First Catch Your Rogue - 19 The Factory Surveyor

 Anton thought the deserted office block would provide rich pickings of scrap metal to steal.

He drove up and brazenly entered the building in broad daylight, expecting to help himself.

Dressed in shorts because of the warm, muggy weather, he expected it to be a sweaty job

But he also liked people to look at him and admire his gym-honed body

And it was indeed his sexy body which first caught the eye of a surveyor

Who happened to be already there, upstairs, preparing a structural report for the sellers.

He found Anton in the middle of ripping out some copper cabling.

In this part of the world you could get away anything if you had the right connections

Anton didn't, but he could see right away that this man did, he wasn't just anybody 

and everyone knew that the owners of this factory were powerful, dubious people.

So when the man simply told him to hold out his wrists, Anton meekly obeyed. 

He tied them together with rope which meant an irregular, unofficial punishment

Tying them to the stairs overhead confirmed it would be an on-the-spot job 

Don't worry, they won't collapse, I've checked, I'm a surveyor, the man said.

And he proceeded to survey Anton's unprotected body with considerable thoroughness

His briefcase contained a host of tools and equipment suited to inflicting embarrassment

and enough discomfort to cause the staircase to creak ominously at times.

And a camera of course, able to record whole procedure in quality images.

Anton squirmed and suffered for 3 long hours before he was allowed to go.

But it was the parting remark, as he put his shorts back on, that chilled his soul.

"Very good" the surveyor said, "My employers will probably be in touch"

Where were the Police when you needed them? thought Anton.

Image of Anton by Russian Captured Boys

Suspension punishment

 This shibari suspension scene is spectacular, but also something of a mystery. 

Presumably it's a punishment but the reason for it and the back story is unknown.

The captive himself should be terrified to be stripped and tied up like this

Indeed the sweat is seen dripping from every part of his body.

But his libido seems to have been stimulated and is responding accordingly

The characters painted on the captive's legs may clarify what is going on here, 

but I can't even identify the language (is it Korean?)

This being Asia, I think we can assume that the fetishistic rationale here

has to do with public exposure, shaming, embarrassment and humiliation 

and likely to relate to a sexual offence of some description.

The captive is restrained crucifixion style, arms tied to a metal bar behind his shoulders

while his ankles, slightly parted, are tethered to a similar bar at his feet.

His torso is enmeshed in a complex shibari rope harness, which is secured to a third bar

running vertically behind his back and connecting with the other two

The whole restraint frame is suspended by single rope from the chain link fence

This dangerous arrangement is mitigated (slightly) by some secondary arm suspension. 

There's a second version of the picture in which a banner has been added.

It hangs from his harness, weighted down by a dumbell. 

No doubt it clarifies his misdemeanour and I think I see a Japanese character,

but the addition of a sheath and fluid collector just adds to the puzzle

This alteration may have been done by someone else of course 

but it's a fairly proficient edit if it is.

I believe the artist of this suspension scene is Kenta, 

it originated on pixiv but I don't think it's there any longer 

 I'd be glad to hear if you know who it is or what the story is.

Navy Muscle Market

 

 The discussion in Navy Gunners about gun barrel sizes brought this picture to mind. 

Phallic connections and weird hazing ceremonies are not entirely absent from this cheeky snap, but I imagine the erotically-shaped barrage balloon overhead was an accidental inclusion. I mentioned geekily before that 16" bore was standard for battleships, in fact the largest naval gun barrel size I can discover was 18". 

Either way, I'd guess this muscular sailor won't get his shoulders inside that barrel!

A tight fit as they say.

This hunk, grappling with thick rope seems immersed in an erotic odyssey of his own. 

The snake-like hawser looks like a chain of cock-heads, it's a wonder it hasn't been banned. 

But it might explain the slightly apprehensive look on his face.

Of course this man isn't a real sailor, but how eagerly the Navy Press Gang would snap him up 

if they were still around and found him loitering on he dockside like this, 

amazingly fit, already kitted out and ready to go.

 

The lads on board need a bit more muscle help.

Looking after those guns is a demanding cleaning chore.

