101 Uses for a Belt - No 23 Teaching the Alphabet of Fetish

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Homoeros - Recent work 1

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Regulars will know that I have a somewhat unhealthy obsession with shorts, so it didn't take much effort to fall for this hunky hiker, who seems to be wearing a pair made of leather, somewhat in the style of lederhosen. His wanderings have been interrupted by an unpleasant-looking character with a gun. 

He seems to think this is his territory. Freedom to roam? Bah! Humbug! 

 

This story is called 'Hill-Billy Elegy', which sort of prepares you for unprovoked nastiness. The young rambler is called Leo. It's a hot day, but it probably wasn't a good idea to make such a show of his amazing physique.

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Hillbilly number 1 is joined by another who looks an even more ugly character with an unhealthy lifestyle that probably hasn't done his brain much good. Leo is forced to kneel at gunpoint, presenting a delicious, submissive rear view to us. It might have caused him even more trouble if those emaciated rednecks were to catch sight of it. Luckily, they only want to grope him and make him strip naked. They take him to their camp, leaving his clothes and rucksack behind.

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Surprisingly, and disappointingly for us, their leader turns out to be an unkempt woman. I suppose the fact that there is a leader, and it's not just a bunch of violent thugs, might give Leo cause to hope. Especially as she is quite taken with him, a considerable improvement on her usual entourage. Unfortunately, she also sees Leo's good looks and impressive physique as a challenge.

 

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Leo is forced to fight her and suffers some humiliating treatment.

Great buns Leo!

 

 

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It's a painful experience for Leo. 

His dick is symbolically ground into the dirt, much to the delight of the gang, looking on.

 

 

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But Leo refuses to be a pushover, his muscles show their worth.

His dick also shows commendable resilience in the circumstances.

 

 

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Unsurprisingly, this doesn't go down very well. It's a contest he cannot win.

The woman responds to his lively dick by rubbing it with her fanny.

Leo defiantly rejects her.

 

 

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His fate is sealed anyway, they tie him to a whipping post.

You can see the gory results at Deviant Art (link below).

The woman gets sexual revenge too, in the only way she can,

(there's a clue in the image below)

 

 

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When the lash of the whip and sexual humiliation is finally ended,

Leo is taken away to a shed. He soon realises that this is not the end of his torment.

You can probably guess from this picture where it is all heading.

A traditional Homoeros fate awaits him.

 

 

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A Sheriff finds him traumatised but still alive.

Someone reported Leo missing, and his abandoned possessions were found on the trail. 

Great story.

I have omitted most of the imagery relating to Leo's torment, which is very explicit.

You can see much of it at 'Homoeros - Hill-Billy Elegy' at Deviant Art,

(plus more if you subscribe).

 

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Some more interesting Homoeros titbits........

 

 

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A young slave, kept naked in chains by his master, looks up,

 wondering what is going to happen to him next.

 

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The young men of Homoeros, like Leo the Hiker in the story above, often have a slightly unreal, fragile attractiveness. Some of that is due to the blond hair and blue eyes. This young man by comparison looks startlingly real and startlingly cute as well. It would be a cold master indeed who could not feel some sort of emotion towards him.  

As is often the case, the artist has only given him a number - 941.

The fate of prisoner 941 is reserved for subscribers.

 

 

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This image shows yet another young man who has been crucified in the middle of a vast yard. This is a regular situation in the world of Homoeros, but his free pages don't always reveal his inner thoughts about what is happening here. 

 

A man in military attire stands before the helpless victim and seems to be remonstrating with him. His arms wide pose, mirroring the victim's plight, seems full of psychological significance. Earlier pictures suggest the victim had a role as a groom and a cosy relationship was developing with this superior officer.  So this could be a distraught lover sharing his sorrow - or prolonging the anger of their break-up. It could be a friend lamenting his foolishness. A Commanding Officer justifying his hard decision. A regimental bully mocking his misfortune. Whatever the case, the inclusion of this second character makes the image so much more interesting than the isolated victim dying alone.

 

 

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Here, Homoeros imitates the famous homoerotic images of "Fred with Tires", substituting a typical character of his own as the model. The mechanic in his overalls is a much-loved male sex object. It's traditionally been a strictly masculine job, and the mystery of what might lie hidden beneath the shapeless, workman's overalls is tantalising. As a second layer, the glimpses revealed if partly open are emphasised, somewhat like the cowboy's chaps. 

