Summary
Restrained Elegance is what you might call a "soft bondage" site, and features elegant and beautiful submissive young women, bound and punished. The content is professionally and artistically produced, and the collection is reasonably large.

My Impression
The emphasis here is on glamour and beauty, and the models certainly won’t let you down. These glamorous girls are restrained and punished in a variety of scenarios that include ropes, chains, handcuffs, scarves, rope-webs and stocks and manacles, as well as costumes and latex.

There is no torture or hardcore punishment here, just elegant and remarkably comfortable-looking girls restrained and played with.

Hywel Phillips, the webmaster and photographer, has said that it is the beauty of the submissives and not necessarily their situations that he finds a turn-on, and this shows here.

There are 130 image sets, and each contains approximately 100 high-res images. They are available to download in zip files and are generally of a very high quality, with colour and texture so rich, you can see the rope burns.

There are currently thirty-eight movie episodes, each averaging about fifteen minutes in duration. The videos are of consistently high quality, both technically and in terms of content. Clearly professionally made, there is real eroticism in them that is too rarely found in porn and the plotting and set-up really ads to the sensual pleasure. Videos can be downloaded in Windows Media or Real Player format, but streaming is not available.

The site itself is very simple in design, and the clean layout is a nice complement to the content’s focus on elegance. The search facilities have been much improved by a recent overhaul, and it is now possible to search by latest update, video, model and archives.

One weakness here is that content is rotated after being on the site for 100 days. This is a shame and it is difficult to see why it is done; but as new and exclusive content is added daily, it isn’t really a serious problem.

Overall
Restrained Elegance is a relatively softcore site, that aims for artistic quality over hardcore quantity. The models are all exceptionally beautiful, but there is almost no sex play at all. If what you’re looking for is mainstream-model-beautiful girls and simple bondage, this is the site for you. If your tastes are a little more extreme, you will be sorely disappointed.

Membership rate is pretty average for BDSM at $29.95 a month.