The Bondage Company.
Monthly magazines, films, and video cassettes featuring fully dressed, semidressed, or fully undressed ladies in tight, scrumptious “Love Bondage.” For the truly finicky, there are whole photo sections of bathing cap bondage, tennis shoe bondage, cheerleader bondage, and all the other bondage fantasies Harmony has managed to hear about and then portray.
To keep customers apprised of what’s old and new in the Harmony inventory, a free, lavishly illustrated catalogue sheet is sent out like clockwork each month to the company’s mail-order buyers.
Since 1976, Harmony has been earning the approval of bondage lovers by not only producing its own contemporary materials, but also reprising the classic “Damsels in Distress” photo collections of pioneer bondage producers Irving Klaw and John Willie. Harmony has also published full magazine retrospectives of the complete photo collections of such celebrated mail-order bondage stars as Lyndia, Cheryl Rothman, Sally Roberts, Joanne Link, Judith Wilson, and others.
Most of Harmony’s magazines, films, and videocassettes are devoted to pictures of pretty women tied up and gagged in either their underwear or various bondage costumery, although there is also a generous quantity of fully nude bondage magazines in the Harmony output. Whatever the visual content, Harmony avoids offering anything that smacks either of violence or tastelessness, doting instead on its soft “Love Bondage” theme in which the Bound Beauty is characterised as an accomplice with her lover in a mutual act of pleasant foreplay. With Harmony, the pretty lady is all tied up because she wants to be.
One of Harmony’s accessory materials are the storyline videocassettes from Arrow, which star Sally Roberts and Susan Blair. So far, Harmony has been releasing one of these hour-long videocassette programmes each month.
If bondage is one of your pleasures, you should request being placed on Harmony’s monthly mailing list (you must send $3 and buy at least two Harmony publications every six months to remain active). Send Harmony the $3 for current catalogues, a signed statement that you are 21 years old or older, aware that you are requesting sexually oriented material, and that you want those monthly brochures.
Box 780 North Hollywood, California 91603
The AI Summary
Harmony Communications was a prominent publisher of fetish, BDSM, and bondage magazines based in North Hollywood, California, during the 1970s and 1980s. Founded by Robert Q. Harmon (who was also associated with Harmony Concepts Inc.), the company specialized in high-quality, photographic, and editorial content focusing on bondage, particularly in magazine, tabloid, and special issue formats.
Key Publications and History
Bondage Life: The company’s flagship publication, titled BONDAGE LIFE; The Magazine For and By Bondage People, ran for at least 85 issues beginning around 1976/1977 and continuing through the 1980s and into the 1990s. It featured b/w and color photography, reader letters, fiction, and articles.
Other Titles: Harmony Communications released a variety of niche bondage magazines during the 70s and 80s, including:
Bondage Fantasies (1991)
Love Bound (1970)
DeSade Journal (1977)
Uptight (1982)
SWAT – Spanking (1978)
Bondage World (HCI)
The Bound Beauties of Harmony (1980)
Simone Devon’s Favorite Bondage Models (1988)
Woman/Slave (1982)
Production Context: The magazines served as a marketing and documentation vehicle for the videos and photo shoots produced by Harmony Concepts, frequently featuring popular fetish models of the era, such as Jennifer West, Libby Curtis, and Juliet Maitland.
Content and Style: Many issues contained 64-80 pages, using a mix of b/w and color photographs. They catered to a dedicated, mostly mail-order audience, providing a “behind-the-scenes” look at the bondage photo industry.
Robert Q. Harmon is often credited with creating and publishing these magazines, making Harmony Communications a significant player in the niche erotic publishing scene of the 1970s and 80s.