On the Train with HHimbos

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Train imagery is all the rage these days, it's hardly surprising when so many of us spend hours a week gazing at our fellow travellers in confined spaces that impose an unusual level of closeness. It's a sensitive environment and people who offend against the rules, like not smoking, may provoke a response. 

 

The fashion for tighter trousers has restored this garment to the top ten of homoerotic iconography. Normally, the subject of office torments by their seniors, this more democratic sanctioning for the wearer is refreshing.  

 

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Smoking is a cut and dried legal offence, but there's a long list of rules of unspoken etiquette that can ruffle feathers and in extreme cases, provoke a response - in imaginations if not reality. It's not clear what this workman has done, perhaps he brought smelly food on board. Older travellers are less likely to be tolerant of such modern practices - and this one has probably already had a bad day at the office. 

*Have you noticed how burgers on trains stink like they've just been retrieved from a garbage bin? Yes, I am an older traveller!

 

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This young man, Mark, has had the misfortune of joining a company that insists on their office trainees wearing short trousers (it's called make-men-wear-shorts syndrome). This exposes him to a good deal of inappropriate contacts as he makes his rounds, carrying documents from one department to another. So it's understandable that he wants to grab a seat on the train home so no-one can get at him. Unfortunately, tonight there was only one seat left, the one reserved for older and disabled people. 

Mark did his best to ignore all the new travellers as the train filled up, but unfortunately, his short pants made him the least likely person on the train to get away with it. Particularly, when a retired military officer with a war wound got on. Not only was he hot on obedience and discipline, his war wound didn't seem to impair him at all when he was seated with Mark on his lap.
 

It would be easy to label HHimbos as a spanking artist, but there's more to his work than that. For example, in image 2 above, the main interest derives from the obvious maturity and manliness of the workman and the remarkable enormity of his come-uppance, partly because it's so difficult to believe. In the remaining images, he branches out into other ways of tormenting men.

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Jim here, has a similar, shorts-only, work environment to Mark, but he has more congenial hours, so he always gets a seat on the train. Fending off unwanted advances in the office makes his working day extremely draining, but he can safely snooze off on the empty train. At least, he used to be able to, until his generous thighs were spotted by another passenger.  

 

As with Image 2, I particularly like this picture because of the characterisation of 'Jim'. He's good-looking and clearly too old for the outfit he's obliged to wear by his boss. Grown men are so much more interesting than lads. 

 

Unfortunately, Jim's admirer is one of dubious character and a regular on the same train. He's now spent weeks secretly feeling out his target, trying to coax out a response without being detected. Now, at last Jim seems to have absorbed his furtive handling into his dreams. It's bound to end in tears - of one sort or another.

 

 

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And so it proves as Jim awakes to an embarrassing mess. The predator is quick-witted enough to disengage before Jim realises what has happened. He scolds him and tells him that the Ticket Inspector has just entered the carriage. Jim is so used to being downtrodden that he readily agrees to the stranger's suggestion for hiding his 'slip' which should avoid him being thrown off the train. He succumbs to the very experience he sought to avoid by catching the early service.

 

This purports to be a spanking image at first sight, but AI is not very good at understanding the mechanics of the ancient custom and has raised the wrong hand. It doesn't really matter because the groping of Jim's shapely rear sustains ample interest on its own. By the same token, the dematerialisation of the predator's lower body, if you spot it, is immaterial anyway. 

 

With these two images I have taken the liberty of trimming the top and bottom to create a squarer image and have made the tops of Jim's socks grey instead of red, so it looks more like work clothing. Apologies to HHimbos. You can find his originals via the link at the end of the article.

 

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This slumbering worker's maturity is more apparent in his physique than his face, but apart from that, he's the epitome of the benighted grey-short-trouser worker (as opposed to a white-collar worker). At his new employers' behest, he's shoehorned himself back into an outfit that he'd outgrown and thought was behind him when he left school and went to college. To his relief, everyone seemed quite OK with him wearing an outfit that was too small for him. 

 

 Unlike Jim, he's laddish enough to enjoy the attention he gets from his fellow workers, but coupled with the longer hours compared with being a student, it makes for an exhausting day. So, like Jim, he's glad to take a kip on the train home. So glad in fact that he's thrown himself into his seat is now sprawling into the passageway. 

