iconic redux

on monday i speculated about the way that icons--like close-up images in porn--removed the subjectivity of the depicted. a reader asked: "do you mean that the portions of their individual personality are obliterated in favor of what is transcendent and holy in their personality?" yes, horny reader. that is exactly what i meant. thanks for helping to clarify!

in most iconography, it is difficult to get any sense of the personality because the faces are so stylized. and deliberately so, i believe. the icon was to convey a timeless, transcendent, and spiritual message, not a human and temporal one; a holy reality accessible to all, not the local drama of personality and mortality. this is what makes an icon different from a realistic painting--one "moves in" toward personality and precision, the other avoids it.

another way to think of this is to compare a caricature with a photograph. the caricature closes in on a specific meaning. the artist deliberately exaggerates in order to send a specific message. tom of finland images are caricatures. they move toward definition and specificity, toward capturing an essence of the personalities involved--usually some aspect of personality that looms larger than life! ha! love it!

but other types of porn images--close-up images, images with faces covered or cropped out--these kinds of images move away from the specific and toward the universal. there is not an individual personality involved as much as an abstraction. and the more the subjectivity is removed, the more the image becomes abstract and available for diverse interpretations. the more, also, it becomes available for vicarious enjoyment in the sense that the image could be any one of us!

iconic

there's something of the icon in these images--the sign or likeness that signifies, that represents something of greater importance. images like these have a unique power to inspire. they may seem a mere collection of cocks and holes. but if you look closely, i think you'll notice that each image, though basically depicting the same thing, is also "saying" something totally unique. the picture speaks, if you will.

icons developed in eastern christianity as flat panel paintings that showed holy objects or beings in a stylized manner that removed the subjectivity of the depicted. the emphasis was on the "holy"--on what was considered transcendent, "bigger" than the individual. bigger than the subject depicted or the individual viewer of the icon. thus they sucked the viewer into a reality that is larger than himself, a bigger reality that is always escaping and yet informing the image. in the same way, i suspect, these close-up images of cocks and holes become so much more--not less--when the eyes, the face, the bodies, and the subjectivity of the individual participants is trimmed away. each image implies or suggests a whole set of relations and associations for me, from the warmest and wettest welcome to struggle to take it all in, reverence to enjoyment to satiety. (do you see the welcome and desire of the yawning technique in the third photo?) yet each one entirely unique.

hot pics: oral scopophilia

scopophilia: from the greek "love of looking," is deriving pleasure from looking. an expression of sexuality, it refers to sexual pleasure derived from looking at erotic objects, including naked bodies and body parts. check out the eyes in these pictures and in previous posts, especially check out sebastian ritz on my january 13th post!
some tops want to be gazed at with desire and longing, especially if the scene is romantic. sometimes the bottom is blindfolded, the better to be "used." sometimes the bottom is tied up to be better played with and observed. i don't think there is any one "correct" thing to do with your eyes during oral sex, except to be aware that they are powerful tools of sexual communication. sometimes i enjoy my bottoms looking admiringly at my chest or abs or cock while their hands brush over my nipples or caress my balls--in this case enjoying the gaze of the bottom, enjoying being objectified even.

sometimes i just want to disengage the eyes by blindfolding the bottom, tying his arms behind his back, and taking him for a ride. and sometimes i've been the one tied up, sometimes blindfolded, and serviced. the options are limited only by your imagination. just remember that the eyes are powerful tools that can do a lot of good work for you.

the eyes of the beholder

a book i've been reading about fellatio asks the question: "why do men enjoy getting head?" it's the wrong question. the answer should begin with the acknowledgement that not all men do. good sexual advice never assumes that all bodies are the same and can be pleasured in the same ways. starting with that assumption is a prescription for disaster. it's a mistake i've made too often.

there are some of us, however, for whom a pair of hot lips wrapped around our swelling members is heaven on earth. the mouth and throat convey sensations that are unique. and the more skilled the bottom, the more pleasurable it can be for the top. the more skilled the top--the more sensitive to the nuances of desire and longing--the more pleasurable it will be for the bottom.

that pleasure, however, is more than the physical sensations. pleasure is also in the visual: the submission of the bottom, his rapt attention on your dick, his eyes looking up into yours with desire and longing, his willingness to surrender his mouth and throat to your penetration. some bloggers use the word "worship" here... he wants to be filled up. and you're there to give it to him.
there's a communication that takes place between a good oral top and his bottom that is not unlike a dance, in that each partner is constantly taking cues--visual and physical--from the other. it's a dance, however, that is being improvised at each step of the way; there is no choreographer but the two in the dance.

five-WOOF cocksucker: sebastian ritz

there’s a smokin’ hot oral session in lucas entertainment’s new “paris plowboys.” the scene begins with sebastian ritz on his knees before rafael alencar’s monster of a cock. alencar takes it easy at first, letting ritz get used to his girth and length. he then starts to really work it in and out of the boy’s throat, becoming more and more directive, demanding, and forceful. moments of joy, fear, and terror register on this hot bottom’s face. at times he’s afraid of the cock, but also worshipful of it, seeming worried about what it’s going to do to him, but anticipating what it’s going to do for him. there’s a sublime mix of terror and pleasure on his face. rafael even makes him cry at one point: “yea, you’re crying, you’re hurting,” he says, enjoying his natural dominance, ignoring the boy’s desperation. rafael groans with pleasure as he eventually sinks his cock all the way down ritz’s throat, locking the hot boy’s head on his cock with his hand behind the boy’s head. the scene ends with rafael plowing the boy’s ass, but it’s the oral first half that draws this blog’s attention and approval. i have to admit, i have a huge porncrush on sebastian ritz. if you're out there reading this sebastian, call or email me! if you'd like to get the video, click on any photo!