 

Homoeros has chosen a zip fastening for his Fred's overalls. It's much more convenient than buttons for revealing glimpses, but it can have a mind of its own once released. If your hands are occupied with carrying heavy tyres, it's a dilemma whether to put them down to stop it or hope for the best. We can see almost down to his mechanic's cock, and more revelations below the hip seem imminent. His face is a picture of indecision, but have to content ourselves with the amorphous bulge in his crumpled overalls.

 

 

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These images acknowledge the muscularity needed to heft these heavy tyres.

Shiny perspiration and the dropped top tell us just how hot he is (as if!). 

 

Homoeros skates round the inconvenient reality

 of where all the material in the top half ends up, when it's dropped.

 

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The same zip still seems to be causing problems in this, outside of work, situation.

We don't know if the lowered garment was already in this position when authority intervened. 

Men do all sorts of things in quiet back alleys, and 'Fred' looks as if he's been caught out. 

 

His hands are placed submissively behind his back, but they don't seem to have been cuffed yet. Modesty might have been a more appropriate response to the challenge.

Unless, he's been ordered to stand this way, that is.....

 

The cop's muscularity and relaxed pose is nicely captured,

but his jeans suggest he's not a cop at all.

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Whatever 'Fred' was up to in the alleyway, he probably didn't anticipate this outcome.

It doesn't look like a regular Police Station, however, and Fred still doesn't look restrained. 

That suggests he's been intimidated or blackmailed into trying the horse out.

 

This horse doesn't have a particularly sharp 'wedge', but I'm not sure that it makes much difference after the first five minutes astride it. Having the legs raised at the back makes for a more precarious balance and shifts the discomfort forward, but probably doesn't add much to it. 

(in legs down mode, weights are sometimes attached to amplify the effect).

 

For more wedges at mitchmen, click on the 'Riding The Wedge' label below.

 

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More Homoeros highlights in Part 2

A Long Time Dying

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 With apologies to Atticus who did the manips

Click on the labels below for related subjects

Homoeros - Ross In Trouble

Homoeros - Ross In Trouble

This image is taken from a new Homoeros bondage series which he has turned into a slide show.

 See the full Ross In Trouble slideshow by Homoeros at Deviant Art

Homoeros - Crux 922

There's also a new blow-by-blow, new crucifixion scene
Presently it starts at page 16 of the Homoeros Gallery 
but that will increase as new material is added in front of it.

There's more fetish imagery further on in the gallery if you persevere including more crucifixions, floggings and domination scenarios. To find them you have to wade through many images of posing models and images blocked off by subscription barriers, but it's worth it. At least you can see what you will get if you decide to try the subscription.

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More Homoeros at mitchmen blog

Most Popular New Post of 2023 (MPP1)

Jordan James & Harvey Bridgestone

My annual custom of evaluating the most visited new posts of the year has given me more food for thought than usual this year after a dramatic fall in the number of recorded visits. The stats tell me that visitors are down by 25% for the blog overall but most of the entries in the table below show hit totals and a cut-off score which are just below half of the same position last year. This seems to be a continuation of a trend which I noted last year where views of new posts fell but visits overall were stable. There's an obvious message for me here about recent posts! There have been no new major reviews this year to set alongside past 'block busters' like Amalaric, the Milking Factory series and the IFNB phenomenon. I will be hoping to regain lost viewers in the New Year. 

Meanwhile I must thank all the readers who continue to show their interest in mitchmen blog!

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The table below lists the most popular of the new mitchmen posts during 2023. I'm sticking with last years method of simply counting hits with a mention of other factors in the notes.

(Titles have links to the original posts, column 4 shows annualised hit rate ranking).

