Underwater Shibari (Patreon)

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I don't know why I never posted this set I shot back in the summer of 2016.  Its such a memorable shoot, and so fun.  Instagram brought me together with artist/adult performer Freshie Juice and we were in total agreement of what we wanted to shoot the next time she visited LA - an underwater shibari set. You don't see underwater shibari much.  The sound of it alone feels dangerous, like some kind of sexual Houdini act.  Freshie is the kind of gal that thrives on making anything unusual though (just check her IG) so I had faith we could pull it off.

Once she was in town we scheduled a day and she got in touch with June St.Paul (who I also shot with a year later), a rope artist she knew and I got my wife to come along with scuba gear just to be extra safe (my wife never passes on a chance to jump into scuba gear though).  We met at the pool and set to work.  

We eased Freshie in, and I just shot a bit at each stage - first just swimming around, then swimming around with one arm tied to a big rock, then her legs tied to the rock, and then June set about binding Freshie's feet together, and binding her arms behind her back, and then chaining her legs to the rock, throwing Freshie into the water to sink each time and see how it felt. Like any  experienced bondage model she seemed really calm every time, no matter how precarious the situation got.  The more control she ceded to us to keep her alive, the more relaxed she became.  Both Freshie and June were just quite professional and it made the shoot really smooth, and allowed us to just focus in on that experience - those moments when she was at the bottom and getting closer and closer to needing air, waiting for us to feed it to her...