6 December 2007
Happy New Year! To celebrate, Restrained Elegance is proud to present the first installment of our new Restrained Elegance Nights long-term bondage story!
Our first long-term bondage experiment was a totally stripped-down shoot, just one camera, Ariel and me. This time we wanted to keep the feeling but allowed ourselves a bit more flexibility with a second camera so we could shoot a few more closeups of the action.
We also wanted a slightly different mood. The first one had been very dark and intense, and someone on the forum had wondered if we could do a 'long term love bondage video'. The brief I gave Ariel was for a very consensual and loving bondage story. Of course, Ariel being Ariel, it didn't quite turn out that way! It is 100% consensual, but as you will see from later episodes it gets pretty intense again! The storyline lent itself very well to me taking on a character a bit like a driving test examiner, and so we started calling it the 'Bondage Driving Test'.
But anyway, more of that later... for now, let's join Ariel as she submits herself for an examination by a master so that she can advertise herself on a masters-and-slaves website. She has been told a little of what will be in store, but first the examiner wishes to interview on her bondage fantasies, her aspirations, her dreams...

[NylonLover]

Sabrina in the Dungeon
Tutorial Photoset (94 photos) starring Sabrina added 8 December 2007
"Oh look, it's time to check on my latest arrival", thought Rhys as the hint of a devious sneer emerged across his face. He began to pluck scraps of food from the remains of a meal which had congealed on a plate the previous day. This was the best food Jessica could hope for. Tormented by her captor, she remained a chained prisoner isolated from her normal life just 2 days ago. This was her new reality that seemed impossible to comprehend. Anxious despair had set in. Terrified by her own thoughts, she stood anchored to the walls contemplating his next move.

[NylonLover]

Bondage Driving Test Part Two (Self Bondage)
Bondage Driving Test Video (22:14 minute video) starring Ariel Anderssen added 8 December 2007
After the interview, the examiner begins by performing a physical evaluation. He rates her on a scale of 1 to 100 on beauty of her face, quality of her makeup, elegance of her hair, her figure, her deportment and many other categories. Then they proceed to the bondage store-room so that Ariel can select the items she wants to use on herself for her first bondage test: self bondage! She chooses rope, but admits that she's not really tied herself up before. Will she be able to satisfy the examiner, or will she make a mess of it?