I have been saving the following Milo Manara artwork for a special occasion. The art originally graced the cover of a CD-ROM published around the turn of the century, and has been “cleaned up” to remove some of the commercial markings from the CD-ROM cover. “Turn of the century” is a rough guess, judging by the fact that the software supported by the CD-ROM included Windows 98 (released in 1998) but not Windows XP, which was released in 2001. In the artwork, we see a couple of lovely naked ladies in Manara’s trademark style, playing with each other via a HUGE (by modern standards) webcam:

You may be wondering: what’s the special occasion I’ve been saving the artwork for? In truth, I didn’t know myself. It turned out to be a request I received from Mistress World. They asked me to turn my skills at researching and porn art curation to the topic of camgirls, cams, camming, and especially fetish cams, which are their special thing and particular forte.

Obviously this is a bit of a challenge, since networked computers and webcams themselves date to precisely 1993, and the earliest webcam had a subject no more exciting than a coffeepot at the University of Cambridge:

History does not record the occasion of the first sexy camshow or the first kinky camgirl, but clearly seven years was plenty of time for the phenomenon to engage the popular imagination, if someone was willing to pay an artist of Manara’s stature to prepare what they would have called a “multimedia presentation” about sexy camgirls by 2000 (or so).

The 90s are remembered, in fact, for so-called “life-casters” — voyeuristic performers who kept webcams running on their lives, in the course of which they were sometimes nude and indeed sometimes had sex on camera. The first and most famous of these lifecasters was Jenni, who ran JenniCam from her college dorm. Later there were also AnaCam, DaniCam, and AtomCam, all before the turn of the century. But, especially at first, their always-on or most-always-on shows were only sporadically sexy, they were one-way shows with limited or no audience feedback, and they weren’t anything like the paid-erotic entertainment webcam shows we know today:

There’s some historical dispute about which of the lifecasters first discovered that they could set up paid memberships and extra-sexy private “pay-per-minute” shows to spin webcam gold, but it seems to have happened around 1998. By 2000 or so, certainly, it was definitely becoming big business!

Inject that kind of supercharged sexy spice into the popular culture and give Rule 34 almost twenty years to work its magic, and there should be a ton of secondary porn about camgirls out there, including the subgenre I went looking for, which was art (especially fan art) about camgirls and fetish camshows. I was expecting to find a metric buttload of it! In that I was disappointed; there’s less of it out there than I thought I would find. But I am who I am; my porn search skills are not easily thwarted. I did indeed find several nice pieces of fetish camgirl art.

The first of these is titled simply Camgirl, by artist Reptileye:

The next is a spanking extravaganza called “Put on a show!” by artist Mcrocks:

And finally, a bit of orgasmic pillowbiting for a camming audience called Inumimi CamGirl, by artist VeryMediocre:

If you know of any more camming and camgirl-themed art, please feel free to link it in the comments. In particular I expected to find fan-art tributes to particular camgirls, and in fact that didn’t turn up hardly at all in my searches. I won’t be at all surprised to find out that I missed some whole art community that one of you learned commenters can link me to.

The dyspeptic look on our slightly-mussed hero’s face tells me that he originally brought the rope along on this little safari/expedition with kinky games in mind, but he was emphatically not intending to spend any time tied to a tree himself. Sauce for the goose, it turns out, has a flavor the gander is not enjoying, especially when fed to him by local bandits he had assured her “were entirely a myth” during the planning phase of the trip:

Artwork by Louis Carrière is a detail from this French-language pulp cover originally seen at Au carrefour étrange.

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You might have noticed that in general I’m doing a lot less promotion of commercial porn and other affiliate products here on ErosBlog. Partly this is the yields of futility; when there’s not so very much porn-buying going on, for all the reasons we’ve discussed at length in other posts, why “junk up the place” with marketing posts? And partly it’s because your steady Patreon support gives me a bit of breathing room, supporting at least partially my costs of operation and giving me the sense that it’s OK to focus on the kinds of posts that make me (and hopefully you) the most happy. Which is why, these days, if you see an affiliate link on a porn photo it’s very often there because it gives me rights to publish a photo that I otherwise wouldn’t have permission to publish, or wouldn’t have access to in the first place.

That said, I do notice that sales sometimes do still “perk up” at two of the old stalwart companies that I’ve been doing business for almost twenty years — since before I was a sex blogger — whenever they run one of their heavy-discount sales around one of our national holidays. I’m talking about Kink.com and The Stockroom. Whenever they run a big sale and I link to them, my stats show that some of you like to take advantage of the unusually-good bargains. So I consider such posts to be “reader service” as much as anything else.

