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Reitorachi - Riding The Wedge

It's a while since I added to this series but I stumbled across these images 
and thought them worthy of inclusion.

Reitorachi - Man On The Horse

This artist departs from the conventional method of weighting the feet to give the rider the best experience between the legs. Instead his legs are hitched up behind him with the ankles tied together. A linkage to his wrists creates a sort of flying hog-tie. I don't know what that feels like, less pressured perhaps, but it looks good. 

He's also taken advantage of the forward body inclination induced by the bondage to insert a enema tube in the young man's rectum, with predictable results that won't appeal to everyone.

Reitorachi - On The Horse

In this, more sketchy example, the hog tie is omitted, the wrists being restrained in a higher, coupled position with the feet tucked in close behind. This means that the captive is obliged to arch his body himself, in order to maintain his balance. His reward is a catheter 'drip' to complement the anal insertion. There's a risk of him enjoying all this!

Also by this artist:-

Reitorachi - Cock Party

The artist's title scarcely does justice to this splendid suspension image. 

The imposed, forward arching stance looks very uncomfortable but sexy.

 The body harness with it's interwoven rope strands is superbly realised.

Despite the tricky perspective there's an almost 3D sense of enwrapment. 

It looks as if it might tighten up further, under the weight of trapped captive.

Reitorachi - Alien Adventure

Well I don't know about adventure. 

When someone waves a religious reliquary under your nose gushing with purple smoke, you know it's not gonna be fun. Especially when disembodied hands are approaching your orifices with leech-like creatures of the brrowing kind. The pillory restraint is a practical precaution but the tongs seem a bit prissy in the circumstances. Unless this is a remake of The Terror of the Tongs!

More by this artist at pixiv, where his name is 冷凍ライチ (Frozen lychee)

his gallery includes another wedge image, classically styled.

Also at 'X'

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The Art of Uruonurun - 1. Heroic Endings

Uruonurun - Eiyuu no matsuro - Red 06

It was this bizarre procedure that first attracted me to the work of this artist with a tongue-twisting name. To be strictly accurate it was a preceding image in the series which showed the 'Red Hero' spread out with an interesting bulge in his tights (still pristine at that point). I chose this variant to start the post mainly because you can see the hero's face and reactions. I'm often bemused by the winking syndrome in these pictures but it makes perfect sense to me here, as his organs (released from his tights) are engulfed in green slime. It must be an uncomfortable sensation, not dissimilar to Tony Houston's wet costume humiliations in the recent Home Alone posts. 

I'm not sure if this procedure is about torture, a medical intervention or simply run-of-the-mill milking, but it certainly involves the latter later on, as you might guess from the tube poised above. The green goo seems to melt hero suits and promote arousal but I know no more. Perhaps related to the dreaded Kryptonite that brought Superman low.

I particularly like the cleverly stylised faces of the attendants here, creating an impression of aliens with unknown motivations and unreadable expressions in a highly original way.

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In this later image from the same series, the equipment attached to the hero and his slashed suit  suggests that the alien's interest in him is not entirely benign. The title of the piece seems to have ambiguous meanings, either 'Hero with No Ending' (to his torment I suppose) or alternatively 'A Hero's End' which chimes with a Japanese proverb "The last days of a hero are often to be pitied". These add up to a perfect explanation of the imagery, which spans several series from this artist with heroes of various hues in the frame. 

This one, Red, has been placed inside a glass container and immersed in more green fluid which seems to be flecked with evidence of on-going milk escapes. His face mask saves him from drowning in it, but it also gives control of his survival to his captors - plus the ability to experiment with vapours related to their experiments. 

A hero's seed is always likely to be of interest to a scientist as it is with the animals in a zoo. The tackle enclosing his tackle is obviously designed to collect it and encourage production.  At bottom right we see images of him in his different existences, as a masked hero and ordinary human. These suggest that it is the essence of heroism that the experimenters are seeking. Subjecting him to life threatening forces no doubt brings that elusive element to the fore.

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This image is included in the same series but not obviously related to the scientific experimentations. It shows the Red Hero in the clutches of a maggot-like creature whose dick-shaped tail suggests it's even more enslaved by it's sexual forces than the average human male is. 

An optimist might read this image as showing the insect to be carnivorous rather than rampantly sexual, but the resistance-deadening injection and draining of the victim's sexual energy are suitable preliminaries to both ends. This might be the Red Hero's initial capture, I suppose, or a bad dream as his torments overwhelm him. A dream in which he sees his captors as they really are.

