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Mitchell's Roofers

Based on the AI-images of 'dures annees'

 

Part of my series of collected images which visualise a world where men have to wear short shorts whatever their age or job. 

 

The Roofing Profession comes under the spotlight here. 

 They suffer the inevitable consequences.

Some, but not all, of these images have been published at 'X' 

 

Roofers - 1

Being in the public eye was uncomfortable for some.

 

Roofers - 2

 

Others made the best of it.

 

Roofers - 3

Not everyone was free to make their own choices.

 

 

Roofers - 4

 

Roofers - 5

Roofers - 6

C'est la vie!

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Jockinbignikes  - Omar, Your Delivery Driver

Omar didn't mind when wearing shorts was made compulsory.
He made sure he had everything securely packaged.

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Art by Jockinbignikes @deviant art

orig pub 9th July 2025 

Recent art by Hongd542

Captive

This muscular man is being held prisoner. He's been stripped to his underpants and ritualistically tied up in shibari-style rope work. A bare topped captor silences his protests. The sun streaming in through the window cruelly mocks his captivity. An array of instruments in the background suggest other torments lie ahead.

 

Cop

A cop in his office pauses from his paperwork for a coffee (product placement!) and a snack. He, too, is mightily muscular, filling out his uniform with every part of his body. Tight enough to show us that he isn't wearing any underwear. Some Offices have that as a rule. The doughnut he's nibbling provokes ribald comments about licking tasty rings from his colleagues. 

 

He might easily be the captive of image 1.

 

Convict

It's easy to visualise him as a prisoner. Restrained with handcuffs, forced to wear the humiliating stripes of a convicted felon and made to submit to intrusive searches at the whim of his jailers. His resentment is apparent, but futile. They will have their way. 

 

Victim

It's even harder, out there on the streets. Danger lurks in every alleyway, and even a street-wise man can fall foul of what lurks there, waiting for an opportunity to sate its lust. 

 

Sportsman

 The sports field should be a place of refuge from the world's evils, a place of relaxing, healthy exercise. But even there, a muscular man is at risk. Teams bend the rules, ostensibly to be the winners, but no sporting triumph can beat the thrill of scoring in the goal that lies hidden in every opponent's shorts.

 

Locker Room Lollipop

As the Cop with his doughnut discovered, things that melt in the mouth can stoke an appetite for savoury treats. There's no shortage of men eager to give them instruction in the locker rooms. It's not only narcotics that get you hooked.

 

Fetish Date

The discipline of team sport is good preparation for the rigours and training for formal servitude. Every journey begins with the first step, but this hunk can scarcely have imagined where that lollipop and curiosity would lead him. 

Juicy Fruits

Temptation abounds in every profession. Stoked by unscrupulous employers who impose quick-release uniforms on their workers. They are designed to assert their power over them - and, by a happy coincidence, satisfy their tastes for eye candy of the masculine kind.  

 

Underwear Inspection in the Army

It's no different in the army. The uniform is prescribed and regularly inspected. Even a soldier's underwear is inspected periodically to make sure it is clean and without creases. The Sergeant thinks it helps with unit bonding.

 

See also 'Peacekeeper' at 'X' 

 

 

Office Boss

Some Offices make their employees wear shorts. In this one, the roles are reversed on 'Dressing Down Friday', with the workers finding skimpy shorts for the Boss to wear and showing him what it's like to be the underling. It's all taken in good spirit usually but, as with any Office 'do', it's wiser to not drain his patience completely. 

 

 

Office Suspension

For those that go too far, there's Suspension Saturday. This happens quite often to employees who happen to be good-looking. They can't show their contrition by writing out lines, of course. Instead, the Boss comes in to see them when he thinks they've had enough and extracts whatever he wants from them on the spot.

 

Office Dicktation

Men with exceptional credentials and malleability may even get promoted to be the head honcho's PA. Their duties mainly involve looking hot when doing the filing and sitting on the bosses knee to take his dicktation. Little extras in their pay packets are their reward for allowing access to their play packets. There's also a bondage bonus if they have to stay late for 'over the knee' overtime. He doesn't take no for an answer. 

