
Almost the same, right, only it’s a girl. And this photo was staged and taken recently, after a whole BDSM visual vocabulary that makes this image look kinky…I think she’s waiting obediently for her wrists to be tied and the fun to start.
When I look back at Sorolla’s painting, I see the same thing…but it’s less clear that he intended those connotations, or that the audience in the 1890s would have seen them.
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Ok….
Masculine Beauty in Fine Art: Then in his mid-30s, Spanish painter from Valencia, Joaquin Sorolla (1863-1923) finds beauty in manliness—as do we….
For more on the artist: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaqu%C3%ADn_Sorolla
Academia del natural (1887). Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida. Oil on canvas. Spain, Valencia-Museo de Bellas Artes
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In two(!) of the not-that-many images I can find with both male and female subs, the male is a eunuch. We could have a long discussion here about either the gender status of eunuchs in the ancient world, or the male-dom insecurities that might only allow male subs into fantasies if they’re castrated, but I’m too sleepy.
OK, so I’m down to only a handful of pan-sub images, because, again, these seem to be very rare. As happens, most of the ones I have left have some extra baggage. There were two or three with fairly gross racial undertones, and some with a rape-cuckold theme. This one captures both of those themes without being too horrific, except for the unavoidable dick-size-contest. I really like the addition of the black woman, which is unusual for this trope, and I think her presence, body type and facial expression make this a much more complex story than it would be otherwise.
Auction or prisoners-going-to-auction scenes are a pretty logical place for pan sub images. After all, why not provide something for all your customers? Still rare, tho.
Probably a swinging picture, with no D/s intended. And the person in the lower left might be a girl. But I like to think that this a happy, kinky, foursome, or maybe two couples who get together on the weekend.
A gorgeous picture, right?
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For a lot of these images, I have to sort of “cheat” in my interpretation to get the pan-sub dynamic. This picture is surely intended to be a cuckolding scene, with the usual racial dynamic, but I’d rather imagine that the two on the bottom are both his subs.
A wonderful cuckolding scene; everyone is getting their kind of pleasure.
Indeed, fantastic.
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OK, I’m still in theme transition mode here. I love what the domme is doing with her girl’s hair, yow. Ummm.
Here’s my problem: what do I call this next theme, girl and boy subs together? I could call it “mixed gender cosubmission” but I don’t want to type that and no one would ever search for it and I am having an increeeeedibly hard time finding images.
Help?
Sorry, I don’t know the artist
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Another perspective issue…her pair of toys look tiny, but actually the domme might not be much taller…
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