In Punished 2, Georgia van Helsing starts off the party, in a long leather dress and fear in her eyes. She gets tied against a wall spread-eagle, and gagged. Quickly the screen fades to her in the same position, sans dress. She has on panty hose and a long-line bra, which falls down to expose her breasts.

There is a one-foot square board hanging from the wall behind her, with dozens of long nails protruding from it. The object is not to back into the nails. Facing toward it, away from it, aimed at her breasts, or her butt, she can't help but run into those nails, almost as if she wants to. You think?

Released from the wall, and naked save for her heels, a strap around her upper torso keeps her arms pinned to her sides, though her hands are free. It is the dildo-seated chair that now confronts her. After waltzing around it saying so much as, if the gag were off, “What? Me, in that?” Following close-ups of her warming up her pussy for the task, she gently and gradually lowers herself onto “that.”

Dissolve to arms tied out to the side, but not very taut. She does a little seated dance around the pole she’s sitting on and massages her breasts to boot. Her final dilemma on the wall involves hanging in a legs-back spread-eagle, naked pussy in full flower. Fade.

Ah, Georgia. On the one hand, it would be nice if she resisted a bit more, but on the other hand, we have a woman who will take whatever you bring on. Gotta love that, along with her luscious body. Note: Not illustrated is a brief scene in which a feminine pair of hands fasten clothespins to Georgia's nipples, and four more to each breast.

Grade: A

Dixie, wearing a cupless corset and stockings, is tied upright spread-eagle with her back to us and gets flogged. Then she is suspended by her wrists, with her legs folded back in a frog tie. More flogging.

Enter Lana Ryan, in a big black wig, wearing a Hawaiian-style swimsuit with a bandeau top, and sarong, wrist and elbows tied behind her. Right away, she gets hooked up to Dixie, with a crotch rope going up through a pulley and back down to seated Dixie’s suspended leg.

Next, the two women are standing, with their crotches cut by the same rope with the pulley in the middle. There is flogging all through this. When he’s had his fun, the Tormentor leaves. The two ladies, hot for whatever they can get, still in their restraints, turn their attentions to each other. Fade.

The technical and visual emphasis in this lukewarm episode seems to be on crotch ropes, and in that sense, it truly succeeds.

Grade: B

Anne Bruno is behind bars, weeping, wearing a blue, knee-length shirt dress. She is released from the cell only to be tied to a chair and have the top of her dress unbuttoned and her ample breasts fondled mercilessly. Next she is stripped to her underwear, tied Eiffel Tower, and flogged fore and aft.

Back in the chair, her legs tied together and extended, a noose gets slipped around her neck and pulled up tight. Thin cords are slipped around her nipples and pulled upward sharply.

All that is prologue to the finest breast bondage HOM can offer. Now tied firmly to the chair, the wire harness is slid over her breasts, and around and around the loops of cord go to frame and distend those rock-hard globes. This is a long scene. Back in her prison cell, she shakes her head in agreement with something The Tormentor has proposed, and she is left in her underwear, hands tied behind her back, with a crotch rope, and the breast bondage still in place. Fade.

Some models have bodies that were meant to be tied up. Anne Bruno was made to be put into breast bondage, and apparently loves it through her tears. There’s nothing like this in the remainder of the Punished series.

Grade: A

A Georgia van Helsing reappears in a sheer, white nightie, chained by a collar to the brick wall that will come to be a familiar Punished set. The Tormentor gives her a dildo, a big one, and leaves so she can do with what she wants.

The next scene finds her standing, her panties down around one ankle, giving herself an exterior massage with the dildo. Now there was some kind of legal stricture on showing insertion, so you know we’re not going to see one, but she sits down, opens her thighs very wide to show us her bare pussy, it is a nice-looking one, and by golly, she slides that thing right in there. It’s quick, but not that quick. Nice.

The Tormentor returns and chains her spread-eagle against the wall, facing us. There is lots of flogging, tit torment, and pussy fondling.

Next, The Tormentor fastens a really tight crotch rope onto her, looped up to the ceiling so it will always bear upward, and leaves so we can watch Georgia do a happy dance on the rope that is jammed up her slit to get herself off. Which she does. Tormentor returns, takes her arms down, and she plays with the rope, pulling it up hard (!) against her crotch, until T gives her back the dildo for her to play with instead. Which she does. Fade.

All in all, a nice interlude. A little dildoing to get things started, a little whipping while bound to turn up the heat, a tight crotch rope to get off on with nothing but her roiling hips working the magic, and a cooling-off with the rope and the dildo. I don't see anything GIMP here. It’s all about a guy doing this odd girl a favor. How sweet!

Grade: B

Toni Stern stars in the final offering.

She starts off seated in a black dress, tied securely to the chair with a noose around her neck. While she’s waiting for something to happen, her hands are free enough for her to reach around play with her nipples. The Tormentor enters the room and wants her to sign something. She doesn’t want to, and all hell breaks loose.

Her dress is taken off. She’s tied upright spread-eagle, still wearing the noose, in a lacy black body suit. The only way to get her naked is to cut the shoulder straps, ruining a fine piece of lingerie, but her priceless breasts are revealed. Trying to reason with her doesn't work. Neither does pussy-fondling, breast-mashing, and body suit cunt-busting .

Out come the nipple clamps. Ungagged now, Toni is seated, AOH, with one ankle chained to the chair back and the other leg tied straight out to a post. The clamps are secured to another chain, and she is sitting on the very edge of the chair. She can’t slide backward, because that will pull on the clamps, and if she slips off the chair and falls, that’s really going to pull. What a predicament! I should mention, the clamps pull her breasts up and out to make them look really fine.

Still no go, so she is tied upright, ankles together and hands behind her back, with a rope between her legs going up through a pulley and being reefed on. She’s on her tippy toes, almost leaving the ground. Wow.

Finally, Toni is upright spread-eagle, her back to us, naked save for her heels. Many women who are blessed in the Tit Department get shortchanged in the Ass Department, but not this girl. Hers is as fine a bottom as you’ll see anywhere. The flogging it gets is exactly what you want to see done to it. After some serious punishment, Toni realizes she can take no more, and relents. She is let go, and signs. Fade.

Blakemore newbies often confuse Toni and Sharon Montgomery. There are even photo galleries of Montgomery on the Internet which include pictures of Stern. But Toni has her own style, one of athletic sensuality. She is also the most glamorous of all the Blakemore models. She projects a vulnerability that few others can. Every video I have seen her in boils down to two words - she delivers. This episode is a high point in the Punished series.

Grade: A

Overall grade: A-

Pluses: Anne Bruno’s breast bondage scene is the gold standard. Toni Stern is so beautiful, and so put upon.