Selling Stuff With Bondage

Bondage imagery has been used to sell a lot of stuff through the years, like movies. This is the cover of the VHS tape for Abdudction, a B-Movie thriller that was based on the real-life Patty Hearst kidnapping back in the 1970s.

Although, in the film, the actress was tied up in bed like this--with her hands above her head, and gagged and blindfolded--her feet were never tied in this fashion. This was a case of the poster being much better than the film.

The novel Cross Currents had a nice cover with a bathing suit-clad woman lying down with her hands bound behind her back. Unfortunately, despite a great story dealing with present day pirates taking barefoot and bathing suit-clad people hostage at the beginning, the bondage in the book is very slight. Another case of the "poster" being better than the "movie".

The 2004 movie The Hillside Strangler, also used bondage on it's poster, but the film itself--also based on a real-life case--had several bondage scenes.

Author Jack Ketchum's Right To Life has a striking cover image. I haven't read this, so I don't know if the book lives up to the cover, bondage-wise.

This is a scan from the July 2003 issue of Maxim. They did an article on hunting for pirate treasure, and this was one of the pictures that ran with the piece. She's barefoot, her hands are tied behind her back, and she's happy! What more can you ask for?

Tattoo was a movie released in the early 1980s about a tattoo artist who kidnaps a woman, just so he can draw on her. This was the image that ran on the poster. But there was no bondage in the film at all. Oh well, the poster is still nice to look at.