BDSM Play Party Joy

I want to think that this enthusiastic and delighted young lady is having more fun at the play party than she ever imagined she would:

You’re looking at a detail from a photo on Tumblr by photographer Laurent Benaim. My discovery of Benaim’s Tumblr when sourcing this photo was an entirely unexpected delight; it has pages and pages of gritty (and sometimes transgressive) photography, mostly BDSM but featuring a variety of other fetishes as well. Normally I balk at “artsy” photographic styles that seem intent on subverting the clarity of reproduction that is photography’s chief benefit; but in this case I’m willing to make an exception.

An Old And Intimate Friend

No, not the girl! The image is an old friend:

It’s from a book called Rapture: 13 Erotic Fantasies by Raffaelli. The book dates to 1975, but I got my hands on it when I was about age 14. I obtained it by ordering it, on the strength of the title alone (well, that and the “must be 18 to order” legend), out of a thick remaindered-books mail-order Publisher’s Central Bureau catalog that listed titles by name only in tiny print on cheap pulpy newsprint pages. It was quite literally the best $6.95 I ever spent in my life (plus shipping).

I became, shall we say, somewhat familiar with the images in Rapture. I’d seen Playboy, and I’d seen cheap harder-core porn, but Rapture was the first time I ever saw genuine delight portrayed in an explicit photograph. I shouldn’t be surprised if this very image is primarily responsible for my quasi-fetish for joyous smiles.

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