April 16th, 2007 -- by Bacchus
Cupid Is No Archer
Cupid’s arrow missing the target has long been the source of many a comic tale of inappropriate love. This old French postcard (found on Bondage Blog this time) illustrates what he had to do back when he was really bad with his bow and arrow:
Could it be true? Was Cupid also the inventor of the so-called “caged hunt”?
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Perhaps it’s part of an age-old honor code. Just as no woman ever shot her husband as he was doing the dishes, no man should ever shoot a bound woman who’s smiling at him and baring her perky breasts…
Say…,
That “naked(ish) woman surrounded by arrows” pinged something in the back of my brain.
I’m 36 (male). The earliest erotic dream I can recall was when I was 10 while (get this) at a Christian sponsored summer camp.
I remember it because (1) it was probably my first erotic dream, and (2) as erotic dreams goes it was kinda kinky.
The dream: me and the boys in my 6-bed room were throwing darts around a naked woman who was tied to a large archery target.
Sidebar: I recall I also had a crush on one of the female camp leaders (but she was not in the dream) and we did do archery as an activity.
Interestingly, just recently I passed by an print-art shop and in the window was a poster of a naked woman who was tied to a large archery target with arrows around her.
Now this makes me wonder.
Why does this theme of a woman, bound naked and vulnerable to piercing projectiles, seem to resonate in the minds of males like me? Is it a manifestation of the multitude of sperm flying towards, and penetrating, the ova? Is it the body of the woman waiting to be penetrated by the penis.
I’m sure there’s a psycho-erotic-analyst out there who can talk to this topic. Please do, I think this is interesting. Does anyone else have any other theories?
Cheers,
Andrew.
I’m guessing this is a reference to Saint Sebastian. I don’t know much about Saint Sebastian, but he’s the subject of a lot of very sexy paintings, nearly nude, tied to a tree and pierced by arrows. The writer Mishima Yukio reported first masturbating to a picture of Saint Sebastian, and was later photographed in the same pose. Here’s a blog with a bunch of Sebastians, including the Mishima: http://agonyecs....html
Can’t say I blame young Mishima.