Swimmer in Bondage (Art)

I like this idea (despite the youth of the celebrant). 

The arms channelled between the buttocks is an interesting touch if not quite in accord with the laws of physics. Light has some odd properties in this universe too, but the light and shade effects add greatly to the interest of the scene. 

The artist is Stevie but his shiny swimming trunks and tight bondage remind me of Boundex's art too.

I don't think Stevie has his own site but there is a selection of his work at xtcgm's Deviant Art gallery and you may be able to find more through links and associations there

 It looks like some bright spark has removed the artist's ID, why do people do that? Is it some sort of cultural communism where art belongs to everyone and no-one gets credit for what they produce? Or is it a pre-emptive plea of ignorance for breaching copyright? 

Ordeal in an empty house (The Look of Fear)

The look that says :- he's coming back!

(Photo: Ryan Rockford at Bound Guys)

Very best wishes to Caitiff of Bound Guys

 for a speedy recovery after a nasty accident

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."

~

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).

~

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)