 

 

Office Primer

 Some new employees find this culture difficult to adjust to, but primer courses are helpfully provided for promising entrants. In the privacy of the medical centre, they are shown what will be expected of them and how to make the most profitable use of their natural abilities. They are also taught some unnatural ones that might come in useful, too. It's a hard and sweaty induction.

 

 

Milking Medic

The highly experienced medical staff are well-equipped to allay their patients' anxieties about the sometimes-invasive procedures. Their expertise always gets the best out of their charges, who leave exhausted and drained, but with happy memories. 

 

 

Office Restroom

 The pressures and tensions of such jobs are enough to drive any red-blooded male to seek respite in the restrooms. There they can find relief - if one of their equally-aroused colleagues doesn't find it for them first.

 

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This is Part 5 of my series about Hongd542's AI art,
Earlier articles: Part 1 contains onward links through to Part 4

Hongd542 posts enormous quantities of art and surprisingly rude versions of his images at his Hongd542 Deviant Art site 

otklad - AI Spanking Art 3

Two handsome men sit together in earnest discussion, one is dressed in athletic gear. On a makeshift log table before them lies a wooden spoon. I suppose it might signify the athlete coming last in his race, and they're discussing how he can improve. Cue another use for the wooden spoon. His hand is reaching towards it as if he's about to pass it to the other man, giving him permission to use it.

 

It's a wonderfully neat image, even by the standards of AI, with nice close up framing drawing attention to the athlete's open legs and the strings trailing over his bulge. Good-looking and tough, he's perfect for the spanking treatment hovering, unspoken, in the air. It doesn't really need a caption, but I like the picture so much that I wanted to embellish it with a slightly different slant...

 

It doesn't really look like an athlete with his trainer, not in this ultra-private, woodshed setting. It can't be a traditional father and son heart-to-heart, either. To me, this athlete looks like a man that can't be pushed around.  

 

An Extra Hard Bargain

My take on the scene visualises the athletic hunk as a jogger, intercepted on his routine, morning run, by a man who has enough charisma and chat up lines to entice him into his nearby den. Maybe it was cold and raining, so he was more easily persuaded. 

 

He soon notices the paddle, and his host dangles the carrot of financial gain for just a little pain, a reward for all his hard work in the gym. The money hooks him, gym fees are high, but he's cute enough to negotiate. His would-be punisher doesn't mind. His budget will be tested, but it's persuading the hunk to submit that turns him on, the swats are just the hot topping. He can compensate - fewer, but harder. It will be interesting to see how far the jogger's greed will take him, once he's feeling the heat. 

 

 

otklad - Public Spanking

 

otklad's own caption doesn't give much explanation, but it looks like a campsite and these two have obviously broken the rules. Antisocial behaviour, I suppose, because everyone will get to watch their come-uppance. The two men, who seem to be related, look out with bewilderment at the assembled audience, who are, no doubt, expressing their pleasure at being able to witness their humiliation. 

 

It's a nice composition, but inspired a very different scenario for me.

 

A Long Walk Home

Suitably chastised, the lads try a camping expedition on their own. They've picked a secluded area by a lake where they can get up to mischief and skinny-dip away from prying eyes and interfering busy bodies. 

 

Unfortunately, this is private land, and they are not the first to trespass on it. The landowner knows this is a favoured spot because he regularly finds campers rubbish there, so he makes it his business to check it. He's caught the two trespassers red-handed and bare-assed. There's a fine to pay, but they haven't got the money, so he sends them to get some, keeping their tent and gear as a guarantee.

 

For all I know, he spanked them too. 

 

Bare foot and scantily clad, they peer into the gathering gloom, imagining what terrors might await them amongst the sinister trees.  

One seems to be thinking that the men might be quite interesting. 

 

 

This scenario is pitched by otklad as a man being escorted into the privacy of the woods for a punishment that utilises the locally available materials. AI can produce lots of sequences like this that are of interest for how the participants are modelled. Regulars here won't be surprised to learn that it was the muscle hunk who caught my eye in this one. I suppose he does look as if he might be related to the man in front of him and able to leverage that to overcome the resistance of a fully grown man. However....