On mobiles the table is best viewed by turning your phone sideways

 

TABLE 1 - Top 20 New Posts of 2022 at mitchmen

 

Rank	Title (+link)	Total Hits	Hit Rate Ranking	Pub Month	Note
1	Slave Training 11 - Cockaphobia (GIF)	927	1	Jul	1
2	Platoon69 by Jero	698	12	Jan	2
3	MPP in 2022 (best of new posts)	666	14	Jan	3
4	Art by Appas	608	11	Mar	5
5	Domination Art by Whiteworm	596	10	Mar	2
6	Musclehunk Rudely Awakened (GIF)	567	3	July	1
7	Milking Factory 14 by Shenguanlin	552	4	Jun	4
8	Domination Art by Paragon Illusions	547	2	July	2, 5
9	Art by 3D Waxx	538	13	Mar	6
10	Abduction Art by ApostlXXX	535	9	Apr	4
11	Art by Drtkk (Part 2)	527	7	May	4
12	Art by Iskan156	513	15	Mar	6
13	Art by Drtkk (Part 3)	506	6	Jun	4
14	Art by Shenguanlin	501	5	Jul	4
15	Jungle Captives	479	18	Feb	7
16	Most viewed post of all time (to 2022)	475	20	Jan	3
17	Milking Factory 13 (by Drtkk)	470	8	May	4
18	Kidnapped (Art by Mitchell)	465	16	Mar	3
19	Art by AnimasAnimus	450	17	Mar	2
20	Jero - Make Mine an Old Fashioned	449	19	Feb	2

 

(Stats collected on 1st January 2024) 

NOTES

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Top spot this year was claimed by the sexy GIF of Jordan James being handcuffed and ring-gagged by his partner. This clip was borrowed from MuscleDestroyer at Deviant Art and he also contributed No 6 in the table showing a bound muscle hunk being doused with water. This pair ranked 1 and 3 in the ranking based on hit rate (column 4). Despite this I have no plans to switch the focus of the blog away from gay fetish art, which made up the rest of the table as usual. It's only the second time a photographic entry has taken top spot in this table joining the Royale Studio 'Come and Get It!' announcement from 2021. Posts about Royale Studio have now moved to the new Royale and Hussar blog.

The winning total of 927 is the lowest since 2013 when the 'Art of Swarbrick' scored 774. 

See also 'Honourable Mentions 2' at the foot of this post for another contender for the top spot.

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Jero's sexy and sensual renders took the runners up spot and also claimed 20th position. He produces great art which redefines the imagery of old and gives it new life. There were many representatives of those older, established artists in last year's chart - Brick, Kalabro, Oztangles and Gilgamesh but it was cartoonist Rob Clarke who carried that banner this year, returning in a new, ball-bustin' guise as Whiteworm. 

I suppose AnimasAnimus at 19 might also be included in this veterans group by virtue of his longevity, but his cartoons are more representative of my interest in the power and eroticism of over-developed muscle and it's containment by clothing and by fellow muscle 'beasts'. That niche was also represented this year by Paragon Illusions (see note 5 below). 

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At No 3 and No 16 were two of last years 'Most Popular Posts' reports, a slightly puzzling phenomenon that I have remarked on before. They do, of course showcase the outstanding images of the year (by Brick in 2023 and IFNB in 2022) and also point casual readers to highly-rated posts they have missed. 

I appreciate visitors' interest in my analyses, but the appearance of my own drawing 'Kidnapped' at No 18 was more pleasing. It depicts my answer to the fiendish dwarves of Black Prof! I started to give more attention to my own work last year with the 'Cowboy Folio' project and experimentations with AI.

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ApostleXXX also uses a traditional drawing style and his skilful, economical depictions of men are sexy indeed, but it was also his story-telling that was rightly rewarded with 10th place. I don't often post about devilry but it has proved popular in the past with the great Sean Platter. 

The art of Drtkk (formerly known here as Milkcow) is highly stylised by comparison but he can make a claim to be the artist of the year with three entries in the table at No 11, 13 and 17. He fares even better on hit rate at 6,7 and 8. This was despite his best images having already been presented in here in 2017 - in the first part of the series. 

One of Drtkk's articles was a contribution to the ever-popular 'Milking Factory' series which grabbed two places (at 7 & 17). The other was supplied by Shenguanlin who is also represented in the table with a full review of his work (at 14). I wasn't really able to give full credit to his rather extreme visions of hunk abduction and toilet service but I hope readers followed the links to bathe in the full glory of his earthy deviousness!

