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Thursday, April 2, 2026

Art by Leo-Art

Leo-Art - Captured Barbarian

 The inhabitants of a remote jungle village have been taken prisoner by the military. One by one they are restrained and interrogated. 

This X-spread is a favourite Leo-Art meme.
The dangling ball is a very clever visual device, concealed but revealing. There's a better example later in this post 

 

Leo-Art - Fighters Club

Two hunky men present themselves for naked inspection in a glamorous bar. They are confronted by an angry man who clearly has considerable control over them. One looks at his companion as if what they are being told they have to do is not what he expected. 
But there's no backing out now. 
 
 
Leo-Art - Dean Milked
 
In this Sci-Fi scenario, 'Dean' finds himself in an equally irreversible situation. Captured by a humanoid alien and suspended in an uncomfortable, reverse bondage he is induced to provide milk for them (a process which greatly interests aliens for some obscure reason). In fact, they seem to expect him to produce a considerable amount of milk. The glowing collar may be providing encouragement, but this may take some time. Hang on Dean!
 
 
Leo-Art - Devil's Castle 1

 In this picture, two adventurers, have been captured by a devil whose wickedness proved to be more than a match for their young confidence. Stripped of his arms and shackled in a cangue (a sort of portable pillory), the cute one is forced to watch his comrade being humiliated. No doubt his turn will come soon enough.
 
You'll notice that this artist has a considerable predilection for rear views.
 
Leo-Art - Devil's Castle 2

 
Twas ever so, there's no gain without pain.
 
 
Leo-Art - Beach Fight

A beach bully gets his comeuppance - at least, that's the interpretation if you believe that blonds are innately innocent and good. I prefer to believe that this is a beach bully doing his worst on a hunky, innocent bather whose Speedos were grabbing all the attention on the beach. 
 
Wrestling scenarios are quite hard to do most mediums, the close interactions and unusual body contortions are a challenge to reproduce and even in photographs it's hard to capture clearly what is actually going on in the tangle without losing the sense of genuine struggle. This image is quite an achievement on that level alone, but it is also a terrific drama, showing power, domination and subjugation. 
  
 
Leo-Art - Warriors

As promised, another dangling ball whose bauble-like appearance belies its fiendish purpose (which I hope I don't have to explain). This render is not as pretty or technically skilled as No 1, but the bauble is more convincingly hung. The different viewing angle is also surprisingly sexy, its effect heightened by some clever close cropping. Obviously the clarification of the frontal threat helps too! 
 

Leo-Art - Greenskin's Dungeon

This scenario, with captives turned into beasts to pull their master's wagon is a popular scenario in art and gay photography (see examples below). Leo-Art's take is slightly comic but has great energy and excitement which picks up the drama of the chariot races and stagecoach chases in movies of yore. The slaves must be asking themselves if this contraption has any brakes.
  
In other versions of this scenario, the slaves usually they use their hands to pull the cart or carriage (as in Pony boys by M.Carcel and AMG Pony Whip), Roa used a chest push in Jim's Pony Duty, Etienne used a waist belt to harness his enslaved sailors to a plough, but here another cargue/pillory device serves as a halter, so the boys have to use their shoulders. The desert setting reminds me irresistibly of Chirenon's Captured Airmen, visualising this as their ultimate fate.

I thought it prudent to censor this one, the original was already spoiled by Japanese-style zig-zags.

 

Leo-Art - Varane - Whip

If you like your men well hung, Leo-Art's your man. 

Varane is one of his characters, the olive green loin cloth suggestive of a military man. Leo always shows the feet pointing down which adds to the stretching effect.

 

Leo-Art - Glory Hole 1

This image and the next show that Leo is equally imaginative with more down-to-earth interactions between men. You'd think this has been done dozens of times, but I'm struggling to think of a memorable example. The interaction between the two 'users' adds something extra to the narrative, as if this is a club with different layers of membership. No prizes for guessing who's got Premier.

 

Leo-Art - Glory Hole 2
 
Renders provided the first ability to automatically change the viewpoint of the imagery and often resulted in an oversupply where the artist was unable or unwilling to choose the best. That's gone into overdrive with AI, but I thought this variant was worth including as it shows us the faces of the two men and with it a clearer narrative. 
 
