When it comes to rope bondage, I've always been a big fan. After all, who wouldn't be mesmerized by damsels wrapped up in ropes and bound to do your every bidding? Of course, the beauty of bondage isn't merely the D/s or even the aesthetic element. The girls, with tight bands of rope pressing into their flesh and knots strategically placed to bring about the most intense feelings, is equally thrilling. On Rope Slave, members are promised a brave new world of pleasure and I, for one, am not opposed to it.
RopeSlaves isn't exactly the most glamorous bondage site on the planet and this will either turn you on or it won't. The models and the sets are fairly amateur and it appears the offering is much closer to a genuine home style experience. There are some exceptionally attractive girls like Kati who, in a title called "Spunky Amateur Bondage", struggles to be free from the ropes that her Friday the 13th mask-wearing Master has twisted around her taut young body. There are also some older women with hairy pussies and some bigger women with plump bodies and full breasts.
Upon logging into the members' area, you won't immediately detect that this is a rope bondage site. In fact, Rope Slaves is one of 37 sites that you receive for the one price. It's a site that's linked to the Fetish Network and along with other niche sites covering fetishes like latex, nylon, fisting, smothering and femdom, there are BDSM and bondage sites including AmateurBondageVideos, BondageAuditions, Bound4You, RealBondageVideos, RopeBondageVideos, TokyoSlaves and MyKinkyDiary. The price of the membership may be a little steep, but you get a massive amount of content in return.
When it comes to the specific content of Rope Bondage you'll uncover 42 sets of photos and 32 videos. This isn't actually a large amount of content for a single site. In fact, it's a rather mediocre number. Fortunately, all the BDSM and bondage extras add up to over 1000 episodes. Nevertheless, we're exploring Rope Slaves, which represents only a fraction of the total network amount. The good news is that videos are appearing two to four times a month. Photos, on the other hand, haven't been added to the archive since 2009, so if you're a picture collector, you might want to carefully weigh the pros and cons of a mostly video action site.
The 1300x975 pictures aren't bad, mind you. They are amateur and sets can contain between 50 and 100 images that are sharp. The chicks tend to be white and between the ages of 20 and 30, although there are a couple of exceptions. Also, there are sets that either feature pure bondage or that combines a few different fetishes like latex and nylon with the bondage. However, if you are a collector you might be disappointed that sets aren't downloadable in .zip files. Should you wish to save images, then you'll have to do so by downloading one picture at a time and this can get a bit frustrating for larger sets.
Videos are listed in thumbnails and each links to a full episode page. There are a half dozen preview pictures on the video page and there are scene descriptions, but you don't get a trailer to take a peek at the action. There aren't really a lot of movie options, either. The episodes come in low and high bandwidth (1460kbps, 500x400) qualities. There isn't an HD option and WMV is the only offered format for streams and downloads. There aren't storylines and camerawork is fairly basic, but girls moan and wince in pleasure and pain through every film. While most girls are partially tied up at the start of every film, I really enjoyed those movies where Master's can be seen putting the final touches on their rope work before teasing and titillating and basically doing whatever they want to the bound slaves, which sometimes, not always, includes fucking them. The problem is that movies are divided into 10 minute parts and there don't appear to be full-length downloads unless a film is shorter than 10 minutes, which most movies are not.
Final Verdict
Rope Slaves has some good things going for it, particularly if you're a fan of inexperienced sex slaves and amateur, almost homemade looking bondage porn. The site could use some expansion when it comes to navigation, but browsing the site is hardly the biggest concern. The 20 to 30 minute flicks are divided into parts with no full-length download options. This wouldn't be so bad if there were HD videos, but there is only one video format offered and the best quality isn't exactly living up to the standards of most sites in 2011. Nevertheless, combined with access to the entire Fetish Network, fans of amateur bondage and BDSM movies might get more than a few thrills out of Rope Slaves.