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Friday, 28 September 2018

A Cross-Generational Story


"Settle down, I want to tell you a story"


"It started as just another night out. It was a club I hadn't visited before.
When I saw how young everyone was there, I thought I'd made a mistake...."



"There wasn't much going on, but there was plenty to look at.
I was soon getting horny and approached a guy sat at the bar.
He said, 'no thanks' but told me where the action was".


"I hung around hopefully, but it seemed like everyone had paired off.
I was just about to call it a day, when I felt a hand on my belly.
I realised these boys wanted a bit of help".

 

"I moved in eagerly, maybe too eagerly,
I don't think he expected a kiss to start with,
but their hands were all over me.
My pants hit the floor straight away".


"I'm an affectionate man and it worked a treat.
He told me they'd always wanted to meet 
an older, bigger, more experienced man. 
A man just like me, in fact".


 "That got me going, I kissed him long and deep"


"His physical response was all I could have wished for,
so I suggested we went somewhere more private"


"His pal tagged along too and they both offered themselves up to me.
They both had very sweet asses. Who was I to choose?"


"Luckily in a situation like that 
I can always rely on my cock to point the way.
It favoured sticking with the original choice
I told the other guy to wait outside, 
knowing that would keep him keen
 if he was really interested in me."


 "He was pissed off of course, but I coaxed him.
By the time he'd gone I was so horny......
I could have eaten that sexy young man!"

 

"I was pleased he was willing to go all the way.
I made sure to be kind and considerate with him.
so he'd know he'd been had by a real man,
an experienced man"

  

His pal was waiting outside, just as I told him to.
He wanted to know what had happened, 
So I gave them a bit of space........
 - and when I judged the time was right, 
I interrupted them and said....

"Come on boys, it's time to go home now
 and you're coming with me. Both of you."

 

"They were both so eager when we got back.
But I played it cool, you know.
I know how to keep a man hooked.
and at my age I have to conserve my energy!"


"Months later, my boys are still here.
I thought they'd get bored and move on, but no.
They're still as eager as ever to enjoy my attention
and my guidance, I keep them well disciplined, naturally ".


"Every once in a while I treat them to a night out
down at the club where we first met.
We re-enact our first, wild encounter there, but with a twist.
Because neither of them knows until I tell them,
Which of them is going to be drilled by me, alone, in the cubicle".

Tuesday, 25 September 2018

The Art of Bowen

Sorry, this post has been withdrawn at the artist's request 
but you can still view his latest work 

Updated Oct 2024, count 4686

Sunday, 23 September 2018

Bareass Blogs No 27


Bareass Buffoonery & Bulky Buttocks on the Beach

"Does my bum look big in this?"
 
Go to No 28
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View Bareass series from No 1

Also entered in my 'Ministry of Silly Hats' series as No 12
(click on 'Hats' in label list below)

Saturday, 22 September 2018

Bareass Blogs No 26

 Bareass Biker Bully blags a Blowjob

I love the hand cupping his buttock

Go to No 27
 

Friday, 21 September 2018

BareAss Blogs No 25


 Bareass Back-Packer

with a delicious fluffy bottom!
 

Wednesday, 19 September 2018

Mitchell's Art for September - The Deserter

Mitchell - 'The Deserter'
The deserter thought he was safe, hiding at his girlfriends flat,
but the Army tracked him down there eventually.
They raided the place at the crack of dawn
and caught the two of them in the throes of passionate sex.

He was clapped in irons and escorted away,
allowed only a hastily-packed, overnight bag
and still wearing his girlfriend's slinky satin underwear
which he'd put on as part of their sex-play.

He felt dazed, still half-asleep, as they descended in the lift 
Residual, frustrated lust still swirled within his loins
Ahead of him a bleak, prison cell awaited
and the myriad humiliations of the Regiment's Punishment Corps

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An image in keeping with the retrospective, military theme I've been dallying with recently, this is a previously unpublished oldie from 1997. I was planning to put it into an Army version of my 'Press Gang' Story but that's still some way off. There's a more immediate humiliation facing this deserter when the lift doors open and he's escorted through the public foyer to the Army vehicle which waits in the street outside. I suppose he should think himself lucky that the army did not arrest him at his place of work, in front of all his colleagues.

