Archives BBS - Site Review

I'm not sure exactly when Felix Dartmouth started the Archives BBS web site, but I know when I began really getting into the online bondage/DiD scene around `97 or so, he was already there. In fact, my earliest recollection of a bondage site was Archives BBS.

See, for any of you not familiar with the web back in those days, it was truly a different world. Google was an unknown infant. Yahoo and Lycos were the search engines of choice. Internet Explorer and Netscape were pretty much your choice of browsers. A tiny fraction of the web sites available today were around in that era. Most of us were still on 56K dial-up, but a rare few,  if your pocketbook could stand it, had 500k or 768K DSL, so bandwidth was extremely limited. AOL, or, as I have always referred to it, "The Devil", was king of the non-geek world.

Those of us not seduced by The Devil's "free" disks offering all kinds of unlimited access for no charge (Unless you count the hell they put you through when you tried to cancel) got most of our information and material from newsgroups.

Chesty

Remember newsgroups? Back then, most ISP's offered access to them at no extra cost. In truth, they were more valuable than the rest of the internet combined. Stories, pictures, information, contacts, even some small (Very small) video clips. All that could be found if you knew the right newsgroups to visit and sift through. The problem was that even back then the fracking spammers were killing the newsgroups. 

Along came Felix with a great idea. For a small fee, he would wade through all the crap and give you just the best DiD/BDSM material the newsgroups had to offer without all the spam and extraneous nonsense. Stories? He has a freakin' shitload of them, and I am not exaggerating. Including some great classics you never see around anymore. Pictures? Thousands. Maybe tens of thousands.

Not only that, but FD himself was and is a damned fine bondage writer himself. His first major story, "An Easy Job" is one of the top BD tales ever. I would easily put Felix in my top ten bondage authors. I only wish he had more time to write and was more prolific, because he's extremely talented in this area.

However, what he's done is branch out into videos, so that's everyone's gain. By now, Felix probably has forty or fifty full length videos available, and by joining, you get access to a bunch of free clips from these.

Felix's videos are much like his stories, in that he has a certain "style" that's uniquely his own. He favors attractive girls placed in "consenual non-consenual" bondage. Usually they're incarcerated by the local law, who then use personal restraints on the ladies, including gags. Lot's of ball-gags. Leather and metal restraints, mostly. Sometimes they are turned over to their families to finish out their sentences.

Exerpt from "An Easy Job" #1 May 1993 Copyright Felix Dartmouth, 1998.


And here is my only small bone to pick with FD. His personal stories are packed with great gag scenes, (If they weren't, I sure wouldn't be recommending them) yet many of his videos are a little light in that area, which confounds me to no end. Can't figure that one out. Don't get me wrong, most of his video's have gag scenes, just not as many as I woulld like or would expect judging by his story content. The videos with a sexy, busty model named "Chesty" (Apropos handle) have a lot of ball-gag scenes, for instance. Others, like Haven's Self-Bondage Adventure are definitely on the light side, gag wise. Haven is an uber-hot MILF, and one that I would have like to see gagged 98% of her time on screen. She is va-va-voom sexy.

I need to ask him about that one day and see what the reasoning is for this. My personal feeling is that if he gagged his models as (often) he does in his stories, he would sell twice as many DVD's. At least. Just my opinion.

Anyway, back to the review, newsgroups are still out there and very much alive. The amount of available material is more than it ever was, but there's also more spam and more malware than ever as well, and most ISP's no longer offer free access. So, for the price of what you'd pay for that access, or less, you get all the good BDSM stuff (And much more) brought to you, but with FD filtering out all that nasty spam and malware for you.

So, to recap, for just $16.95 the first month, and just $12.95 monthly after that, you receive all that great newsgroup material, a huge number of video clips, a zillion pics and stories, and a lot more.

There are more than a few bondage pay sites where the cost is a hell of a lot more than what you get in return. That is definitely not the case with Archives BBS. I'm not kidding when I tell you that you'll be overloaded by all the stuff to peruse for long, long, time, and yet Felix is constantly adding more material every month.

One of, if not the best value's you'll find anywhere. Well worth the forty-five cents a day it'll run you to be a member. 

Give it a try. Tell Felix The Greyman sent you!