Image credit (top of post): They say old-fashioned retail is dead. Well, there’s old-fashioned, and then there’s the interior of H.A. Goodrich and Co.’s store in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, circa 1887.

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This made me laugh. Paltego at Femdom Resource writes:

Kink is about power, sex, pleasure, control, fetishization, danger, risk, pain and relationships. You know, all the really simple stuff in life.

For some reason this reminds me of Clausewitz on war: “Everything is very simple in war, but the simplest thing is difficult.”

I’m not sure what’s going on in this swimming pool, but it’s not your everyday pool party for sure:

From a Kink Unlimited shoot called VIP Anal.

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There’s a beautiful prose poem that’s currently going explosively viral on Tumblr. It started with a question about why kinky people start wearing their bondage gear in post-apocalypse media, and that triggered this wonderful riff on why you would want to be friendly with people who value consent deep in their guts and bones. I am one hundred percent behind what this writer has to say:

What I wanna know is why the spiky kink warriors are always the bad evil marauders. They might be into some weird shit and unafraid to show it but that doesn’t mean they want to go around killing dudes. They’re a tight-knit bunch. A lot of them are queer. They understand the importance of community.

If the government collapses and all laws come to an end, the people rampaging around killing and looting are gonna be like, frat boys and 4chan rejects. You can mistrust the bondage raiders all you like but they’re definitely the ones you’re going to run to for help when the neoliberal blood cultists and Nazi meme demons lay siege to your survivor enclave. There’s gonna be gayboy berserkers busting up slaver gangs and burning down warboy frat houses. The assless-chaps leather daddies and weird petplay people are gonna be the accidental peacekeepers of the post-apocalyptic world just because they’re the only motherfuckers who understand the importance of consent anymore.

Listen. Don’t come to me asking how to get the secret cadre of bisexual death commandoes to protect your wretched tent village if you’re scared that we might call in the kinksters for backup. I don’t give a shit if they dress up like dogs and spend all day writing poems about butt plugs. There’s assholes out there acting like Vlad the Impaler on a meth bender and you’re afraid of seeing a nipple. Fuck you. If you really want to get rid of the MRA death gangs you’re going to have to accept that a lesbian chainsaw dominatrix or two might be involved. It’s the fucking post-apocalypse my guy we gotta weigh our priorities here

Today’s post is tell you about an offer from the Discount Porn Club for a Kink Unlimited discount that, as far as I know, is not routinely available anywhere else.

From time to time, I’ve been known to point ErosBlog readers at one or another porn subscription offer, or to point out a toys discount that struck me as too good to ignore. But not every good deal is available everywhere. Sometimes the best link I have is to normal pricing, but somebody else has negotiated the right to offer a special better price. As I explained once before:

The same porn site may have half a dozen offers at different pricing with different terms. You can pay for a month with automatic rebilling, sometimes there’s an initial discount that goes away when the rebilling kicks in, you can pay for three months or six months (with or without rebilling, depending on the offers available), you can pay for a year, sometimes (though rarely) you can even buy a lifetime membership. Further complicating matters is that not every pornsite shows every offer to each customer who lands on the “buy now” page. The prices you see may depend on who sent you, or (more precisely) on the codes used to build the links you followed. And so it is that porn consumers, like consumers everywhere, are sometimes forced to wonder whether they are getting the best price.

Kink Unlimited, as I have mentioned here a few times before, is the new consolidated product that brings together all of the video offerings from thirty of the sites that Kink.com used to run as standalone websites with separate monthly subscription fees. Consolidated mega-sites like Kink Unlimited are increasingly the trend in online pay-porn. It’s a bit like a cable TV subscription: you may pay a bit more for the package than you would pay for one individual site, but you get more than you can ever look at for an “all you can eat” price that’s a considerable bargain. Or, as the Discount Porn Club puts it:

To date, my complaint with the Kink sites has been that there was no main network or mega-site that you could join, so if you wanted to explore different fetishes you would have to sign up for the individual sites, which started getting pretty expensive. That has come to an end now! Kink.com has heard the call of their fans and set up Kink Unlimited.

The normal monthly subscription package — the one favored by people who treat their porn as a utility and expect to pay for their preferred sites monthly — costs $49.99, but the offer at the Discount Porn Club is for just $39.99 billed monthly, and it’s described as a “lifetime” rate, which I assume is a promise not to jack you up to the regular price after a short promotional period as too many promotional offers do. I have a friend who has been subscribed to his favorite porn site since the 1990s (!) and does not plan ever to stop being a subscriber. If anything like this describes your feelings for the Kink Unlimited offering, this deal will save you 120 bucks a year. That’s not chicken feed!