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Saturday, 30 December 2023
Bareass Blog No 75
Friday, 29 December 2023
Bareass Blog no 74
Thursday, 28 December 2023
Bareass Blogs No 73
Wednesday, 27 December 2023
Art by Drtkk
Drtkk - Rebels Arrested |
The Roman theme is a new direction for this artist
The era is worth exploring if all rebels look like this there!
Love the skimpy trunks
Other art by Drtkk at mitchmenblog
Tuesday, 26 December 2023
Art by Kalabro
Kalabro - The Ice Cave |
Monday, 25 December 2023
The Season of Chastity
Sunday, 24 December 2023
Decorate Me With Candles
Thursday, 21 December 2023
The Rebels of Makett
His Manhood Mocked |
His Cock Condemned |
His Containment Clamped and Crushed |
Monday, 18 December 2023
Vintage Bondage - Don Ferrara
Don Ferrara in Bondage (AMG ca 1954) |
This impressive image of Don Ferrara, tied hand and foot, has a tremendous sense of muscle and bulk having been tamed and rendered subservient. He looks up respectfully to his invisible master utterly helpless on the end of a tether. It's hard to see whether he's wearing a pouch or totally naked.
The background image seeks to cloak this extraordinary scene in the enslavement practices of the ancient world but I think the architecture is more medieval.
Don Ferrara in Bondage (AMG ca 1954) |
This related image is equally tantalising. The 'hands in front' bondage technique restricts but is not inescapable. However it has the virtue that it looks as if Don is genuinely, tightly restrained, which isn't always the case with bondage from the 50's. Fun to create for the photographer (or his assistant!) and the model too perhaps.
Don had an attractive face with rounded features that are homely and soft rather than dangerous and sexy. He was handsome in his time, having the look of several film stars from the 50's. College jock good looking, his greased hair was the height of cool. Although he's shaved his torso, there's a nice fuzz of hair on his arms and legs.
Don Ferrara in Bondage (AMG ca 1954) |
Don looks just as good in a hog, bringing in a sense of his height as well as his musculature. His open legs are tantalising. It's not the most demanding of hog-ties admittedly, but good enough to allow examination of the goods.
This pose might remind you to of another, contemporary AMG bondage set featuring Leonard Chambers, also hog-tied. I have recently updated it with additional images
Don Ferrara pre-Bondage? (AMG ca 1954) |
This image seems to be from the same shoot with Don striking an open, inviting pose, presenting a shapely pouch to us, but with a less than welcoming expression. It's easy to imagine his feet are tied together here and although his arms are not tied, they seem to be 'assuming the position' prior to rolling into the hog. If you like hairy forearms, feast on his!
Don Ferrara (AMG ca 1952) |
This is a slightly earlier image, a more youthful Don (aged 26) but already in possession of muscular arms, a well-defined torso and able to fill out his pouch . This relaxed body-builder pose has a disinterested quality that seems designed to allay accusations of flaunting one's body, but for gay men it has a submissive, 'come and get me' feel. Set against the ruins of ancient Greece it suggests an early suitability for being tied up.
Don Ferrara (AMG ca 1952) |
Don demonstrates here that he was not overly concerned with protecting his modesty and had a youthful willingness to challenge the conventions and restrictions of the day. His pale imitation of the body-builder's bicep flex pose challenges us to try and remove the fig leaf precariously attached to something that certainly isn't a pouch! You sense he's not going to try very hard to stop you either.
Don Ferrara (AMG ca 1952) |
Most body builders were willing to experiment with artistic poses which showed they had sensitivity and were not just musclebound blockheads. In fact, seated poses like this tend to accentuate pure bulk more than conventional upright flexing does and it could be seen as a take on Narcissus gazing at his own reflection in the pool below. Nevertheless this thoughtful introspection makes the model seem less God-like, more human, vulnerable - and accessible.
Don is heavily oiled up for this image and that was and is a normal, bodybuilding practice for display. It's nice to imagine the photographer or an eager assistant, helping out to ensure full coverage.
Don Ferrara (AMG ca 1954) |
The full measure of this stately man, ready and waiting
with welcoming arms
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Unusually for 50's physique models, Don's life was well documented in his recent Obituary. He was a fireman and lived a straight, married life reaching the ripe old age of 94 by the time he died in 2021. He was a bona fide bodybuilder (as firemen often are) and the article even mentioned his appearance in Tomorrows Man in Oct 1954, although this was an image that had clearly been crudely sanitised (see below). Not surprisingly, his bondage experience wasn't mentioned. It makes you wonder what persuaded him to try it, perhaps his firemen buddies put him up for it!
Don Ferrara (AMG ca 1954) in Tomorrows Man Oct 1954 |
Friday, 15 December 2023
Domination Art by Russ 3 Cops and Leathermen
Russ - Cop Search |
Russ - Cop Probe |
Russ - Cop Probe |
Russ - Jones Beach 1 |
In 'Jones Beach' a young surfer becomes besotted by a vision in cut-offs and shades. This very 80's object of desire reacts aggressively to his attention, pouring homophobic abuse on the young man. However, that doesn't stop him from lingering with his admirer and coercing him into a sequence of humiliating and subservient acts that suggest a very different agenda.
Russ - White Water Run 2 |
Russ - White Water Run 3 |
This striking cover illustration is a decade on from the imagery Russ did for Larry Townsend and it's a more mature, accomplished style. I'm not 100% sure it's the same man but if it is, it shows considerable artistic growth.
