The Beautiful and the Sublime

Exerpt from "Prettier Than Napoleon"

Men Are Sublime

The predominance of female nudes in art can easily be explained by the centuries of overwhelming dominance of the fine arts by men. Access to art training was a major factor, as unchaperoned women were unlikely to be left alone with art teachers, for obvious reasons. Similarly, until relatively recently it was viewed as unseemly for women to hire male models at all, much less nude models. Female models were easier for male artists to come by and might offer the bonus of being an easy sexual conquest for the painter or sculptor. Male artists, the majority being heterosexual, had both motive and opportunity to produce female nudes.

Setting aside the issue of whether centuries of male dominance explains the preference for female nudity, is (it) correct to assert that naked women are prettier than naked men? My first reaction to this assertion was to draw the parallel between the beautiful and the sublime.

Intrinsic in this view is our historical perspective of women as the weaker, lesser sex. Beauty is a property of the balanced, the pleasing, the graceful. The smooth contours and tidier genitalia of the female body meet this standard. But like many beautiful things, a female nude is not threatening. She lacks power to affect the viewer beyond the stimulation of the gaze. She exists to please: a beautiful decoration. The male nude is messier, woolier, more angular. Muscles, like the rolling thunderheads in a Turner seascape, threaten and awe us. With power comes danger, but with danger, desire. If the female nude is a lush landscape of rolling English hills, the male nude is the jagged mountain range. The women here, in their pale languor, may be beautiful, but they are not dangerous. Here, the male body retains a sense of dynamism and coiled power even while sprawled and still. One need not find the male body sexually attractive to appreciate its sublimity, but by definition a sublime image is less comfortable and more challenging than a beautiful one. Between the confrontational subject matter and the preexisting biases toward production of beautiful female nudes which aesthetically and (for the majority of creators and viewers) sexually gratify, is it any wonder that we have a dearth of naked males in media?

This sums up the explanation for sexual attraction, at least for one sense (vision), in my opinion. Quote "threaten and awe us": this is the reason WHY I love men. They are physically challenging, powerful, dangerous, angular, rough. Those are the adjectives that describe why I (and pretty much every other gay man on the planet) love the male form so much!

Hot Play

What a hot session with the boi last night! I was completely rubberized, outside and inside, with the new mask with shaded lenses. Without direct light, no one can tell who is inside. I even got tied up for awhile with the new wrist and ankle cuffs. We also took great video of the sex -- that big dick going in and out of my rubberized hole. Not sure if that's going to be posted, I'll let you know...

Rubberstud of the Week #24

Stride Fitness

The first lycra I've bought in a LONG time....




The racing speedsuit came yesterday. It's a tight fit, but I love it!

Rubberstud of the Week #23

Home-made suits

David6574 has been making his own latex suits for years. He's always been a big fan of neck entry suits in very thin sheet latex. The first video he's in a 0.18mm neck-entry transparent white latex suit. I'm amazed he was even able to get it on!

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He also made this sweet Adidas-like latex surfsuit that shows off everything! Talk about accentuating the positive...

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New Gear

I've been a little busy lately heating up those eBay auctions, hell bent on improving my bondage and breathplay scenes with some new gear.

HEAVY DUTY RUBBER LATEX WRIST CUFFS
HEAVY DUTY RUBBER LATEX ANKLE CUFFS

DELUXE RUSSIAN GASMASK & HOOD SET

3 LITER REBREATHING BAG AND 60CM HOSE

REVERSE T-JOINT FOR MUTUAL BREATHPLAY

ADDITIONAL 100CM HOSE

I get hard just thinking about the set up I can do with this new equipment. I already have a russian gas mask and could potentially set this up for airsharing between two, even three rubbermen. Hot stuff!

Just another Saturday night...

Rubberpsyche, Deimospup and myself went out in full rubber last night. It wasn't for any special occasion; we simply wanted to dress up and then head out in public for a little shock and awe. When we walked in in head-to-toe latex, the bar almost went silent. It was great being hooded initially because no one knew who we were; eventually the hoods came off and our identities were revealed.


Rubberpsyche put his pup into the cage later in the evening. There was debate about pouring stuff on him but we didn't know who was going to be doing the cleanup so it was decided best not to create any more chaos than we had already done.

I can't wait until the next night out now....you're welcome to join us anytime!

Fetish Catalog

Well, I've officially made it to the big time! LOL

Priape's 2009 catalog came out earlier this week. I didn't know the Fetish 2009 catalog was coming out now, although I did know that they would be posting the winners of the regional competitions in that issue. Lo and behold, I get emails from friends around the country stating they didn't know I was Mr. Rubber Calgary. I ask, "how did you find out?", and they said, "the new Priape Catalog".

So I had to see for myself. I hadn't been asked directly to submit a picture for the catalog so they took what they had, which is sort of unflattering. But considering the general disarray of the entire national competition, I'm surprised they had a picture at all! And I'm sort of glad they didn't post my last name too. Good times.

Hopefully next year they can put together more city rubber competitions than just Montreal and Calgary. Toronto just had theirs, apparently, Montreal's 2009 competition comes up two weeks after MIR, and Vancouver is supposed to be doing theirs at Rubbout in April 2009. I have discussed organizing the 2009 competition for Calgary, however I'd be surprised if anyone even competes. I guess we'll see.

Rubberplay

I find XORub's frantic layering and breathplay just a little arousing. He's got twelve rubberplay vids put up on Guyzingear in the past few days, all different!

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