Superheroes in Bondage 101
Updated March 15, 2015: We added the Bad Ends blog to the blog recommendations section.
Superheroes and bondage go together the way that pizza goes with beer, or wine goes with steak. Besides the How to Kill a Superhero books (which feature superheroes in bondage), there are some other sites and products that do a pretty good job of turning up the crank on the superhero in tights by restraining him in rope, chains, water, and more. The list below was put together by Pablo Greene, and we'll be adding new items over time. We didn't include every site on this list. Instead, Pablo listed only the ones that have particular merit and have proven to be of high quality over the years. We think you'll enjoy some of these a lot. None of these pages is safe for work. Got a tip on more to add to this list? E-Mail us at au@howtokillasuperhero.net
Commercial Superhero-in-Bondage Sites
Eye of the Cyclone
Eye of the Cyclone has published quality comic-book-inspired stories using its own original superheroes and villains for more than a decade. This is a paid site, and a subscription gets you access to all their photo shoots and videos. The interface has not particularly kept up with the times, but you can navigate through the site to get the images you need. There are occasional video clips posted, but the real strength of this site is in its photos. The costumes pop, the models are muscular, and the poses are full of bondage, peril and domination. Worth the price if you like to mostly just look at photos.
Hero in Trouble
Hero in Trouble is pretty well known to superhero fetish fans, because they choose very muscular and handsome models and put them in superhero suits to be bound and tortured. This site has also been around for at least a decade, and it does one thing, and one thing only. You get photo gallieries with a paid subscription, as well as short clips of the hero struggling in bondage. Most clips do not feature a villain, and there are no storylines. If you prefer your clips shorter and are only concerned with the visuals of a muscular superhero, then this site would satisfy. The costumes generally are pretty good quality, too.
Can-Am Video
Can-Am Video is mostly known as an adult site devoted to wrestling and erotic wrestling, but throughout the years, they have published several great superhero bondage videos in their catalogue. The storylines are typically pretty shallow and not well acted, but the videos deliver in the action and images. Their videos put heroes through lasers blasts, net captures, drug injections, gags, ropes, shackles and mind control. There's no easy way to navigate to the videos but you can use their pulldown in search to see all their superhero titles. Lately the superhero videos have taken on a more standard look, so there's not much in the way of novelty here. Production values are high, and the costumes are really tight, and often ripped off. If you have the money to spend on DVDs or streaming subscriptions, this is your site.
Some of our favorites from over the years are the titles Super Studs: Toxic Water, Hangin' Up, Tales from the Chamber 2 (with a stellar performance by Jimmy Dean, who seems to have retired from the genre).
BG East Video
BG East Superhero Heels is one of the hidden gems inside BG East. If you're not familiar with BG East, they specialize in all things wrestling and erotic wrestling. You can argue that wrestling is really similar to superhero stories, because there's a fight between good and evil, revealing costumes and lots of domination. Well, over the years, the video company has ventured into the superhero genre with its Superhero Heels series. They are still wrestling matches, but you'll find villains with super powers and heroes who get unmasked in the course of a match. This site sells DVDs and also offers subscription streaming.
Kink.com and Bound Gods
Kink.com is one of the premier pornographers in the U.S. They publish videos for people, and featuring people of all genders, and they tend to focus on BDSM in most of their lines. Though they don't have a dedicated superhero line of sites, a couple of their titles below are worth the money if you like superhero stories with high production values and lots of hardcore sex after the costumes are ripped off.
The Moral Keeper vs The Evil Edgemaster - Super Heroes Series
Tumblrs about Superheroes in Bondage
The Sidekink
The Sidekink is one of the best Tumblrs dedicated to the genre. You'll find plenty of humiliated heroes in bondage, as well as some wrestling and lycra photos.
Captain Spandex
Captain Spandex is a very special friend of Pablo Greene and How to Kill a Superhero. He has great taste in guys and spandex, and though he doesn't always post images of guys in bondage, you'll find plenty there to get your superhero fetish going.
How to Kill a Superhero on Tumblr
The How to Kill a Superhero Tumblr is the site that started it all. If you want to see a curated set of guys in spandex, superhero costumes in all kinds of bondage, here you go. You'll also find humorous posts about comic books and superhero culture, as well as body types of various types represented.
