Bondage Lifestyle

The image is an adaptation of Edouard Touraine's "Caricature of prostitutes with their clients" as published in the French magazine "Le Rire" (see the original at the right; click on the image to zoom in). Le Rire was controversial, for pictures like this. Different times, different morals. I used the modified drawing in my illustrated story on a bondage lifestyle ("The Return of the Paramour"). Or more accurately, in an illustration where a bound and gagged girl gets molested on a couch, this drawing is seen hanging on the wall behind the couch. What I like in the drawing, is that it breathes the exact atmosphere as what I intend the story to have. And much of that atmosphere is in the details... The bondage is "nice", in the sense that the girls are not in pain and not in peril. The girls are wearing dresses with a logo of the bar, implying that they are employed by the bar, to entertain the customers. They are wearing slippers