Most Popular 'mitchmen' Posts of All Time - 2014

 MCarcel - Does That Mean YES?

According to my Blogger 'hits' stats, Mike Carcel remains my all-time most visited article. The posts in the table below are the 20 most viewed on this blog. Titles in the list link to the original posts. Please tell me if you have difficulty with any links

Posn	Last Yr	Title	Year	Total Hits	Increase
1	1	Mitchell's A-Z of Fetish Artists - Mike Carcel	2010	10461	2366
2	2	Mitchell's A-Z of Fetish Artists - Malex	2010	6458	1427
3	3	Mitchell's A-Z of Fetish Artists - Franco	2009	6263	1255
4	5	Priapus of Milet - 1	2012	6224	2211
5	4	Mitchell's A-Z of Fetish Artists - Jotto	2009	5934	1053
6	16	My initiation	2012	4832	3378
7	6	Mitchell's A-Z of Fetish Artists - Martin of Holland	2010	3479	1083
8=	7	Mitchell's A-Z of Fetish Artists - Heredia	2009	2937	801
8=	9	Mitchell's A-Z of Fetish Artists - Mahoney	2010	2937	1010
10	20	A Tribute To Bound Gods	2011	2602	1275
11	17	Mitchell's - A-Z of Fetish Artists - Klaus von Brandenburg	2009	2560	1152
12	8	Vintage Bondage Blog	2012	2506	560
13	10	Mitchell's A-Z of Fetish Artists - Matt	2010	2411	637
14	13	Mitchells' A-Z of Fetish Artists - Platter	2012	2359	761
15	11	Mitchell's A-Z of Fetish Artists - Manflesh	2010	2344	661
16	-	Mitchell's A-Z of Fetish Artists - Marc	2010	2300	1084
17	-	More Bondage Sightings	2012	2199	Not known
18	-	Mitchell's A-Z of Fetish Artists - Leo	2010	2144	887
19	-	Shaving Fantasy	2012	2085	Not known
20	14	Mitchell's A-Z of Fetish Artists - Michael Mitchell	2010	1968	414

It's not too surprising that my Mike Carcel A-Z article has kept it's spot at the top, it had a big lead last year but has actually extended it in 2014 with 2366 hits in the year – a tribute to Mike's continuing popularity with fetish fans.
 
This increase is second only to the 'My Initiation' post with 3378 hits in 2014, enabling it to jump from 16 to 6 in the top 20. It's a great bondage image but it's popularity surprises me. The next largest jump after these two was for Priapus of Milet - 1 with 2211 additional hits, overtaking Jotto at no 4.

Other notable risers were my 2011 'Tribute to Bound Gods' (at 10) and also the A-Z on Klaus von Brandenburg (at 11), his naïve, hero torture art never seems to flag in popularity. The entry of Leo to the list at 18 with his whimsical, kidnap and bondage art seems to echo this lighter interest. It's a welcome counter-balance to the darker, heavy fetish artists that dominate the top 10 and which are boosted further this year by the arrival of the lesser known, 'hanging' specialist, Marc at No 16. 

 

The 4 new entrants this year also included (unexpectedly) the 'Shaving Fantasy' sequence I culled from Dreamboys Bondage in 2012. Interestingly, the Michael Mitchell article at No 20 also singles out this fetish and another body shaving post, Naked As The Day just missed the cut.

 To see previous results click on the MPP label below

These new entries displaced some bondage photography posts and my brief note on Josman from last years list. There are now 5 non-art entries in the top 20 (down from 6)

At least 11 posts in the top 20 gained more hits this year than the leading post from 2014 (Tagame - Part 3) which enters the list at No 53 and at the time of writing has just passed the 1000 mark. His articles are attracting similar levels of interest to the leaders here but will have a battle to catch them up. The highest ranking post dating from 2013, 'Classic Japanese Bondage Art' is at 35.

This is for entertainment only, I don't know how valid or complete the figures really are and obviously posts from early years have an advantage over more recent writings. The articles I post to this blog are very much based on my own interests and fancies, but it's interesting and surprising to discover what my readers like and is a sometimes a reminder of areas unintentionally neglected. For example this year I have updated my 'shaving' label to include over-looked posts, including one of my own pictures (see label list below). I am hoping to finish the remaining 'A-Z' letters this year and revisit some of the early entries which are often sketchy and much less adult oriented than my current articles.

