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Ave, fellow passion play friends,

ah, already two years of corona isolation - and two months until next easter. I am looking forward to the next good friday events and passion plays all over the world taking place again, without masks and distance regulations. To see again hunky Jesus actors and slender boys playing the "thieves" being led to their crucifixion and hear them "screaming" in agony when "nailed" down.
Like these two young lads from an Italian play before Corona. I think I did not post it yet, I really love the toned down colors of the photography and especially the facial expression of fear and desperation and the bondage of the young one, his ragged garment almost slipping from his shoulder - foreshading how he will get stripped only too soon at "Golgotha"...

I am posting it to "get in the mood" again...
All the best,
Ty.

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Tygorn said:
Ave, fellow passion play friends,

ah, already two years of corona isolation - and two months until next easter. I am looking forward to the next good friday events and passion plays all over the world taking place again, without masks and distance regulations. To see again hunky Jesus actors and slender boys playing the "thieves" being led to their crucifixion and hear them "screaming" in agony when "nailed" down.
Like these two young lads from an Italian play before Corona. I think I did not post it yet, I really love the toned down colors of the photography and especially the facial expression of fear and desperation and the bondage of the young one, his ragged garment almost slipping from his shoulder - foreshading how he will get stripped only too soon at "Golgotha"...

I am posting it to "get in the mood" again...
All the best,
Ty.

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Do you have some more info on this, Tygorn or some more pictures?
 
Hey, RevBlack, good to hear from you, hope you are well... No sorry, there was only one more, in b/w - I think the young one is the one on the right side of Jesus (which means that he would be "Dismas" according to the traditional iconography). Thats often the case when the "thieves" are of different age, that the young one is Dismas, and the older one Gestas....but you surely know that ;)
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Tygorn said:
Ave, fellow passion play friends,

ah, already two years of corona isolation - and two months until next easter. I am looking forward to the next good friday events and passion plays all over the world taking place again, without masks and distance regulations. To see again hunky Jesus actors and slender boys playing the "thieves" being led to their crucifixion and hear them "screaming" in agony when "nailed" down.
Like these two young lads from an Italian play before Corona. I think I did not post it yet, I really love the toned down colors of the photography and especially the facial expression of fear and desperation and the bondage of the young one, his ragged garment almost slipping from his shoulder - foreshading how he will get stripped only too soon at "Golgotha"...

I am posting it to "get in the mood" again...
All the best,
Ty.

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Superb image, Tygorn! The face is showing just the right combination of shock, fear, and despair; and the bare shoulder promises us a pleasing spectacle as the clothes come off and that slim young body is exposed.

And let's hope that the executioners do the stripping properly: not hustling off the clothing as though it were a disagreeable but necessary task, to be got through as quickly as possible; but exposing bare flesh at a deliberate pace, maximizing the humiliation of the subject and the enjoyment of the spectators, until that last undergarment drops down around the ankles and our boy stands naked before the ribald crowd.

And there we find the one complaint I can make against the picture. For reasons practical and artistic, the hands should be tied behind the back rather than rather loosely bound in front. From the practical standpoint, we can't assume that our subjects will meekly trudge out to the crucifixion site and unresistingly yield to the executioners. Jesus may have done the lamb-to-the-slaughter thing, but most of our young criminals will have a certain amount of experience at brawling. By binding their hands behind their backs, we keep them from trying to throttle an executioner or to grab some kind of weapon from a guard or spectator. Moreover, if they show any unwillingness to go where they're told, they can be frog-marched. From the aesthetic standpoint, meanwhile, tying the wrists behind the back means that when the last garment falls away and leaves our young thief totally bare, he can't use his hands to hide anything from the eager gaze of the spectators.

