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.
Examining Slaves, 2003(?) Abelina Galustian
This one is my favorite, even though it’s the simplest. He’s so hot, and so meek, and he’s fully exposed (as, let’s face it, he should be). I love the way the woman on the left is leaning over, to check on some detail…hotness.
(Also, it’s a political statement about gender roles, etc., etc., etc….)
But…the hotness.

Womansword, 2001(?) Abelina Galustian
Here’s Galustian busting out her full technical abilities, and wow gee.
Old women with huge fucking swords for the win.

Slave Market, 2000, Abelina Galustian
Galustian is an Armenian/Iranian painter working in the US. Her series Womansword is intended as a subversion of Orientalist misogyny. This piece, obviously is an homage to Gerome’s painting, which see below.
Politically, I don’t find this sort of reversal very interesting, perhaps because I’ve been doing it in my head all my life. But it does (I’m sure unintentionally) fill a void. Although with this particular piece, I think Galustian rushed it a bit technically.
However…
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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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.
The “slave auction” scene from The Sheik, transmuted into a gambling scene.
The movie was enormously successful with women, but the story had been sliced up by the censors in some revealing ways. First, the rape was gone, and a lot of the sheik’s brutality is gone, too. Secondly, in order to get around anti-miscegenation laws, the sheik turns out to be secretly white(!) Once again, the racial dynamics of Orientalism mutate to satisfy the audiences. It got banned anyway, in some jurisdictions, but it was still popular enough that Orientalist tropes completely jumped the shark into the realm of subversion material.
American men absolutely hated this movie, and especially hated Valentino. It probably served as part of the death knell for soft media in kink—and in men’s fashion more generally. Guys in 1921 did not want to vicariously imagine themselves wearing flowing linen robes and lots of jewelry….even if that meant having Agnes Ayers at their mercy.