No sooner have the crew got them nice and shiny 

than some idiot Officer wants them fired again .  

 

 For those who arrive without the necessary kit, a member of the crew will probably lend the basics if the man in question takes his fancy. After all there a few things more erotic than watching another man put your clothes on. Especially if they are a little undersized. No-one really wants to borrow another man's underpants but it transpires that no-one wears them on this ship anyway. 

At least that eases the crotch squeeze a little bit.

 It looks like this chap completely lost out in the uniform lottery

 He's obliged to make do with shorts until they reach a port with a Navy Store.

You can see he has to hastily hand-wash them and put them on again un-ironed. 

that's to avoid his nudity being taken the wrong way by a passing shipmate.

I hope they're not making him catch his own dinner as well!

A crew mate looks on as though calculating his chances.

Once in port, just getting to the Navy Uniform Store has risks of it's own

I'm sure you know the seedy undesirables who tend to hang around such places.

Wherever sailors are to be found in fact. 

A scantily clad, muscular, sailor is right up their alley (with any luck).

They can tell he's a malleable novice by his pristine, un-mangled cap.

Cut off from their friends and family and surrounded by succulent flesh,

close friendships soon start forming amongst the pressed men.

Anchors, ropes and other duties get neglected for more interesting challenges.

Before long the men are snatching eagerly at any pleasure on offer 

In the bowels of the ship, chance encounters explode into spontaneous passion.

Throbbing engine rooms are littered with discarded items of clothing 

Up on deck, new recruits who diligently polish the ships rails, 

find themselves accosted by frustrated crewmen 

who have found the influx of mini-muscle-hunks irresistible

and demand to sample those rubbing skills.

 

Meanwhile in the f'ocsle, crusty chains go unpolished as bored hunks gather

and eagerly swallow opportunistic R&R offerings. 

These last two images are by Regularted (RT) but I can't find a web address for him

apart from an empty account at Deviant Art. 

 

Temptations abound.

those who haven't paired off yet openly flaunt what they've got, 

blaming their borrowed uniforms for their lack of suitors.

Rather than their unenthusiastic facial expressions.

Luckily the knowing, older hands take pity and kindly offer 'help sessions' in their cabins

There they offer advice in their privates and inject wisdom (etc.) into the grateful ingenues.

They reassure the laggards they too will be fully integrated into the comradeship of the vessel

(once he's thoroughly certified them as being up to it).

Richard Pierce

 It's an eye-opening lesson the recruits will always remember

One that will be indispensable in the Service career ahead of them.

 

Ulf - Naval Officer

Well you know what sailors are!

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mitchmen's war No16 - Navy Gunners

An eye catching cover from a 'Commando Picture Library' comic showing the crew of a Japanese submarine in an unexpectedly interesting light. It's hard to believe that they would handle that oily gun in their best whites but they certainly show the gunner's shapely bottom to good effect. A splendid use of artistic licence from a mitchmen point of view!

More curious is the star effect created by the creases in his trousers emanating from the crotch area, which seem to suggest rays of light are shining out. The gun-loader in the foreground seems mesmerised by it, which might explain why he's pointing that phallic shell in the wrong direction altogether if he wants to get it into the gun. The loader man isn't actually the 'him' mentioned in the title of this story, but you could imagine it applying to him here. It's a funny life in the confines of a submarine.

Is this another gay artist subversively expressing himself? After all (as I have been known to say in the past), he didn't have to depict the scene quite like this. There's definitely a smoking gun here!

Leyendecker - These Men Have Come Across!

Even if you have never been in the Navy, as a gay man you probably will have got a better idea of how one loads a big gun, from the well-known, homoerotic, US Navy images of FX Leyendecker. Even his shell seems to be momentarily aimed in a perversely erotic direction, rather than the open breech slightly to the left - 'open breech' there's an expression to conjure with!

Take your pick of possible targets, choose between (another) shapely bottom, alluringly clad in lace-up, white trousers or, alternatively, the crotch of the gunner in between them whose startled pose (a 'recoil' I believe is the technical term) suddenly becomes even more expressive. Even his hands seem to trying to tell us something, or is that my imagination running riot?