Mitchell

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Sunday, 16 September 2018

Little Known Incidents of WWII (No 6) - Love Your Sarge

Cover art - Virtue in War
 This marvellous picture is the cover art for the war comic, 'Virtue in War' from the Combat Picture Library series.  When I discovered this picture recently, I nearly choked on my cornflakes. The image of the hunky Sergeant gazing at a sleeping private immediately suggested a gay theme to me, along the lines of the captioned version below.

Desert Rat's Unrequited Love (mitchmen-mod by Mitchell)
I might add that this interpretation was not just invented by me, but inspired to a significant degree by the characterisation of the sleeping man's face. With flamboyant hair and striking eyelashes he's an almost-stereotypical gay man of that era. Despite the absence of definitive shaping, crotch-wise, his sprawled open-legged pose is pretty inviting and super, chunky legs they are too! The artist didn't really have to show him like that, nor did he have depict the Sergeant looking at him so furtively and sadly!

A Soldier's True Feelings (mitchmen-mod by Mitchell)
  In those days, anyone revealing queer tendencies in the forces would have been imprisoned for a long time and then kicked out, dishonourably discharged. There must have been thousands of gay men serving their country in the company of other men and pretending to be straight, like I have portrayed the poor chap above.

This illustration is from the same story, but I changed the thought bubble in the second frame. In the original he is actually coming to terms with his fear of going into battle again, having just experienced the traumatic evacuation of the British Army from Dunkirk. He is shown simply thinking 'I'm scared'  (which isn't a total contradiction of my reinterpretation). While it isn't surprising in this period that he goes home alone, notice that there's no goodnight kiss scene between these two frames.

 
The characterisation of this soldier, 'Joe', is of a sensitive, reflective individual. That is brought out in this rather nice study where he journeys with his unit to the next battlefield. Shorn of their helmets, the artist reminds us of the youth (18+) and ordinariness of the diverse conscripts.

Other images in the story develop Joe's sensitive nature further. He is depicted in the thick of battle exclaiming "This is crazy!" That's not typical behaviour for War Comic heroes who are usually preoccupied with defeating the opposition and surviving. However the artist is at pains to make clear in these scenes that Joe's feelings do not stop him from being an effective soldier and doing his duty to kill.
That's lest you get the 'wrong idea' about him.

The artwork for the narrative pages of this comic are not of the same standard as examples I have shown in other posts in this series, but it's worth following the story of Joe a little further.

He strikes up an unlikely friendship with the Sergeant of his unit and they are seen drinking together in a bar and discussing the NCO's family. There isn't a scene that matches the cover picture but that also seems to reflect a relationship of some significance between them. Their friendship comes to an untimely end when the Sergeant is killed in action, right in front of Joe (below).


In these comics, the Sergeant is nearly always the principal hero figure, a sort of older brother/father character who's highly experienced. He knows all the tricks of the enemy and is a fount of knowledge to naive senior officers, even coming to their rescue sometimes (as we saw in No 4 in this series). This one breaks that mould by foolishly standing up to mock the retreating enemy and he pays a heavy price.

You can see from the uniforms here that we are back in the Western Desert, with shorts and rolled sleeves the order of the day. These are very short shorts, however, regulation length was just above the knee. The cut adopted by this artist is more stylish, more boyish if you like, but eerily erotic in danger-filled battle scenes.

Whilst the War Comic Sergeant is usually a great leader of his men, he's also down-to-earth and approachable. He's manly and often craggily handsome and his men often fall in love with him, metaphorically at least, or as the comic usually expresses it, 'they would follow him anywhere'.
We don't know if Joe is in love with his Sergeant but his reaction to the death is profound.


I've included this page for it's storytelling rather than it's artistic merits. 
That said, Joe's angrily shaking, muscular forearm in the top picture is not without interest.

