As Punished 7 begins, Lori Waverly finds a trunk full of bondage art and repeats a theme common to earlier Punished videos -- imagining herself bound in the same way that is shown in a picture she is looking at. The drawings are by none other than John Blakemore, who, in addition to making these Punished videos, was a first-class illustrator.

In the first scene, Lori pulls out a pencil drawing of a woman tied to a giant phallus. As Lori opens her wrap-around skirt and begins to play with herself, she imagines herself tied up in the same position, too complicated to describe, so just look at the picture. The cupless bustier she has on is a nice touch. Now she could relax to take the slack out of the collar that is choking her, the crotch rope that is cutting her, and does at one point, but she prefers to strain against them anyway. Atta girl!

The next drawing she looks at is of a woman tied in a vertical spread-eagle. While admiring that one, she takes a flogger out of the trunk and begins rubbing the handle over her pussy, and then flogging it. Of course, Lori finds herself, in her dreams, tied in a similar position, struggling for all she's worth. Her only problem is that the flogger is on the floor and there is no one around to beat her with it. So, she jerks her entire body as if someone were beating her. It's pretty dramatic, and more easily seen if you speed up the replay of the video. When the scene dissolves back to reality, Lori is still flogging herself between her legs.

Lori is so worked up now that she does a bunched-panty cunt-busting on herself while looking at the last drawing. Switch to her fantasy, a vertical Flying Wallenda, and she's completely nude. Actually, her knees are on the ground, so it takes a bit of work to get airborne. Switch to a suspended vertical spread-eagle, still nude.

In the final bit, the little horndog has merged fantasy and reality. Lori, without a stitch on, looks at another drawing and tugs on a crotch rope threaded through a pulley. Tugs hard. Where's a man when you really need one? Fade.

Lori has a way that is all her own of doing a lot with a little. I could have put up four times as many screen caps, every one of them unique and erotic. To her credit, she has learned her lesson from P5 about wearing her panties on top of her garters, not underneath them.

Grade: A

We start this episode with the torment in progress. Georgia van Helsing is tied, ankles and wrists, fully clothed and wearing a ball gag. The fun begins when a Tormentor unbuttons her blouse, revealing what is probably a teddy underneath. Her squirming makes her skirt ride up and her teddy fall open, displaying some delicious breasts.

She is seen next sitting up, still not understanding that no matter how much she wiggles around, she won't get free. Dissolve to a new position in the Punished series, an overarm tie, and topless. T takes off her skirt to reveal her garters and panties. Since her ankles are spread apart, the invitation for a bit of unopposed crotch-fondling is accepted.

A crotch rope gets jammed on and cinched up high, cutting in pretty deeply. By leaning forward a bit, she can relax the tension on the rope, though.

Semi-seated now, panties gone, arms overhead and thighs wide open, a dildo on a jack is positioned underneath her Number One Opening. After a few vain protestations, it gets jacked up inside her. It's not a very big dildo (see Punished 3 for a 3"/50 projectile going up Lana Ryan), so I can't see what her problem with it is.

Last position, she is strapped down to a bench with her legs tied high and wide to a spreader bar. After affixing a crotch rope (no relaxing away from this one!), her legs gets hoisted up in the air as far as they will go, given her torso is strapped down to the bench. Fade.

This episode doesn't seem to know what it wants to do or where it's going. Georgia doesn't appear to be all that put out by her bondage. I guess you could call it roughie bondage lite.

Grade: C

Karen Arthur is handcuffed to a wall by just one hand. The key is hanging just out of her reach. She tries to get it, but can't, and this somehow makes her want to reach under her mini-dress and play with herself. Doesn't take much for some people.

A Tormentor comes, and plants her in a chair, AOH, with her ankles chained up high and wide. That barely pantied pussy is just begging to have something done to it. That something comes in the form of a dildo. It gets rubbed against her pussy, through her panties, then turned on and slipped inside them resting right on top of her Most Sensitive Spot. Want to watch a woman build up to her orgasm, then have her brain turn into oatmeal? Here you go.

Wow. She's doesn't get to relax, spending her afterglow chained to the wall, spread-eagle, in just her panties and heels. The unseen Tormentor shows her more chains, which he uses for -- Oh man -- a crotch rope, er, chain. That thing gets hauled up tight and clipped to the ceiling. There's no place Karen can go to get away from this one!

Back in the chair, Karen fights against an honest crotch ROPE, that can't be any more comfortable than what she just had on. I doubt the expressions on her face are her acting.