Uruonurun - Blue Shokushu 01

This image of the Blue Hero is from a different series but follows a similar pattern, the strange elasticated (?) web restraining him features in both series. The title here means something like 'job description'. Doomed to suffer outrageous fortune in other words. In the next frame of this series a purple blob splats down on his crotch and melts his suit away. Other blobs shred the rest of his suit. 

Uruonurun - Blue Shokushu 08

A lurking tentacle with a frighteningly stepped, graduated tip appears

You can probably guess what happens after that. 

Step by step.

Notice how the hero's hair in these pictures matches his suit. Just saying!

Uruonurun - Eiyuu no matsuro - Blue 14

This picture shows the same Blue Hero in the 'No End' series, undergoing a similar examination to Red but in a more spacious cylinder with even less of his suit having survived at this point. The aliens may be intending to discover if the heroes' suits are responsible for their special powers. Removing them obviously has an effect on our own 'special power' as we watch, but I don't imagine the aliens experience the same urges (or do they?)

 The restraint arrangements seem to include inserting the hero's limbs into thick, technological sleeves which seem to have embedded circuitry in their skins. They look like kinky, thigh height boots. Tubes attached to them seem to be circulating fluids of unknown purpose, probably unpleasant.

Uruonurun - Eiyuu no matsuro - Blue 09

The interest in understanding the defensive capabilities of the hero's suits is given credence by this sequence. Blue's suit is ripped open to expose his muscular abs, which are then given a repeated, severe pounding by a (green!) hovering ball (a welcome return of a familiar sci-fi artefact). This crude experiment continues for some time and demonstrates conclusively that the hero feels the full pain of gut punching when his suit has been shredded. 

In an even more sinister development, he coughs up green fluid. It suggests that his captors have been insidiously infiltating and jeopardising his body processes with all their equipment.

This artist's style in much of his work is very similar to others in the gay Manga genre, but in these pictures he escapes from the exaggerated, giant eyes and spiky hair that usually typify it, but don't convey quite the same meaning to western viewers as they do in Japan.

Uruonurun - Eiyuu no matsuro - Yellow 04

Here the Yellow Hero takes his turn and gets the electro-chair treatment. Uruo conjures up a tremendous impression of an overwhelming assault on the hero, though his muscles. It's evident that the shocks are not lethal, unless it's possible to die from over-stimulation. The cables attached to his temples raise the possibility that some sort of brain washing or mental control is also going on. That suspicion deepens in the later images in the series. But first, Yellow is subjected a range of quite brutal Pain and sensory torments (see links below). 

Uruonurun - Eiyuu no matsuro - Yellow 14

Ultimately Yellow suffers the unkindest cut of all for any hero. The clunky, hi-tech manacles round his wrists and ankles hold him down on the floor by some form of electro-magnetic attraction, forcing him to kneel, helpless while faceless purple aliens take advantage of him through the rear of his ripped suit.

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Yellow suffers a number of bruising and invasive attacks and ultimately, battered, totally drained and exhausted, he submits to the dominance of the goo which envelops his face like a lustful partner. His arms and other dangling bits hang uselessly, unresisting, unexcited. It's a powerful image of submission.

At this point in the series, reality itself appears to be shifting, transporting him to a cavern-like chamber which has an organic appearance like the internal pathways of a living body. An all-seeing eye in the wall of the channel looks down on him, watching intently. It creates the impression of a greater being controlling everything that is happening and observing the hero's behaviour. 

Uruonurun - Eiyuu no matsuro - Black&Yellow 21

Meanwhile, the Black Hero is in dire straights too, trapped in a similar claustrophobic cavern where more of the sinister, watchful eyes look down.. Caught up in the gooey web with his suit ripped open, he's under threat of multi-tentacle attack  Part of him is excited by the struggle but there's fear in his eyes when he glimpses the yellow hero approaching. Or could it be he feels shame at being caught on the verge of surrendering to unheroic, base feelings ?

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Yellow closes in behind and saves him from the terror of the tentacles by forestalling them, plugging the hole himself (with obvious enthusiasm). The tentacles seem to melt away, but we can now see that Yellow is still enveloped by the blob and it's as if he's still under it's control. Is this to be the ultimate humiliation to be imposed upon the unlucky heroes? The destruction of their virtuous honour by mutually mating under the direction of the eye that watches impassively?

