Assylum.com Rolls Out Extended Shoots

Pictured: Alexa Nova (left) and Jessica Kay NEW YORK—Extreme BDSM site Assylum.com has released its first “extended shoots,” which are a multiday format documenting the domination of highly eager submissive women. Extended shoots provide performers and customers the opportunity to enjoy deeper BDSM experiences than would normally be possible in a traditional, one-off shoot format. According to Dr. Mercies, producer and director of Assylum, “after four years of shooting, we’ve evolved from doing cheesy doctor-patient roleplay scenes to more authentic interactions. Our scenes continue to take place in the uniquely creative, strange worlds for which we’ve become known, but now we allow the scenes to progress as naturally as possible, according to the desires and feelings of the performers. The extended shoots take this further. With selected performers whom we know well and who want to work with us to document fuller experiences of domination and submission, we are creating longer-form scenes that involve multiple shoot days and breaking them up into several website updates.” Dr. Mercies’ goal is to give viewers who enjoy the psychological aspects of BDSM a fuller, deeper story and to enable them to experience a model’s adventure in another way. There are also educational and social aspects to many of the scenes. “Often, porn gets criticized for presenting a fake and toxic version of human sexuality. While I think this criticism is very wrong, I do think there’s more room in sexual BDSM porn to show performers doing something they genuinely crave and doing it spontaneously as they react to each other’s actions, within the framework and limits upon which they agree prior to the scene. It’s difficult but still possible to film this in an engaging manner if the performers are legitimately doing something about which they are passionate, and if the crew have the custom gear and training necessary to keep up with them in real time. Our extended shoots provide a bigger educational window on certain BDSM styles, dynamics and creative possibilities and are accompanied by lengthy interviews that dig into the social aspects of BDSM to help viewers understand how it fits into and benefits performers’ lives.” According to Dr. Mercies, the longer form of extended shoots also allows for the creation of more epic journeys that can effectively incorporate literary and mythologic inspirations. “People might be focused on the sex or punishments while they’re jerking off, but there’s so much more in many of these scenes that they can and do come back to,” Dr. Mercies said. “A lot of what we are doing now is about building bridges between layers of human experience that are often culturally segregated. I don’t believe people go about life switching back and forth between being horny pigs and refined, sexless citizens. I think the layers of the mind co-exist, and even the most extreme, brutal, filthy sex is often simultaneously accompanied by lofty feelings and aspirations. In part, Assylum’s mission these days is to illuminate this.” Assylum’s first extended shoots feature Alexa Nova and Jessica Kay. Nova is well known as a versatile performer who happily spans the range from mainstream scenes to rough sex and BDSM. Having released several scenes with her already, Dr. Mercies brought her back to tap her submissive, masochistic side more deeply. Nova asserted, “It was an intense, challenging, creative, and fun experience! I got to push my limits and do unique things I’ve never done! I like doing weird stuff!” At the end of her extended shoot, Alexa talked with Dr. Mercies about a number of BDSM topics, including offering educational tips to people who are trying to get started as dominants in their personal lives. Jessica Kay is newer to the business but has long enjoyed intense, immersive BDSM in her personal life. She’s also quickly becoming known for her anal capabilities in her cam work. In her extended shoot, she became multiple characters in a perverse, emotionally fueled re-telling of the classics and also cleaned the closet containing the toys used in the shoot. “Jessica loves to clean and organize,” according to Dr. Mercies. “So we discussed just showing her doing what she loves vis-à-vis a more elaborate, epic production. Separately, we did a pretty silly Tongue-fu oral sex training session for our sister site, Slavemouth, that brought out another dimension of Jessica entirely. We tie it all together with extended conversation after the shoot.”  According to Jessica, “The experience during my stay was amazing. I enjoyed pushing myself further than I’ve gone before, in many ways. Handling a one- or two-day shoot is challenging, but of course doable. Adding more shoots in one stay made me realize my body can take even more than I thought! I left feeling accomplished and happy to have been given the opportunity.” Initial updates from Alexa’s and Jessica’s extended shoots are already available on Assylum.com and Slavemouth.com for members. Additional updates from these shoots will be coming out over the next several weeks. Prospective affiliates wishing to promote the scenes can sign up at DerangedDollars.com.