 
Leo-Art - Foot Fetish

It's quite unusual to find an artist who embraces the fetish of the foot quite as enthusiastically as this. Even Etienne treated supplicants as respectful samplers of a rare delicacy. The pointing finger of the master seems quite unnecessary in this case, which diminishes the kick he gets out of it himself - unless he likes to ration his sub. 
 
From the artist's point of view, the demands of picturing a foot in this situation are also diminished, most of it is hidden. That may explain Etienne's approach, he simply loved drawing feet.
 
 
Leo-Art - Brian the Soldier

This unusual close-up of the abdomen of a man firing a rifle speaks for itself in both artistic and erotic terms. Renderers often surround their subjects with vast, empty spaces which drains the erotic value. Leo-Art is much more attuned to the art of selective cropping. 
Very nice.

Leo-Art works closely with BrosFate and their styles are similar, but I'm surprised to find I have only posted Leo-Art's work at mitchmen once before: Another Whipping back in 2021 

Leo-Art posts at pixiv
(with a link there to his Patreon pay site) 

Wednesday, April 1, 2026

A Lonely Ride

Virgil rode the elevator up to the 25th floor with an anxious feeling in the pit of his stomach. A summons to the President's Office usually meant good news, a promotion or a raise. But a summons that required him to attend wearing just his underwear and after everyone else had gone home? No, that was not good news. 

photo: Bane Bozic (ADON)

Monday, March 30, 2026

Targeted

Cybertied - Hog-tied in His Underwear by a Uniform Thief
 

He came to steal the uniform, but with his hunky target, hog-tied at his feet, hot and sweaty in his underwear, he hesitated. Then he began to take the uniform off again. He had plenty of time yet.


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Sunday, March 29, 2026

My Roofing Contractor

Tighty-Whiteys by Alexandre CK

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For more Roofers in tight shorts
see Mitchell's Roofers 

Friday, March 27, 2026

Beautifully Bound


Workmen with tattoos are always go down well
at my collar and tie, dinner parties.

Photo by Captured Guys

click on the label below for more
beautifully bound guys 
 

Tuesday, March 24, 2026

Love Leotards!

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Images courtesy of Malibu Menswear (2026)

More leotards at mitchmen 

Saturday, March 21, 2026

Real Men Do Wear Pouches

Brian Lamprill, in pouch, by Vic White
 
 
 I recently published a post at the mitchmen Royale Studio Gallery about the hunky Royale model Brian Lamprill. It featured photographs of him taken by a different, British photographer, Vic White. 
 
Vic White was a respected British body-builder in the 50s, so his choice of models and photography of them was based on a true appreciation of the artistic and physical qualities of a well-developed, male physique. 
 
What surprised me about the Lamprill portfolio though, was the sheer sexiness that emanated from it, not just from the model's face, bulk and oily curves, but from the frankly startling shaping of his posing pouch. (which may have got a bit oily, accidentally). It's very revealing that both the photographer and model were clearly comfortable with this.
 
These pictures were published in the British, beefcake magazine 'Man Alive' in 1960. Openly published I nearly said, but it was hard to get hold of copies, except by mail order subscription. Nevertheless, it seems remarkable in those oppressed times. It sparked an (admittedly prurient!) interest in me about this photographer, which revived when I came across the picture below in my files.
 
 
Ray Andrews by Vic White

I freely admit that this model is my 'type', not pretty but he has an innate 'maleness'. 
As with the image of Lamprill above, that quality emerges more strongly if you subtract the slightly camp, bodybuilder/ballet legs....
 
Ray Andrews by Vic White

 Ray's pouch is more discreetly arranged than Brian's, but you still get the picture. This much derided garment is capable of as much erotic impact as the most slick and skimpy of modern thongs. Its improvisatory appearance is itself part of the appeal, particularly on a man who looks far from being the sort who would be comfortable showing himself and being photographed in such unusual and revealing kit. 
 
After all, this is an era when men's underwear actually fitted around the waist, above the hips and hiding the navel. 
 
Prehistoric Men's Underwear ad
(a time when tents and men's briefs were carefully segregated
and you had to take pills for blue finger)
 
60's underpants also entirely covered the backside, whereas the pouch is completely backless. In these circumstances, Ray's confident looking pose is commendable. This man inspired my title for this post - Real Men Do Wear Pouches. 
 
