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There is a form of sexual bondage that involves making furniture designed to incorporate a bound person. It is sometimes known as forniphilia.
The best-known example of forniphilia in art is by British artist Allen Jones who has a very famous series of sculptures called "Hat Stand and Table", made in 1969, which show semi-naked women in the roles of furniture. It's a very striking and provocative work bound to create strong reactions. According to viewer, those works can been seen in a very ambivalent way: either, as a fantasy of sexual objectification, or, a critical and ironic comment on that objectification and woman's role in society -- even though this interpretation is very problematic, as we can see.
Feminists have criticized Jones' painted and sculptured women images. In 1973 Laura Mulvey discussed in the feminist magazine Spare Rib Jones' images in relation to fetishism in the Freudian sense. Mulvey argued that Jones repeated typical fetishistic female imagery familiar from media and pop culture. She suggested that his work is not about women at all, but illustrates Jones' male fears. These images are related to fetishism in the strictly Freudian sense, and reproduce the woman as spectacle, as primarily sexual being, and as the object of a specifically masculine gaze/desire. The notion of the woman bound and restricted through shoes and clothing is addressed in Mulvey's critique of the art of Allen Jones. Mulvey writes, "The most effective fetish both constricts, and up-lifts, binds and raises, particularly high-heeled shoes, corsets and bras" (Mulvey, Laura: "You Don't Know What's Happening, Do You Mr. Jones?" in Framing Feminism, p. 128). High-heels represent heightened sexuality, yet a lack of agency in their inhibition of movement. Shackles of a sort, they place the female wearer in a position of greater vulnerability than that of the male.
Forniphilia is a phrase coined by Jeff Gord at the House of Gord to the love of creating furniture from humans. Forniphilia is a sub-set of bondage and sexual objectification in which a person's body is incorporated into inanimate tool or piece of furniture. Allen Jones' sculptures Hat Stand and Table Sculpture, made in 1969, which show semi-naked women in the roles of furniture, is a classic example of the depiction of forniphilia as art.
The House of Gord website often uses a more extreme form of forniphilia in its bondage. Forniphilia is an extreme form of bondage because the subject is tightly bound and expected to stay immobile for long or indefinite period of time.
The term is derived from;
- forni- f. Old French furnir f. Roman, fornire; to furnish, furniture
- -philia f. Greek philos; love of, fondness for
House of Gord has a "Forniphilia FAQ" at www.houseofgord.com/page.php?page_id=1726
Forniphilia in Film
- The Korova Milkbar is one of the bars where Alec and his "Droogies" hang out between attacks on the general populace.
- The 1963 film Soylent Green is set in an overpopulated futuristic Earth, which tells a story of a New York cop named Thorn (Charlton Heston), who is investigating a death of a upper class citizen Simmons. Thorn finds himself marked for murder by government agents when he gets too close to a bizarre state secret involving the origins of a revolutionary and needed new foodstuff. On his way Thorn, and actually the whole world of this film, displays by his behaviour, that the world has changed into a exact opposite of utopia.
- During some questioning of Simmons's "furniture" Shirl played by Leigh Taylor-Young, the movie goes so far as to refer to women as "furniture", available on a personalized basis to those well-to-do citizenry that could afford "the very best". Anyone for "hot and cold running maids".
- La Femme Objet is the story of a science fiction writer who is completely addicted to sex. He needs it from morning to night and cannot be in the presence of a woman without making love to her, whether she is asleep, in the process of washing the dishes, or anything else. The story begins with his girlfriends Sabine (Helene Shirley) leaving him, telling him as she parts that she wants to live and his demands are literally killing her. The next girlfriends suffers the same fate, as does the secretary he hires and a woman who is designing sets for the movie adaptation of his latest book. Realizing that no living woman can satisfy him, he sets up a laboratory in the basement and builds a true to life, remote controlled robot woman- his "female object" (Marilyn Jess). At first life is good, as the stunning, busty blonde robot can not speak- and wouldn't complain if she could- and satisfies his every sexual whim. He ironically observes, "She is more feminine than any woman I have ever known".
- However, as time goes on, something goes wrong with the experiment. The robot begins to develop a personality of its own, and refuses to obey his commands. Soon she is out of control, screwing the mailman, his ex Sabine, and anyone else who comes by the house. The writer does not have the heart to destroy her, but he decides to make another robot to replace her nonetheless- this time a gorgeous ebony creature. But, once again, our man has miscalculated. It is not long before his blonde robot has seduced his ebony creation, and soon neither is obeying his commands. In fact, he is now outnumbered in his own home, and as the film ends he finds that it is now he who is obeying their commands and satisfying their desires. He has became "le homme objet"- the male object.
