Crucifixion of a Surfer

Sporting Losers - No 4 The Surfer

Mitchell SK05 - No Surfing Today

"The lifeguard down at Crucifix Beach is strange cove.

He takes a dim view of what he calls 'inappropriate beach attire', preferring his boys to wear baggy shorts. He especially hates skimpy briefs, describing them, somewhat enigmatically, as 'loin cloths' but I won't repeat what he calls the guys who wear them. 
 

He's a real disciplinarian too, he won't take any back-chat from the surfers and when the red flag is up he expects them to get out of the water and stay out. 
 

He has a vast repertoire of biblical guidance and warnings for young men who transgress. Even so none of the regulars were quite ready for what befell Sexy Simon the day he broke all the rules - with his usual panache."

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This picture and story was originally posted in my 'Sporting Losers Series' 

which is now available in full at my Story Archive. View Mitchell's Sporting Losers.

The image owes something to Player's memorable surfer crucifixion but I have just realised that there's an even greater resemblance to a crucifixion drawing by Okawa although I didn't intentionally copy it, as far as I recall.

The significant ingredient mine and Okawa's have in common is the 'mini-wedge' between the legs, the looser restraint arrangement in my picture gives this unpleasant device fuller rein to torment the uncomfortable captive as his legs tire of lifting himself clear. I've added these two images to my collection on this subject 

(click on the 'riding the wedge' label at the foot of this post for more).

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The Madahv picture of a man on the cross in my last post was the first time I have featured that artist here, but it's not the first time I have looked at crucifixion. By coincidence I have just revised a post for the letter 'C' in my A-Z of Fetish Artists featuring (among others) the artist Cyrano who specialises in this subject. Looking back I was surprised to find about a dozen other posts featuring imagery of the ordeal including my own collaboration with Hardman 'After The Storm'.
I have now introduced a 'crucified' label to make it easier to find them all (see foot of post).

GMBA - another resurrection

Madahv - Study for Boy on Cross

 During all the drama, while blogger was vacilating about nudity and sex, and almost unoticed, the longstanding male bondage art group, GMBA, was zapped for the umpteenth time. However, GMBA has begat more descendants than the most virlile of biblical heros and I have updated the link in the sidebar (right at the bottom!) to direct you to the latest incarnation.

 

 Klaus Von Brandenburg - Prisoner No2

Unfortunately every time this happens the archives are lost (and recommendations in my articles for reference material there become useless) but group members are already piling in with fresh stuff and I present a selection of the opening goodies here including Madahv's crucifixon study (top) and a splendid set by Klaus Von Brandenburg (above) whose technique seems to be advancing rapidly. 

GMBA - Essential reading for any art enthusiast
(latest link in sidebar)

Nudity - As You Were!

Doh!

Panic over! Blogger has now reversed it's 'no nudity' plans so it's business as usual.

They cited fairness to people 'who express their identities through their sexuality' which seems a pretty good description of most gay men - and I don't mean that facetiously! My sentiments entirely.

Perhaps we've misjudged Google - or did they misjudge their users?

(Photo: Todd Sanfield for DNA)

Blogger to end nudity

When I wrote about Charlie Hebdo and freedom of expression (above), I little thought that Google was about to withdraw that very privilege from us on their territory, but that is what they have now announced. 

 

From March 23 explicit nudity and sexual imagery will be banned on Blogger. 

(announcement text)

I can't say I was totally surprised by the announcement, Blogs are completely open to public view and Google's tolerance and defence of of explicit porn over the years has amazed me. However, the writing was on the wall when they started excluding it from search engine results. This storm has been brewing for some time, helped along by irrational feminists, resurgent religious enthusiasts of all flavours and anti-Western extremists who will chortle with glee at this sign of our Society taking up the typical defensive posture of banning everything deemed to be subversive.

The good news is that mitchmen will not disappear! 

Sometime after March 23rd, this blog will become 'private' 

unless I remove the explicit imagery. 

That would mean you would effectively have to join a membership to see it.

Even then I would still only be able to add vanilla content

HOWEVER

• My gateway blog  http://mitchmen2.blogspot.co.uk/ is not affected as I take care to keep it vanilla. It will always signpost you to my work.
• Likewise, if 'mitchmen2' goes down the drain, my domain name http://mitchmen.com will continue directing you to wherever I am
• My Yahoo! Group where I publish most of my own work is also unaffected by this announcement.

