Gay bdsm art by 'mitchmen' Mitchell and other artists featuring male erotic sexy fetish, S&M, men tied up, male bondage, domination, humiliation and spanking. Vintage photographs of men in uniform, Royale & Hussar Studios, humourous captions, gay pride articles
To my readers......
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The Caps and Collars/ Flat Cap Gang story at Google Groups has been on a break since January, I am working on it and hope to resume shortly. (see Group News for link)
Link to the Royale Studio Archive in the right sidebar
This French artist's work is focussed on spanking, drawn and painted with fresh colours in a comic book style with a slightly retro-feel not unlike that used by Nikolaas for his rather darker subject matter. The clothing likewise reflects it's time but I like the traditional shorts suggesting a jogger on his morning run taking a short cut where he shouldn't!
Waldo - Cellar Time
If you enlarge this image you will see that this man's face has a classical quality like the statues of Greek and Roman antiquity and it shares the rather lifeless eyes that often characterise those works. You don't get a strong sense of personality or that this artist admires men or sees them as powerful, sensual or sexual objects. I'd be a bit worried about what's going to happen to the plumbing if the spanker really gets going!
Waldo - Belt Loop
This is a very simple image but captures rather skillfully the curve of the belt as it circles round the the subject's body and cock. The indentations produced in both areas show a tight, restraining fit. I'm not sure this arrangement is achieveable with a conventional belt design though!
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The majority of this artist's work features female participants as both tops and bottoms. If you are not averse to such content you will find plenty of it very easily with search engines.
For more articles in this series click on the A-Z label below or search for specific artists using the index page or search boxes (top right)
Two images by an artist I know only as 'Waistband' and involving the worship of traditional white men's underwear. Many of us cut our teeth on gear like this, advertised in store catalogues. Functional underwear that isn't pretending to be anything else and is not meant to be seen makes the wearer look particularly undressed whenever it does see the light of day.
There's memories of the famous Y-Front marque in the first picture although I can't recall ever seeing variants with a button fly like that depicted here. The second image portrays something more like the Calvin Klein revival style. Both varieties provide the glorious rear view that only comes with a modest capacious fit and high waist. This inbuilt characteristic of modesty makes the man who wears it all the more challenging and intriguing and sightings of him in his underwear acquire a rarity value.
This artist has his own distinctive 'woodcut' style that gives these images credibility. If anyone can supply more information about him (via comments) I'd be glad to hear from you.
If you like looking at men in this style of underwear have a look at my series 'In Praise of Y-Fronts'
For more articles in this series click on the A-Z label below or search for specific artists using the index page or search boxes (top right)
Randy
Waelon produced extraordinary pictures in the 90’s showing deadly conflicts and
tortures involving knives, spears, arrows, stakes and similar pre-industrial weaponry.
Most of it is too extreme for this blog although it would pass without comment
in a Hollywood film.
This
chariot example is one of his milder images conjuring up a fantasy of primitive
enslavement. His characters exhibit lean muscularity and distinct but varied ethnicities
which are well-observed and without any hint of caricature. Are these two
hapless explorers who have fallen into the hands of some secret group with
their own unique customs and values? This type of storyline gets a bad press
because of its mistaken assignment to certain parts of the ‘undeveloped’ world.
We all know that real life ‘lost tribes’ seem to be peaceful and friendly to point
of naivety. But the theme of encountering the possibly hostile unknown has a
universal significance and these days it’s more likely to re-appear dressed up in
post-holocaust trappings. It works fine as an allegory of entering gay life and
other unpredictable ‘social worlds’.
Waelon
drew a notable set of images showing similar tribesmen in a jungle setting, dressed only in loincloths and meeting gruesome ends in battle or captivity.
The absence of
any overt eroticism in these pictures places them in a distinct category which
arguably has nothing to do with fetish at all, but who can fathom the human
mind?
His
output is not restricted to such Tarzanesque fantasies; there are examples of
modern settings and black ethnicity too, which is depicted above with an uncompromising
but inoffensive authenticity and authority that only an insider could carry off.
This is a detail of a larger picture.
Stylistically Waelon has the skills of a professional illustrator and the attention to detail (like the neck of the captive above) shows a preoccupation with realism that goes beyond, in fact goes against, the normal requirements of erotica.
I
can’t find any reference to him on the web and the challenging nature of his
imagery means that public postings don’t stay around long , you may track him
down in membership groups like GMBA (see sidebar).
This stylish image by Wally Rainbow mades an interesting prelude to the letter 'W' in my A-Z of Fetish Artists which is starting soon. The artist is a prolific producer of romantic cartoon art but this image is a bit more interesting than that. For a start the main character is quite a nice representative of manhood (a depiction which reflects the Italian background of the artist). There's also an obvious fetish element (domination and whipping) even if, like me, you're not interested in little blue men.
