I'm devoting this week's column to three of our most interesting, intelligent and charismatic performers, whose combined skills and talents have graced and enlivened a total of eight Shadow Lane videos.
The lead photo shows Artemis Antone spanking Kristie Imboch from our video Turn The Other Cheek (SLV-075). Artemis and Kristie are best friends as well as being real life B&D enthusiasts.
I first met Artemis when she was in her very early twenties, at a scene party thrown by her mom, the sensual and seductive Mistress Jennifer Antone. At that point I was just about to begin working with Jennifer, whose first Shadow Lane video was Women Who Spank Men #1 (SLV-034). But that's a whole other story.
Of course, from the first moment of meeting Artemis, I was struck by her adorable face and magnificent form and immediately invited her to come to Shadow Lane and work with us whenever she wished.
Artemis worked with us for the first time on the video Visiting Nurses Know Best (SLV-060), as one of the dominant nurses who spank, embarrass, vaginally and anally penetrate Starr Chandler. This video co-starred Alexis Payne and I still think it's the hottest female spanks female video we've ever done. There was just something about the combination of these two gorgeous, confident, powerful brunettes subduing and exquisitely humiliating the tall, vivacious and goddess like strawberry blonde Starr Chandler. For the record, it's Artemis who does the really naughty domming in this video, Alexis preferring to remain a good deal more hands-off when it came to inserting toys into their bratty and resentful victim. I love this video because even though Starr submits to everything, she does it with a consistently endearing pout, never ceasing to proudly and stubbornly resist her punishment. Sexy things take place in this video, but it never sacrifices a strictly disciplinary feel. In other words, everyone stayed completely in character.
When I found out that Artemis and Arthur Sire were extremely close friends who were very fond of one another, I naturally thought it would be a great idea to have Artemis go sub to Arthur in a spanking video. The fact that she was also willing to be stroked, caressed, digitally penetrated and dildoed, made the prospect even more exciting.
However, as soon as we started the shoot, we all got a big shock to discover that Artemis does not like being spanked hard. In fact, she really hates it. Which seemed to throw a spanner into our video plans. Like most Shadow Lane men, Arthur tends to spank hard. Moreover, as a general rule, Shadow Lane videos tend to include plenty of hard spanking. Or, at the very least, medium hard spanking. Since we aren't sadists, this rather put us in a quandary. At her request, Artemis was served champagne. It did help her to relax.
Even though Artemis found her first slave at around 14 (some neighborhood boy who did her bidding) and simply knew instinctively how to dominant submissives, she was never submissive herself, at least not in a corporal punishment sense. She confided that in spite of having a mistress for a mom, she was never subjected to corporal punishment as a child. (The bullwhip incident, which occurred when she was a teen, was acknowledged to be an aberration, but I'll let her tell you that amusing anecdote if you ever meet her.)
We came up with some rather ingenious ways to get around the fact that Artemis will not submit to hard spanking from a man. At one point, Arthur ordered Artemis to spank herself. (This is not something you see every day in a spanking video.)
Even though Artemis would not take much hard spanking, she was angelic about taking a rabbit pearl vibrator and an anal plug, squirming to an orgasm over Arthur's knee. Somehow, we managed to get a very sensual, 80-minute video with the pair. Most spanking performers are incredibly honorable. Artemis showed her mettle not through taking a huge amount of spanking but by demonstrating her beautifully uninhibited sexuality and giving us the gift of genuinely explicit, onscreen eroticism.