Blogs with Superheroes in Bondage
Bad Ends Blog
The Bad Ends blog shows the true beauty of a superhero in peril. In fact, it's a comprehensive intro for people who want to understand why comic books have been so influential in developing images of superheroes in bondage. This blog is not to be missed, and it's a great addition to any fan of superhero erotica. Sadly, it's a very short blog that looks like it was abandoned in 2012. If you know the author please let them know they should continue. Nevertheless, it's a micro-museum piece.
Captured Heroes
The Tied Feet Guy writes The Captured Heroes Blog with humor, passion, and really great taste when it comes to superheroes in bondage. If you are often wishing you could see more twinks in superhero bondage or images of superheroes with athletic bodies, you'll want to check out this long-running spinoff from the main TFG blog.
Metalbond
Metalbond's Superhero Page Metalbond is one of the best curators and bloggers of all things bondage related on the internet. The site's library of bondage stories is worth a visit alone.
Ruff's Stuff
Ruff's Stuff Superheroes Category -- Ruff's stuff has a special love for superheroes, even though the site covers topics beyond superhero fetish. Be sure to click around other sections to learn about community events, find bondage video sites and to see hot guys in all kinds of gear and BDSM scenarios.
The Hottest Superhero Costume of All Time
We want to hear from you, the readers, on a very important question about superhero fetish.
What do you think is the hottest superhero costume of all time?
Your answer can come from three sources: Comics, TV and Movies. It's all fair game. Please link us to the image, too. And tell us why this particular superhero's costume is just so damn erotic for you.
Here's a few classics to get your minds and your libidos going. Leave us your entry in the comments!
Photo Gallery: Mid-Atlantic Leather 2015
Mid-Atlantic Leather in Washington DC is renowned as one of the best leather and kink events in the U.S., and with reason. It brings together wonderful people from all parts of the world, it's intimate yet large enough to feel big, and it's hot as fuck! Here's a gallery of some of the sights we caught this year. This year Pablo Greene organized MAL's first Superhero Fetish meetup, and we have included those photos, too.
Real Stories of Superhero Fetish: Ifitz
We are proud to bring you the latest real story of superhero fetish today by Ifitz. This series of essays brings to you the stories of real members of the superhero fetish community.
If you want to send us your story of superhero fetish, please email your entry to beastwithin0808@gmail.com and write "Guest Blogger" in the subject. And don't forget that author Pablo Greene's book series How to Kill a Superhero tells a fictional tale of a man with a superhero fetish.
My Superhero Fetish: Ifitz
The task of cataloguing and tracking my superhero fetish seems daunting but for some reason a sixteen year old me felt it necessary to actually write this down on a piece of paper. As if twelve years ago I knew this would eventually come to fruition: you will one day write about your fetish. Truth be told, my obsession with superheroes is complicated and walks hand in hand with my other major fetishes, obviously spandex, but notably wetsuits and athletic shoes.
It all began when I was six. I had gotten out of bed to get a drink of water, or something and I walked by the living room where Mom was watching Melrose Place. I wish, and have tried everything short of buying the DVDs to try and track down the scene, but a group of the guys on the show were wearing wetsuits, full body wetsuits. I was mesmerized, even at six, what were these suits, why did it stir something so deep inside me and why did I want to be one of these guys so bad?
It was the seed to everything that would happen after. In truth, while I associate that moment with the birth of my fetish in many ways I see it as the birth of my sexuality. It was men wearing these suits and while as a child I simply wanted to be one of them, a small part, possibly just a retrospective adult part, wanted to be with them.
At that age I was also watching the old Spider-Man cartoon on TV and my best friend Aaron had all the comics. He even went as Spider-Man for Halloween one year and I was quite jealous. Another guy in my kindergarten class also dressed as Spider-Man, I insisted he come to my birthday party and when he couldn’t I was devastated. In hindsight I think I only liked him for his Halloween costume. I had had an ear infection that year, and had to wear earplugs to swim classes. The plugs were held in by a red Lycra swim cap, which I realized looked kinda like Spidey’s mask when pulled down over my face. I still have it, and until I get an actual Spidey mask, will serve as my Spider-Man mask.
I also watched Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers when I knew my mother wasn’t watching; she though it was too violent. I just thought it was cool, the way the teens had secret identities and when they became these amazing heroes, they got to wear these cool suits. These cool, spandex suits. It didn’t occur to me, but again, it was all about the tight stuff. Jason was my favorite and even at six I thought he was attractive. I kept it secret but felt it was perfectly normal for a boy to find Jason attractive, I’m sure all the boys at school did.