The title of this image is taken from a recruiting poster on which it was used, part of a long history of naively inappropriate Navy Recruiting, older readers will remember the 'Village People' campaign.

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This young gunner does seem to have the right idea where he's going. This image (by Leyendecker's older brother Joe) also illustrates another rule for aspiring gunners - the importance of stripping off your top in the heat of a close encounter, especially when handling objects that are liable to explode.

This man's bottom, being centre-stage, is necessarily more modestly modelled than the images above, but you sense the man's sweat is making them more than a little clammy and it doesn't look like he's got much on underneath. You'll notice his companion discreetly averts his eyes. Actually, the lighting and sensuous shaping of his face and his cheeky cap is a homoerotic delight that must have influenced more than one man to opt for a life on the ocean waves.

It's probably not in regulations to strip off to this degree though! This image is in the style of McClelland Barclay who assumed Leyendecker's mantle in the WW2 era, but I doubt the explicit element is his. His sailors considerably exceed Leyendecker's in heroic muscularity and patriotic determination, you just know that his piece is going to be rammed firmly home. Masculinity oozes out of this image and it's recruiting power rises accordingly amongst all men who prize that element of their identity, not just their gay admirers!

McClelland-Barclay - Man The Guns

It's the same message here but arguably more emphatic. The swirling waves and gun-fire in the background help to create a great sense of drama and confusion in the heat of battle and that shell looks really heavy. You sense the man readying himself to thrust it into the breech.

The ambiguous title is from a recruiting poster again, arguably it's just the product of a more innocent era. You will observe less naivety in the lower body area however, it is noticeably blurry, even the leg outlines are much less crisp than, say, the uniform, cuff detail on the far left. Some crotch creasing is visible if you expand the image, but I think there's been some censorship here.

If the previous image seems to convey 'readiness' there's a more active forward momentum in this rather satisfying reverse composition, it's generated largely by the repeated upward sloping diagonals and the sailor's open legged stance which coveys strength and solid grounding.

For lurkers, the trouser detail of this picture has also suffered in the copying, but you get a better idea of what the artist wanted you to see. He doesn't just show the shapely, muscled cheeks of this man, he cleverly uses the shadowing to cloak, but still hint at alluring, unseen depths. He also clearly understands the erotic nature of the back-lacing in these uniforms, just as Leyendecker did (with a slightly different viewpoint) in the images above. The dart provides a visual substitute for the cleavage a naked man would show, but the triangular shape has been exaggerated, suggesting bulk and forming an unmissable, downward pointing arrow.

The phallic implications of inserting pointed shells into cylindrical holes don't entirely explain the homoerotic appeal of images showing half-naked servicemen grappling with guns. Working together with other half-naked men must have something to do with it too! This picture seems to illustrate that, note the eye contact between these comrades. I think this picture is also by McLelland Barclay, he usually signed his pictures in the corner but it's entirely possible that it's been cropped off, together with a potentially, interesting piece of anatomy on the right hand side of the picture.

Here's the real thing. Sadly, the over-exposure means we can't see the interesting detail, just a glimpse of chunky bottom second left. The term 'Battleship' suggests the mid 20th Century. It's quite a sizeable team, the opposite end of the scale to the recruiting images of Barclay which seemed to suggest working the gun could be a one man effort! The fact that the gunners really are all stripped to the waist might make this an even more persuasive invitation to would-be matelots. Especially as the shell they are all helping to load (centre) looks quite puny. Battleship guns were usually 16"diameter, this shell looks a tad smaller and hardly needing all those hunky attendants to work their socks off.

This is a better but older image, pre-World War I and although it's staged it has an authentic air about it with trousers clinging to sweaty bodies. The old Royale Studio sailor models famously had their trousers soaked in water (while they were still wearing them, on occasion) in order to get a clingy revealing effect. Perhaps I've been wrong all these years, thinking they only did it to get sexy lumps showing, when all the time they were striving for authenticity!

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I think these sailors are cleaning the gun barrel rather than loading it.

It looks like a throwback to the olden days when cannonballs were loaded through the muzzle end.

Their physiques are less majestic than the imaginings of artists but have an attraction all their own.

