Mitchell - Tentacle Trap (after Kurosilver*) |
Gay bdsm art by 'mitchmen' Mitchell and other artists featuring male erotic sexy fetish, S&M, men tied up, male bondage, domination, humiliation and spanking. Vintage photographs of men in uniform, Royale & Hussar Studios, humourous captions, gay pride articles
To my readers......
I am working on it and hope to resume shortly. (see Group News for link)
Link to the Royale Studio Archive in the right sidebar
Friday, 27 January 2023
Mitchell - Army Buddies In Tentacle Trap
Tuesday, 24 January 2023
An Important Announcement About Royale Studio Posts
Royale Studio - Corporal Punishment (from The Arrest, ERTR-1) |
Saturday, 21 January 2023
Art by Anteros
Anteros - Careful They're Sharp! |
At his best Anteros has produced dark, atmospheric pieces with sci-fi fantasy settings.
This one seems to be an unusual take on gay cruising but these woods are more like the hostile wilderness used to trap and protect beautiful captives in children's tales. The denizens resemble members of an American Football Team looking for dirty sex, but they don't look very inviting, Instead the caution they advise in the wording of the title, comes across like an unpleasant challenge, a dare with ambiguous meanings, rather than an expression of genuine concern. In fact there's something altogether other-worldly about them.
Not a place for beginners to start their cruising education I would suggest.
Anteros - In Space No-one Can Hear You Moan |
There's a similar irony in the humorous twist given to the title of this piece, inspired by 'Alien'. This Space Trooper is trapped on a grille and tormented by creatures emerging from the hell-like depths below. It seems likely that any sexual pleasure will prove to be a fleeting moment in a journey to an altogether more grisly fate.
Although his gun (or blaster or whatever) still lies by his side, suggesting an interrupted military manoeuvre, we can also see his wrists have been handcuffed behind his back and virtually all his clothes have been taken from him. It suggests this is no accident of fate, but a deliberate punishment inflicted on him by an unseen, malevolent captor.
I suppose you can't rule out a practical joke, a birthday treat,
but you sense these creatures play for keeps, so it's likely to backfire.
Anteros - Tentacles |
Anteros - Lust At The Water's Edge |
Anteros - Arena |
This image is a much simpler concept, an expression of man-on-man domination, but Anteros' skill with earthy colours and dark, suggestive atmospheres elevates the interest. The setting of an empty Arena suggests a private argument being settled in a traditional, ritualistic, but apparently bloodless way. Both men are wearing slave collars but subtle scars and tattoos give the victor the intimidating, edge of an experienced man. The submissive kneeling stance of the loser seem to be acknowledging that much. The top appears to be wearing a chastity device which means that neither man will gain much satisfaction by normal standards, but it is human nature to make the most of what you've got.
The background setting here is not dissimilar to Oztangles' temples, with slightly more sophisticated constructs and use of colour and light perhaps. That characteristic points back to a common rendering heritage that is very obvious in Anteros' older work of which I show a sample below.
Anteros - Medical Lab 1 |
Anteros - Breeder Aliens |
Wednesday, 18 January 2023
Vintage Bondage - 'Mikey' by Loquillo
A beautiful, neat, shoulder and arm harness is the foundation of Mikey's restraint.
Connecting strands make a striking cross shape across his back.
It lifts the wrists but prevents the upper arms from moving outwards.
The noose-like construction stiffens them.
- Mikey by Loquillo (Bound and Gagged)
- Dean Spencer (Zeus)
- Jeff Golden (Bacchus)
- David Stark (Zeus)
- Jack Wrangler (Bijou)
- Bo Richards aka Ryder Knight (Zeus)
- John Winship (AMG, 1-off sample in Vintage Season No 11)
- Leroy Nelson
- Mark Nixon (WPG)
- Leonard Chambers (AMG)
- Vintage Bondage Blog (feat. Fred Halstead, Jack Wrangler + ano)
- My Initiation (William Higgins)
- Royale Studio series No 17 (Soldier-Sailor, notable for it's asses in tight shorts)
Sunday, 15 January 2023
Most viewed post of all time (MPP3, 2022) is IFNB!
According to my Blogger 'hit stats', out of all the mitchmen articles published to date,
Posn
(last yr)
|
Title of Post
(& link)
|
Year of
Pub'n
|
Cum
Hits
| 2022 Hits
|
1 (2)
| 2018
| 44,570
| 8,964
| |
2 (3)
| 2017
| 43,879
| 9,847
| |
3 (1)
| 2012
| 41,771
| 3,166
| |
4 (5)
| 2008
| 34,305
| 3,347
| |
5 (4)
| 2010
| 33,058
| 2,073
| |
6 (6)
| 2018
| 23,391
| 2,374
| |
7 (7)
| 2009
| 22,133
| 1,277
| |
8 (10)
| 2018
| 22,042
| 4,555
| |
9 (8)
| 2016
| 20,871
| 1,451
| |
10 (9)
| 2010
| 19,077
| 966
| |
11 (11)
| 2009
| 18,517
| 3,830
| |
12 (12)
| 2010
| 14,034
| 912
| |
13 (13)
| 2009
| 13,475
| 1,074
| |
14 (-)
| 2020
| 13,314
| 6,189
| |
15 (14)
| 2015
| 13,020
| 1,451
| |
16 (15)
| 2019
| 12,891
| 2,041
| |
17 (18)
| 2018
| 11,628
| 1,820
| |
18 (19)
| 2009
| 11,468
| 1,964
| |
19 (17)
|
2009
| 11,400
| 1,199
| |
20 (-)
| 2008
| 11,077
| 6,027
|
mitchmen blog was first published in 2008 and ten of the fifteen years since then are now represented in this survey, the missing years between 2008 and 2022 are shown below
-
2013 – The nearest is still my 2nd article on Mike Carcel but it slid again to 50 from 46
- 2014 - The Art of Baron is at 29 (24)
- 2021 - Come and Get It! rose 149 places to 76.
