I wonder if the guards and the cup girl are horny and jealous all the time, or just bored silly.
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This is only pan-sub because the noblewoman has her parasol-carrying boy out with her as goes shopping. I love all the facial expressions…oooo!
Back to BDSM…here’s another “slave market” image, this time with more of the range of human bodies represented (and maybe exaggerated a bit).
The image is by RJL, but it references Boulanger’s painting that we’ve already discussed.
And here is the “end product”, as it were.
I like to think that the point of the masks is to minimize any effort by the slaves to influence the inspectors’ judgment, either by a pathetic expression or by the favors they offered the night before.
(Is this from Caligula? Or what?)
ETA: archangelgangbang tells me this is from Spartacus: Blood and Sand “basically porn with sandals”. Thank yoooooo!
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(Almost certainly Gerome.)
Prisoners awaiting the lions in the circus maximus. Of all the classic Orientalist paintings I can think of, this is perhaps the most obviously sado-erotic: a bestial execution of naked, bound prisoners. They are probably all meant to be girls, but it’s possible that the one on the far left is a boy, which I like to imagine.
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Slave Market, Gustave Boulanger, 1888
Boulanger was a friend of Gerome’s—I think was his last painting, and it is definitely a tribute (or critique?) of the one below. Everything about it oozes verisimilitude. I love the tent, especially, with old tarps tossed up on top. And I love the bored look of the boy towards the left, and the obvious fact that they’ve been here all morning with almost no customers. It tells a story, but the story isn’t very sexy.
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.