Shanghaid Sailor is complete

Enslaved Forever

 Posting of the new Royale Studio storyette, 'Shanghaid Sailor' is now complete at the Royale Blog

It culminates in an astonishing fetish climax, cartooned in the extracts above and below.

Stripped of his Uniform

Read Shanghaid Sailor

with 19 original images in all

Sold to the Highest Bidder

Crime and Punishment by Roger Dusky

We all like incompetent burglars!

mitchmen presents

Extracts from Roger Dusky's comic book 'Crime and Punishment'

In the dead of night, a man comes calling.

Looks like he's picked the wrong place to burgle

Yep, he has.

At least he hasn't been shot - yet.

Sorting the men from the boys.

He's definitely a man

In the downstairs department, anyway.

The taste of humiliation

This is the size of it

I like a man with spunk

Maybe not the best moment for it, though

I don't think this is a strip search

Nor having his collar felt

The long arm of the law will prevail

And later.....

Time to digest it all

He's got even more spunk than before now

I guess that's a 'NO' then.

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 Read the full Crime and Punishment strip

It's easy to find Roger Dusky's work with search engines, 

just specify gay porn or similar

Use the labels below to find similar posts at mitchmen.

mitchmen club at Adonis Male

Joe Lynes by WPG (1950's)

Come On Jerry! (Bringing home a runaway slave)

Boy will he get it when I get him back where he belongs.

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 You may know that Adonis Male is presently off the air following a catastrophic hardware failure.
Consequently the mitchmen club there is not presently accessible

They are working hard to restore the site but it looks as if recent updates (since May 2023) will be lost.
That includes memberships taken out since then as well as content.

I will restore missing content when AM returns but cannot fix lost memberships. If you are a recent joiner, try logging in first and if that doesn't work I'm afraid you will have to join again.

Obviously I am watching the situation closely.

Worst case: If the site fails to return will have to find a new home for the archive
but I am optimistic that will not happen

Shanghai'd Sailor Sold - at the Royale Gallery

Shanghai'd Sailor - 11 (AI-Cartoonized)

 The posting of Royale Studio's storyette, 'Shanghai'd Sailor' at the Royale blog/gallery is now about two thirds complete. It's a story that has largely been forgotten in the last 40 years or so but recovered now from vintage beefcake magazines. It tells of the kidnapping and enslavement of a British Sailor in the West Indies. I'm progressively adding images every few days as I clean them up.

The image above is a cartoonised version of image 11 from the series depicting the slave auction which seals the Sailor's fate. I'm somewhat obsessed with this gadget at the moment but it does create interesting imagery. In this case it has given the participants better physiques and clothing and paradoxically, it has a slightly more realistic feel, bringing it to life, albeit in a very arty way.

View the Shanghai'd Sailor

Vintage Bondage - Fred Halstead

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Kneel Dog!

Mitchell - Kneel Dog!

A captive is ordered to kneel and shown respect to his trainer.

Another young man has already submitted and is on his knees.

They have been dressed in identical, tight shorts for their  training.

and put on collars and leads.

This Trainer is renowned for achieving total control without violence

So the proud rebel has been bound and gagged, amplifying his vulnerability.

It may take him time, but he will obey.

and be grateful for his Trainer's praise.

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This is an early scene from 'The Flat Cap Gang' 

now on-going at the mitchmen Google Group

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I had some fun experimenting on this picture with the AI Cartooniser 

Mitchell - Heel Dog! Variant 1

An older man commands more respect

But it's still a struggle of wills for a new sub

(who didn't actually volunteer for this).

The software has produced a weird clothed/unclothed look

but I love his hairy physique and the sub's shiny muscle tones.

Mitchell - Heel Dog! Variant 4

Younger tops are less sensitive to a sub's feelings

AI dreamed up the idea of a street scene and it changes the mood of the piece completely

It's also added an entirely appropriate bicep band - and red gag colour.

2023 Most Popular Post of All Time (MPP3)

They're All Winners!

Above, art by this year's winner for the second year running, IFNB.

Drained but victorious contestants pose with their enormous trophies and their cups.

There will be a third IFNB post soon, watch out for it.

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According to my Blogger 'hit stats', out of all the mitchmen articles published to date, 

those registering the most total hits since publication are as shown below.