I love the short hair in these images.

Commando War Comic No 1423 - Nothing Could Stop Him!

Sadly, the comic with whose cover I started this article does not explore these other interesting aspects of a career in the Navy, in fact this scene is just a brief episode in a jungle-based story.

All Commando comics had an interesting design which wrapped round onto the back cover,

this picture shows the full opened-out version.

There's another interesting piece of naval gunnery in my article on Greasetank

There are also phallic artillery references in this series for men in tanks and anti-aircraft artillery

For other 'War Comic' inspired posts click on the label below

Mitchell's Fetish Art for November - Sporting losers

Mitchell - Don't Hog The Lat Machine!

Tempers can get frayed in busy gyms when people refuse to share. 

I originally conceived this as the arrogant lat-hogger getting his comeuppance

but in retrospect it looks more like the vain, gym bunny bullying a regular guy!

You can decide which you prefer!

This image was previously published as part of my 'Sporting Losers' series. 

This presently consists of 11 pictures with accompanying mini-stories, I don't rule out adding more. 

You can now view the full set at my new Story Archive 

(which I am setting up as a result of the changes at Yahoo! groups). 

View Mitchell's 'Sporting Losers'

For more of Mitchell's Gay Art click on the 'mitchpix' label below

Beautifully Bound - Colby Jansen

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The Art of Kamui Jack

You'll find the work of this artist under the name Kamui, Kamui-Jack or simply Jack

Jack - Cops and Robbers (?) 2002

This is probably one of his best known images, a tantalising view of an arrest scenario which as far as I know has no follow-up image, so we can only speculate what the Cops reaction is to the arousal of his captive rogue (or is he detaining a cruising, gay man?). The two men seem to be pushing against each other here, creating an 'A'-shape that is visually pleasing and also gives the scene an element of tension. He conjures up a mean look for the cop which reminds me of the work of Les Farnak, but his metro-sexual captive is a lot more attuned to modern tastes.

Kamui - Slut Games 4 (2010)

Generally Kamui's pictures are joyous celebrations of man-sex and this is a rather splendid example. It's an appropriate post-script to the heaving struggles of the men engaged in the Rugby World Cup, which has just concluded. It's part of a series, rather unattractively named 'Slut Games'. The artist actually depicted it as a soccer match (round ball!) originally, but I think the chunky physiques and blunt physicality are a natural fit for Rugby players. It's what they do!

From the team colours, it looks as if Wales are shafting England - obviously we are talking fantasy here! Notice how the legs of the two rutting sportsmen create a frame for this composition, appropriately enough it's not unlike the H shape of the goal in Rugby (or American Football). It gives their coupling a sense of solidity and of the top bearing down on the bottom.

Jack - Hooded Jailors (2001)

 Although he often depicts hard-looking men, Kamui doesn't usually venture far into the dark realms of fetish. At first sight these chunky chains and medieval executioner's hoods suggest this might be a seriously S&M work, but on closer inspection you see it's just kinky sex, with no real overtones of domination or pain. Nevertheless it is a striking composition with a satisfying simplicity and balance.  In this picture the participants form a more distinct 'H' shape but this time the sense of stability and balance it creates seems to impart immobility too, depriving the image of it's essential energy.

Jack: The Black Missa - Drake vs Demon Lust

The bondage element in this image is equally understated and appears to require a magical dimension if it is to be effective. The submissive posture of the captive works much better here and the artist underlines his plight by showing the devil towering over him and even tilting the platform against him. You have to buy into the fantasy to fully encompass the full possibilities of the power being  brandished here.

There's a good deal of fantasy and games imagery in Kamui's work, but I haven't included much of it in this review, check out the links below for more. I don't usually go for fantasy characters at all, but make an exception for 'Drake' with his spiky hair-do and aerodynamic ears. Kamui's rendering of the devil here is also refreshingly and attractively human. Hairy legs like his could become a fashion!