 

 

Hot Pursuit

 

Darren might be naive and inclined to count his chickens before they are hatched, but he's not innocent. You can't blame him for being attracted to the muscle hunk he spotted on one of his walks in the forest, both of them communing with nature. It was understandable too if he followed him to a clearing and watched him disrobe and exercise, unincumbered by the conventions, constraints and distractions of the gym. 

 

Things got a bit murkier when Darren started monitoring the clearing for return visits by his hunk and peeping at him on a regular basis. Confident in his seclusion, the hunk's 'performances' gradually became more and more arousing and Darren, watching, became increasingly excited and indiscreet. Inevitably, one day, his presence was noticed. 

 
Some muscle men enjoy being admired, but most would draw the line at unbridled lust. Darren hastily made his escape, thankful that he knew the byways of the forest so well that he could shake off the pursuit. Unfortunately, he forgot that there was only one track that led out. The hunk didn't need to be a brain surgeon to work out where to intercept him. 

 

 

The Wrong Trousers

otklad's original of this image is a conventional student spanking, centred on the sexy contrast of formal jacket and exposed underwear. Interestingly, he does not spell out Hawkin's answer. There only can be one, of course, but it signals his complete capitulation, having already been humiliated by the dropping of his trousers. 

 

I have adapted it to my pet fantasy at the moment - making grown men wear short trousers long after leaving education. It's become a condition of employment in many companies. A rule that gives the men the uncomfortable feeling that they are not yet regarded as 'grown ups'. 

 

I retained the Hawkins surname to associate the scene with his earlier days, but I don't know if his new boss has enough power to wield his cane on the employees bottoms or simply uses it to intimidate them. Making Hawkins return to his desk minus his trousers is humiliation enough for an adult.

 

 

 

MORE otklad in Part 4 

 Read this series from Part 1

search "otklad" at mitchmen  

 

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The imagery of otklad on 'X' is a great archive. 

He's now creating newer art on otklad.bsky.social 

 

 

The Suggestive Art of dures-annees

This artist's pictures are inspired by everyday life in a French provincial village, which is evoked vividly and comprehensively. But it's a version of the world where extreme traditional values still hold sway. Men have to submit to them and to anyone in authority, giving them whatever they demand. Many are obliged to wear short trousers to demonstrate their subservient position.

 

Dures-annees - Workmen Laying Cobbles

 

 Rustic crafts and traditions are still part of everyday life, here, but these are three of those men, trapped in adolescence, still wearing short trousers at the unchallengeable behest of their employers. 

 

Still talking about sex like kids too, in this scene. The clever bib and brace kit they have to wear may leave their legs naked and exposed, but the pockets keep everything else warm - and on the boil if they want! Dures-annees is French for hard years and the pun is intentional. We're talking cobbles here!

 

The French may not know the meaning of entrepreneur (according to ex-President Bush) but this one certainly knows the meaning of double entendre!

 

Dures-annees - Workmen fixing Roofs

 This is a job everyone looks up to, keeping a roof over our heads. Wearing shorts for the job has its pro's and con's, though. It allows ease of movement with nothing loose thing to catch on things, true, but they give little protection from sharp edges.  

 

Worse still, this sensitive man is not allowed to wear underwear beneath his shorts and he has noticed how certain men gather and gawp at his backside as he goes up the ladder. 

 

Wellingtons and shorts make a sexy combination*, but climbing a ladder in them isn't recommended for safety's sake!

(*see blues, shorts and thighs) 

 

 

Dures-Annees - Cutting Willow

 

 A young man, charged with cutting willow for the thatcher, hurries back to his master. He knows that if he lingers to talk and is late, his master will use one or more on his backside. His friend smiles, secretly wishing he might be there to watch it.

 

 

Dures-annees - Labouring in the Fields

 

Labouring in the fields is a typical part of French rural life. 

This farmhand has been singled out to work in tight shorts in all weathers. As he labours, he is closely scrutinised. 

 

The artist says:-  

"The labour is hard, but slacking off is quickly corrected. A stick is never far away to stimulate flagging enthusiasm". 

 

There are two contenders for 'stimulation' in this image, the one who isn't working and the one who is distracting him! 

That's how it works!

 

dures-annees - Sounded like a Great Spanking!

 

Village life has no anonymity, unfortunately. An embarrassed youth receives commiserations and congratulations from an amused neighbour, who overheard him being spanked. That's why he isn't actually riding his bike today.