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Suddenly the whole scene, the whole narrative seems to reverse. The rents in the heroes' suits repair themselves and disappear. The blobbery seems to degenerate into lifeless fluid, melting away. The elastic restraints simply fade into nothingness leaving the two heroes in each others arms, but bound together now by sexual desire, mainly Yellow's, which is reaching new heights even as we watch. 

The eye above has turned red, matching the colour in Yellow's eye. Does this signify that Yellow has succumbed to a sort of demonic possession? The apprehensive look in Black's eye suggests he thinks so.

Or is this simply the eye, enjoying the moment of passion, the moment where his manipulated heroes begin to find each other and discover that there's more to existence than fighting evil. 

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 Links: Uruonurun on 'X'

Uronururun at My Reading Manga

More Art by Aizenhower

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Aizenhower - Kristoff Revealed

 I suppose I shouldn't confess to liking 'Frozen' but I was intrigued by the 'male romantic lead' in it, Kristoff. He suffered the laughable fate reserved by movie-makers for male characters - being amiable, strong and dumb but loyal to his mate. It's a negative stereotype that goes strangely unremarked by feminists in the sexism debate. 

Kristoff a la Disney

Disney's official packaging of Kristoff in heavy winter gear is unlikely to stir the senses but Aizenhower extracts and magnifies his sexual presence that simmers, neglected throughout the film. Juxtaposed against his co-stars in the film (top image, above), this first glimpse of him naked is almost as shocking to the viewer as it obviously is to the imaginary heroines. 

The reaction of the coachman at the back is harder to read!

Aizenhower - Kristoff Unveils His Feet

This image stays closer to his film persona - a man inclined to cute boyishness and out of his depth in the sumptuous extravagance of the Palace. This babyish baring of his feet is not in the film. Is it a ploy to alleviate his boredom by attracting the attention of a passing 'footman'? 

Note the hairy legs, this character is a real man.

Aizenhower - Kristoff Bares All

This doesn't actually happen in the film either, 

certainly not with Anna, his romantic counterpart.

It's no surprise to find bulk under his clothing,

though perhaps not as muscular and alluring as this.

Aizenhower - Kristoff's Best Friend

Kristoff's other dumb-male quirk is that his best friend is his reindeer, Sven.

I'm not sure whether this image is an attempt to suggest something more racy

or just a play on the ability of Nordic people to kinkily embrace their climate.

Either way it's a very sexy image.

Aizenhower - Kristoff and a Stabbington Brother

'Frozen' gives Kristoff little in the way of male interest to reciprocate his imagined gay leanings, 

so Aizenhower has transplanted him into the world of 'Tangled' for this fan image.

Here he's paired off with one of The Stabbington Brothers. 

According to Disney fandom, the Stabbingtons are "are twins with muscular bodies, fair skin, red hair, light blue eyes, big eyebrows, big noses, and big jaws". So far so good but they are also described as brutish thieves, the clue is in the name, I guess. That makes this encounter in a weirdly romantic setting very interesting indeed. 

Feet figure again in this picture here. 

I'm puzzled as to why they are dipped in the sparkling stream, but I can see that it is kinda sexy

Perhaps it's something that happens in 'Tangled', but I haven't seen it. (Honest!)

Aizenhower - The Legend of Korra

In Part 1 of this post I featured a number of Aizenhower's images from his 'The Legend of Korra' series and this is another, with the hapless hero, Bolin, playing top for a change. It's quite a complex image which gives the initial impression of him applying a wrestling 'Nelson' hold to persuade a reluctant partner. Closer inspection reveals a very different sort of restraint, a slightly puzzling one. 

Nevertheless, it's a powerful image of two men coming together in high excitement. 

Aizenhower - The Legend of Korra

The tables are turned on Bolin here, it seems, but I don't think he minds. 

A remarkably energetic and affecting image, considering it doesn't really show very much!

Aizenhower - The Legend of Korra

In Aizehower's world all heroes have to succumb to the villains at some point.

Here the Commander takes his medicine in a very steamy scene.

Aizenhower - Open wide!

Invasive medical inspections are another favoured topic for this artist (see Part 1). 

This one, unusually, is taking place on the floor with the medic astride his subject. It creates a marvellous impression of a reluctant patient being firmly treated by a very determined medic. 

The patient's erotic response seems to be the root of the problem and it's clearly an embarrassment.  

The medic can hardly fail to be aware of it, he appears to be enjoying every minute.

These two also featured in a spanking image in Part 1, 

they are protagonists who become friends in an animated film 'Yu Yu Hakusho'.