This is another picture with an interesting and thoughtful composition. It's broadly defined by the arching sweep of the Devil's wings which seem about to engulf the helpless Drake, who despite his muscularity seems puny and exceedingly vulnerable. That shape is echoed in the misty, Gothic arches overhead, which in our culture often symbolise the battleground between good and evil, the real world and the magical 'beyond'. Indeed bright light pours down on the scene from a window above, but the Devil's wings prevent it from reaching Drake, casting him into the shadows. At the same time this image suggests that it's Drake and the Devil who are truly in the 'real world', placed on top of a very substantial looking rock while everything else around them is vague and insubstantial.

The title of the piece explains all, we're talking temptation and lust here not S&M. This handsome devil does not force himself on his captive but seduces him into his supposedly 'wicked' ways. The realisation of the concept by Kamui is very impressive. Notice that Drake is unaroused at this point but hopefully the next frame will see him liberated from the chains of sexual repression.

Jack - Ben's Victim_07 (2010)

Domination and submission are also much in evidence here despite the over-riding sexual thrust (as it were). The title of this series hints at things we don't talk about too much in this day and age but the rest of the collection covers an eclectic mix of stereotypes most of whom look more eager to be on the back seat of Ben's car than 'Oak Tree' does above.

He's probably just realised that Ben's reached the end of his attention span.

Jack - Cock Rider (2001)

Jack also does a nice line in more conventional, figurative art. This picture looks as if it might have been adapted from a Paul Freeman 'Outback' image. The credit for the pose and dress may be mostly his, but the addition of an erection jutting out from the strong diagonal trunk-line, like a thorn on a rose stem, is both erotic and rather clever. I'm just waiting for a man to come along and use that rope to tie this sleepy hunk's wrists and feet together behind the tree, so he can feast on the rose hip.
 

Jack - Hank Murphy

I don't know who Hank Murphy is but this image speaks for itself as pure, beefcake temptation.
There's a sequel (see links below) in which the spectacular contents of his jeans pop out,
 but I prefer the focus here on his muscular torso with trimmed pubes
and the hairy grow-back (the delicious corollary of shaving) in evidence higher up.

Jack - Hitchhiker after 2 hours (2010)

This image has the same simple appeal with the added bonus of white underwear straining to contain said assets. The yellow sign is none too subtle, but the overall scenario of roadside roulette (will your number come up?) is full of possibilities for both adventure and danger,enough to stoke anybody's erotic imagination. This is the middle picture of a sequence of three, showing progressive disrobement as frustration takes hold (see links again)

Kamui Jack - Boo! (Halloween, 2010)

Another nice, simple picture with a gentle humour that seems to add an attractive personality to complement this man's already desirable body. The sheet plays a similar role to the Devil's wings in the 'Drake' picture above and plays on the same theme of seduction and capture and yet the sense of attraction is utterly different. It's a matter of personality which you prefer.

Kamui Jack - First Encounter: Chris Redfield vs Sting Ray (2011)

Remember Chris Redfield? The hunky, 'good guy', Special Agent forever falling foul of lustful creatures from another dimension. I always felt his most attractive attribute was his ability to burst his pectoral muscles out of his T-Shirts and this is one of the best depictions of it I have seen.

I don't suppose I need to comment on the phallic dimensions of this blue beast, which seems to have a genetic kinship with the traditional deities of South East Asia. Chris seems oblivious to it's awesome size and obvious power - and to the confinement threat of the containers in the background - instead striking a gung-ho pose for us. Cocky or what? Kamui plays down the usual tentacles theme giving them a logical source as a Medusa-like hair-do, but confining them to a supporting role, waving in the background.

This is one of the most polished images in this selection replete with fascinating and erotic detail. It doesn't quite have the intensity of feeling or character interaction evident in the first few images of this post - but I admit to ignorance of the unspoken forces associated with these scenes.

Kamui Jack - Lost in the Jungle

Part of a series of illustrations for a story. I picked this firstly because I like this 'Ranger' variation of Kamui's usual beefy stud. The jungle setting with it's mysterious inhabitants and unknown dangers also has it's appeal and this one hints at more specific experiences in store for the lost explorer - and he seems to be thrilled by the prospect. Yes it's an unreal sterotype, but there always an erotic tingle when we meet men who are fundamentally different to us and that's what this is all about.