I had written a comic about the adventures of Spider-Man and Jason the Red Ranger; crudely drawn and not at all taking into consideration that the two had nothing to do with each other. I often acted out my adventures and they always ended the same: Spider-Man would get captured, tied or chained to my bed, tortured as he withered in his suit. I didn’t attach anything sexual to this, yes I was erect, but with no understanding of sexuality I figured it was normal, every boy did it. I never thought anything of the spandex or the bondage either; it seemed normal to me.
I did this until I was 10, by then however, I started to notice boys. Often a cool pair of athletic shoes, often on older boys made me really excited. I think this is why I have a type (athletic, older), but I started to notice it wasn’t normal. And neither was my obsession with Spider-Man or the Red Ranger. Yet I loved it and still acted it out. By my double-digit years I was drawing new Spidey suits, using my next-door neighbor, ironically also named Jason, but this time one in high school, as the model. In hindsight as well, he became my type: tall, lean and blonde. I wrote out his adventures, and when I was alone, I acted them out, all of them ending the same way: Jason would be captured, bound up in some way and tortured while he writhered in his suit. I was starting to keep a list of all the bondage and torture scenes I found strangely attractive: the water suction scene from The Princess Bride was huge, as was a scene from Star Trek: The Next Generation where La Forge is kidnapped and brainwashed; too many scenes to mention.
In 2000 I was watching the summer Olympics and they kept mentioning a sensation named Ian Thorpe and this full bodysuit he wore. As if it were bad enough I was curious about the men wearing trunks, leggings and sleeveless bodysuits, there was a guy wearing a full bodysuit?
And then there he was. And there I was. I watched every swimming event that Olympics in hopes to catch Ian in his suit. He was eighteen and I was fourteen but he was all man in that suit. Commanding and dominating and the hottest thing I had ever seen in the world. I put a picture up on my wall, telling my mom he inspired me because we shared a first name. He inspired me other ways. But it wasn’t just the Thorpedo that got me hard; triathlon debuted that year at the games and the gold medal went to a Canadian named Simon Whitfield. Fit and wearing a sexy suit, the moment he came down to the finish line, ripped through that tape and showed off the man that he was. He was so hot and I was hooked on athletic gear.
In 2002 the first Spider-Man movie came out. I wanted to see it, Spider-Man had been my favorite superhero growing up and at that time I didn’t see it as a sexual attraction, it was a superhero thing. But still, in the back of my mind, something told me there were other reasons I wanted to go. There were, and these reasons followed me home from the theatre. I was a late bloomer, so I started jerking off about that time (I was fourteen), but it seemed a spandex thing, not a superhero thing.
Until Fantastic Four came out.
I was addicted to Chris Evans as The Human Torch. He was so young and hot, still is; but that blue suit was like crack to a hormone fueled boy. He was perfection, perfection coated in tight blue spandex. I was into superheroes, and by this point superhero films were in vogue. Much of the time not wearing spandex, but the genre ran parallel to the real rise of the Internet; I found out so much more about superheroes, the spandex costumes they wore and the guys who were into them.
I remember seeing Superman Returns in 2007. Brandon Routh and his suit mesmerized me, but when seeing the movie, I was confused. I loved it (one of the few that do even with its issues) but at the climax, when Lex tortures him, I got very aroused. I wasn’t sad at his pain I was excited by it. I had the same feeling when watching the climax of Spider-Man 3 but I was into Spider-Man, a lot! It was expected, I had already jerked off to the images I had seen of the blacksuit. Plus Venom, the bondage, the destroyed suit, James Franco… Superman was new. I mean I had fantasized about Dean Cain from Lois & Clark but this was new. It wasn’t until recently that I really understood why and moreover, accepted that my mind and body had these reactions, sometimes in the theatre.
As the decade came to a close and the 2010s began it was an interesting time for me. As a film studies student I was big into the genre but sexually, I was addicted to the men in the roles and the suits they wore. I was always kinky and my fantasies of tying them up torturing them was huge and only grew as time went on. In 2008 I bought my first wetsuit, in 2010 my second. By 2011 I was buying shoes I was into, that turned me on, and by 2012 I was making enough money to be able to buy legit gear like Under Armor, which can we just say, is God’s gift to guys into spandex. Moreover, the guys who wear it are God’s gift to spandex fetishists.