 
Derek Manthorpe by Vic White

 This photo has similar qualities, a man with pleasant, but unremarkable facial features. You might imagine him working in an office. But he's unexpectedly showing an incredibly bulky torso and an incongruous pouch that seems weighed down by its contents. His expression seems to convey manly bewilderment at being asked to wear such a thing and having to hold his hands behind his back, (as if they were tied together) to leave the embarrassing, brazen display (and imaginary access to it by any viewer) entirely unrestricted. 
 
White has arranged Derek's pouch to be narrower than Ray's (pushing together the top hem, which slides freely on the support string like a simple curtain). His pouch sides drop vertically, creating the impression of weightiness (and, for the wearer, increasing the sense of brevity and openness at the sides). There's possibly (probably) been some sanitising of the pouch surface, but the w-shaped shadow/stain at its base is reassuringly shapely, crying out to be cradled, like billiard balls in a bag. White himself has cropped off the lower half of the picture but stopped just short of the pouch and that draws attention to it.
 
 
Ken Restall by Vic White


Ken Restall was another mature-looking man who looked an improbable choice for a model, but you can't argue with that physique! 
 
White has employed the same crotch-level, cropping device here and created a strange shadow underneath, which gives an impression of exceptional bulk in the pouch without showing any sensitive detail. It's set very low down on Ken's shaved abdomen, but the strings at the side suggest it should be even lower. It looks like unfinished adjustments.
 
Ken's finely chiselled torso is well worthy of the unrestricted display afforded by the hands above the head pose, but rather than opting for conventional bicep flexing arm he's chosen a hands-clasping position that gives the faint impression of him being tied.
 
 
Mike Tozer by Vic White

 Mike Tozer was something of a catch for White, well muscled with a photogenic personality. White snapped him in a traditional muscle pose here, but again with the pouch slung very low on a shaved abdomen. It looks like his pubic hair has been painted out just above the pouch. The photo is cropped slightly lower down the legs than those above, which brings out his impressively-sized thighs but seems to miniaturise the pouch.  
 
The pouch itself is at the opposite extreme to those just above - loose fitting, apparently, with an indentation that suggests thick material, which certainly hasn't been wetted. Perhaps Mike brought his own. Some of that linen crispness is attributable to the extreme AI adjustments I've resorted to, in order to create a brighter, sharper image, but the pouch looks just the same in the noisy original.
 
 It's not very flattering to a man, appearing to have very little to show seems worse than showing everything. However, spots like this, dark in the middle with a bright halo, often appear on old photographs, so I've experimented with a version treating this as noise.
 
Mike Tozer by Vic White (pouch modified)

This modified version is more like what you'd expect and credits Mike with a manly presence.  
 
Ray Golding by Vic White

White's manipulations with pouches seem to have reached a crescendo with this image. It's not obviously faked. How did he persuade the model to get into this? More to the point, I suppose, how did he persuade the conservative magazine, Man's World, to publish this in February 1959, well before the dawn of the permissive 60s? 
 
Ray Golding has the pop-star looks of that era and a physique that looks trim rather than well-muscled. Not White's usual material.
 
 
Ray Golding by Vic White
 
I don't know if Ray Golding is related to Roy, it's from late 1958 (Man Alive, issue 2) so it's conceivably the same person, but this image of him is worth including in its own right. He's got more oil on his body that he's got on his hair but its has a magical effect on his youthful physique. 
 
He gives the impression of a frustrated, young man who has just been told he can't borrow Dad's car. Or punished by having to wear a skimpy pouch, in my twisted imagination!  
 
His right arm is semi-flexed, like a bodybuilder pose, but it's placed on the far side so as not to interfere with the line of his body that flows down to the pouch nestling between his thighs. The pouch itself is clean and natural-looking with intriguing, if faint, contours and a teasing opening at the side.
 
 
Doug Preddy by Vic White

Another tribute to youth from around the same time (Aug 58). Doug strikes a 'thinker' pose, 
similar to Ray's, but more philosophical and classical. Doug's muscle credentials demonstrate a good deal of time spent in the gym, with the photo capturing splendid arm details. 
 
His raised leg ensures a clear pouch outline with bulkiness and ambiguous shaping that seems more suggestive than genuine. Sorry Doug! The indrawn ab just above compensates, seemingly inviting exploration and delving.

More on Vic White to come