Kamui Jack - Steel Inside Me (2011)

From a story in which friends, Wolverine and Colossus, get to know each other better.
The Steel bit gives this essentially sex scenario a bit of a harder edge and the series as a whole has some memorable images including the one above in which Kamui's talent for strikingly simple compositions shows itself again, this time in the evocative forked shape of a letter Y.
Great Stuff!

You will have noticed that none of these pictures is very recent. I do not know if Kamui is still actively producing art but he has a Tumblr blog which doesn't seem to have recent entries and quotes a link to a Y-gallery site which is unreachable. There are decent collections at Daddy's here and My Reading Manga

Asian Adonis

Actor He Wei

 In this post, a selection of images and extracts from a remarkable pair of films by director Scud, both starring Adonis HeWei (seen above). 'Utopians' charts a young man's sexual liberation and '30 years of Adonis' is the unconnected story of the rise and fall of a fading actor turned gigolo. The thoughtful musings on maleness are shot in an arty way with confusing flashbacks and dream sequences but they are also sexy and homo-erotic and both finish with a flourish of fetish.
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This first image is from the opening scene of 'Utopians' which depicts a party of young men enjoying an idyllic swimming party on a boat. These are not porn films, but they feature nudity and are frankly sexual and very homoerotic. This moment where He Wei dives into the depths leaving his friends behind, symbolises him beginning the exploration of his sexuality. He Wei's guitar tattoo (visible here) plays a key part in the closing scene of the diptych.



There is plenty of sex and nudity, but although it's explicit, it's not shot in the manner of porn films and it's much more focussed on striking imagery than the mechanics of sex. The hero has an affair with a professor at his college who just happens to live in a flat with a spectacular view.



(and a dizzying infinity pool).

with a splendid view!




 This film has an unexpected conclusion when the young man's exploration of his sexuality eventually reaches the world of fetish and he submits to the whims of a woman and a man while tied to a cross.
This scene ultimately welds the two separate films together.

See the scene here:- Utopians by Scud
(please let me know if this link stops working by posting a comment)

In '30 years of Adonis' He Wei plays an actor/dancer whose career is not progressing.
Frustrated by his setbacks he decides to supplement his income by becoming a gigolo

Scud has been criticised in some quarters for producing a porn film. I suppose you might call this gratuitous nudity and it's amazingly erotic, but it's not porn and not entirely irrelevant to the context of  a failing career either - think of 'the emperor's clothes'.



The film features beautiful dream sequences which are puzzling in their detail
but obviously intended to represent explorations and new experiences.

Here, He Wei meets a notorious gangster played by Eric East
(who is a Japanese porn star, but doesn't display those skills in this film)

He recruits the inexperienced gigolo to provide sexual services for a mass orgy.

He and other sex-workers are repeatedly used by priveledged clients
in a highly stylised, pseudo-crucifixion sequence
which visually resembles the forest dreamscape seen above

There are some brutal moments in this scene, underlining the one-sided exploitation.
The gigolo doesn't even get paid for it, but he gets his revenge later



He humiliates the gangster in a fleeting but memorable scene
showing him suspended naked under a cold waterfall.

Needless to say, the gangster is very displeased by this treatment.

The gigolo later finds a path to romance and happiness in the conventional world
including a striking scene shot on an elevated platform symbolising idyllic isolation
from the cares of the world.

Life isn't like that for long of course, he resumes his acting career without success
and is eventually persuaded to return to sex work.

The job turns out to be a rerun of the red crucifixion scene.....

......with a different customer who recognises the young man's guitar tattoo.

This closing fetish scene forges an indelible connection between the two films, shot in an almost indentical way but with a chillingly different outcome the second time around 

(which is sign-posted but not shown explicitly, leaving you to imagine).

 Trailer:- 30 years of Adonis by Scud

These films are baffling but beautiful at first sight and the links and meaning only become (more) apparent in hindsight. It helps if you watch with someone else and can discuss it afterwards.

You can enjoy them anyway for their sexual frankness and surprise use of a fetish theme in a believable, real world situation, dramatising the emotions of submission and helplessness .

Scud talks about his films