It’s my prediction that Downloading Nancy will be one of the most powerful films of 2009 as as Nancy (Amy Brenneman) discovers that masochistic desire blurs the line between pleasure and pain.

The illustrious Inez Lewis played a photographic role in this movie.

When Albert Stockwell comes home from work one day he finds a note from his wife of 15 years, Nancy, saying she has gone to see friends. It is a lie.

After waiting several days, Albert realizes that his wife is missing. Nancy has met her salvation on the Internet in the form of Louis Farley. Louis’s life, like Nancy’s, has become a twisted quest for redemption via smutty chat rooms and alternative websites. Both wounded and alone, Nancy and Louis take comfort in one another through email, pictures and promises.

With Louis, Nancy goes to a different place, one of liberation and fulfillment. It’s a location where pain is pleasure and where the end is the beginning. While she pursues the freedom that she feels will only come with ultimate liberation, Albert is left to put the pieces together and try to salvage what is left.

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Victorian Goth. Dark Couture. KinkGlam - whatever you want to call it, featuring Bondage & Fetish in mainstream fashion trends has moved beyond Vivien Westwood & Alexander McQueen.

I noticed this trend at the start of 2008; Chanel’s footwear and stocking ads in Vogue, W and Bazaar caught my attention. I thought to myself, “This is foot fetish that men pay for,” being brought to the mainstream masses for free in the glossy pages of haute couture magazines. So for 2009, more couture brands and upscale indie fashion designers are bringing Kink mainstream with bondage & fetish-inspired dresses, shoes and accessories.

I am elated to see it. I shows that mainstream society no longer equates BDSM with pornography and is finally recognizing Fetish as an art form that pays homage to alternative creativity and sexuality.

Fashionising.com, a fantastic blog written by Tania Baukamper, discusses the trend more in-depth and how it is translates in to 2009 trendsetters’  (Rihanna & Victoria Beckham) personal styles.

My next hope is that designers such as Chanel, Christian Louboutin, Givechy & Thakoon take it a step further and ditch the traditional runway models and feature of Fetish industry professionals in their advertising campaigns.

My suggestions: Model -  Kumi Monster Photographers - Steven Diet Goedde or Christine Kessler.

Photos: Kumi Monster in Atsuko Kudo & Fashionising.com.

I have been a bit quiet for the past week, wow - life is a whirlwind storm and we get caught up in it. I logged in to spend the next six hours on this site (Go Callie, Go Callie) and I found some interesting comments and links. I have been TAGGED by Peridot Ash. Peridot, (whom I am going to fantasize about tonight because I am in love with her writing) is a beautiful woman that has successfully added herself & her new webspace to the many strong voices female sex workers online. Her post on today on “Gratitude” struck me and I am writing my five things (below), and what’s more, I am going to follow her example and I will write a “gratitude related” post on the 5th of every month also

Here’s my list:
1. Self-realization & actualization
2. My fabulous living space
3. My cat
4. My best friend
5. Everyone who has ever taught me anything, both good and bad

Tagged: Carl La Fong, Dark Gracie, Debauchette, Spread Blog on “High Class Whores”, Kimberlee Cline and Peridot Ash.

If you’ve been tagged, write a post on your blog with a list of five things you’re grateful for. Then tag some other bloggers.