Since we don't have a backstory for our lad, let's take up the Evangelist's pen and try to construct one. No courageous rebel against the Empire, he, nor a member of a much-feared band of desperate robbers. Rather, a thief of the most petty kind, snatching small items from unwatched merchants' stalls and taking thin purses from men who were too drunk to notice. He's prided himself on what he thought were his skill and daring, and persuaded himself that only the foolish and clumsy get caught; indeed, he's regularly joined in jeering at crucified men, confident that he'd never suffer such a fate himself. But his luck has run out: an unexpectedly watchful shopkeeper, a large strong passerby willing to help apprehend a thief, or a drunkard who wasn't as oblivious as he seemed...

Criminal justice is swift in this rough city: apprehended in the afternoon, quickly tried and condemned in the evening, to go to the cross the next morning. Less than twenty-four hours ago, he'd thought that he might wake up this morning in the bed of a woman whose favors he'd bought with a stolen trinket or handful of small coins; but now, he's being marched through the street to a place where he'll be stripped before the crowd, have nails driven through his wrists and ankles, and be raised up to hang naked from those nails, humiliated and suffering through a long slow day of dying. Sick with fear and still half disbelieving that this could be happening to him, he trudges through the streets toward where his cross awaits him.
 
Thank you, frost, I am glad to hear that you did like it so much. Good to see the members sharing a similar "taste", like you and me, RevBlack, CruxSadist, BondageBoy and others are still around here, at this great place for people like "us", waiting for the new "season" and new stuff to share.
Yes, I agree the stripping should be quick and rough and not "gentle" at all. I do know hardly any play where this is done right.
Indeed I do prefer binding of the hands behind the back, too. One reason for my personal taste is that this position lets appear the male ribcage and the ribs more prominent, which is one anatomical appearance that makes the male body (in a religous context) on the cross, or in bondage (like the sacrifice of young Isaac, see my other thread), especially "hot" for me.
But in the traditional iconography of passion depictions and the Jesus figure his hands are always bound in front so I think thats the reason why this method is frequently used on the "thieves", too.
Great work, backstories of the victims like yours I imagine or write down frequently, too. Even if the Jesus figure "created" the crux fetish for us, I think in some aspects we can often relate more to the "thieves" or other victims because of their human and sinful nature, which may be closer to our own, including feeling the full amount of fear and despair in this situation.
 
Tygorn said:
Thank you, frost, I am glad to hear that you did like it so much. Good to see the members sharing a similar "taste", like you and me, RevBlack, CruxSadist, BondageBoy and others are still around here, at this great place for people like "us", waiting for the new "season" and new stuff to share.
Yes, I agree the stripping should be quick and rough and not "gentle" at all. I do know hardly any play where this is done right.
Indeed I do prefer binding of the hands behind the back, too. One reason for my personal taste is that this position lets appear the male ribcage and the ribs more prominent, which is one anatomical appearance that makes the male body (in a religous context) on the cross, or in bondage (like the sacrifice of young Isaac, see my other thread), especially "hot" for me.
But in the traditional iconography of passion depictions and the Jesus figure his hands are always bound in front so I think thats the reason why this method is frequently used on the "thieves", too.
Great work, backstories of the victims like yours I imagine or write down frequently, too. Even if the Jesus figure "created" the crux fetish for us, I think in some aspects we can often relate more to the "thieves" or other victims because of their human and sinful nature, which may be closer to our own, including feeling the full amount of fear and despair in this situation.
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Well said Tygorn! For me personally, seeing the victim clad only in a small, loose fitting loincloth as he is led to the site of his crucifixion, his hands tied behind his back or carrying his patibulum on his shoulders exposing his rib cage and abdomal muscles is very sexually stimulating for me too. As they arrive at the site, his loincloth is quickly torn away from his hips and he is on full display as his crucifixion begins.
From a different perspective…the loincloth could be removed and he would be forced to walk completely naked to the crucifixion site. This would mean more exposure and greater humiliation.
I don’t know what excites me more…a slim, yet well muscled young man trudging his way to his crucifixion and seeing an occasional glimpse of his genitals under his small loincloth or seeing his genitals bouncing and flopping around his sweat covered thighs.
 
