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 (instead of shoes), suggesting that they stay indoors: the bar is their residence.
When a girl can't avoid the advances that a man makes, one response is to ignore them. That is how the blonde girl reacts to the hand that the man in the dark suit gently rests on her thigh. It's as if it's nothing, as if she hasn't really noticed it, as if the man in the dark suit is thin air to her. The man in the grey raincoat, though, makes a move that cannot be ignored, so the redhead must choose another response. If she acts upset and turns away from him, the risk is that this will incite the men to do some more teasing "to teach her manners". If she responds in a flirty or challenging way, men may see it as an invitation to strip her further. So she goes for the middle ground: putting on a puppy-face and showing her vulnerable side.
Bondage makes women sexy, and the cute little dresses these girls are wearing remove any remaining doubts about exactly how these girls entertain the bar's customers. And the customers are familiar (and appreciative) with the situation, which is another key point: while guys who are new to bondage may start to talk to a gagged girl, they quickly learn to "communicate" to them in a non-verbal manner. Men touch bound & gagged girls; they grope them. When words aren't needed, men let their hands do the talking. And this is exactly what the men in the drawing do. They appear to be talking to each other, but casually grope the girls while doing so.
It would be just my rambling, if my modifications to Edouard Touraine's drawing had not been inspired of an impromptu scene at an SM-club (of which I saw a recording). The scene shows a girl getting flogged by two men and another topless girl looking on from a distance, bound & ball-gagged; probably waiting for her turn. A third man walks through the scene and is about to cross the topless girl when he stops, steps in front of her and gently plays with her tits. She looks at him, then at his hands (and her tits), then at her partners (who look up, but then continue flogging that other girl) and then just stares at a wall. A few seconds later, she turns away (now facing the wall).
As it is the only appearance of that third man in the recording, and because the others interrupted their play looked up (even if only very briefly), I think that this part was unscripted and unrehearsed. The girl, however, was experienced in being bound and gagged and she was likely experienced in facing challenging situations. She responded calmly and she let her tits be fondled with for 10, maybe 15, seconds before giving notice that it ought to be enough. That looks like a calculated response: had she turned away immediately, the guy might have interpreted it as "playing hard to get" and get a better grip on her (and start again). She must have thought that if she first satisfied him, he'd accept it if she then turned away (he'd have had his fun, even if he might have liked it a bit longer). And that is how it happened.
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