Restrained Elegance
http://www.restrainedelegance.com/faq.php website Updated: 2001 |
- What is Restrained Elegance?
We are an online magazine, run by married BDSM lifestyle couple Hywel Phillips and Ariel Anderssen. We feature romantic, elegant bondage storylines illustrated by photos and videos, as well as a community of fetish photographers and fans. We provide tutorials to help you get started with bondage or with fetish photography, and we also run real-life tutorial events and the British Fetish Film Festival. We also collaborate with people who'd like to have their BDSM story ideas photographed or filmed- see our custom shoots area. We have been online and serving the bondage and fetish.
- Are all the stories on the Photo/Video store cart available to members?
No. You can see all the sets currently available to members on the updates page. The reason we cannot make all the sets available to members at once is down to bandwidth usage. When you download a set from the site, our web host charges for the bandwidth you've used. That works out around $1 per GB you download. Since a one-month membership costs $29.95, I try to keep the material on the site at one time down to about 30 GB. Any more, and someone could join the site, download everything, and I'd actually end up losing money.
Every website has some sort of limitation placed on the amount you can download, even if they don't say so up-front. They have to to stay in business. This is often done by a cap on downloads per day or per month, or by limiting the speed of your connection, or by making the older material so hard to access that it discourages people from downloading everything they might want.
I've always thought you should be able to download everything as fast as your connection can handle, so I decided instead to keep the site fresh by adding new stuff every day, taking the oldest stuff off, and bringing the sets back in the archive. So that's why not all the sets on the shopping cart are on the members' area. If you join and you want to see some specific sets in the archives, you can always email webmaster@restrainedelegance.com and I'll schedule some for you as soon as I can.
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