In spite of Dr. Halat and thousands of years of patriarchy, hymens aren’t an especially good way to verify much of anything. But the fantasy dies pretty hard….
And as soon as the Doctor verifys her purity we will start the bidding at $10,000.
Hello
I like your blog very much. Just discovered it tonight… Usually, I hate texts under pisctures, but yours are very accurate. Well done.
Two auction drawings, for the pleasure :


Jean-Leon Gerome, 1886, Selling Slaves in Rome
Whew. That’s enough slaves-and-auctions for now, huh?
I’m gonna try to avoid themed posts for awhile, it’s exhausting.
A recent, much more explicit femdom auction scene.
Owners at the pet auction. reblogged from lunarblack by Miss
As with a lot of traditionally maledom images, it is rare to see male slave-auction themes. Which is a pity. (And of course, this might not be one, but they’re on the way.)
So, ‘fess up, folks. Who would you pick? (And weren’t you thinking about it?)
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Charity “slave auctions” have been used as fund-raisers for quite awhile, periodically creating local controversies. My grandparents remember their church holding them quite a ways back.
By the 1970s, a few BDSM clubs were doing a version of the same thing. The photo above is, I believe, from a Dutch club. Where sex was involved (or implied) this created an interesting dodge around anti-prostitution laws. It’s not OK to pay for sex acts, because it’s exploitative. But it is OK…maybe…to pay a third party instead.
I can’t get behind the clothes and haircuts here, but I love the range of expressions on the women. #1 and #2 look pretty scared, #3 and #5 look impassive, and #4 looks mischievous.
I may be quite wrong, but I think this picture is from the 1960s. I really like it, because, you know, he’s a boy. Lot of girls in the last dozen posts or so, right? But don’t worry, it changes soon.
Slave Auction, Jean-Leon Gerome, 1880s.
Soon, Gerome turned to even more fantastic settings and more erotic portrayals. Here we are in ancient Rome. All the slaves on display are white girls, stripped naked, and they’re obviously much-sought-after and apprehensive about it. The girl crouching on the right looks directly at you, the viewer, as if she hopes you’ll buy her. But still there are elements of historical realism.
From an 1891 children’s edition of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Emmeline is being sold, and she is….uh….white. Yup. Yup. Looks white to me. In fact, she is much “whiter,” in skin tone and costume, than the guy who is bidding on her in the foreground.
Ooops.
The Orientalists went for material that wasn’t quite this obvious of a racial flip-flop.