 

The bystander with a guitar, seems to be providing a musical commentary like a bad staging of Shakespeare. AI seems to have a bizarre sense of humour sometimes.

  

 

dures-annees - The Breeding Bull

 

The artist presents this image with the wry caption, 

'July's work is breeding the large and small livestock'*

 

The farmer thanks the Bull's owner for his services:- "In ten months I shall have a new batch of calves, but I can't sit down any more!"

 

To which the Bull's owner replies, "That's normal, I used the same size on your buttocks as your cows. Don't worry, in three days you won't feel anything, and I'll come back to see you again". 

  

* The author also gives a lengthy quote from 'Palladius's Rural Economy' about the need to keep the cows in good condition so they can be bred each year. Literary quotes, wise sayings and fables are included in many of dures-annees posts, contrasting with his earthy narratives. They add depth, authenticity and coherence to the picture he weaves of a real rural community still practicing traditional values. It shows a pride in literary skill that seems very French 

 

 

dures-annees - Still in Shorts

 

At the packing factory, a worker, still in his apprentice shorts after three years, complains to a colleague that his boss won't give him promotion to full worker status because he can't afford it.

 

Unfortunately, alternative employment opportunities are scarce in this community so he must continue to endure the groping of fellow workers and occasional spankings that his mandatory shorts seem to attract, like a magnet for idle hands.

 

 

dures-annees - Punished for Lust

 

Older workers fare little better. At the Saw Mill, an operative explains to a friend that the boss saw him eyeing his daughter and didn't like it, so he made him wear a chastity cage (and shorts) for a month, or else lose his job. 

 

His (surprisingly knowledgeable) friend observes that 'it' will start leaking after a while, but apparently it already is. He reassuringly predicts that his colleague's dick will end up permanently shrivelled, like a hamster's.

The author's cryptic motto is:-

"In business, the art of leadership is all about using conjecture".
 

 

 

dures-annees - Soldiers on Leave

 

Even men in the military may be required to dress in short pants, including when they go home on leave. The pleasure of returning to camp and being reunited with their comrades is coloured by the knowledge that their customary lot of physical ordeals and injustices will also resume. Which in this world means corporal punishment and sexual services.

 

 

dures-annees - After The Fête

  

Military life is full of constraints. When you are surrounded by young men in revealing shorts, it's only natural to fraternise and want to take the best ones back to meet your comrades cooped up at base. 

See 'Back to Barracks' at 'X'

 

 The artist's own caption is more philosophical. "Returning home after the celebration is not part of it sometimes, but remembered only by others".

 

dures-annees - The Mature Altar Boy

Religion is a big part of life in this village, and the artist takes a typically French, contrarian view of recent church scandals. 

 

The priest thanks a villager who has agreed to return as his altar boy. They agree he should wear nothing under his cassock, just as was their custom in the old days. The new altar boy is obviously relishing already, the prospect of new adventures in the crypt! 

 

You have to feel sorry for the priest, this liaison may be legal, but it's still not in keeping with his vows. Being offered access to a hunk in shorts as brief as this would test the willpower of any man with gay leanings! 

 

see also The Priest's Temptation at 'X'

 

 

dures-annees - The Best Equipped Win The Ball

Other men find their own opportunities to do good deeds as they fill their spare time, making the best of having to wear shorts.

The artist invents a suitably ambiguous saying to the effect of 

"When you play near water, it is he who is the best equipped that gets the ball"

 

I find this character's, oddly retro look, curiously attractive. I expect he'll be off to the local cruising area when he's finished impressing the kids.

 

Winter weather provides a great foil for making the wearing of shorts more testing. Dures-annees matches all his posts to the changing seasons and religious calendar. That alignment is lost, of course, when reading his blog retrospectively, but the sequential rhythm of the year is preserved, amplifying the countryside feel and giving perceptive readers a pleasantly immersive experience.   

 

 

dures-annees - Those Who Dare Win The Ball

 

This variant opines that it's the one who is willing to strip down to his underwear that gets the ball. The hero of the hour here is not just retrieving it, but splashing around in the water and playing with it to impress the youngsters with his wet-ball skills. 