 

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Artists using the latest render art and AI have a significant presence this year, headed up by Appas at No 4 with his 'bondage on a bus', a success that surprised me somewhat. Paragon Illusions was not far behind at 8, I very much like his images of mature men establishing physical control over their peers.

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Waxx3D at No 9 showed that these new techniques have not extinguished interest in good, old-fashioned rendering! Also in this category is Iskan156 whose use of crucifixion imagery strikes a familiar chord at this blog (see labels below). These two revivals emulated the success of Ridley last year. 

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Photo-manipulations have always been amongst the most popular posts at this blog in the past - notably Priapus of Milet and Amalaric. That torch this year was carried by two less well known artists, Beverley and Teracles (from the late, lamented Chained Muscle site). Their dramas of capture in the jungle made 15th position, a testament to the inherent appeal of putting scantily clad images of real men into unusual scenarios of danger. It's a technique that neither rendering nor AI can emulate - not yet anyway! 

Honourable Mentions 1

Chenz - Police Experimented 

There were 3 other contenders from late 2023 which did not make the cut in time, but scored impressive hit rates which and would probably have gained leading positions given more time.

Chenz-X-Chen's vivid, AI scenes of muscled captivity (Oct 23) would have taken 2nd position based on hit rate alone. DragonTattoo (also from Oct) whose built-in comforts for Astronauts are not only highly original but sexy on more than one level would have been 3rd. DGG's more conventional renders, somewhat in the style of Oztangles, (posted in Sept) would have been 4th. 

Of course these rates will not be sustained over a full year but all three were within 30 hits of making the table in their own right. It remains to be seen whether these impressive performances will continue.

Honourable Mentions 2

Black Prof - Cheated of Victory?

There were also a number of articles from the previous year, 2022, which were too late to make the cut in their own year of publication but would have scored highly in this years chart. 

Thus 'Tarzan Captured' by Black Prof (Aug 2022) has scored 1854 hits in the 15 months since publication and 1060 in 2023 alone, enough to take top spot.

Abduction Art by Jero (Nov 2022) has scored 1078 to date, 626 in 2023, worthy of 4th position at least. 

I have admitted examples like this to the table in previous years but there seems to have been a sea change in visitor patterns this year that makes it a case of comparing apples with pears and so I have decided to limit their ranking to 'might have beens'. The 'all-comers' list for 2023 will put their performances in a wider context. 

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This year's table features articles based on photographs, comics, cartoons, renders, traditional art and AI. The wealth of gay, artistic talent enhances all of our lives in difficult times. Long may it continue!

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Next time - The most viewed post in the entire mitchmen blog during 2022.

 

A big, big Thank You! 

to all my readers for your interest in my blog, 

I hope mitchmen has managed to divert you from the tribulations of the world in 2023

 

 

 

 HAPPY NEW YEAR! 

from mitchmen blog

 

Art by Chenz_x_Chen

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In Chenz_x_Chen's art muscular men are made captive and put on display. 

The immersion chamber is a favoured device but quite how it functions is a mystery.

It's human contents seem to be in some sort of suspended state at times,

where they don't need to breathe.

In 'Human Experimentation' they are actually near frozen. 

But even so they are still conscious enough to know what is happening to them.

The experimentations do have their more pleasant moments though.

In his 'Wheat Field' series a hooded, muscular man is compelled to endlessly endure the elements crucified as a scarecrow with wheat stalks in his penis.

He isn't bound to the cross however and is free to descend and protect the crop as a patrol 'dog'.

And he can also relax in the sun and hope to have his own stalk 'picked'.

Before obediently returning to his scarecrow station.

It's as though he has been hypnotised into this humiliating,  'ground-hog day' existence. 

Other scarecrows at mitchmen blog

Hypnosis forms the rationale for a series of images charting the humiliations of muscular cops,

who are gagged, blindfolded and loose their uniforms.

 Thus incapacitated, they are 'consoled' by their fellow citizens.

Admirers from afar take their chance to have a closer encounter.

Others take the opportunity to get anonymous revenge.

Great pec shot!

The fate of some Officers is to be publicly shamed.

For others a more private and painful humiliation awaits. 