Table 1 mitchmen Articles With Most Hits Since Publication to end 2023

Posn (last yr)	Title of Post (& link)	Year of Pub'n	Cum Hits	Hits in 2023
1 (1)	IFNB – A Fantasy World of Bodybuilders	2018	51,757	7187
2 (2)	The Milking Factory	2017	51,385	7506
3 (3)	Priapus of Milet - 1	2012	44,375	2604
4 (4)	A-Z of Fetish Artists - Cavelo	2008	36,621	2316
5 (5)	A-Z of Fetish Artists – Mike Carcel	2010	34,495	1437
6 (6)	Milking Factories - 3	2018	24,857	1466
7 (8)	Homoeros Gallery Guide	2018	23,187	1145
8 (7)	A-Z of Fetish Artists - Jotto	2009	22,957	824
9 (9)	Etienne - index of articles at mitchmen	2016	21,657	786
10 (10)	A-Z of Fetish Artists - Malex	2010	19,701	624
11 (11)	A-Z of Fetish Artists - Franco	2009	19,328	811
12 (14)	The Art of Amalaric 1 - A Slave To Passion	2020	15,865	2551
13 (20)	A-Z of Fetish Artists - Brick	2008	15,409	4332
14 (12)	A-Z of Fetish Artists – Martin of Holland	2010	14,752	718
15 (16)	Milking Factories-4	2019	14,393	1502
16 (13)	A-Z of Fetish Artists – The Hun	2009	13,889	414
17 (15)	A Christmas Criminal by Mitchell (1-5)	2015	13,781	761
18 (17)	The Art of Homoeros – 6 (Art of The Cross)	2018	13,048	1420
19 (18)	A-Z of Fetish Artists - Kalabro	2009	12,313	872
20 (19)	A-Z of Fetish Artists - Julius	2009	12,129	729

Stats compiled 1/1/24

 

This year it was pretty much 'as you were' in the all-time table of hits. At the top of the table, Milking Factories-1 closed the gap behind IFNB after surrendering No 1 position to it in 2022 and at the present rate it will be back to neck and neck this time next year. As in 2022 these two are fast pulling away from the rest of the pack, now a long way behind them.  Related posts, Milking Factories 3 & 4 also consolidated their places in the top 20 table. The follow up article on IFNB, 'IFNB Revisited' however is still way behind this group at No 80, but it recorded a creditable score of 1,587 in 2023 and rose 16 places.

There were no new entries at all to the top 20 this year and only one change in the top 11 positions with Homoeros Gallery Guide (now 7th) swapping places with Jotto (now 8th). This rise was despite the Homoeros post putting in a faltering performance compared with previous years (after registering a 75% fall in hits). Homoeros' other top 20 article - 'The Art of the Cross' - dropped back to 18th but is still scoring well and has articles in it's sights for overtaking.

The chasing pack are headed up by 3 former Number ones. Priapus of Milet is secure in 3rd place but the long standing rivalry between Cavallo (4th) and Mike Carcel (5th) is not yet over, Mike slipped further behind in 2023 but the gap is still only one year's worth of present hit rates. There's another big gap behind the top 5 who are unlikely to be disturbed for a while. 

The meteoric rise of  Amalaric's - 'A Slave To Passion' moderated in 2023, rising only 2 places to 12th place but with a top 5 hit rate nevertheless. He's now coming up against some formidable historic totals which will take some chipping away.  He's also being chased hard by Brick, well placed to overtake him in 13th position. Brick had the best rise in the table, 7 places, interest in him having been revived by a marvellous stream of new work posted at MetalbondNYC. My A-Z article covers his earlier work.

Other classic artists Malex, Franco, Martin of Holland, The Hun, Kalabro and Julius were all shuffled down by the newcomers and though they didn't have vintage years they mostly posted hit counts that would have rivalled the winner of the 2023 'new articles' table (MPP1).  

The entry level to this all-time top 20 is now 12129 about 1,000 more than last year. That increase alone exceeded all the scores of the 2023 new posts and the cumulative total of IFNB is now fifty times the total of the 2023 winning new post.

 

The leading outsider threatening the present residents for next year is the same as last year - The Art of BrosFate – 3  at 22 (up 2 places). Further down, Enslavement Art by Planet Gay jumped 165 places but there are no obvious, immediate challengers for the top 20 places. 

 

The mitchmen 'Index of Artists' page reached 87,590 hits at the end of 2023, a 13% rise (compared with 19% last time). It would have earned top spot in this ranking if I counted it as a post.

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mitchmen blog was first published in 2008 and ten of the sixteen years since then are now represented in this survey, the missing years between 2008 and 2022 are shown below

• 2011 - Top Contender is A Tribute to Bound Gods at 37, down from 36
  
• 2013 – The nearest is still my 2nd article on Mike Carcel at 51 (50)
• 2014 - The Art of Baron is at 30 (29)
• 2021 - Come and Get It! at 77 (76)
  
• 2022 - New 'Slave Academy' Pictures by Brick jumped to 194 from 356, with 1239 hits in 2023
• 2023 - Slave Training 11 (Cockaphobia) has yet to score enough hits to register in the table, I don't count scores less than 2000 hits. However it is at least 500 places away.