His reaction to the Sergeant's demise is pretty extreme, especially considering the man's own foolishness was largely to blame and that he is described as falling to a 'stray bullet' and not a nasty, opportunist sniper. The reference to his pregnant wife gives a justification of sorts but the next frame makes clear that it's Joe's personal attachment to his Sergeant that's really driving his emotion.


This part of the plot line peters out on this very intriguing note. Were they or weren't they?
Probably not, but I can't help but wonder about the soldier in the background who seems to be watching the distraught Joe with great interest. His helmet is tilted at a strange coquettish angle that reminds me of the women in Moulin Rouge imagery. Very odd and just a little suggestive.

As Joe's story goes on, he finds himself having to trek across the desert to safety, supporting a weakened colleague, a Corporal this time, but Joe clearly likes his stripes! It's a man to man sequence which is virtually identical to the story I played with in the last post. There's some nice shorts and male bonding imagery but I'll save that for another time.
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The slightly pretentious title of the story 'Virtue in War' has some significance in relation to Joe's moral character but it might equally relate to his possible sexual leanings in an era of criminalisation. This and the off-piste characterisations of Joe and the Sergeant are part of an approach to story-telling in the Combat Picture Library series that was more consciously elevated than the earthy, patriotic drive of the War Picture Library featured in previous posts. CPL stories are laced with great chunks of history set out in a rather academic way rather than being closely integrated into plot lines. This can result in stories which are less substantial and have a tendency to ramble across protracted time spans.

 
As a postscript, I have discovered CPL also previously used the same cover art for a story called 'Sicily at all Costs. I don't have that book to check if it's the same story with a different title, but you can't blame them, it is a great picture!

For other posts in this series click on the 'War Comics' label below

Go to Part 7 - Flash The Flesh

Read series from Part 1

Thursday, 13 September 2018

Room 666 - The Night Visitor



Eddie is working far away from home.
His car breaks down in small town, miles from anywhere.

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With apologies to the actors, it's dun 4 fun
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Monday, 10 September 2018

The Art of Homoeros - 8 Fem Dom

Homoeros often features women as aggressive seducers and dominators in his pictures. It's an interesting aspect of his work and if you're able to tolerate their presence, the tormenting of (mostly) straight men is quite entertaining and sometimes most sinister.

Homoeros - 170d5_evandro_slave_auction_07
 
  In this example Evandro, who we saw as a confused Squash player in Part 1, is persuaded to enter a slave auction in furtherance of his modelling career. Homoeros dreams up an impressive and appropriate outfit for him to wear, complete with matching shackles. It's shiny and glamorous but dripping with implications of enslavement and there's a hint of forced chastity in the metallic briefs. 

Apologies to those who detest the female form but I think the scenario works well here with the 'purchaser' turning out to be a vicious, Disney-esq dominatrix and delivering an experience Evandro scarcely can have expected.Although he's clearly finding it testing, it seems he must be taking it willingly, since he is not actually restrained by his shackles. The generous pouch in his pants implies he might even be enjoying it, deep down. His facial expression is well depicted, you can tell that his ability to endure pain is being tested. This is a rather beautiful evocation of a very basic bondage/domination fantasy.

Homoeros - adam___eve_02
 
An age-old story being re-enacted down on the farm, with female stereotyping which I suppose is politically incorrect these days. To be fair, the farm boy is equally stereotyped (as a dumb male) by his puzzled reaction (as if!). He's objectified as well by his stunningly low cut jeans, which would be far more effective than a bunch of apples for most of my readers. This is not the first biblical allusion we've come across in Homoeros work. I'm not sure what conclusion to draw from that but it makes me uneasy.

Homoeros - 146a3_newsroom_03_
 
A more modern temptation. A TV announcer is persuaded to strip down to his rather swanky underwear. His expression seems to indicate a degree of doubt about the wisdom of it all, maybe he's just twigged that the chequerboard pattern on his briefs simultaneously shows the shape of his assets and draws attention to them.

The artist seems to be casting the woman as a manipulator here, but it's not very hard to get most men to do this, any good cause will usually do the trick or just a playful challenge even. At one time such a very public display would have been shameful and humiliating for the man, but these days it's just a test of bravado. That doesn't mean it's not manipulation going on, however, and in this case we can enjoy his evident unease about it all.