I’m 28 and finally living on my own, finally buying the gear I wanted most of my conscious life. I’m getting sports suits and super suits. And it makes me feel like a man. In truth my fetish took me to places I’ve never dreamed of, possibly because I never knew they existed. I know someday I’ll have to find a man to equal me, someone who spent their childhood imagining the jocks at school or the heroes of the big screen were tied up. Teenage years imagining the boy next door had a secret double life in spandex. They acted it out alone, as did I, but someday it’ll be great to have a partner. Until then, I’m going to love the gear that gets me going. I hope you’ll all join me, brothers in arms.
P.S. Paul Rudd as Ant-Man is my wallpaper right now and I can’t get enough of it!
When your kink community begins to grow
The following is a personal essay Pablo Greene, the author of the superhero-fetish series of novels How to Kill a Superhero.
I wanted to take a moment today to talk about being grateful. I am always grateful that I get a chance to write my novels, and I am grateful that they are published and successful. The book series only kicked off one year ago, but it's already expanding into its own universe. But being grateful for that success is not enough.
I have to also be grateful for what is happening around and beyond the novels, and in the kink, rubber, bondage and leather communities, and the ways in which they are welcoming this new layer of kink. Superhero fetish is emerging, and though it may not be as widely known as leather, rubber or shibari, it's there, and people of all genders are finding it. I am grateful for this. And how can I be so sure it's emerging? Well, I am finding clues, here and there. And the clues cannot be ignored. They're real.
Superhero fetish folks are finding each other
It's not my imagination. Every day I see new Tumblr accounts, Recon profiles and even Twitter accounts like that of Superheroes de Sampa (a Brazilian superhero fetish group) that confirm that many people share an erotic love for superheroes -- and villains. There's also people like Tank Teachworth (@puptank on Twitter), who is part of the leather and the superhero fetish community. This is amazing to see. We are starting to really build community around the hashtag #superherofetish. If you want to find each other, use it, and see the magic unfold.
I also get many personal emails and social media messages asking me: Where do I find more superhero events? Do you know other guys into this stuff? Questions like this tell me people have a need to form community around the old cape and tights.
It's really happening, you guys. I feel glad that there's a rising contingent of us superheroes and villains at events. Speaking of -- who's up for planning some superhero events at cons like IML and MAL? I am reaching out to organizers now, and if you're one of them, and reading this, I would love to hear from you. Send me an email.
Superhero fetish authors are rising
Just this month, I made an amazing discovery. I found another new voice in superhero fetish fiction in the Amazon Store. Todd Fleming showed up in my recommended list (thanks to Amazon's thorough yet creepy suggestions). Looks like he's written a couple of books of his own superhero mythology. You can find his two books, The Defeat of Paragon Lad, and Fall of the Hammer Book 1 in the Kindle Store. I just downloaded them myself, and I am really looking forward to checking them out this week. Once I finish, I'll post a quick write-up to let you know how the books turned out. And a little disclaimer here: I don't write book reviews on this site. I'll mostly talk about what the book did for me on a kink and fetish level.
As you can see, superhero fetish authors are rising, and it's great to see more entries into the genre. And I have a feeling there are more authors coming. Let's make this happen! The more erotic superhero stories, the better.
Kink Communities Grow and Evolve
I am so proud to say that one of my favorite kinks, superhero fetish, is finding a home in people's hearts, in BDSM communities, in the leather world, and in people's bedrooms. It's not always easy. Some people find the fetish goofy, and maybe a bit ridiculous. But when leather and rubber rose as communities, I bet you that those who shared their love of leather and rubber met with similar reactions.
We press on, and we keep our bonds as community tight.
That is the reason I kicked off NYC Superheroes, and it's why my book series is built around community. You like wearing tight lycra and making out? You're one of my people. You love bondage in a peril scenario from the pages of a comic book? You're in. You love the power exchange of hero and villain? You're one of us.
I think 2015 looks really bright. Book 3 in the series will be coming out, and I will also be releasing a new digital spin-off novel. What's more, I will be attending many community and literary events, and in the process, I'll be finding you, superhero fetishists, and shaking your hand.
By the way, if you're interested in writing your own essay for this section of our site, send us an email at editor@beastwitihinbooks.com and put "Blog" in the subject line. We are wide open and want multiple viewpoints. In the next months we'll also be posting some basic guides on bondage, safety, costuming for superhero roleplay, and more.
Keep your uniforms tight, stay close, and see you in the future.