 

A merchant banker riding on the train and on his way to the first class carriage found the scantily clad legs blocking his way. Embarrassment quickly turned into annoyance, and he decided to give the offender the rough edge of his tongue. Howeve, once he got a better sight of the young man he decided that it might be possible to apply his tongue treatment more sympathetically. It depended on just how deeply he was asleep. How hard it would be .....erm, to get him at attention.....

 

 

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As the rush hour begins, the regular shorts wearers begin to turn up, some of them fresh from relieving their tensions with a workout at the gym. On a busy train, it is a much cherished prize to get a seat next to one, especially one as cute as the one Norman discovered as he slipped into one of the vacant seats. He didn't mind the smell of sweat in the least, he leaned closer to savour it. He was doubly lucky tonight because there was no-one opposite. It was a great opportunity to relieve some tensions of his own, but he would have to work fast.

 

Men spreading their legs into the adjoining seat space is another offence against train traveller's etiquette, sometimes inflicted on women who may be prevented by their skirts from fighting back and are reluctant to complain. Of course, our predators don't mind. they can use it against their targets if they wake, pretending they were trying to waken them to ask them to sit properly.

 

 

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With night falling, workers who have lingered to have an after-work drink start boarding the train. Some of them are the worse for wear. Sam has just been promoted and wanted to celebrate no longer having to wear short trousers. He can't quite bring himself to give up tight pants, though. He finds them comforting in poly cotton and in the pub they attracted much interest from his section leader. 

 

The recollection of that flirtation and the warmth of the carriage soon calls for some loosening of clothing and alcohol does the rest carrying him off into the land of nod and racy dreams. 

 

Tonight a prowling opportunist spots his arousal and swiftly bags the seat next to him. It's over an hour to the end of the line but only 15 minutes to the next stop so he works fast, gently feeling his way. A groan from the slumberer makes him pause, but it's OK, he's out of it. He won't be getting off at the next station, but it's looking good for getting him off before the end of the line.

 

Notice the plaque on the seat between the sleeper's legs  

 

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The last train sees a different class of customer, one who hasn't even been to work and having caroused most of the evening is blotto. They can be objectionable but soon succumb to Morpheus and then, if they are alone, the predator can slip in beside them. 

 

This school disco outfit in combination with a burly physique draws a different class of 'customer', one who would dearly love to end his evening with a well-deserved dose of the cane but will have to content himself with evaluating his wood instead. It's an open book.

More Tomorrow 

Classic Homoerotic Images 12

Lüger/Colt - Fanciful (Fanciable?) Sailor

The recent posting of 'The Wallet' at the Royale Studio blog brought this image to mind. It merely seems saucy to us today, but in the 60s it was shocking, not simply because it showed a bare bottom, that was OK for women and old men to do in the cause of comedy and ridicule. This picture, however, showed the bare bottom of a man in his prime and smacked of homosexuality. The artist even had the audacity to make the opening of his pants in the shape of a heart. As if homosexuality had anything to do with love! Bah! And that's not even counting the aspersions cast on the proud men of the Navy (as if)!

This imagining of a muscular sailor straightening his cap and seemingly about to go out on the town in backless pants showed confidence in being gay and mocked the effeminate stereotyping of gay men. Its daring nature limited its circulation in the wider world so it may not have had much impact in terms of advancing Gay Liberation, but it was very good for morale!

 

Jim French - Sailor Straightening his cap (1967-9)

French's photo which inspired the 'heart' image is not so brazen, but still has the tang of effeminacy for bigots. 

It's not effeminate, it's being gay, 

it's being human and Proud of your sexuality. 

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A significant addition to the Royale Studio Gallery

Follow the posting of Royale's shocking storyette 
about a bar room encounter

Royale Studio - The Wallet 03 (colourised by mitchmen)

 There he was! - Gone!

After the marathon posting of 'Leather Merchants' and it's stars, and a short break to recuperate, I have started posting 'The Wallet' which is the earliest Royale story with a coherent, dramatic plot line. It's come down to us complete and though the images are not of the finest quality, most of them have scrubbed up well and they repay study. As you can see I have experimented with colourising them, but will make an announcement about that later.

'The Wallet' stars Ron Fenn (aka the Tough Schoolmaster) and Ian McAllister (from TEDS) in an intriguing role reversal. As you might guess it's about a pickpocket, but there's a surprising, not to say shocking outcome. A hidden subtext that makes it one of Clavering's more political comments about the plight of gay men in 50s Britain.