Tuesday, 12 December 2023
Milking Factories 15
Sarander - Milk Farm 2 |
Sarander actually calls this a Milk Farm but it meets all the requirements for inclusion in the mitchmen Milking Factory series. There are multiple milk producers being extracted by machines in a uniform manner. If you look closely, it even has orderly production lines, which isn't always the case. Some of the men have their heads encased in helmets which may be punishment devices, but if this is a more enlightened employer*, they could be providing sensory experiences for males who don't get excited by watching other men being pumped out. (*I use the word employer in the sense of using, as in 'employing a tool', I don't suppose for a minute that these men are being paid!)
At the back a couple of new arrivals are being manoeuvred into their places on the line by robots, an admirable investment in keeping the line clinically free from contamination. It also avoids unseemly struggles with operatives within sight of the other beasts while connecting them up. Judging by the look on the face of the nearest one it's a sensible precaution. Another robot (right foreground) seems to be carrying out a quality control check, or it could be an on-the-spot pasteurisation using heat treatment.
These owners have obviously chosen to extract from both mature and younger plums. If they have perfected the ancient art of blending juices then a refined and complex palate pleaser may await us in the tasting room after our tour of the shop floor. Of course you may prefer to avoid sampling their produce on the premises, there's a rumour going round that likely lads are sometimes 'recruited' that way by adding a little extra to their glasses - and it looks like age is not a bar to serving either.
Sarander often shows aliens in images like this, beam me up, Scotty! None are visible here but it's certainly an unconventional, psychedelic sort of environment. Of course that may just be highly sophisticated form of conditioning, perhaps to convince the subjects that they are in a nightclub with the man of their dreams lurking somewhere in the crowd.
Sarander - Milk Farm 1 |
This earlier variant of the image seems only to differ in the lack of an extraction device for the young man at the front and also in the overall colour treatment.
I have featured a Sarander milking picture here briefly before in an end of year Hit Survey. He 's done a lot of images in this vein and this is one of the best I have seen.
I can't locate a site for him, info from you via comments is welcome
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Saturday, 9 December 2023
Domination Art by Russ 2 - Rustlers & Hustlers
Read Part 1 of this article
Russ - Round Up 1, Over the Horse |
This marvellous domination and bondage image was used as an illustration for a story about a novice cop who is abducted by the local leather group. It's his bewildered, outraged and attractive face that makes this image so striking and draws us in. Surrounded by leather boots and giant cocks the enormity of his predicament is more apparent to us than it is to him. Russ contrasts the muscularity of the leather men with the captive's leaner physique, showing he's out of his depth, but he also gives him generous stubble to show he doesn't lack masculinity - even in this fix. Like the jogger in Part 1, we can't see the faces of the men who are dominating him but you can almost smell their leather.
Russ - Round Up 2, Cowboy Captured |
The prelude to the cop's abduction involves the annual pageant of a small town, the highlight of which recreates the hanging of a celebrated rustler, who miraculously survived his sentence, only to be hanged another day instead. The cop volunteers to play the part of the condemned outlaw and is kidnapped afterwards, still in his cowboy kit (see above). Russ captures a cute clumsiness in the unfortunate captive. That's a gag in his mouth by the way, not a 'manifestation'.
In this image the 'outlaw' is being led away by a noose round his neck while his arms are being pulled backwards and upwards by a second escort behind him. Unfortunately the image cropping here (presumably to accommodate the magazine layout) dilutes that fetish element considerably - almost to the point of invisibility. The mock hanging isn't illustrated at all and the leather men take him to their club and strip him so, sadly, the cowboy theme, so promisingly broached above doesn't have any sequels.
The attractive shading of these images seems to owe something to the technical style of Bill Ward who was a contemporary of Russ and then at the height of his fame in the US and the UK.
Russ - Round Up 2 |
Naturally the leather initiation begins with a spanking and this occupies a considerable amount of time in the story. Luckily the cop realises he likes being dominated and used by the leather men (Phew!).
His new master proves to be butch-looking with muscles and a pugnacious face, a look that's more athletic and mainstream than the likes of Val Martin and Brian Dawson (below) who were the leather pin-ups of this era and cultivated a more mature, sometimes sinister aura. Russ captures the dom's sadistic determination here and the impression of a short arm whiplash. The slap of the leather is understated but you can sense the contraction of buttock muscles in response.
The story eventually resolves with the happily-inducted captive discovering that his selection was not entirely a random consequence of his volunteering role.
Brian Dawson |
Russ - Hustler Slave 1 |
Russ - Hustler Slave 2 |
Thursday, 7 December 2023
101 Uses for a Belt - No 20 Posture Training
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Wednesday, 6 December 2023
Royale's 'Escape' Storyette Joins the Archive
The process of listing Royale's 'Escape' storyette at the Archive Gallery is now complete.
You can read the background and introduction to the set at the 'Escape' index page.
'Escapers' by Mitchell (mitchmen) after Royale Studio |
Sunday, 3 December 2023
Domination Art by Russ - The Jogger
Russ - The Jogger (1) |
Russ - The Jogger (2) |
Russ - The Jogger (3) |
Russ - The Jogger (4) |
After being set up by image 3 this outcome seems a bit humdrum. However, Russ makes a good job of expressing the submissiveness of the jogger who is planted between the intruders legs and slightly leaning back creating an arching, vulnerable body shape. Retaining the cuffs in this more explicit image is daring. The similar (and very sexy) submission scene in Etienne's Night Patrol is completely hands-free. You'd expect that there would be another more probing, pants dropping to follow, but if there is I haven't found it.