The pulp art is from one of those long-ago men’s magazines. A scary asshole with a vial of acid threatens Our Fair Heroine:

If you’ve ever looked at old pulp art and tried to figure out how to parse it so that you can enjoy whatever in it may be sexy without having to internalize all the fucked-up misogyny and sexism that got baked into all those vintage magazines for men, perhaps the BDSM Tumblr’s take on it will help:

BDSM isn’t vials of fuming acid in a madman’s stone dungeon. But it is fantasies without limit…

Here’s a wider view of the artwork:

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