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More Royale-style musings by DaveAlan01

DaveAlan01 -  HMS Hermes, Suspected Drug Concealment

This latest videoette posting by DaveAlan01 comes closer than ever to simulating a Royale Studio scenario. It features the most authentic Royal Navy uniforms I have ever seen in an AI image*, although I can't vouch for the credibility of the Officer's ranks. I suspect it wouldn't be an ordinary rating performing the drug search, either, but that quirk does add a twist to the suspect's discomfort.

 The underlying scenario of a drugs search in this video might have baffled Basil Clavering. Drug use was not as widespread in the 60s as it is today, but I'm sure he would have embraced the idea of Servicemen having to submit to cavity searches for 'contraband'.  

*Strictly speaking, Clavering didn't use full dress 'blues' in his storyette imagery, preferring tropical 'whites' which showed the men's body shapes better and conveyed the tightness of their fit. Whites also had the virtue of semi-transparency when wet, which comes across even in black and white photos. 

 

DaveAlan01 -  HMS Hermes, Suspected Drug Concealment (still)

 

This artist has now persuaded his AI engine (grok) to show a man in the act of being realistically stripped of his underwear by another man. This is much more dramatic than telling the unfortunate to remove them himself. 

 

 This segment of the video, though brief (!), is highly effective. We see the briefs being lowered, they don't just disappear as is often the case in AI attempts to depict strip action. The sudden, impersonal exposure has an intimidating military precision. I'm sure this is how Clavering would have wanted it to be shown.

 

DaveAlan01 - Royal Marine Stevens is stripped (still)

The stripping of underwear is highly suited to spanking scenarios of course, and the artist has used it to add to his series featuring Royal Marine Stevens, (he's my favourite character in these videos, also mentioned in my previous post about this artist). The new variant provides a teasing ending, stopping short of a depiction of the punishment.

 I don't think anyone has solved the problem of creating an authentic depiction of spanking in AI videos, although there have been some clever 'near-misses'. Tapping, stroking and groping however does seem to be permitted, as long as a justification is provided. DaveAlan's HMP Turdtown gives an erotic illustration. 

 The skill and patience needed to achieve results like this is hard to understand if you have never tried to create an AI image or video, the AI software has built-in resistance to nudity and naughtiness. In the video generating sphere, the artist has explained that it's difficult to persuade grok to create anything suggestive of sex unless consensual dialogue like, "I accept my punishment" is included. And, by the way, the dialogues here are suitably military and earthy, as required by the context, and spoken with a genuine English accent. 

 

DaveAlan01 - HMP Turdtown (still)

Bizarrely these AI constraints do not seem to apply to manhandling of men in general. In a couple of videos, like HMP* Turdtown DaveAlan01 has created some nerve-jangling protestations as men are propelled to the punishment platform. The one illustrated above ends with the guards deciding to leave the restrained prisoner to the mercies of the other inmates. So that's alright then! 

(*HMP = His Majesty's Prison)

DaveAlan01 -Turdtown Correction Centre (still)

In 'Turdtown Correction Centre' the artist has dreamed up a vigilante justice system for unruly rugby players. It features an equally non-judicial, 'eye for an eye' punishment for his offence, which reflects modern preoccupations with sexual violence. It's administered by a couple of fearsome brutes whose dialogue would make the strongest man quail. 

In this video, the artist has managed to create an astonishing impression of penetration which I would not have imagined possible, from a purely technical standpoint as much as the AI-engine's sensitivities.

Civil punishment scenarios like these last two were not subjects Clavering tackled, for reasons I suggested in my first post about this artist. However, there's no shortage of instant justice in his storyettes, both street style (as in TEDS) and military. In the military scenarios, the punishment is sometimes informally administered by peers (as in Cheat and Navy Gash) but often given a quasi-official justification (The Arrest, Unapproved School). 

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Quicksand video by Acrux2067

 Vespasian to the Rescue

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This AI-artist examines the art of quicksand entrapment in great depth at Acrux2067 on DeviantArt 

 

Acruc2067 - Vespasian to the Rescue 1

  

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Reception of a New Slave

 Men assigned to the Government's Mandatory Work Programme are sent to an induction centre where they are medically examined and weighed to assess the most suitable employment area for them. The strongest and fittest are given a green ticket and despatched to work in the fields, but a pink work ticket means housework, the nature of which will be determined by their new master. It may include intimate services. This new recruit is already displaying respectful compliance characteristics which make him extremely suitable for close work.

 

 

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1. Tight shorts must be worn at all times

2. Helmets must be used as much as possible

3. Show consideration for joggers, when mounted 

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