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'Chase and Sammy' revisits the manipulated model scenario. Chase is taken to a dilapidated factory for a modelling assignment and is snapped communing nakedly with some butch, engineering equipment. He's then talked into some captivity poses, no doubt with some flattery about his heroic muscles. Men eh? But you can see she's not wrong about his look, the photos will be great. Despite his bondage, Chase's masculine presence in this image gives him a visually dominant role, making him seem all the more desirable and fleetingly subverting the normal order of photographers in charge and controlling their models.

Unfortunately Chase's stunning manhood has kindled baser desires in Sammy's breast and once the photo-shoot is completed she proceeds to help herself to what he's got. He is horrified by this attention, but we don't know if his reticence is because he's gay, shy or simply choosy. Whichever is the case, he seems to be able to do enough to satisfy his attacker, no doubt hoping that that will suffice and be the end of it. Restrained and helpless in a deserted building, he tries not to think about what happened in 'Misery'.

Homoeros - Bedroom_11
This one is a bit of an oddity. The male in this story has a distinctly gay aura about him at the outset. He poses in matching, skin-tight singlet and shorts in bright rainbow colours and there's even a hint of accentuating make up on his face. He's boyish and coy about stripping off, but has just got down to his shorts when the woman appears wearing nothing but a skimpy thong. This sight terrifies him.

At this point you are wondering, is he gay or just shy and inexperienced? As the scene proceeds the woman takes charge with a brazen combination of feminine allure and assertiveness and his masculine/heterosexual credentials start to become apparent. She cajoles him into flexing his biceps and even gets him to submit to the lash of a riding crop. His upturned ass turns out to be unexpectedly hairy.

He ends up tied to the bed and Homoeros (above) manages to capture the sense of him being petrified and uncertain, but aroused and excited at the same time. There's a powerful feminine presence in this image and the man restrained, spreadeagled on a very comfortable (and stylish) bed and looking very unsure of himself seems like a very feminine fantasy to me too. That impression carries through to the ending of the storyline where he is released and the couple enjoy affectionate sex. 

Conversion therapy? Maybe, but I'll pass on that one. 

Homoeros - 370c_ronnie_gets_spanked_01
Remember Ronnie? We first saw him flaunting his jockstrap in the College locker room (Part 1) and it looks like he's still got naughty boy tendencies (from a female point of view anyway). He's fallen into the clutches of a particularly intimidating dominatrix here, with man-ish hair but fairly conventional female taste in punishment for men. We previously saw a giant paddle just like this in Part 4, in the hands of a spunky builder. It would be nice to imagine him stomping in on this scene to reclaim his equipment and acquaint Ronnie with it's proper use. This training is all really good preparation for Ronnie, as he's destined to end up in a dungeon with a sadistic (male) lover , see (Part 5).

Homoeros - Captain_s_Daughter_04
In the days of sail it was supposedly considered unlucky to have women on board, maybe this proves the point. This is a good treatment of the subject with convincing poses and whip action. The clothing contrast adds an erotic frisson. It also subdues her femininity to a degree and Homeros depicts her as a man's equal in having the ability to administer a serious lashing. The privileged status of such a woman would make her someone to be feared amongst the rough crewmen.

There's an all male equivalent of this scene in Part 5, called Ship's Lookout. In that series, the cute whip-man seems to agonise about punishing the seaman who neglected his duties. The Captain's Daughter however taunts her victim as though flaunting her power. It seems to implying a more personal motive, but it's a slightly dubious characterisation.

Homoeros - captive01

Historical and fantasy settings give Homoeros full rein to explore female dominance over men. This Amazon-like portrayal of the woman grants a power of position to her in much the same way as the Captain's Daughter and here it's coupled with (what I assume is) an irresistible sexuality. The captive man in this image is a very nice creation with a naturalistic body that's slightly hairy (yum!) and a darkly handsome face that isn't the artist's usual style.