We end with naked Karen, inverted by spread ankles, and hooded, though her hands are free to roam over whatever part of her body needs it, even though here is an elbow strap fixed behind her. That's a lovely pussy she has, by the way, isn't it? Fade.

Good episode-- diabolical punishment, pretty model, good crotch shots, and a trick to try at home. It looks like she got her dessert first, though.

Grade: A

Toni Stern backs into a corner, no doubt ruing her decision to come inside here in the first place. Oh, well, too late now. She has a key that she needs to hide, but just after she does, she gets caught, no doubt by someone who wants it. So to find out from her where it is she gets stripped to her black garter and stockings, and tied, AOH and ankles together. She claims she doesn't know where the key is. Right.

However stringent that is, it's not going to work, so a crotch rope gets affixed, a real cutter. No amount of wiggling will get her out of this jam, but she tries anyway. Lots of nice close-ups of her violated nether folds.

The crotch rope didn't work, so she gets a crotch strap, which cuts her even deeper, since it's hauling her off her feet. Ropes around her thighs and ankles complete the picture. Her arms are still overhead, but tied apart. Now the pressure is really being applied, both physically and psychologically.

Toni still won't talk, so she gets suspended in an upside-down strappado. The camera gives us first a side view, then a head on view. The way she twists against the rope in both positions gives us a tantalizing display of her lovely figure, but her pain is not enough to make her spill the beans.

So, back to AOH with a tight crotch rope and that's it. She says, "OK, I'll tell you." She's now unfastened, chastened, and handing the key to the evil Tormentor who wants it. In the end, it might not have been worth the struggle to her, but it sure was to us. Fade.

While the bondage positions aren't all that new, this episode is different because there's a reason for them besides just having fun with a beautiful, helpless woman. What will it take to make her reveal the key? If one position doesn't work, how about making it even harder, until she breaks? And that's what happens. We can't wait to see what will be done to her next. This is one of the few Punished episodes with that kind of dramatic tension. Add to that Toni's grade A body, and we have a well-conceived and executed display of roughie bondage.

Grade: A

Karen Arthur again, dressed up in her Carolyn Clarke outfit. She hardly ever wears garters and stockings on film, so this is a treat. Going into a seedy office, a bunch of rope is thrown at her, which she feels she has no choice but to pick up and offer back to us so we can tie her up.

So we do. She's seated on a chair, the top of her bustier pulled down, hands behind tied her back. A harmless pose in which a mouth-watering hunk of thigh points right at us. Let's change things up a bit. Standing up, upper arms pulled into a strappado with a strand of rope being used as a gag. Now that's more like it. Doesn't she look kind of like the creature from Alien?

Dissolve to her untied, rubbing her wrists, and handed a clipboard to sign something that's on it. She reacts poorly to the request, so it's back in the chair, ball gagged, wrists and ankles tied to the chair. There's a rope between her legs that leads up to a pulley. Every time she says no to signing, she gets launched out of the chair by the crotch rope. This happens four times, and it can't feel good.

After being released from that torture, Karen is back on the chair rubbing her sore pussy. Here comes the clipboard again, and there goes the clipboard again. No, she ain't signing, so it's AOH, ankles tied together, with a crotch strap attached to a pulley. Just like before, when she says no, she gets hoisted off the ground by the strap, and that happens four or five times, too. All she has to do is sign and it will be over!

Released again, Karen is on the chair, once more comforting her abraded aperture, which by now has really gotta be sore. She gets another chance to sign. No dice.

Torture not having had any effect, Tormentor tries another tack. Bare naked now, and tied to the chair, a dildo with lots of little nobs all over it is suspended in front of her. Karen arches her hips out of the chair to try to snare it with her thighs, at the apex of which we see some seriously intimate close-ups. Finally incentivized, she agrees to sign, with a big smile on her face, for in exchange, she gets the dildo for her very own! See? You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. Fade.

Pretty model, nasty cunt-busting, straight to the point. Love it.

Grade: A

This chapter of the Punished series is better than it looks at first glance. There's no flogging, and no visible Tormentor, but that doesn't mean the models got a day off. There are plenty of cleaved crotches, two instances of total nudity, rare in HOM footage, and camera angles, points of view that reflect the hand of a film-maker. Except for episode 2, you could hold up any of the episodes to the totality of the Punished corpus and they would be near the top of the heap.

Overall Grade: A

Pluses: Intelligently-motivated bondage. The usual supply of beautiful models. A year's supply of close-ups of busted crotches.

Minuses: Absence of flogging. This isn't a bad thing, it just makes the video less good.