Behind Kink.com
Lochai Working At Hogtied.com
The following was originally posted at Behind Kink. Watch the announcement video here.
As soon as Matt Williams announced that he would be stepping down as the Director of Hogtied.com in order to make time for his new role as Creative Director, the task of finding a qualified replacement became the company’s number one priority. After a careful search and audition process, Kink.com has officially extended the offer to award-winning fine art bondage photographer and rigger Lochai.
“Hogtied was our first site and we still consider it our flagship,” said Kink.com founder and CEO Peter Acworth. “We’re very pleased to bring Lochai on to continue the Hogtied tradition. He’s one of the best-known bondage riggers around and for years he’s been out there in the community, both as a photographer and as an educator. Most importantly, he really gets what’s fun and beautiful and hot about women in bondage — he understands the Kink.com aesthetic. I’m very much looking forward to working with him.”
Lochai’s inaugural Hogtied update, a sizzling 56-minute scene featuring 22-year-old beauty Isobel Wren, was shot last month when he was auditioning for his new role. In it, Wren is placed in Lochai’s trademark Japanese-influenced rope bondage and subjected to a stunning number of screaming orgasms, including a copious squirt. Throughout, Lochai’s sardonic humor tempers the intense bondage and stimulation.
Lochai observes: “Everything that’s done in any of the Kink.com sites is real, so it’s not like I’m acting a part. I’m actually being myself. I’m sarcastic, I’m a smart ass, I laugh during scenes and I also console when someone’s upset. I’m going to be doing my real play, my real life, within the walls of the Armory because that’s what’s expected by the customers — and that’s what’s expected by Kink.com. I’m going to be super comfortable there, because I feel like I’m home.”
A longtime Florida resident, Lochai will be relocating to the San Francisco area in September in order to be close to Kink.com. He says he’ll continue his work teaching bondage and SM lifestyle classes, both at the half-dozen conferences he traditionally attends annually, and in the San Francisco area.
Lochai expressed great enthusiasm about being offered the position. “Every person who’s ever sat down in front of me in a classroom, or who has surrounded me out in a club to watch what I’m doing, has wanted this job. They want to get paid to tie up beautiful women and get them off — and that’s my job. It’s a wonderful feeling, and an affirmation that my kink pays off.”
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Congratulations! I credit Hogtied.com with inspiring me to get into the online porn reselling business — their early work was so far above anything else available on the net that I felt good trying to promote the stuff, even though it was already the most heavily promoted BDSM porn on the web before I got into the business.
But, and this is the reason for my comment, I’ve been telling people (anybody who would listen!) for years that Kink.com is consistently blurring the line between porn and art — some of the most stunning erotic art photography I’ve ever seen has jumped out at me from a .jpg in a free gallery set, stuff that I’d expect to see on a gallery wall, pictures that deserve a title and a frame, not just an image number and a border: 2px solid black.
So, I’m tickled by your news, and can’t wait to see how hogtied.com evolves on your watch!