If you want to keep in touch with mitchmen, 

make a note of these addresses!

I am still considering my options for continuing the blog. 

These include going vanilla here (a big job of retrospective editing, but it would preserve my search engine rating and public 'face') 

or switching to another platform like tumblr (although, in the hands of Yahoo!, I fear may it go the same way before long). 

A third alternative is reverting to membership format which I suspect will become the new reality before too long. 

Comments and suggestions welcome.

 

Watch this space for announcements.

Meanwhile make a note of the fall-back route for finding me.

Ulf's Wedge

Ulf - Almost There (2013)

Ulf's take on the theme of 'riding the wedge' (click on label below the post for previous articles) treats it as an ancillary to the main action. Instead of a having a pointed apex, a wicked looking, metal, saw tooth strip is fixed to the top of the frame. The captive's legs are pulled forward, and it looks like they are attached to the front legs of the 'horse', which prevents him from supporting his own weight with them - as if the barbed wire binding were not restraint enough!

This is the first time I've featured Ulf, and it coincides with our arrival at the letter 'U' in my A-Z of fetish artists. Normally I don't cover CG art in this survey, but it's about time I covered this artist, so I plan to do a feature on him in the very near future.

(click on label below for previous 'wedge' articles)

A-Z Article Updated - 'Adam'

 Adam - Cop Restrained

I have today published a completely new article on Adam. My original was rather dismissive of his fetish credentials and only contained the cop picture above, but revisiting his work I realised there was more to say.

Adam - Locker Room Initiation

Adam's fetish work covers surprisingly risque topics like the piss stream above 

and some interesting examples of 'hidden eroticism'. 

See more in A-Z of Fetish Art - Adam

For other articles in this series click on the A-Z label below or search by artist name.

Ministry of Silly Hats - 8 Furry Ears

 Well, I suppose it's a good joke to juxtapose 'hot' and cold in the same picture, 

but it's hard to get excited over a man who doesn't remove his hat for sex. 

Perhaps it's for that long trek to the unheated bathroom! 

(Model and Studio not known)

 'Winter' by Seva Galkin

The title probably refers to the model's reaction when he found out what he was wearing for the shoot. Humiliating handsome models (à la mitchmen) seems to be becoming an international pastime. No wonder he's groping for his rosary for comfort!
... and what are the guys down the pub going to say?

Still, looking on the bright side,
someone from Disney might give him a role in the next 'Ice Age' movie.

 Jordan Miles by Gilles Crofta

Same trap, different hat, but Jordan's toughing it out, putting on his best catwalk stare.

 Actually the great coat, skillfully aligned with the line of the ear flaps, 

showcases Jordan's body absurdly well and makes this image slightly less silly. 

No sillier than the D&G underpants anyway, who designed that garment?

 Matt Carlin by Gilles Crofta

An even frostier reaction from Matt Carlin, it seems. 

As a modern man, he's no doubt aware that ink and droopy ears are not 'on trend' right now. 

Adding a pilot's helmet on top of the fur hat was the last straw,
Like wearing a double condom, more is sometimes less.

That sulky crossed arm pose is doing wonders for his pecs though.
Just imagine someone has just walked into the room with a whip.

 Nick Wolanski by Gilles Crofta

Gilles is a serial offender in the Court of Silly Hats but this image is redeemed by the erotic adaptation of a humble vest into a very sweaty, sexy garment indeed. I can recall similar experimentation in my youth, improvising a leotard from the utilitarian underwear supplied by my mother. It felt as good to me then as it looks on Nick here. Would that I had such thighs! Once again the colour olive demonstrates it's power to flatter the flesh
(search on 'olive' for more articles on this subject).

 

photo by Ron Reyes

Russian troops seem to enjoy opulent barracks these days!

Rumour has it that this was a prototype "invisibility hat", a concept pioneered by Wagner in 'Das Rheingold' and extremely useful when invading neighbouring countries.

As you can see, it doesn't work.

Only joking Mister P. No need to send in the troops!

Not, that is, unless they are all like this chap..........

In deference to my many readers from the frosty, Eastern end of Europe, 

I must admit that the furry hat is an entirely sensible item of outdoor, winter clothing

 and a useful addition to the erotic toy box, but please not on the head! 

Let us hope that peace, fairness and good sense will prevail in  the Ukraine.