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More by ChenzXChen at pixiv

also Chenz on Fanbox

Chenz on Twitter/X

For similar topics click on the labels below

Art by Drtkk - Part 3 (aka MilkCow)

MilkCow - White Rats 1

I discussed the features of this man-storage facility here at mitchmen in Milking Factories No 13, but MilkCow originally designed them to preserve captured POW's until they can be sold off . The title of the picture suggests that it's not expected that they will become cosseted House Boys or field workers.

This highly refined form of bondage is an ideal way of keeping them alive, under control and protected from damage in a controlled environment, whilst still being available for interested parties to view in person (although it's become more common to buy them over the internet since Covid). The captives love the safe feeling the warm liquid gives them and require minimum physical restraint in their capsules. They listen to music via implants and enjoy the gentle stimulation of nipple suckers and 'active' codpieces that comfort them and attend to their 'detoxification' needs. The cost of such a system is justified by the prices these men fetch, as shown on this man's container label.

MilkCow has drawn a handsome character demonstrating this ingenious design, he seems alluringly available and desirable as he dozes contentedly. All these captives have been shaved and show grow-back. The artist's bold, muscle delineation is less prominent in this close up view. The random arrangement of the capsules behind creates an impression of large numbers of other men being processed and on offer. One would be spoilt for choice, but few of us could afford this boy's price tag.

MilkCow - White Rats 2 - The Check

This scene shows the captive being 'checked' after being purchased by a laboratory for study. He's been delivered frozen in a cryogenic container which looks disturbingly like a coffin. MilkCow wisely skirts round the defrosting process. I suppose it might have been carried out by the container itself. Anyhow, it's barely warm when the delivery is lifted onto a table and strapped to it. 

Even before his shorts have been cut off his body, the scientists have already piled in and attached a device to his nipple and his other pectoral is being prepared for something similar. With all this haste the poor man must be struggling to understand what's happening to him. Maybe it's better that way. 

It's easy to understand the technicians enthusiasm once they saw what the new lab rat looked like. They all look very young and student-y which doesn't bode too well for procedure adherence as the check progresses (you'll remember what happened to the clipboard in the Chair of Toughness (MilkCow 2). The lab equipment at this point seems relatively unthreatening, but the universal use of eye protectors is a bit worrying. It's probably just as well one of them has a stethoscope for emergencies.

The artist has cropped the detail of what's happening on the right and re-directs our focus to two other technicians walking by and chatting as if all this uproar is nothing out of the ordinary. The nearly naked man on the table may grab our attention, but he is just another, experimental subject in Lab 169.

MilkCow - The Windmill Game

At first sight, it seems reasonably clear what's going on in this picture. The subject is lifting heavy buckets of water in a punishing position that does not allow bending of the arm. It would be well-nigh impossible for most people, so credit to him for achieving this much, but what is inducing him  to do it? 

The side frames limit his arms to moving up and down and it looks as if his wrist restraints are connected to the vertical arms with rings that can slide up and down. Since the frames also seem to be electrified it looks like this is a variation of that game of sliding a ring along an electrified, twisty wire without touching it and making the bell ring. I might be wrong but my guess is that it's his bell-end that's going to register any 'fails' since that organ is impaled by an electrified sound that is very firmly attached. His whole scrotum is trapped in the Y-fork of this assembly. 

So where do windmills come in? I think this must refer to the 4-pointed stars that are in contact with his nipples. But is he supposed to make them turn or are they spun by the technician standing behind him with a controller? This Heath Robinson complexity is puzzling but it's erotic fun analysing it.

Milk Cow - Nice Meats 1, Room 13 - Inspection

This final group of images is notable in that it features two captives undergoing the same trials and punishments alongside each other, illustrated rather nicely here by the mirror image composition.. Since they are both wearing dog tags it seems reasonable to assume that they are buddies from the same military unit. The title of the group, 'Nice Meats' suggests a fairly arbitrary, homoerotic sadism is motivating their treatment but it's supervised throughout by a uniformed figure and above them fascist style banners hang from the wall, suggestive of a more serious story line, perhaps a POW or partisan interrogation where anything goes, God help them. 

The Room Number motif references the non-specific oppression of 1984 and this carries on through the series although the banners do not. Each of the scenes takes place in a numbered room suggesting it's a carefully planned and lengthy programme but the captives do not visit the rooms in numerical order. 