But this image has an additional appeal that is quite hard to define at first. The theme of a man carrying a demon on his shoulders who constantly punishes him has a distinguished and pretty much universal literary ancestry. Wikipaedia calls it the shoulder demon it pops up in Japanese legends and modern fantasy fiction where goblins abound. You don't have to be a psychologist to recognise the significance of the symbolism and it's relevance to personalities you know, the expression 'driven' seems most apt in this context.
Seeing the demon with a whip in his hand also makes me wonder if this offers an insight into the origins of our own interests in S&M, but it's a bit early in the day to explore this idea!
Wally Rainbow has a blog called Lightelf which covers other atists work as well as his own.
The title of my article is taken from Etienne's well known 'Sailor Beware' series about two sailors who are plied with drugged drinks in a Middle Eastern bar and kidnapped to be sold into slavery.
For more posts on sailors click on the 'sailors' label below or see 'In Praise of Sailors' series
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We tend to think of elaborate bondage as being a Japanese art
but the curiously named BJTriplex blog shows the Chinese also know their ropes.
Nice photography too. This image of a restrained, young man waiting by a neat, freshly made bed is full of possibilities. He shows total submission but this scene is devoid of any suggestion of sleaze. He knows this experience will be a classy one with meticulous attention to detail.
This unusual angle turns our attention to him.
How does he feel, trapped inside this web of ropes?
Is he having second thoughts?
Now we see how his arms are pulled back tightly.
His entire body is enclosed - but not covered.
His head dips in resignation.
It begins.
His legs are folded back and secured.
Soon they will begin to ache - like his arms already do.
There's no chance of escaping now.
His eyes are covered so he cannot see what is to happen to him.
A ball gag fills his mouth muffling his cries and gasps.
Which begin as the man who has him today asserts his control.
Already he is purring with pleasure over the neatly trimmed pubes
and perfect proportions of the young man's cock.
A good choice.
In time he will deliver up his milky man juice.
But first there are more knots to tie, ropes to tighten.
They must be allowed do their work.
There will be much helpless struggling and pleading to savour
Ulf’s
output was just as prolific in 2006 as in 2005. My collection of his images from
this year, purely compiled from examples which have come my way, runs to 150
pictures.
1
Ulf - (title not known)
A
goodly proportion of these works are his continued explorations of fantastical
worlds with naked men marooned on islands or wandering through bizarre
landscapes and magical woods where be-winged creatures (male fairies?) wistfully
pine amongst over-sized mushrooms. These works are imaginative and artfully
crafted suggesting man being at one with nature, but they are also often imbued
with a sense of loneliness and isolation. In this example the interaction with
the landscape seems to become disturbingly physical while the gloomy half-light
seems to be the harbinger of a mighty storm.
2
Ulf - Get your ass over here
In
any year Ulf is much preoccupied with portrayals of men as idealised, strong
and sexual creatures, but it’s usually in pin-up style, admiring from a
distance. This portrait of a GI however has a more intimate quality. Ulf’s
world does not consist of universal prettiness but this man’s mature face is
full of character and lends his muscular, hairy body a sort of unthreatening softness
and welcoming warmth that makes the peremptory instruction of the title seem
quite playful. The anatomy is exaggerated but in a controlled way and the
rendering of the jockstrap is very convincing.
3
Ulf - It just keeps gowing Doc
Speaking
of exaggeration, gargantuan cocks were a favourite device of Tom of Finland and
he liked to show them attracting a crowd of youthful admirers. Ulf’s take on
the same idea causes mystification and rather unprofessional embarrassment. But
how cool is the patient here? He looks out to us with smug satisfaction rather
than the anxiety you might expect from the title, as though confident that this
organ is going to be a passport to success in life.
The
product on the table in the foreground seems to challenge the medic to take the
problem in hand. I’m not familiar with the packaging but I imagine it’s a
recognisable product to Americans and I’d be interested to know the connection
Ulf seems to be making here.
There
are some curious swirls and stripes in the sheets and the medic’s clothing, it
seems to be an experiment in depicting creases and you’ll see it in other images included here too. There’s some nice shadowing on the medic’s shoulders but his
trousers are less successful, turning into a bit of a spray-on job below the
knee.
4
Ulf - Ready for more?
