Nicholas Brunet Wrestlers

Nicolas Brunet is perhaps best known for his skinhead imagery but in these pictures he captures some of the essential erotic appeal of the sport of wrestling.

The flying surfboard hold is fiendishly painful but also puts the victim on display to the audience, exposing him in a helpless, vulnerable position. It is virtually inescapable if the lifter is strong enough and ruthless enough to keep his victim centred and balanced. The humiliation is compounded if he is clothed and his opponent naked, as here. The stressed flying position produces attractive arching of the body and from this angle, nice shaping of buns and thighs, which Brunet spotlights nicely, embellishing his image with erotic detail. I featured a similar move in the climax of another post, the Room 666 fantasy.

Brunet captures a marvellous sense of strength pitted against strength here, with a strong man being totally controlled by his very determined-looking opponent. There's almost a sense of David and Goliath in the contrast between the clean-shaven 'top' and his hairy opponent who looks much the more powerful man. However he has been rendered helpless, trapped and levered by his own interlocking limbs, applying pressure to his back, legs and shoulders. It looks as if he's about to suffer the final humiliation of being lifted off the ground when his own body weight will amplify the anguish.

This is a much less spectacular hold but Brunet has exploited it's simplicity to create an impression of casual, effortless domination. It looks like a brutal thug making mincemeat of a mild-mannered novice. The losing man has already been obliged to surrender his trunks and now has been forced into a passive, seated position where he cannot make any pretence of being a fighter. Instead he's obliged to bow forward in a humiliating, submissive stance while his opponent punishes his shoulders at will. The look of anguish on his face is like a heartfelt acknowledgement of pain and inevitable defeat.

The domination here is much more direct and brutal. The aggressor's choke hold seems immensely strong, temporarily overwhelming the victim, threatening him with consciousness and keeping him focussed on defence. Again there's a vivid visual contrast between the burly top and his cute, boyish oppenent. Away from the intensity of the 'combat zone' there's an erotic conjunction of crotches and forcibly spread legs opening up his other vulnerabilities. However, in the juxtaposition of bare-buttock and bulge, the top seems to be unexpectedly assuming a classic power-bottom position, which the scanty trunks seem to signalling too, it's something equally capable of scaring his opponent rigid.

Despite the 'Luchar' Masks and cage enclosure, this image is more erotica than wrestling with the leotards commanding more attention than the fighting. The open backside and low slung waistlines open up the possibility of interesting positions developing during the grappling, but the forced open legs and headlock shown here seem to represent transitional moves with indistinct outcomes. They could both develop into erotic possibilities but Brunet has left that to our imaginations.

In this last picture Brunet moves his grapplers into a fantasy setting with an unashamedly erotic motive. This hold has it's limitations as a conventional fight move since it carries the threat of a serious neck injury if applied with to much enthusiasm and for anything less than that the captive man can collapse his legs and turn out of it with the possibility of lifting his opponent on his shoulders. However, it's erotic credentials are strong, as it combines forced arching of the torso with the humiliation of arm pit hair and odours for the underdog. This time Brunet uses tribal tattoos to imply a surfeit of manly toughness in one of the combatants who nevertheless seems to be losing out to what looks like a very modern, aesthsetic-looking man. It seems an improbable but rather satisfying case of refinement overcoming coarseness.

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