Average hit rates

The total cumulative hits method used for the all-time popularity table above is biased towards older articles which have had longer to accumulate their hits. However, the higher traffic counts in recent years have been eroding that advantage, enabling newer articles to contest the top positions. The table below based on average hits per year since publication, gives a more balanced view of long-term popularity.

 

In this list I have left out the 2023 posts because they don't even have a full year yet and their initial surge (if you'll pardon that expression) produces ridiculous hit rates that are unlikely to be sustained. They are covered by a table of their own (MPP1). 

 

Table 2

Articles with the Highest Average Hits per year Since Publication

 

Article	Publicn year	Ave Hits per year	Position (& last year)	'Total Hits' position
IFNB – A Fantasy World of Bodybuilders	2018	8898	1 (1)	1
The Milking Factory	2017	7481	2 (2)	2
The Art of Amalaric – 1 A Slave To Passion	2020	4731	3 (3)	12
Homoeros Gallery Guide	2018	4592	4 (4)	7
Milking Factories - 3	2018	4432	5 (5)	6
Priapus of Milet - 1	2012	3790	6 (6)	3
Etienne - Index of articles at mitchmen	2016	3029	7 (9)	9
Milking Factories-4	2019	2902	8 (10)	15
The Art of BrosFate – 3	2020	2889	9 (8)	22
A-Z of Fetish Artists – Mike Carcel	2010	2536	10 (15)	5
The Art of BrosFate – 1	2020	2536	11 (12)	29
The Art of Homoeros - 6 (Art of The Cross)	2018	2430	12 (14)	18
Come and Get It!	2021	2402	13 (7)	77
A-Z of Fetish Artists - Cavello	2008	2345	14 (13)	4
The Art of Amalaric – 3 Hunks & Manipulators	2020	2163	15 (16)	52
Enslavement Art by Planet Gay	2011	2010	16 (-)	236
The Art of Roa 1 - The Conquered Hero	2021	1977	17 (11)	125
The Art of Homoeros - 1 (Beefcake Boys)	2018	1943	18 (18)	27
Exciting New Brick Pictures	2022	1909	19 (-)	194
Another Milking Factory No2	2018	1862	20 (20)	26

IFNB and Milking factories topped this table too, testament to their dominating popularity at the blog and here too they are way ahead of the chasing pack. All of the top 6 articles kept their positions but hit rates declined across the board. 

Milking Factories occupied 4 places in the table, down 1 but still including No 2 which clung on to 20th position, despite 2 new entries at 16 (Enslavement Art by Planet Gay, which jumped 165 places) and 19 (Exciting new pictures by Brick). Milking Factories - 5 was the casualty from this group, falling to 23 (19). The other was Amalaric – 2 Ancient History down to 22 from 17. Amalaric's other articles in the table (at 3 and 15) held up well. The same was true of Homoeros whose 3 articles barely budged.

A notable riser was Mike Carcel up to 10 from 15, a remarkable reversal of recent trends, thanks to his hit rate holding up much better than it's rivals. Mike actually tied with Brosfate-1 for 10th place but I gave him the better position for his superior consistency.  

There were two other big fallers. Art of Roa-1 with it's magnificent headline image (at 17, down 6) predictably got more sober scores this year after it's sparkling debut last time. 'Come and Get It!' was also down 6 places, a phenomenon that can be attributed to the launch of the new Royale Studio blog. This article is the only one in the table based on pure photography but IFNB and Amalaric represent the photo-manips. 

 The cut-off point for joining this 'hit rate' table dropped a little this year, from 2023 to 1862 hits per year. Two of the articles in the 2023 New Posts table beat that hit rate based on their short existence so far, Cockaphobia would have been 16th and Chen_X_Chen 19th if I had included them, but they probably won't keep that rate up for a full year. Older promising challengers just outside the table are Muscle Matt-1 and Black Prof

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The articles I post to this blog are very much based on my own interests and fancies but the results of this survey do help me plan future offerings. My readers preferences doesn't always match my own (where are Les, JoeT and Link?). Nevertheless it's gratifying to see such interest in the great gay fetish artists who often have a fairly low visibility on the web.

Remember, this comparison is only made for entertainment, since I don't really know how accurate Google's stats are, they don't seem to add up to the overall hits at the blog and I suspect they don't count the activity of people who just browse through the blog roll.

Thanks to all of you for your continuing interest and support.

 

This annual set of articles is made up of 3 charts

MPP1 - Most Popular New Post of the Year 

MPP2 - Most Popular Post during the Year (All articles )

MPP3 - Most Popular Post of All Time (i.e. cumulative performance)

that's this article!

 

Charts and reviews for earlier years can be accessed by clicking the 'MPP' label below