The simple bondage appeals to me, the arms are pulled tightly back, his strength neutralised by a simple length of rope.  He's clearly facing a threat to his life or something else equally dear to him, looking pretty forlorn even though the woman is affectionately stroking his face. This image isn't part of a coherent set but associated images seem to imply a scenario about reluctant lovers. I think we're getting a pattern here.

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 We saw Max the slave suffering the ultimate price for intimacy with his master's daughter in Part 6 but here he is looking sweeter than ever, in the hands of an older, rather mean-looking woman. She looks like a figure from antiquity but the reclining framework on which the naked Max is attractively spread would not look out of place in a modern gymnasium, so I guess we're not in Ancient Rome any more.

These anachronisms won't be of much interest to Max. You can only describe the look on his face as apprehensive as short but substantial whip is waved under his nose. Despite that the lower part of his body seems to be signalling other feelings at play.

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The woman subjects Max to a ferocious frontal assault which bloodies him but doesn't seem to dampen his ardour very much. This image gives us a vivid impression of the attack and of Max's totally defenceless state, made all the more acute by the way his limbs are pulled back by the shiny, restraining bars. You don't see frontal punishment very often in man-on-man situations, possibly because it seems so much more vicious and dangerous to manhood than lashing the back. This attacker has no such qualms. In the end she uses Max's tool for her pleasure, but there's a spell on a (modern) Butt Pumping Machine in between, maybe that's needed to get him going again.

I don't know what the title refers to in this quite recent work from Homoeros, unless it's his name for the restraining frame. This ingenious device, by virtue of it's inclined support pad, offers the target's body at an optimum angle for a standing attacker and simultaneously deprives the captive of any point of leverage to avoid the blows or attempt an escape.

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If these portrayals seem to cast women in a negative light, this one seems more sympathetic at first sight. A pregnant woman looks up at a man on the cross. It's not clear whether his 'crime' relates to her pregnancy, but she seems quite content with her state and I think we can conclude that he is the father. Surprisingly though, her sober look seems to disguise the faintest of smiles, as though she's not unhappy about where he has ended up. Job done, not needed any more?


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In 'Backstage' a naked man is confronted by 3 identical-looking women in what looks like a circus changing room. They come on to him, seducing him as a group, but in the middle of their sex-play he is attacked with a giant pin (above) which is followed up by another, driven through his other pec. 

Homoeros captures the dramatic moment of penetration and the victim's shock at the unexpected assault. He's realising that he is surrounded by enemies and completely at their mercy. This image is infused with a sense of pathos. The diagonal positioning of the victim and his anguished upturned face echoes Renaissance paintings of martyrdom and that connection influences the way we see this victim.


There's no explanation offered for this incident. A pram-like object in the background at one point and a suggestion of lesbian tendencies between the girls may be clues to sexual misconduct on his part.  Anyway, he ends up submitting to them, double-pin-cushioned and looking very sorry for himself. Many of these femdom images have a gay equivalent in Homoeros output. There's not a direct one for this as far as I know. The gang attack on swimmer Tommy whose aftermath I showed in Part 7 is close, but the sly, calculating cruelty of 'Backstage' sets it apart.

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This final image seems to epitomise an even more casual and calculating cruelty. Thank goodness it's just a fantasy! This male lover is enslaved by his own sexual desire or her position or simply by physical force and she takes advantage of it to attack him through his very manhood. I suppose it's teaching him a vivid lesson about chastity. The humiliation of being restrained in this way compounds the immediate pain and he has yet to discover the torment of standing all day in what looks like a bit of a sun-trap. This nailing punishment is not unknown in man on man S&M scenarios (e.g. RJ Blake, Dante) but I've never seen it portrayed in this way - as an act that not only demonstrates her power over him, is not just a punishment, but a strange, perverse act of love.
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I find it hard to assess these images. The female predators have no pull for me, erotic or otherwise, so I suspect I'm not able to fully 'get the message' in that respect but I can see that their presence creates a different narrative to the all male equivalent. They seem to be cast in a negative, manipulative and cruel light, but I'm not sure that differentiates them from men to be fair!  I can't judge, but I do find the images Homoeros has produced interesting when viewed through the experience of the men.

Your comments are welcome!

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