Thanks to all of you for your continuing interest and support

Tagame is the Most Popular 'mitchmen' Post in 2014

(Note:- links in this article were corrected on Jan 6th 2014)   

 Tagame - Jinmon 

(translates as 'Interrogation', although it also means humanity or civilisation according to the dictionary I consulted which is intriguing)

According to my Blogger 'view count' stats, these are the most popular posts of 2014 

The titles link to the original posts
(Note links corrected Jan 6th 2014) 

Posn	Title (+link)	Hits	Published
1	A-Z of Fetish Artists - Tagame (Part 3)	973	June
2	A-Z of Fetish Artists - Tagame (Part 2)	952	May
3	A-Z of Fetish Artists - Tom of Finland - 1	894	Aug
4	A-Z of Fetish Artists - Tagame (Part 1)	879	May
5	In Bondage, less is more	793	Jan
6	A-Z of Fetish Artists - Tom of Finland - 2	767	Aug
7	Bound and Gagged Magazine - 3	754	Mar
8	A-Z of Fetish Artists - Tagame (Part 4)	750	Jun
9	The Art of Baron	594	Feb
10	Retrorope	585	Jan
11	A-Z of Fetish Artists - Tom of Finland - 3	569	Aug
12	A-Z of Fetish Artists - Tom of Finland - 4	545	Sept
13	A-Z of Fetish Artists - Teddy of Paris	532	Jul
14	A-Z of Fetish Artists - Tom of Finland - 5	463	Sept
15	A-Z of Fetish Artists - Tam (part 1)	446	Jul
16	Revised A-Z Entry - Joseph	443	Oct
17	The mystery of 'Madison' resolved	442	Jul
18	Bound and Gagged Magazine - 4	440	Mar
19	Another Day at the Office - Mizuki Gai	437	May
20	Swimming Trunks Shredded	426	Jan

This is for entertainment only, I don't know how valid or representative Google's stats really are and obviously posts from January have an advantage over December. This means Tom of Finland might have pipped Tagame to the top spot if I'd posted it a month or two earlier. 

It's no surprise to see these two massively popular and important fetish artists claiming the top positions. Tagame's article didn't quite hit the 1000 mark but beats the score of last years winner (A-Z of Fetish Artists – Swarbrick) by a considerable margin. With 774 hits that article would have come 6^th this year. (see the rest of top 20 for 2013 here).

I'm particularly pleased that the good showing by the article on the elusive Baron confirms his standing in our community and likewise the presence of two of the classic 'Bound and Gagged Magazine' articles. The latter have boosted the number of articles with photographic content rather than artwork in the top 20 this year to 5 compared with 2 last year. 

This year's list is a little dominated by multi-part articles, if I were to knock these out as duplicates the next articles that might otherwise have made the cut (hits in brackets) are listed below, although it has to be said that the cut-off point for last years list was 400, not much different to this year:-

Whatever happened to boundxxboy? (412)

A-Z of Fetish Artists - Tendoji (407)

Just Out of Reach (373) – featuring Baron +Tom of Finland

Tagame's Wedge (353)

Update on the Art of Kajlet (325)

Men Sharing Clothes 16 - Green Speedo's (297)

Men sharing clothes 17 - Supermarket Shirts (292)

A-Z of Fetish Artists - Takeshi Matsu (278)

I will publish the updated list of all-time favourites in my next post. 

 To see previous results click on the MPP label below

Vintage Spanking Art

I found these images while sorting through some files over the holiday break. They all seem to have an extra 'something' that lifts them out of the run of the mill. 

I don't know who the artists are.

 

No1 - Caned Against The Wall

 

A big boy takes his punishment, hands to the wall. His pert little ass and unkempt hair suggests there's a naive, normal, young man underneath all that muscularity. The floppy hair and oversized hands put me in mind of Adam's work but my readers may know better! The spiky, black shadow behind him creates the impression of severe punishment, of his body pushed up against the wall by repeated blows from behind.

