And you should, too. Thanks to my rant over the lack of streampunk in porn, a few people pointed me in a direction I hadn’t previously considered: bondage. Hoods and masks aren’t unusual in BDSM porn, and if I’d thought about it, I’d’ve realized that where there’s many, there’s a better chance of finding a sexy little niche. Luckily, we didn’t have to depend on my brain this time. Sandy from IRC sent me a link to an article on Serious Bondage featuring a gorgeous gas mask by Bob Basset. Gas masks like this one definitely say ‘steampunk’ to me, but I found myself imagining a robot or cyborg, rather than a human face behind the metal. Which, really, is incredibly arousing.

One of the stranger—and therefore hotter—masks that I found is their Cthulhu mask. I was surprised to see that it sold for less than three hundred dollars on ebay just recently. Given my love of all things tentacular, I expected to be pretty turned on, but repelled as well. That didn’t happen.  In fact, give this guy a Darth Vader voice changer, and it’s game on.

I feel pretty safe adding Cthulhu Bondage to my list of sciolistic kinks after all.

(Curiously, Bob doesn’t seem to be a real person, which sucks from a crush/lust point of view. The business is owned by two brothers, the Petrovs. For a better look at their work, check out their LiveJournal blog.)

More gas masks as fetish gear

I came across the following image by happy happenstance. A Twitter user has this for an avatar. I was hoping it was an actual picture of her, but it turns out it’s from one of the photo galleries on Demask, an on-line fetish shop. (She did say she has the whole outfit, so definite plus: Hello, hotness.)  After the Bob Basset masks, this feels more like an amalgam of the two different styles; less steampunk, not cyberpunk (though I could’ve sworn I saw something cyberpunkish in one of the galleries, but I couldn’t find it again), and yet, it doesn’t seem quite BDSM, either.

I unexpectedly found myself more turned on by these than the Cthulhu mask. Nothing, of course, beats a steampunk cyborg out to prove that resistance really is futile, though.

Tags: bdsm, fetish, steampunk, tentacle, zomg CYBORGS