Aizenhower - Cowboy Bebop

This images features two characters, Jet Black and Spike Spiegel, who are the captain and crew of the spaceship Bebop (from Cowboy Bebop which was a controversial Japanese, TV, animated series about space bounty hunters). 

Aizenhower shows them in what seems to be a seduction, sensitively handled by Jet, the older man. Although there's a striking inter-generational gap, Spike is actually 27 years old in the context of the story - and straight! As a bounty hunter he ought to be well able to stand up for himself,  but the boredom of being cooped up on those long space flights can do things to the toughest of men.

Aizenhower - Rugby Coach

I featured another rugby cartoon by Aizenhower in Part 1. This character is less stylised and captures the sexy credentials of the Rugby sporting stereotype very well. We are presented with physical bulk (great pecs!), square-jawed manliness and a devil-may-care persona for which mooning holds no fears. How these men love to tease us! But who knows what desires lurk inside the brain of this brawny beast?

Aizenhower - Space Dandy

Aizenhower's 'Space Dandy' is a trifle too eccentric for my personal taste, but he does possess one characteristic that I would never ignore - a great ass! What's that saying about the fire and the mantlepiece? In this image it seems like a space alien has also spotted the same attraction via some sort of spying device.

Aizenhower - Space Dandy

      This picture shows the Dandy to have a pretty good physique too, but it's still put in the shade by his backside. It's amazing how the addition of two faint highlights can enhance it's shape and the allure and suggest tight, stretchy fabric at the same time. An interesting demonstration of the power of the humble cartoon (and the gay mind!)

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Domination Art by Russ 3 Cops and Leathermen

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Russ - Cop Search

This scene is a perennial, favourite opening for a porn story, a cop searching a motorist whom he has just pulled over for some violation or another. His fingers go looking for incriminating evidence (or something) up between the suspect's legs. Cops in this era are Tom in Finland country, but for me this image has a sniff of Etienne about it, blended into Russ's eclectic but unique style. 

There's a classic video that opens like this with the subject dressed in sexy, khaki shorts which somehow make his search all the more invasive. Having established the suspect's suitability, the two men adjourn to a barn where the cop administers a fierce belting before... well, you know! I know it as The Barn but I don't know what the correct title is or who made it. Anyone know?

Russ - Cop Probe

When a cop's got you on the rack in a remote lay-by, things can happen that aren't supposed to happen - whether you like it or not. There's a trade-off in this story, just as there is in  Night Patrol by Etienne - sex in exchange for tearing up a ticket. In Night Patrol it's an act of appreciation (or a cruel joke) after the cops have had what they wanted, here it's an up-front deal, but the cop's clenched fist is a tell-tale sign that the suspect doesn't really have much choice. 

It's tempting to see the influence of Tom of Finland here, in the content and composition if not the style. His 'Highway Patrol' (Kake 22) was also published in 1980, and has a similar scene to this in it, except that it's the cop that gets some cum-uppance in Tom's story. 

It's also interesting to compare this scene with the climax of Night Patrol by Etienne. In that story the shafting of the suspect over the bonnet (hood) of the Police Car is spectacular but doesn't look quite 'right'. Russ adopts a less ambitious approach to depicting what is essentially the same scenario and while it doesn't capture the same sense of excitement, it's more convincing anatomically and sexually it's more intense. Penetration imagery in this era didn't usually show significant shaft length between the two men like this picture does. 

Russ - Cop Probe

After reneging on the ticket deal, the cop discovers his two victims are leather guys and have got teeth. Here he suffers the humiliation of being taken captive himself and having his uniform ripped open. More painful retribution will follow, but that's not all. It seems he has a evil, murderous reputation and the leather community decide to exact their own justice by taking him out of circulation. The eagle badge in this image represents their adoption of him and is a prelude to his new life of indefinite captivity and painful servitude.

Cops differ from other gay sex-icons like the Sailor, the Cowboy and the Superhero, in that they are not just figures of lust in their uniforms but threatening, all-powerful and unpredictable men to be feared. Gay porn usually provides a psychological palliative to that fear with the fantasy that they are (only) out for sex, but there's a greater satisfaction to be had in turning the tables on the truly nasty ones.

There's another of Russ's mouth-stuffing gags in this image. The moments he has chosen to illustrate for this story do not have the same energy as the earlier images in this series of mitchmen posts, but there is greater erotic intensity. He understandably uses solid black shading for the cop's uniform in these pictures and it produces marvellous effects in the cop's leather pants and boots, but is less successful elsewhere where it replaces subtle line shading and disturbs the visual balance.