No 2 - Caned in the Bedroom

 This scene is more frank about the sexual pleasure of spanking. There's a sailor in this group (see chair), I'm guessing it's the man with the devotional tattoo who is introducing these young men to the pleasure of pain before sex. Particularly his pleasure, as you can see! It's underlined by his anticipatory forward thrust.

Paradoxically the mixture of S&M, religion, race and disparate ages in this picture probably make it no less startling today than the homosexual angle did when it was drawn.

The hair styles and pose of the boy on the bed look typical of the 50's and the latin looking sailor is very Quaintance-like although I never saw anything else like this from him, it's amazingly explicit for that time. Any suggestions?

No 3 - Caning a Man over a Stool

This example is not as stylish as my other choices and there's some wierd perspectives and positioning (notice the hand appearing to rest on a level surface far right). Still, it's nice to see a spanking picture with all real men. This one has shot his load during a hard caning, reversing the sexual polarity from the previous picture where it's the spanker who seems most excited about it all. The spanker here shows nothing more than a plain bulge, which is coy enough to make me wonder if the cock on the stool was added by a mischievous modifier. Of course it's misalignment and curious shaping may be an attempt at hidden eroticism by the artist, I'd have thought the white, dripping ooze is a bit of a giveaway though! 

The moustaches and body suggest this was drawn in the 80's but who by?

 

No 4 - Belted on the Floor

An intimidating belt-cum-paddle is the implement of choice for this spanking punishment. No wonder the recipient looks so dismayed and is struggling so hard to escape! It's the energy of the struggle and forceful domination that makes this picture so striking. 

By allowing the victim's legs the freedom to flail around the artist has chosen to forgo the erotic possibilities of a totally undefended ass in favour of the joys of an unequal battle. Because of this the visual sensuality is subtle - the shading of the victim's pecs and the ambiguous, intriguing scribble in the area of his abdomen is surprisingly effective. Also the spanker's close fitting, traditional underwear which moulds to his pecs while the 'key hole' seams in his underpants form a collar around the mound of his growing excitement. This almost qualifies as 'hidden eroticism' but is perhaps more accurately described as 'disguised' 

The figure on the ground could almost be by Adam, but the cleft chin and cheek lines of the spanker remind me of 60's artists like Losarro.

No 5 - Tied and Horsewhipped

Sensuality is definitely the name of the game here as a casually wielded riding crop cuts deep into the buttock of a young man under restraint, tied and blindfolded. His head jerks back as the pain of the lash registers through his nervous system. The lushly shaded, smooth, rounded contours of his body together with the length of his hair are indicators of youthful inexperience. He is recieving this little lesson at the hands of a woman (probably!) who, judging by the scary nails, has much to teach him! (I'm not a fan of female involvement in sexual matters but I confess I do enjoy the idea of straight men being chastised for their transgressions by the so-called weaker sex).

The style of this artist reminds me very much of Toby but again, I'm not sure.

 

No 6. - Chained and Belted

This extraordinary picture explores the very darkest regions of spanking fetish and asks some awkward questions about what sparks the interest in it. We can conjecture that this is the pick-up that went awry, the curious explorer taken beyond his boundaries or perhaps the experienced top subjected to an unpleasant role reversal.

Suspended in ankle chains with hands tied together round one leg, the subject is entirely helpless. His ass (and backs of his thighs) are completely unprotected from the ferocious assault that is in progress. The wild-eyed rage of his attacker, seemingly out of control, is terrifying and with his head lodged in the spanker's groin he also has a close-up view of his captor's intimidating arousal. It's a nettle that he seems none to anxious to grasp (even if his hands were free to do so!). His suspension position advertises another attractive destination for it and if that is not what he expected or had planned when he met this man, he is neverthless clearly seriously excited by the predicament, the pain and the fear. It's a redeeming detail that allows us to imagine that he will look back upon this encounter as a memorable experience - if not one he wants to repeat in a hurry.

The style of this picture is unfamiliar to me but I think I have seen the the wings on the boot tops before which (if I can find it again) may identify the era if not the artist. This is an original on a folded up piece of paper and so may be an unpublished piece or the work of an amateur but it's technically accomplished and convincing. Details like the spanker's expression and his menacing shadow on the wall convey a darkness of intent to us that is not visible to the victim.

