See Part I

French maids are often depicted wearing extremely high heels or bound, what (logically thinking) would affect their ability to perform their duties. In some cases high heels do help (squatting, for example, is easier if you are wearing heels), but bondage never helps much (only one exception comes to my mind – a proper gag decreases the amount of noise).

If maids do not perform (how can you perform if your hands are bound?) they are punished. The punishment usually includes more bondage and tight fetish clothes (corsets, latex, hoods), what further diminishes the maids performance.

12 drawings below
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Read about the long anticipated semi-self-bondage (self-binding with a safe-person release) session Strappado planned for months here!

This is what Wiki says about “maids”:

A maidservant or in current usage maid is a female employed in domestic service. Maids perform typical domestic chores such as cooking, ironing, washing, cleaning the house, grocery shopping, walking the family dog, and taking care of children.

Many maids are required by their employers to wear a uniform.

A bit more about the uniform:

French maid refers to a strongly modified style of servant’s dress that evolved from typical maids’ black and white afternoon uniforms of the nineteenth century (and their later use by stereotypical characters in risqué burlesque dramas of the bedroom farce variety). The designs of the French maid dress can range widely from a conservative look to very revealing. It is now often associated with cosplay, sexual roleplaying, and fetishism. Depending on design details, some forms can be classified as lingerie.

I would add that French maid uniform looks very similar to the old Soviet school uniform. (See this post and this) No wonder that the latter has also formed a strong fetish.

12 drawings below.
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A nice addition to the single-glove discussion started here.

This glove (can be found here, or in this shop) has laces instead of a zipper. What is much better because it can be easily tightened (by pulling the laces) and possibly (needs testing!) taken off by pulling the sides apart, by cutting the laces (easily replaceable) or … as I said, needs testing. Not sure if the leg straps can be useful.

Unlike a standard single-glove (or monoglove) this one is much more restrictive but much more comfortable (it does not cut off blood).

Ideas? Thoughts? Drop a line here or in this forum thread.
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John Willie in his “The Adventures of Sweet Gwendoline” suggested a single-glove training to achieve a good posture (see below).

This pink satin monoglove would perfectly match a girly clothing. Something for our children? ;-P

Just like I tell my daughter from time to time: “If I notice you standing like this, I’ll bind your elbows together!”. Kidding, of course, but in every joke there is a bit of a joke ;-)

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While we are on the single-glove subject here’s some related drawings from my collection.

If you have something to share, please upload in to this forum thread.

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Update Nov 12, 2009 @03:57:

See the instructions (kudos to Strappado!) here:

• Bolero single glove
• Single-glove with D-rings

Update Nov 06, 2009 @22:52:

Apparently single-gloves can be used in self-bondage. The ideas are swarming in the air. Many thanks to Strappado, who invested money, time and efforts into the investigation. His notes made me also think about various possibilities.

And as a result – I’m going to buy a single-glove. I need one within 10 days and I do not want to spend a fortune on it. So, eBay is a natural first choice here. See here what’s available.

Also, I’ve found a bolero monoglove similar to the one on the photo. Click here and compare.

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I have read somewhere that the Japanese are not very flexible in the shoulder joints (unlike the other joints) so they can not make their elbows touch each other. And they “invented” their own way of binding arms behind the back (palm to elbow or square style).

I’m not sure if the story is true, but the Japanese style is much more comfortable yet much more restrictive. If you don’t believe that, just try it. In the “western” style you still can use your hands. You can bring them to the front, you can use them to take something, or to help yourself in the sitting position, etc. The Japanese method renders your arms completely useless.
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Being exhausted after the previous night (see post 1 and post 2) I did not plan for anything serious. Actually, I was going to postpone any self-bondage activity for a day and sleep off.

Having this thought in mind and telling to myself:

“Nah, I’m barely alive, I want to sleep, naked, the rest can wait till tomorrow, no, I’m not going to play tonight, no fetish clothing, just sleep”,

I was rummaging through the bags and produced the following: [read more...]

As many of “us fetishists” I have quite a collection of photos and drawings downloaded from all over the Internet. I mentioned already that I like drawings more than photos. But sometimes you can find similarities between them. Not in pure terms like subject, pose, materials, bondage, etc, but in the feelings or associations they produce.

As an example: Masakazu Shimizu’s drawing vs Patrick Andraste’s photo. Despite a bit different “set up” (armbinder vs handcuffs) you get the same mixed feelings of fully enclosed in latex, inescapably bound yet absolutely free to go anywhere!