 On Location With Asphyxiation
By AJ on 26 Jan 2007
Strictly Broadband's AJ bravely ventures into Asphyxiation's fetish lair to watch them filming their latest movies, Doctor Sadistic and The Dentist In Miss Jones...
It's 9pm, and I've just walked into a dark, stone dungeon room, filled with bizarre leather furniture, ropes, slings and straps, and a selection of twisted looking equipment. Noises are coming from behind a partition - very sexual noises indeed. Squeals and moans, gasps and screams and the occasional slap - you'd be forgiven for thinking there was a full blown fuckfest going on behind there. I peek around the door, and see 2 men filming a long legged, red haired babe who is stark naked, strapped down to a bench, legs spread... and not a cock in sight. So why all the noise? Ah, I see, that would be due to the rubber clad masked man kneeling between her thighs, administering god knows what with a piece of equipment I can't quite see from here - it could be electrocuting her, it could be vibrating on her clit. Looks like I'm just in time: after a couple of minutes of she has a prolonged, loud, panting orgasm, and the cameras are put down.
This is a porn shoot, Asphyxiation style. There may not be the usual quota of cock, but there's sure as hell everything else. Spanking, bondage, latex, whipping, hot wax, nipple and pussy torture - you name it, they do it, while still managing to conform to the UK's stringent laws on violent porn and the restricting R18 standards.
I'm talking to Matt Bath, the man behind the distinctive Asphyxiation label. Shaven headed and clean cut, smartly dressed, he doesn't look like anyone's idea of a fetish pornlord. He stands back from the action, keeping half an eye on what's going on, but letting the players get on with it in their own way, only occasionally interjecting to request a bit more of this or that they move on from that. He has to keep in mind what will get cut from the movies, balanced with what the punters want to watch, too. Chatting about censorship, he tells me he'd like to go harder on the fetishy action, but in the past, he's had 80 minute films cut down to 40 minutes, so he can't push the limits too hard - fun as it might be to wrap a girl in clingfilm and do dirty things to her, she 'Can't Withdraw Her Consent' unless her hands and mouth are free. Where's the fun in that? Oh well, he sighs... at least it's a level playing field - everyone's under the same rules here in the UK.
When I ask Matt about his early films, he reminisces happily about Yes Mistress, the first Asphyxiation movie ever made, starring a girl called Angel, and the irrepressible and much loved Donna Marie. Angel was very into all the spanking and roleplay, but unfortunately Donna was more of a challenge - happy to do anything sexual, but when presented with the spanking side of it, she resisted the heavier action with a resounding "Fuck off if yer doing that to me, mate!"
Asphyxiation soon worked out there was more call for fem-dom movies (where a dominant mistress is the focus of the action), and predictably less demand for more niche fetishes like spanking and SM. There's a point where the movies become too specialised, when the audience is too small to make it financially viable to produce. To help enlarge the target market, and make up for the fetish action being softer than most European movies, Asphyxiation films tend to have a good deal of hardcore sex mixed in with the kink - judging by their sales, this is a winning formula!
Do punters request films catering to their particular fetish? Yes, he laughs. "Sex with dogs" is the sickest kink that's ever been asked for, but mostly it's just things like girls smoking, or pantyhose. Normally, though, the ideas come from the punters and Matt himself, then he gets a guy to write the 'scripts' - taking a specific fetish, like feet for example, and picturing 5 or 6 ways to incorporate that into decent scenarios. This can be seen in the movie The Little Shoe Box, which has a few different scenarios based in a shoe shop, leading to various foot fetish orientated scenes. Other input comes from the models themselves - girls like Avalon, who are genuinely into the fetish scene, are useful because they know what works and what doesn't, what people want to see, and what is just not worth doing.
At the mention of Avalon, I grin. She's one of my favourite performers, with her curvy, slender body, jet black hair, and propensity for filthy submissive SM sex action. Matt tells me how when she wore the dog mask for their movie Dungeon Slave, the stud (who wasn't as into SM as she is) was freaking out - treating girls like canines really was not his speciality! However, that didn't mean the action wasn't hot and hard - Avalon's arse was so red from spanking and flogging that she had to sit on a cold metal tray in between takes, so that the BBFC didn't stride in with their cutting scissors and steal all footage with 'lasting marks'...
While I chat away to Matt, we wander next door, where the next scene is being prepared... in the medical chamber! Melissa More, the female model from earlier, is being strapped down to a doctors chair, with her dominant partner expertly securing each one of her limbs with some kind of rubber tubing, making it tight enough to have her groaning in submission through her rubber gag. In walks the other dominant for this scene - a beautiful Japanese mistress called Kazayu, who is wearing a short nurses medical coat over a pair of stockings, topped off with a surgical mask. By the look on her face, she's clearly got no qualms about inflicting pain on her hapless sub, who is now squirming in her bonds and looking around nervously at the nearby implements. Her torturer from earlier, Esinem, has changed into a doctors coat, and he smoothly acts out the opening lines of the scene, setting it up for the depravity to come. Kayazu produces an electric prod and applies painful shocks all up and down Melissa's leggy body, which is jerking and twitching, with little yelps of pain. I find myself enjoying it a little too much, and retire to the main room to write some notes.