This
is one of Ulf’s best known images from 2006 and you can see why it gets
reproduced a lot. Here we have a cute, young soldier up before one of his
NCO’s, a man who is older and bigger but not particularly attractive. The title
seems to imply a sort of initiation-cum-brat-taming going on and the soldier’s
hand-wrapping is intimidating. You also sense his
oversize cock is expecting more than simple admiration this time. It’s not
quite clear whether the liquid dripping from the captive’s face is sweat, spit or something else.
In
this picture Ulf seems to capture the sense of unchallengeable institutional
power that we saw in the “Guys in Uniform” (GIU) series I revisited recently. Oddly
enough when Ulf produced his own direct adaptation of a GIU image (also in this
year) he seemed to dispense with this subtlety.
The
tap on the wall makes up a symbolic penile threesome with the two protagonists
like a cock in a glory hole wanting participation without commitment. I suppose
we are looking at our own reflections in a way here or perhaps Ulf is just underlining
how this situation is so sexy that even inanimate objects want to join in.
5
Ulf - I'll be right with you
There’s
normally a ‘predicament’ scene in Ulf’s work and this one has a satisfying
subtlety and simplicity. In a vast, bare and very clinical room, the bound
subject stands to attention before a stool with handcuffs lying on the seat on
the one side and, on the other, a red box that we recognise from other pictures
as a portable electrical power device. There’s a nice symmetry in the scene and a precariousness about
his pose that seems to underline his situation. Although he is only
restrained by the arms it seems like there’s no place for him to go in this
empty space. Alone with these instruments he can only contemplate what lies ahead.
6
Ulf - Morning Wood #3
There’s
sensitivity of a different kind in ‘Morning Wood’ which is another exploration
of the sequenced picture story format by this artist. This set is more narrowly
focussed than ‘Dangerous Marine’ and ‘Buddy System’, simply following a young marine
waking up and then going to the toilet to empty his bladder and beat off. This
is almost Turner Prize territory in its sparseness of content but the opening
images like this one are beautifully observed and depicted sensitively and
romantically. That atmosphere evaporates when the marine enters the bathroom
which is cold and crude. The final images are bleakly functional.
This transition from dreamy sentimentality to the banal is insightful in some
ways, but something of an anti-climax visually.
7
Ulf - Clean it good, there's more
Ulf
did not neglect his political interests in 2006 either. This earthy scene acquires a different dimension when you read the notice on the toilet
door. The kneeling figure remains dressed in his spiv-like, best clubbing clothes (his undercover disguise?)
which makes his cleaning chore seem all the
more inconvenient.
The man dominating him is portrayed with a heroically
muscular torso and a determined face, totally in control. His camouflage gear belongs
to a gay stereotype of a more hardened kind than policemen expect to deal with.
This image warms the cockles.
8
Ulf - Only I can help you
This
is one of my personal favourites. The restraint position of the captive is erotically well-tuned and leaves him sitting uncomfortably exposed. His erection tells us he's ready to enjoy his partner's attentions. Its relatively normal proportions confer a frisson
of realism. The title of this piece is somewhat puzzling, it sounds like the mind
games of an interrogator in the movies, impressing on his captive the
advisability of spilling the beans before he is passed on to someone less considerate. However, the visual image seems to be more of a dungeon roleplay aimed at
bringing about a spillage of a different sort.
9
Ulf
– Another Keeper
This
idea harks back to the 2005 “Can I Keep Him?” image and there are others in 2006 where a particularly succulent man is carried off, destined for a
protracted period of amusement with his collector.
Drawn purely from the imagination, Ulf has managed to inject a tingling element
of unreformed redneck into the collector.
The petrol pump attendant
with his slinky, sprayed-on overalls, open to the waist and failing to conceal
a huge dick is an extraordinary, gender-blurring contrast. It’s as though it’s
his job to stand there enticing passing motorists. He leans seductively on his pump
watching the removal with complete unconcern as though it’s regular
occurrence in this neck of the woods.
Many gay men fantasise about earthy, dominant lovers and we all have our dreams about objects of desire which seem beyond our
reach. Ulf’s playful resolution of the quandary as a boy’s game must
have wide appeal
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10
Ulf - Take a whiff
I
couldn’t claim this article to be a representative sample of Ulf’s 2006 work
without including an image simply depicting the enjoyment of sex. Older men
teaching the younger men a thing or two seems to be the standout theme of this
year’s pictures and you can see the similarity of the well-used jockstrap on
the left to that worn by the mature GI in picture 2 above. Compare the realistic
way it is drawn with the one on the right which shows the artist’s style evolving.
This
typically sleazy setting and could easily be what’s at the rear of the filling
station in the previous picture. However, despite the
folded arms there’s nothing sinister going on here just the physical attractions
of maturity being recognised for a change and these two can hardly believe
their luck.