- 2022 - New 'Slave Academy' Pictures by Brick has entered the list at 356
Article
|
Published
| Ave Hits per year
|
Position
(& last year)
|
'Total Hits' position
|
2018
| 9254
|
1 (1)
| 1
| |
2017
| 7477
|
2 (2)
| 2
| |
2020 | 5657
|
3 (5)
| 14
| |
Homoeros Gallery Guide |
2018
| 5443
|
4 (4)
| 8
|
Milking Factories - 3 | 2018
| 5076 |
5 (3) | 6
|
2012
| 3900
|
6 (7)
| 3
| |
2021
| 3722
|
7 (-)
| 76
| |
2020
| 3560
|
8 (6)
| 24
| |
Etienne - Index of articles at mitchmen | 2016
| 3393
|
9 (8)
| 9
|
2019
| 3256
|
10 (9)
| 16
| |
The Art of Roa 1 - The Conquered Hero
| 2021
| 3230 | 11 (-)
| 128
|
2020
| 2945
|
12 (10)
| 34
| |
2008
| 2742
| 13 (13)
| 4
| |
2018
| 2661
| 14 (11)
| 17
| |
2010
| 2643
| 15 (12)
| 5
| |
2020 | 2425
|
16 (15)
| 67
| |
2020
| 2213
|
17 (14)
| 82
| |
2018 | 2203 |
18 (17)
| 26
| |
2019
| 2034
|
19 (18)
| 45
| |
Another Milking Factory No2
|
2018
| 2023
|
20 (-)
| 28
|
In this table, the top 2 articles kept their positions but 'The Milking Factory' was one of only three articles that raised it's lifetime hit rate this year. The others declined as would be expected from the natural effect of aging which was reinforced this year by the overall fall in blog visits. The other exceptions were Art of Amalaric-1 which jumped over Homoeros into third position and Cavelo which stubbornly held on to 14th. The Cavelo article has a long tail of low scores on account of it's age and it's current annual hit scores comfortably exceed it's long term average so it's position in this table seems assured for the immediate future.
The 'Milking Factory' collection increased it's presence in the top 20 to 5 articles this year with No 2 in the series entering in 20th position. Nos 3,4 and 5 all lost ground but only slightly. The other big group in the top 20, the 'Art of Amalaric' series, showed a similar pattern with the leading article strengthening it's position and the others suffering small drops, however The Art of Amalaric – 7 Institutional Slavery slipped out of the top 20 altogether.
The highest placed new entry was The Royale Studio archive notice 'Come and Get it!' which came in at No 7. It benefits from the fact that I republish it whenever I add new material to the Royale archive. As a result it's 2022 score was more than in 2021. This article is the only one based on photography in these tables unless you count Amalaric's photo-manips. Two others from last year were knocked out by the new arrivals. A New Life For Our Air Force Boys (2017) and IFNB is most popular new post of 2018. dropped to 21st and 22nd places.
Another 2021 article, 'Art of Roa No 1' entered the chart at No 11, a good performance that was foreshadowed when it finished second to 'Come and Get It!' in 2021's New Post poll but it's early days yet for both these articles.
The rest of the table did not change very much but most articles were shuffled downwards by Amalaric's jump and the new arrivals taking up their positions. Two notable exceptions were the 'old-timers' Priapus of Milet who bucked the trend by rising one position to 6th on the back of a slightly improved hit rate in 2022 and Cavelo who held onto his 14th position with a similar strong showing. The other member of the pre-2017 'big three', MCarcel, dropped three places after showing a more significant decline.
The cut-off point for joining the 'hit rate' table dropped a tiny amount this year, from 2092 to2023 hits per year. Only two articles in the 2022 New Posts table beat that total this year and then only marginally so. They face a major challenge if they are to join this company next year. Although this method tends to benefit popular, newer articles in the short term, their score decays more quickly than the older ones if they don't keep up their initial post-publication surge.
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Thursday, 12 January 2023
Platoon 69 by Jero
Jero - Interrogation |
Jero - Soldier's Difficulty |
Jero - Strung Up |
Jero - Mind Melting |
Jero - Military Captive |
Jero - Mercenary Soldier Captured |