Bondage + Time = Art?

I'm endlessly fascinated by the website, Comic Book Bondage Cover of the Day. It's a combo of the relentless stream of covers featuring women in trouble -- you start to realize it's the norm much more than the exception -- as well as the fact that they're almost all from "yesteryear," as far back as the first few decades of the 20th Century.

The posted covers change daily. Here's one from today:



Is it okay now to look at these old illustrations with joy? After all this time, are they art? Found objects? Or just crossed over into kitsch?

Here's the archive of pulp magazine covers. Comics here.

Worth checking daily!