Matt tells me how he chose this particular trio - Esinem is well known on the rope bondage scene and is great at what he does, an expert in his field. He 'plays with' Melissa at clubs and in private, so they already have chemistry and trust (two very important things for any bondage movie), but it was her who suggested doing some movies to help pay her through university. Kayazu is another scenester - a damn good mistress, and it doesn't hurt that she's Japanese and devastatingly sexy, either.
After a wide variety of torments, the trio move on to a more traditional rope bondage theme for the next couple of scenes. Even when the camera's not on them, these three have a very obvious kinky bond - Melissa, in the manner beloved of subs everywhere, subtly winds up Bruce with cheeky faces, he sternly wields a black dildo on a stick at her and comically thwacks her with the cane end. "Argh, go easy on that!" she squeals, before immediately trying various other tactics to feel his masterly wrath. The moment the cameras roll again, however, her whole demeanour changes to that of the penitent and pliable sub, and a calm ecstacy sweeps over her face as she is immobilised in rope from head to toe. Esinem, in his black gasmask, and Kayazu in her red latex catsuit, work swiftly and silently to complete the intricate suspnsion bondage, which is so much harder than it looks, both for the giver and the receiver.
As Melissa's limbs are winched off the floor, one by one, she starts to breathe heavier and faster to control the shifting pressure and pain. Every now and again she can be seen visibly panting with pleasure when the rope between her legs is pulled - it's nestled tight in her pussy lips, and every tweak reverberates with sex for her, as she gets wetter and wetter.
Melissa later tells me that this kind of bondage, where she's lifted off the floor, her body supported only by a few harsh ropes, sends her to a world of pleasure and pain, where every little touch becomes twice as sensitive, and very sexual. As she swings gently back and forth in midair, Esinem and Kayazu silently circle her, whipping her with a red suede flogger as her body twitches satisfyingly under each blow. Kayazu takes up the whip and lays into Melissa's prone body as hard as she can get away with, an evil grin on her face typical of the beautiful Japanese sadist that she is... while Esinem plays with her rope framed pussy to help distract her from the flogging.
The film crew are visibly wincing by now, imagining how much pain Melissa's in, but it's not really how it looks. As soon as the camera is zoomed in for a closeup, or pointing elsewhere, Esinem is crouching by her face, stroking her hair and asking in a whisper if she's ok, if the rope is bearable, if she can breathe comfortably. At one point, Melissa asks for a break, and Esinem gently supports her weight so that Kayazu can adjust the ropes around her tits by a couple of inches - with rope bondage, the tiniest things make the biggest differences.
Finally, the dominants start to untie the exhausted sub, leaving beautiful ropemarks streaked across her body wherever a bond comes off. She's still in the air at this point, looking terrified as her weight becomes harder to bear with each knot coming undone, resulting in another jerk downwards towards floor level. The level of trust is phenonomal, as Melissa's still helplessly bound with no free hands or feet to protect her, and one wrong move on the part of Esinem or Kayazu could result in her head crashing painfully to the floor. Kayazu takes up the action once Melissa's untied, tenderly kissing her and caressing her breasts and pussy in a sensual contrast from all the cruelty a few minutes ago. I look around to see where Esinem is while all this is going on - he's hopping about in a corner, trapped in his gasmask, which he can't get off - for a few moments he's wearing it as a kind of lopsided hat, and fuck only knows how Melissa and Kayazu resisted cracking up laughing during their sapphic fondlings.
Eventually Esinem marches back onto set to continue the scene, which is progressing in a visually stunning hot wax direction. Melissa is on the floor in a submissive kneeling posture while Kayazu tips white wax, from a burning candle, onto her back, causing her victim to squirm temptingly and very, very erotically. The large tattoo on Melissa's back is almost obscured by the wax, which is (probably intentionally) more than a little reminiscent of bukkake. But how to get all that wax off? More flogging, naturally! Chunks of wax fall to the floor wherever the whip lands, but one patch is a bit too resilient, and Kayazu has to almost skin her alive to get rid of it. When Melissa's wax free, the two doms continue the flogging, but alternating between tenderness and brutality - a particularly hard blow followed by a sensual kiss from Kayazu or a blissful pussy rub from Esinem.
When it's all over, I ask Melissa how she feels. She's barely there, her eyes glazed and calm looking, a dreamy smile on her face. "Er... I'm quite spaced out." she sighs happily. "I absolutely loved that scene. I'm a bit high." Melissa is so genuinely pervy that she loses herself completely to the sexual submission, forgetting the cameras and the gathered onlookers. There's no doubt in my mind that this is one model who is 100% into what she does - kinky to the core.
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