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Originally Posted by MSD
I hope those reins aren't tied to their arms. Pulling weight with your arms back like that is a good way to permanently damage the rotator cuff, the force should be distributed across the torso evenly and elbows should be forward of the torso with hands out front to avoid injury.
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If you look at the Pony Girls waists you'll see the harness attachments in my attached scan from from "The Adventures of Sweet Gwendoline" (from the back of the book, with a series of images included from Coutts' Bizarre magazine)
John Coutts aka John Willie was a professional when it came to this sort of illustration.
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John Willie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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John Alexander Scott Coutts (December 9, 1902 - August 5, 1962), better known as John Willie, was a pioneering fetish photographer and bondage artist.
Life and work
Coutts was born in Singapore and grew up in England; contrary to some claims, he was not related to the Coutts banking family.[1]
In 1921 he entered Sandhurst and in 1923 was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Scots. He was forced to resign his commission in 1925 after marrying a nightclub hostess, Eveline Fisher, without the permission of his regiment, whereupon he moved to Australia; the marriage ended in divorce around 1928 or 1929.
In the mid-1930s, he began working for a Sydney-based fetish club as an illustrator and photographer; around this time he began a relationship with Holly Faram, one of his models, and they married in 1942. He was an early enthusiast for the writings of Jorge Luis Borges, and invited the Argentinian to Australia in 1938, to give a short series of lectures in Melbourne, sponsored by Bohemia magazine.
Around 1945-47 Coutts moved to New York City via Montreal, in order to publish his bondage and fetish magazine Bizarre; Holly chose to remain in Australia. At this time he adopted the name 'John Willie'.
Bizarre was published, somewhat irregularly, from 1946 to 1959 (compare with ENEG's work in Exotique magazine, published 1956 - 1959). The magazine included many photographs, often of his wife, and drawings of costume designs, some based on ideas from readers. There were also many letters from readers; he was accused of inventing these letters, but insisted that they were genuine. The letters covered interests such as high heels, bondage, amputee fetishism, sadomasochism, transvestism, corsets and body modification.
As a bondage artist, he is best known for his character Sweet Gwendoline, which he drew in a clear, anatomically correct style that influenced later artists such as ENEG and Eric Stanton. Other characters include U69 (censored to U89 in some editions) as the raven-haired dominatrix who ties up Gwendoline and Sir Dystic d'Arcy, the only prominent male character and probably a parody of Willie himself.
The comic strip was published by Irving Klaw, who forced Stanton to paint clothes over the whip marks on the originals of "The Missing Princess".
After publishing 20 issues of Bizarre he moved to Hollywood, California. He developed a brain tumor in 1961 and was forced to stop his mail order business. He destroyed his archives and returned to England, where he died.
He was portrayed by Jared Harris in the 2006 movie The Notorious Bettie Page, which featured a (fictional) meeting between Willie and Page.
"Unless a model is a good actress, and has 'that type' of face it's difficult for her to look sad and miserable when working for me. My studio is a pretty cheerful place, and quite unlike the atmosphere that surrounds Gwendoline when the Countess gets hold of her." - John Willie, The Art of John Willie, Sophisticated Bondage - Book Two (Page 1)
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I was given the book The Adventures of Sweet Gwendoline several years ago by a co-worker who was clearing his library. Lovely work.
As for the OP - well, in the spirit of fairness to my Lady, I'm signed on to try anal play. This is before even seeing this thread. So, with no expectation of enjoyment nor interest in receiving such attention, some enchanted evening in the next short while I will find myself at her tender mercies
Now, what will happen if I find I like it, and she is totally grossed out?