Russ - Jones Beach 1

In 'Jones Beach' a young surfer becomes besotted by a vision in cut-offs and shades. This very 80's object of desire reacts aggressively to his attention, pouring homophobic abuse on the young man. However, that doesn't stop him from lingering with his admirer and coercing him into a sequence of humiliating and subservient acts that suggest a very different agenda.

Russ uses his softer, more realistic style here, capturing the open space of the beach with it's constant, lurking danger of discovery, not least by Police patrols. That threat makes the victim's predicament seem both frightening and exciting at the same time.

Russ - Jones Beach 2

Eventually, the surfer/swimmer is taken into the trees for an even more painful test of his admiration, out of sight of passers-by. It's already clear that his hero's homophobia is a front and having punished the hapless beach boy, he demonstrates that the gay ways he professes to despise are not entirely alien territory to him.

After he's taken his pleasure he leaves the surfer in the bushes, still tied up and bent over a bough. There he's visited and taken advantage of by those who haunt such places, including a cop. Eventually though, his new-found master does return to claim him in a happy ending with a twist.

Some of the detailing in this picture is quite remarkable - for example the bully's boots and the bough over which the victim is bent are graphic art of the highest quality. Notice the return also of the dangling gag.

Russ - White Water Run 1

These illustrations were provided for a story about a leather clubs motorcycle 'run' and they are focussed on the induction processes of that world. In this image a young, blonde acolyte is being trained in submission with some boot-licking practice. This is a similar scenario to the surfer training in Etienne's Road Kings. This trainee's "Gates of Hell" cock strap was a much advertised accessory in the 80's but they don't turn up in art very often, probably because they require a raging erection, but at least this cock is pointing downwards! 

The artist's depiction of the muscular, leather man here is a striking success, creating the impression of a firm, but benevolent master. There's some similarity to Tom of Finland's creations but this is a totally original and very perceptive image. The on-looker in the doorway is an existing slave in the story but you can imagine other scenarios, e.g. a buddy awaiting his turn to be trained (willingly or otherwise).

Russ - White Water Run 2

This domination image owes a lot to Macbeth with a more forceful boot worshiping scenario being enhanced by a variety of exaggerations of scale and drama. The big boots that typified Macbeth's work are given an extra cruel twist by Russ who adds pointed studs to the soles but he doesn't use the same crazy perspectives. His more conventional viewpoint produces a result that is less wild, less energetically aggressive but more intense. The heightened sexual flavouring (including the giant cock) is all his own work.

Russ - White Water Run 3

In this spit-roasting image Russ pays homage to another great artist of the 80's, the Hun. He's extracted one of that artist's typical scenarios and replicated the facial expression of the victim too, but the resemblance ends there. Russ has translated the scenario to the world of leather clubs rather than the Hun's preferred hunting ground of prisons and sleazy truckstops. Russ makes the man in the middle here more mature than the Hun's innocents too. He has used his own, more realistic figures and drawing style to recreate the erotic essence of The Hun's imagination.

Russ - Leather Man (cover for 'The Leather Journal')

This striking cover illustration is a decade on from the imagery Russ did for Larry Townsend and it's a more mature, accomplished style. I'm not 100% sure it's the same man but if it is, it shows considerable artistic growth. 

The spiky cartouche framing the subject is a modernistic, vaguely satanic expression of the fiery, hard passion (bordering on anger) that lurks within the Leather Man's soul. It's scarcely subtle but expressed  much less directly than the flailing belts and harsh domination that mark out the action pictures in this collection. There's an interesting construct where you might expect a motto to be that brackets, almost nudges, the sexual centre of gravity, depicted as a latent source of great erotic power, but temporarily restrained. This slightly mystical interpretation of the leather religion is contrasted with a meticulous depiction of his elaborate leather outfit and carefully trimmed hair, showing the more worldly, conforming, sometimes vulnerable dandy that is also part of this tribe's character. 

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Russ has a unique style that draws heavily on the inspiration of the artists of his day, but the drama and passion that infuses his best images is probably better executed than any of them. There are glimpses of extremely accomplished draughtsmanship alongside more mundane imagery, but it's not easy to identify a recognisable, unifying style in an era which was rich in artists with unique signatures - The Hun, Macbeth, Sean, Cavelo, Etienne and Tom of Finland. This is perhaps why Russ has received less recognition than he deserves over the years since then.

There's no site for him as far as I know.

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