Fornophilia examples
"Office setting"
"Chair" by Allen Jones
"Table" by Allen Jones
Annie as a lamp
(see the story below)
maRRiah in her
"shipping container"
"Fornophila Feelings"
The following is a two part story: the first is my feelings about a session with that I did with Annie. The second part is her feelings about the same session.
As I sit here, typing at my computer keyboard, there is a cute little brunette name Annie standing behind me, She is not looking over my shoulder, or perhaps she is, but can not see what I am typing. She is nude, blindfolded and gagged. She is bound to a long pole behind her back and extending a short distance above her head. The fact she is bound, or nude, or blindfolded or gagged is nothing new to her. She has done all of these things before. What is new to her, today, is the fact that she has become "a lamp".
Attached to the top of the pole is a clamp-type lamp attached to the top of the pole, which is providing light to this keyboard while I am typing. There are ropes at ankles, knees, waist, shoulders and breasts. For additional "enjoyment, there is a rope tied to the pole near her butt. It goes between her legs, to her pelvis and returns to put pressure on all kinds of "interesting places". The ropes around her breasts form a harness which constricts her breasts with a little more pressure than she usually enjoys.
Her hands are bound by rope that connects to her slave collar, holding them affixed and still just in front of her stomach. Her hands hold a vibrator attached to a rope that goes between her lags to the pole behind her. By slightly adjusting her hands, she can adjust the tension on that rope.
She has, in the past, stated that the fantasy of "becoming furniture" is a new fantasy to her.
I had started off my session with my Master by getting together some supplies to do a back massage on him. He wanted me gagged with a handkerchief and later blindfolded me while I was doing the massage. A little while into the massage and he removed my gag and replaced it with a ring gag, (I have a feeling this was just to test my reaction to the product since he had never used one on me before) which he also removed later along with the blindfold.
He asked me if there was anything I had seen in photo's or read about since I had been here that I had never tried but wanted to. I told him I would love to be a lamp, I had seen pictures of slaves being used as furniture and they had fascinated me. He said ok but made no immediate gesture to show that he was going to move so I continued giving him a massage. I massaged him for another few minutes and he told me to stop, blindfolded me and tied my hands in front of me. He helped me stand up and led me into another room of the house. He told me to stand and the next thing I felt was a pole being put up against my back and being tied to it by my upper arms. He then proceeded to tie my waist, legs and knees to this pole. I heard him walk out of the room and shuffle around for something (when he left I thought for a minute that he might just have tied me to a pole and told me I was a lamp and of course I would believe him because I couldn't tell any different) and then I heard the unmistakable sound of a light bulb being screwed into a lamp. I then felt a slight addition of weight to the pole; I felt the cord rub against the back of my leg and heard him plug in the cord. I then heard him turn on the light. He moved my blindfold slightly and I could see the lamp above my head for a second and couldn't help but exclaim, "Cool!", I was so excited I was finally a lamp.
As I was standing there as a lamp I was thinking of how neat it was that I could be bound and standing still and still be useful to my master. I think being furniture is a true way to test your ability to be still and quiet which has always been a hard task for me, normally I am very talkative and moving constantly. I like the fact that there are many varieties of way's to be useful even when you're not doing much. When he put the vibrator in my hands I could not see but I felt a small bit of wind coming off of it (it was one of those back massagers with a rotating top) and thought it was a fan. I thought what a great way to be doubly useful! He told me I could move my hands if I wanted but I thought when he moved them that he wanted them there to direct the airflow of the fan to where he wanted it. I was so excited at being so useful!
After standing this way for a few moments though I realized that it wasn't as easy as the photos made it look. Being blindfolded made it hard to keep my balance and I had to try very hard to not sway or even try and keep from leaning back because there was nothing to support me. When I was standing there thinking I was reminded of something I was told about being put into absolute darkness for more than 15 minutes, often times if this happens to a person they lose all track of which way is up, down, sideways, forward or backward whether or not they are standing, I am not sure why but it was probably because even though I was a lamp because I was blindfolded I couldn't see anything and it was very dark. Being a lamp is uneventful except for the actual process of becoming one and maybe being "turned on or off" but it does give you time to think.
I think I would enjoy becoming other items of furniture if given the chance.
See also Forniphilia gag
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