During the brief appearence of the British hard-core film industry in the early 1980s, Lynn Paula Russell embarked on a career as an erotic film-actress. She went on to make several more films in the USA but eventually took the decision to become a full-time artist and illustrator. It is this aspect of her life in particular that she uses to explore the darker side of her own complex sexuality in this collection of images. Her work gives a fascinating insight to this period and contains an element of sado-masochism which develops from her interest in the classic novel, The Story of O.