Bondage: Laura Manson Stansfield Photocollection [Paperback]

Laura Manson Stansfield (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1, 2000

This is a compelling collection of 30 years of erotic bondage photos accumulated by a psychiatrist during the course of therapy of her most important patient: a troubled young man at the brink of being jailed as a pornographer. Michael B. was the inadvertent catalyst for cultural change in the early 1960's, when he was arrested under the now defunct, and then antiquated, Comstock Law, for being in possession of the photographs now depicted in this fascinating book. A captivating taste of the past and its strictures, Bondage offers one provocative subject in one thrilling collection!

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About the Author

Dr. Laura Manson Stansfield, is a retired psychiatrist who served as an expert witness during the last legal test of the Comstock Law, which resulted in the US Supreme Court decision in 1969 that the constitution gives citizens the right to own erotic material. In this landmark case, a Michael B. was accused of distributing and trading obscene material, and the case went through many permutations until it reached the U.S. Supreme Court. In a final trial, which centered around the photographic material presented in this book, Dr. Stansfield was pivotal in gaining an acquittal for the accused on the basis of the evidence she had produced from her analysis of Mr. B., that he did not accumulate the photos in question out of the desire to make a profit but rather from a pathological urge for more and more erotic material.

Product Details

• Paperback: 516 pages
• Publisher: Goliath Books (August 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 3980587614
• ISBN-13: 978-3980587617
• Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 5.6 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,948,365 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars interesting book, could have been much better, October 14, 2004

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A. Dan "simoril" (israel) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bondage: Laura Manson Stansfield Photocollection (Paperback)

The story behind this book's what attracted me to it on the first place, a turning point in the way the world view porn and fetish photography, images which are obscene and provocative, and was still used as evident in a trail. I love those type of 50's and 60's porn, and so i thought it would appeal to me both on the turn on level and a philosophical and artistically level (which is what i usually look for in erotic photography), the cover photo looked promising as well.

I was fairly disappointed, this book has loads of material in it, but the quality of scans and print is really bad, some of the photos looks as if they were downloaded from the net or scanned in a low resolutions on a home scanner, and they are small and unaranged on the page and within the book, the book's pretty small, and those big white frames make it some of the photos seem like passport photos on a black page. The white and black balance are really bad in some of it.

I know this is archives material and that probably parts of this collection weren't it the bast state to begin with, but really - that doesn't justify such an amateur production.

I still recommend it, since it a very wide collection and the story behind it is fascinating to me, but if you are just looking for cool turn on photos from the 50's and 60's there are some much better books.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars amazing collection from the 50 , 60 and 70ties., May 1, 2003

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"pikarsky" (New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bondage: Laura Manson Stansfield Photocollection (Paperback)

Its a big collection of classic bondage photos. Quality of the photos could be better, but I like it a lot.