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Please leave a comment if you have any information about the origins of these pictures

First Catch Your Rogue - 4 One for Posterity

"Please Mister, I didn't mean no 'arm!

I just wanted a bit of money, like,
to buy a Chrissy present for me Mum, like.

She'll go mad if you 'and me over to the rozzers. 

Please don't turn me in, Mister!
I'll pay for the window, like!

I'll do anyfing. Anyfing!"

Well, I'm not made of stone, so, later.......

(click,...... click,.....click)

"This is, like, really weird, Mister",
(click) 
"I never had my ass, like, shaved like that before".
(click, click) 

"You won't, like, tell me Mum, will you? She'll go mad".
(click,...... click,.....click)
"This is soooo weird....
(click, click) 
Hey Mister, whatcha doin'?
Oooh!"
(clatter, clatter)

.......tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock.....

" Sorry 'bout that Mister, but your hand was, like, dead cold......like"
(click)

"....made me jump, like. Sorry"

(click, click)
"Is yer camra alright then?
(click, click)
 "Mister? You ain't gonna show those pictures to anyone.... ?"
(gulp!) 
".......are you?"

(click, click, click, click, click)

"Mister? Can I have my jeans back now?"
 (click, click)
"Please Mister? (sniff)"
(click)  
"Please! I wanna go home!"
 (click, click, click........)

For other articles in this series, click on the 'rogues' label below

Bound Men Await You

 I'm not sure what I like best here:-

(a) chunky man in moderately testing bondage

(b) chunky man in heavy duty jockstrap (skinny boys need not apply!)

The jerked down military shorts fire the imagination.

How can a guy look so cute without showing his face?

His tilted head and well-spread legs suggest complete capitulation, 

but the minimal bondage is simple enough to allow him some modesty as he waits.

The implausible weight of the bindings complements his surprisingly muscular arms and back

Kyle James by Blade T Bannon

Here too, the simplest of bindings and the resignation of a defeated man
who has lost the will to escape.

Dreamboys Heavyweight Bondage 


The metal ankle fetters and padlock are inescapable,
signalling indefinite confinement at his captor's pleasure.
His slumped, arched body acknowledges that reality.

Drake at Bound Guys 

Not a prisoner, but the victim of an opportunist,

who did not reduce him to nudity but ripped open his clothes.

Just enough to reveal and gorge on the treasures within.

The leaving him helpless and humiliated on the floor of the reeking closet.

But it's not over yet.

He certainly won't be leaving that pricey leather gag behind.

No, he'll be back - to take full possession 

Curios

Isn't it scary when your nose starts looking like your cock?
Pinocchio would be green with envy!

Actually this a super picture of a young Will Clark, my apologies to him!
He's featured at length(!) in my hunks series article boy to man

For other items in this series, click on the label 'curios' below

Tagame stripped down

 Tagame - Country Doctor

This is the climactic initiation-cum-wedding scene from Tagame's 'Country Doctor' (Inaka Isha). In my review of this piece, I suggested that Tagame's sound effects and speech bubbles sometimes detracted from the artwork. This thought prompted me to experiment with removing the 'offending' additions to see what the result would be.

 

  Tagame - Country Doctor (modified) -1

In this version I replaced the symbols and bubbles with whatever I thought was being obscured. The overall effect is not so much to reveal more of the picture, but to remove the distractions. You can decide for yourselves whether the alteration is an improvement of not.

Method: First, I erased all the bubbles and characters electronically.  I electronically copied the coat patterns to fill big gaps and penciled in awkward corners (these are fairly obvious if you look closely but I'm not attempting to fake an original artwork here). Missing lines, hairs etc were also simply pencilled in. 

The replacements required were mostly fairly obvious, but I had to create the tree-top (top right) from imagination. The darkening of the image compared with the original is intentional, partly designed to make my pencilwork less obvious but I also think it looks better.

  Tagame - Country Doctor (modified) - 2

In this second variation I have simply adjusted the Doctor's left ass cheek so it looks a better balance. Ideally the right cheek ought to be reduced as well.

The resulting picture looks as though it would benefit from colouring,

 is that jacket red or gold, I wonder?

If you enjoy my tinkering with other artists work, 

you can click on the 'mitchmods' label below to see more.