Type of Site: Fetish
Address: www.rubberasylum.com 
Price: 
$24.99/month ($20/month recurring)
Date of Review:
February, 2007
Pornreports Rating: 

    

Review:

Do they still have asylums? Or do they just call them "mental hospitals" now? Anyway, it's unlikely there are any asylums quite like the Rubber Asylum outside of certain fetish studios. Like the guys who do this site, or the people who do The Rubber Clinic.

To be honest, when we first saw this site we were sure it was the same people behind it as The Rubber Clinic. Not only is the content very similar (a pseudo-medical setting with lots of bondage and heavy rubber) but the layout and presentation is nearly identical. But apparently they are not associated.

Everything is set up as case files, with individual updates labeled as "entries," and the punishment administered by "wardens." But here they explain the rules of the nuthouse in their own words:

Rubber Asylum is a centre of correction for way-ward males and females. Nominated by wives, husbands, girlfriends, boyfriends, disgruntled employers etc, the victim is sentenced to a stay inside the correctional facility. This stay can range from 1 to 7+ days and will be decided on by the Governor.

The corrections are varied and extreme. They will be depicted in Video and Graphical evidence. Only jury members will have access to this evidence.

Rubber Asylum permanent staff take orders from the Governor. Answering to the Governor are the head wardens. The head wardens run the Asylum and also give orders to wardens and temporary staff. Every so often you will see new members of staff assisting the wardens in the correction process. If you would like to assist the staff at Rubber Asylum please contact the Governor. If the Governor agrees, you will be contacted.

Well, they do call it an asylum so if you feel all this legal/medical/bondage mumbo-jumbo is a little screwy it probably means you're in the right place. Personally, and this our main knock against the site, we found it all a bit confusing. The way it's organized is really hard to understand. The case files are given odd names like RA008 2 pm, and appear to be out of order. A typical page might go like this: Day 7 of 7, 5 of 7, 7 of 7, 4 of 7, 6 of 7, 3 of 7, 5 of 7, etc. And many of these days are part of the same case ID. The "wardens" only have numbers and no names, and they aren't cross-indexed so you can't go to all the cases investigated by the same warden. The "Case Notes" links are presumably supposed to go to a forum where comments can be placed, but when we visited they only went back out to a general support page. If you want to preview one of the videos by looking at the associated photo galleries you have to go through the one index (which is the same as you go through on the tour) to find them. What would make more sense is to have a photo index and a video index, and keep all of the material for one case file together too.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Bitch, whine, complain. Enough of that. As you can tell by the fact that we're giving this site an "8", we thought it was a really solid effort, so let's get on to the good stuff.

As noted this is a heavy rubber/medical fetish bondage site. If you're familiar with this fetish at all you probably know it's not really about the sex that much. It's more about wrapping people up in elaborate, highly restrictive outfits and then doing something to them. There is, however, some strap-on work and dildo play. There is also nipple and cock-and-ball torture (including the horrific process of "sounding", where a greased up tube is inserted all the way down some poor bastard's urethra). But mainly, at least for this site, what you're going to see a lot of is "breath play." What the Rubber Asylum specializes in is smothering and suffocation, with the victims often wearing some sort of mask or breathing apparatus where the oxygen can be cut off at the warden's will. And sometimes the warden will breath into the patient's breathing tube, or stick the end of it up her pussy, etc. The sound of the patient's breathing throughout all of this is well captured on the video soundtrack. Not all of the video is focused on this stuff, but it does seem to be what they are most interested in so be sure that that is your thing. In our opinion it looked like some of the most dangerous shit we've seen since Water Bondage started almost drowning people. God knows if you're into doing this kind of thing in real life you'd better be careful. 

At the time of our visit they were up to 125 "entries," with a new update coming every four or five days. Slightly more than half of these (in our estimation) are photo galleries. And the pics are quite good, with a sharp picture at 1050x700 (or thereabouts). The videos, however, are the main selling point. All of the newer ones come in three formats: dial-up, DVD quality (640x480) and an HD version. This HD really is the shit. As advertised, it is 1280x720 720p. You can look at a sample screen cap on the tour and see for yourself what it looks like. Some of the most powerful stuff we've seen.

The one downside with the HD videos is they are large files even for what are mostly quite short movies. Typically the clips only run around 5 minutes each. Though to be fair they don't waste a lot of time, and since the patient/victim is pretty much immobilized from the start the action is fairly straightforward. There is also a 1 gig daily download limit. Personally, we don't think that's a big deal. We're always surprised when we hear people complain about download limits. How many people want to download an entire site overnight? Just relax and take the stuff you want. Yeah, we know people who literally save every scrap of porn they've ever seen and keep it all backed up on disc. But we think they're freaks. We've been downloading porn for over a decade now and our personal collection of favourites that we've saved is probably under 5 gigs of material.

But for those of you who want it all and want it now, yes there's a download limit.

On balance this is a really good site. The sets, costumes and equipment are all first rate. The video is exceptionally high quality. They update at a good pace and the price is well within reason. Our main complaint was that the layout is fucked up to the point where it actually gets in the way of enjoying the material. The other thing we would emphasize is the fairly extreme, and hence narrow, nature of the niche being served. Yes it's bondage and rubber and femdom, but we would also recommend that you really be into the suffocation/breath play scene too because that's what they specialize in. 

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