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| Vince Orlandini by Kris (1957) |
This image conjures up the fetish of jungle capture and prisoner of war tortures. The much maligned posing pouch fits quite well into this scenario and this is nicely compact and inoffensive example worn by a man with an appealing 'guy next door' look and an attractive physique. Kris has ingeniously used two poles to get round the practicalities of arranging tethering points but Vince is genuinely tied to them, which isn't always the case in this era.
The 'X' restraint position is very popular with fetish artists for fairly obvious reasons. Amalaric is a great fan (e.g. in Office Perks). It's not that common in solo bondage photography though. This photograph dates from 1957, when the invocation of slavery in ancient Greece and Rome was widely used by gay photographers and artists to get round repressive laws and attitudes but even so, to my knowledge, it's almost unique. Perhaps the homoerotic qualities of bondage and the way the X pose draws attention to a barely hidden groin was just too daring as a combination. Kris promoted it as part of a set, but I've not found any other examples of this model in bondage.
See also Peter George from Royale Studio in the early sixties
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| Vince Orlandini by Kris (1957) |
This is the best picture of Vince that I have been able to find.
He boasts an elegant shapely physique with unusually large nipples.
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| Vince Orlandini by Kris (1957) |
An unremarkable but stately pose
Is enlivened by shapely pecs and pouch.
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| Vince Orlandini by Kris (1957) |
This image is quite interesting, I'm a fan of men in gym shorts
although these are not particularly brief nor snug fitting.
I'm not sure whether he's pulling something out of his pocket
or has a tantalising side opening in his shorts.
For more examples of Vintage Bondage,
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2 comments:
I remember seeing these in an old male physique magazine in a base exchange (an Air Force convenience store on base; I was an Air Force brat). This was in El Paso, on Biggs AFB. Made my heart beat like crazy. It was about 10 years after the photos were taken and shown as something like "remember when."
I stole the pamphlet-sized thing. Put it in a Gold Key comic I'd just bought and made off with it. I did that a couple of times because I was WAY underage to buy them.
They were "lost" in our move to Honolulu. I think my folks had something to do with that, and I got really upset. Tried to replace it with one I saw in a downtown newsstand but got caught and kicked out. Never tried to steal one, again. Not that I learned my lesson; they just wouldn't let me back in that store and all the other ones had them out of reach. Dammit.
I'm just a thief at heart.
Great story, thanks. I can't say I'm totally blameless either in the field of magazine acquisition!
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