In a world torn apart then rebuilt by religious fanatics, personal freedom is a thing of the past. A beautiful young woman can be snatched right off the street and made a prisoner simply for voicing an opinion against the world government. Thus it is with Dawn. While walking home one day, she is grabbed, shackled and locked in a steel box to be taken away to a prison for “penitence and purification.” Which means she is constantly restrained by handcuffs and ropes and other devices designed to inflict pain upon innocent young female bodies.
She is forced by the iron grip of shackles and the tight clutch of ropes to a life of constant, endless prayer and punishment at the mercy of sadistic nuns. Then she finds that her prison is interested in much more than her spiritual salvation. Her overseers begin to do more than punish her, they begin to use her lovely body for sexual purposes!
She is told that escape from that prison is impossible. But how can she face a lifetime of constant pain and abuse?
EXTRACT
“I can’t do any more until the nun arrives,” the guard told her. “Get used to it. You’re
going to have to live with ropes and chains and gags for a long time.”
Dawn frowned. If she were finally at the place they were sending her for “purification
and penance” why was it necessary to keep her bound up like a wild animal? Surely this
place was like a prison? The cells and walls kept the prisoners in, not ropes and gags.
There was a noise, and the guard turned to throw a smart salute to the newcomer. Dawn
tilted her head to see who it was.
The woman was wearing black, but Dawn immediately realized that it was not a guard
uniform. It was… Well, Dawn did not know what to call it. The whole suit was made of
leather and fitted its owner like a second skin. With a high and tight neckline, it
covered almost every bit of skin, yet made the woman sexier then full nudity would have
done. The fair-sized mounds of the top told of breasts at least as large as Dawn’s. The
waist was slender and flared nicely out to the hips. Dawn could not see below that, but
she just knew that those leather-clad legs ended in high heels. They clicked on the
concrete floor as she walked up. Her blonde hair was pulled back in a tight ponytail.
Dawn could see no earrings, nor any make-up. The young woman had deep blue eyes and
over-sized lips that made her seem to pout.
As the two guards stood by, this woman walked slowly around the newly arrived guest.
Dawn had never felt so strange under the gaze of another woman before. She was simply not
used to being looked at like a piece of beef or a prized animal. She shuddered under that
predatory gaze; it made her feel like a mouse cornered by a cat. The woman reached out
and pulled one of the pubic hairs sticking out from the tight rubber panties. Dawn
uttered a small noise as the hair was yanked out of her skin. It was not a lot of pain,
but it was unexpected.
“Untie her legs,” she ordered.
Dawn was glad to hear the order. Next, she truly hoped, would be her arms, which hurt
much more than her legs.
The two men easily pulled her up to a sitting position at the edge of the table, and
began unknotting the ropes with difficulty. The prior guards had finished the bondage of
this girl with seriously tight knots. As the ropes were peeled from her flesh, Dawn was
amazed to see the deep, red marks left behind. They had been put on tightly enough, but
being folded up as she was had made them cut in all the more.
As they were removing the ropes, Dawn suddenly saw something that frightened her a lot.
In the gloved hands of this woman was a short, black leather whip! The slender whip was
only two feet long, and it ended with a thinner strip of leather. Dawn had no real way of
knowing about such things but instinct told her that such a whip would hurt.
Her legs free, Dawn waited for them to start on her arms. They did not. Instead, the
woman nodded to them. “Take her to the prep room.”
John Savage is one of the important figures in the history of the highly erotic and esoteric field of Bondage and Discipline. He came after the legendary John Willie, and before the period exemplified by the photography of Jay Edwards, et al. Just as Jay was an important link in the progression of bondage techniques leading up to the anything-goes extreme B&D of today, so was John Savage. The bondage he created and photographed represented a step beyond that of John Willie: more complex, tighter, more escape proof.
John began by copying the work of John Willie but was soon adding his own touches. This is typical of the progress in the field. Both Jay Edwards and Dave Annis (probably the best strict bondage photographer today) have stated that they began by copying John Savage’s work, then adding to it.
John began in 1969 with an article written for Barbara Behr of House of Milan. He was soon tying and photographing amateur models, sometimes selling the products freelance, but then working with Tao Productions to create a line of bondage magazines with such titles as “Best of Bondage,” “Taskmaster,” “Bondagemaster,” and the politically incorrect “Teenagers in Bondage.” (None of the models were underage, despite the title.) In the early 80’s he edited, wrote for and photographed a magazine series called “John Savage’s Notebooks.” These long-ago magazines today command a high price, if you can find them.
In addition to magazines, he produced some of the old 8mm “loops,” and later VHS videos, the most famous being “Making Danielle Talk.” He has worked with Barbara Behr, Bob Bishop and F.E. Campbell. It was through his friendship with Frank Campbell that he became involved in the writing of B&D novels. Frank is still most prolific B&D novelist, credited with 100 books written for HOM. As Frank became older and had trouble typing, he began dictating books on audio tapes. John Savage then transcribed those books to computer disk for the publisher. Then came a time when Frank no long wished to write. At that point John began ghost-writing Frank’s novels. In fact, the last ten novels credited to Frank Campbell were actually written by John Savage.
After Frank’s death, John began selling novel under his own name to House of Milan. He also wrote for Sandpiper Press, Olympia Press and Bon-Vue, all being published as paperbacks. For a while he dropped out of the marketplace but then came back when ebooks became popular. He is currently writing B&D novels for Strict Publishing, and occasionally non-B&D books under a different name.
As to the man himself, he was born in 1943, is married and has two grown children. He is a Viet Nam era veteran. His main career has been in computers, ranging from programmer to systems analyst. He still programs computers and enjoys it. His B.S. and M.S. are in computer science, but in addition, he has a PhD in, of all fields, astronomy! This is the reason for the nickname “Doc” Savage being stuck on him (“Doc” Savage was a well-known fictional character from the 30’s). Today he lives in Solana Beach, California, enjoying his hobbies of astronomy, fishing and fast sports cars.