In Room 13, the clip board indicates that it's a inspection but it's not obvious that any results are actually being recorded. Two keys lie on top of it, presumably for the chastity devices in which both men's manhood is locked, perhaps what passes for a uniform in this place. They are spread-eagled on crosses with an array of  electrical cables attached to their bodies, some with clinical sticker pads, some with heavyweight, industrial clips. Neither they, nor we, know if these are simply sensors or live electrical wires, but something is making them howl and the fingers of the man on the right are curled tight in tension (or agony). 

The positioning of their arms replicates a standard bodybuilder pose and this suggests that their strength is being targeted with the possibility that all these wires are manipulating their muscles to tense on demand so their physiques can be judged as bodybuilders are judged in competition. 

The Officer in the foreground looks as if he's just stepped off a Yellow Submarine or the Polar Express but he holds a wireless remote control that enables him to switch either man on or off and vary the intensity of their treatment. That seems very much like an interrogation technique. Meanwhile a steam-punk technician beavers away at his console, overseeing even more on-off switches using a curious visual feed from the pack on his back whose purpose is a complete mystery. It adds up to 'sinister'

Milk Cow - Nice Meats 2, Room 09 Whipping Makes Perfect

 This whipping scene takes place in Room 09. It's not clear whether the flippant subtitle indicates an underlying, corrective purpose behind their treatment or simply the personal opinions of their tormentors. The same could be said of the emphatic, metallic chastity devices they are still locked in, denying them their masculinity.

The two captives are depicted throughout this set as being significantly bigger than their captors. There's a similar contrast between their god-like muscularity and masculinity and their tormentors who are portrayed as either very ordinary or decidedly odd-ball. The density of weal marks and beads of perspiration covering their magnificent bodies suggest that their punishments are correspondingly intense and deliberately so. The torture technician's terrifying weapon and face mask seems to recognise danger lurking within these men. 

Milk Cow - Nice Meats 3, Room 10 - Sand Bags

In room 10 the assault intensifies and takes on an additional psychological dimension putting the men in fear of their lives as they are hoisted in nooses. It doesn't look as if they have been lifted completely off the ground at this point but the title suggests that might be part of the plan. At this point they are both being simultaneously beaten with the edges of  paddles by smartly dressed, uniformed officers. 

The supervisor watches them, enjoying a hot drink. It's a demonstration, not so much of sadism, but of indifference (or professional neutrality if we're being generous). The men have been freed from their chastity devices for this procedure but remain in cock rings. One is taking advantage of that freedom (and presumably responding to the beating). Part of the test perhaps? Is that a pass or fail?

 

MilkCow - Nice Meats 4 - Double Bed

Room 00 is placed at the end and it seems rather different to the others. The two boys bear the trellis marks of prolonged torture and their bodies are still covered in sweat but there are no electrical attachments here, no beating, only the more subtle pressure of the rack. Still freed from chastity they are greased up and encouraged (quite sensitively) by the attendants to produce samples which are being collected in glass jars. It's a relatively pleasant task (in moderation). 

We can't tell whether the rack is simply being used to coerce them, to encourage masochistic arousal, to wring out their last dregs or to verify a wacky theory about inducing variations in their ejaculates. What we can say is that it hurts them and the artist has used (rare) shadowing below the rib cage to emphasise their stress. 

Above them sitting on a beam are two, beautifully drawn rats, lab rats of a different hue, who if I remember correctly normally work in Room 101. This visual 'aside' neatly pairs with the facist motif in the first picture. As we know, despotic regimes are always keenly interested on what makes their opponents tick and often have pseudo-scientific beliefs that people who are different to them must be physiologically flawed and they are desperate to prove it. Of course, MilkCow himself, marks these muscular giants out as being different to ordinary folk.

Don't have nightmares chaps!

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In this second batch of images MilkCow's images have not changed an awful lot in subject matter but have become more refined and more stylish. You can see the thought that has gone into his images like Nice Meats 4 but he also seems to have progressed from generic, captivity S&M to something that hits the mark more accurately. Room 13 in particular strikes me this way and White Rats 1, they make me think, yes, that's it, he's got it exactly. Veryerotic 

 

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