HARMONY BONDAGE

Harmony Communications began in 1976 with publisher Robert Harmon’s release of his first publication, “The Bondage Buyers Guide & Almanac”. This was followed by a series of “historical” compilations on the masters of 50s & 60s bondage imagery, Irving Klaw and John Willie, whose style Harmony would pay homage to both in visual style and spiritual tone when it started to produce its own material.

In 1978 the premier issue of Bondage Life appeared. It became arguably the most important bondage magazine ever produced. Articles such as Carl McGuire's "Bound For Hollywood", "Out of the Trunk" and "Tielines" provided readers with up to date bondage information in the news and media. It created a life-line to the fetish community and encouraged reader contributions, which made popular models of real life enthusiasts like the bathing capped and sneakered Sarah Foster Tate.

Their star models included such icons as Jennifer West, Heidi Kester, Pia Sands (a.k.a. Michelle Bauer), Teri Martine and Laurel Blake (a.k.a. Hilary Summers), to name only a few of their bound beauties. Harmony also created stars out of hitherto unknown mail-order photo models such as Lyndia, Libby Curtis of Master Gallery and Cheryl Rothman.

Harmony’s philosophy is one of consensual role-playing and non-aggressiveness. It is the flip side of the coin to the brutal force fantasies prevalent in the magazines published by contemporaries such as House of Milan (HOM), Rossyln News, or Tao. No dark warehouses and hooded tormentors to be found here. “Love bondage” became their motto.

Harmony (like every other bondage producer) has suffered the demise of the adult magazine market, due largely to the Internet and access to free and immediate fetish imagery. Recently they have made the decision to stop publishing all their magazine titles. They still produce videos on a regular basis, and have a subscription web site. They can be contacted via www.harmonyconcepts.com