The Harmony Philosophy

 What is most discouraging about this business are
the prevailing social misconceptions concerning
bondage, at least the benevolent, romantic type of
bondage that we produce. For the unenlightened,
what we represent and advocate really needs to be
clarified. In that spirit, the following general explanation
is at least a start.

It has never been nor will it ever be our purpose to depict
women as mere subordinates to men. These pictures and
articles are not about that. The materials we produce are
carefully and, we think, obviously designed for men and
women to whom bondage is an important mutual diversion,
a recreational and benevolent experience, a fantasy with
a happy ending, a good-natured game in which everybody wins.

It is not the pleasure of our patrons nor our intention to offend
or demean or abuse or exploit or disadvantage, be aggressive
against, or cause even the slightest pain to our models, or to
suggest that such is occurring to the ladies they are portraying.
We do not characterize victims; we characterize lovers who are
mutually exciting and pleasurable--the bondage can be for the
sake of sexual teasing or foreplay; or the acting out of a benign
rescue fantasy with slightly juvenile undertones; or just the
sweet and secret simple sharing of a very special physical
intimacy between caring persons. Whichever of these it is,
we have characterized it on our pages as "Love Bondage".

While we cannot police the motives and psyches of our
customers, we can and do shape our materials for
completely benevolent natures only--either the adult who
was imprinted during adolescence by the thrilling and
heroic adventure story rescue of a bound and gagged
and ultimately loving female, or the male or female adult
whose basic nature identifies with the female in bondage
and craves to personally experience those same offbeat
sensations for either deeply psychological reasons, or,
to state this in the simplest possible terms, because it
actually feels good, safe and comforting even. He or she
is wrapped tightly and snugly, there is a feeling of being
protected, and the rope becomes a surrogate for the
protective lover's arms. It is to please and satisfy those
two natures, and they alone, that we create these visual
fantasies.

Conversely, those persons in search of darker, less pleasant
bondage themes must look elsewhere, for there is really
nothing for them here. Our materials are just not for people
who enjoy scenes of human mistreatment. If such people do
show up on our mailing lists from time to time, they certainly
have no reason to linger, since what they are seeking is
probably the exact spiritual opposite of what we have to offer.

Good drama does not exist without conflict, and there will
necessarily be the blending of bondage with actual danger
in some of the text fiction that we publish. But these situations
will be so obviously farfetched or tongue-in-cheek that they
are clearly not to be taken any more seriously than a
comparable paperback tale or television episode containing
the same elements. But in all of the photos that we present,
be they from contributors or our own associates, the
woman is there willingly, even gladly, and for her own
reasons. Were she not, we would not publish the picture.

Therefore, the bondage that is dramatized here is an essentially
gentle act used by lovers to intensify their physical and
spiritual closeness. She gets to belong utterly to someone
she loves, and to be adored for what he perceives as the
prettiness of her dependency on him. She has surrendered
for him that part of her independence she doesn't want. They
are fortune-blessed soul mates, theirs is completely a mutual
act of trust, love, appreciation of themselves and each other.
And the readers who look on perceive her bondage as physically
and spiritually pleasing to her--she knows that it has more to do
with being wanted than abused. Were that not the case, we
would ourselves be offended.

Our bondage has absolutely nothing to do with demeaning
anyone. It is totally and utterly a bilateral activity, and, were
it not, we wouldn't have anything to do with it.

Harmony Concepts