 

There's no sign of his discarded shorts. Let's hope there isn't a mischief-maker who has hidden them, he'll need them if his underwear gets wet! In fact, it looks as if it might have done already. He'll have to go cruising to dry them out. I'm sure his boldness will be appreciated there !

 

dures-annees - Drug Mule

When he's not being literary, this artist can be shockingly blunt and simultaneously witty. He titled this post:-

 

"Narco Transit – The Underbelly of Drug Trafficking". 

 

– Come on, push! It's not hard to poop out a bag of powder! 

– That's easy to say! It's not coming! 

– Then get up and bend over! I'll get it out myself! 

– No, wait, I think it's coming now!

 

(This is as the author wrote it. I've sightly adjusted the language).

 

On a more subtle level, I love the power play here, the butch builder being manipulated by his cunning young dealer to the extent that he submits to taking off his pants or shorts at his place of work and squatting to unload and hand over his package. That proves to be embarrassingly hard, and he panics at the thought of being given a hand with it.  There's a companion piece for this with an even more vivid text.

 

The freely available AI engines are notorious for blocking attempts to produce rude pictures. Lacking an overall, real intelligence though, they are inconsistent and can be tricked with clever words into going round the rules. I'd love to know how dures-annees persuaded this one to produce an uncovered back end.

dures-annees - Cruising Area (The Spirit of Sodomy)

No gay man could mistake what this image depicts. The artist paints this as a place where two lovers have been taken by a more knowledgeable acquaintance, so they can enjoy their attraction to each other to its fullest. He says it is the 'Spirit of Sodomy' to give in abundance what one wants to give. 

 

Here no-one will see and no one will hear the noise of penetration. It's a place where they don't have to worry about hostile intruders, since there is always someone around who hasn't clicked, keeping watch. You just have to be quick when the alarm is sounded. 

 

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 Dures-annees work is a master class on transforming pretty but erotically limited AI-images into something more punchy by adding an interesting and sexy storyline. It's something I try to do myself with captioned versions, some of which are linked into this post.

 

 More dures-annees can be found at his blog

Vie de Campagne

It's in French, as you would expect, but can be translated easily with Google Translate if you lack the full language skills. A somewhat tedious process and his colloquialisms cause confusion, but it's worth the effort, if only for the hidden shock value of some of his storylines. 

MakeMenWearShorts

 

 

 

Sam was pretty nervous about his job interview. It was a really good opportunity and he didn't want to mess this one up. Having to wear short trousers for it didn't help. He always thought they were looking at his bare legs and judging him. It was silly, of course, all men under 30 had to wear short trousers these days* for virtually everything. And they had to be very short trousers too. It felt no different this time. The interviewer hardly looked at his face. Sam was so relieved when it ended. He was convinced that he had failed to get the job, but he got a surprise. 

 

  "Congratulations Sam, you've got the job!" the interviewer said, still looking at his legs.

"Your credentials are absolutely perfect". 

 

To Sam's surprise, they exchanged polite, celebratory kisses.

 He realised then, that work life was not going to be what he had expected. 

 

*I have a running, fantasy thing about grown men having to wear tight schoolboy shorts for work. 

And having to suffer the consequences! 

See my 'makemenwearshorts' images at 'X'  

 

 

 

On his first day at work, Sam felt excited. He squeezed into his best short trousers which he now thought of as being his lucky pants. His new boss had been really friendly at the interview and he looked forward to working for him. He hadn't been there very long, settling into his desk, when the boss called him in and asked him if he could take dictation. 

 

Sam explained sheepishly that didn't know what that was. 

"It's very simple" the boss explained, smiling at his naivety.

 "You just sit on my knee and write down what I say" 

 

"Can't I just sit on a chair?"  Sam said. "That would be more comfortable"

 "I suppose so, as it's your first day", his Boss agreed, looking disappointed.

 "I'll have to send you on a course, so you can learn to take shorthand". 

 

Sam wasn't sure he wanted to take shorthand, it sounded painful.

 

The boss just smiled at him, benignly, he came and knelt by Sam's seat.

"Tell you what" he said. "If you don't want to sit on my knee to take dictation,

Can I sit on yours, instead?" 

 

I suppose shorthand dicktation dates me, but it was a very useful skill at one time!

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