Tygorn said:
Ave, fellow passion play friends,

ah, already two years of corona isolation - and two months until next easter. I am looking forward to the next good friday events and passion plays all over the world taking place again, without masks and distance regulations. To see again hunky Jesus actors and slender boys playing the "thieves" being led to their crucifixion and hear them "screaming" in agony when "nailed" down.
Like these two young lads from an Italian play before Corona. I think I did not post it yet, I really love the toned down colors of the photography and especially the facial expression of fear and desperation and the bondage of the young one, his ragged garment almost slipping from his shoulder - foreshading how he will get stripped only too soon at "Golgotha"...

I am posting it to "get in the mood" again...
All the best,
Ty.

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Hello, when will I see the crucified boy of the image?
 
Ave fellow passionplay fans,

here is something else I found, less serious or violent, more light-hearted and for general entertainment purposes, regarding the question, IF there could be something more than only "religous inspiration" behind watching a school passion play and these well built young male bodies hanging/standing on the cross, even for a "normal" audience, especially for girls....
Its an interview two girls do with one of the actors, but not with the Jesus actor, but with one of the "thieves" and, if you check out this boys "qualities", you understand why the girls did choose him, I think. Later the interview continues and it looks that he likes to show off his qualities being shirtless, his sixpack and ribcage... and the girls seem to enjoy it, too.
Too bad I do not understand spanish, maybe of interest what they are saying... but looking at it, can be "inspiring", too. Enjoy. The interesting part starts about 5:30 min.

 
Tygorn said:
Ave fellow passionplay fans,

here is something else I found, less serious or violent, more light-hearted and for general entertainment purposes, regarding the question, IF there could be something more than only "religous inspiration" behind watching a school passion play and these well built young male bodies hanging/standing on the cross, even for a "normal" audience, especially for girls....
Its an interview two girls do with one of the actors, but not with the Jesus actor, but with one of the "thieves" and, if you check out this boys "qualities", you understand why the girls did choose him, I think. Later the interview continues and it looks that he likes to show off his qualities being shirtless, his sixpack and ribcage... and the girls seem to enjoy it, too.
Too bad I do not understand spanish, maybe of interest what they are saying... but looking at it, can be "inspiring", too. Enjoy. The interesting part starts about 5:30 min.

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A very nice torso! I like the face, too; pleasant-looking youngster, but I think he'd also be good for some fetching grimaces of pain while hanging from the nails through his wrists.

However, the TV producers deserve a long stint in a warm spot in Purgatory for keeping that big station logo between us and him. Just as they zoom in toward where we can enjoy that bare stomach and navel, it slides out of sight behind the logo...

I'll also bewail the exceedingly modest loincloth, and what appears to be the waistband of a pair of boxer briefs showing above it. It's bad enough that shapely male thighs all across the United States are covered by that sartorial abomination, but in my heart I'd hoped that young men south of the Darien Gap scorned to wear such an anerotic undergarment.
 
Back in the 70’s I participated in a youth Passion Play at CYO camp and played the part of one of the thieves. I was a young swimmer so my physique was both slim and smooth.
Rehearsal’s were done in camp attire (shorts and T-shirts). At the actual performance we were encouraged to wear our shorts underneath our loincloth costumes, but I chose not to. Thankfully there wasn’t any kind of wardrobe malfunction during our performance.
We were given a long strip of white cloth and I remember wrapping myself and the softness of the cloth rubbing against my genitals caused an instant and very noticeable erection. My “co-stars” loincloths looked like boxer shorts but I was skilled enough to wrap mine around my hips and between my legs and tucking the loose end in the front which created a much briefer type of loincloth. I was horrified that my erection wouldn’t stop and I didn’t have time to slip out of my loincloth and put on a pair of underwear or shorts.
I know my erection was noticeable while I was on my cross because of comments made by others at camp who attended the play. Needless to say I was embarrassed, but I was also secretly exhilarated at having the opportunity to “hang” on a cross with some very beautiful co-stars. It was a one time performance but also very memorable.
 
BondageBoy said:
I don’t know what excites me more…a slim, yet well muscled young man trudging his way to his crucifixion and seeing an occasional glimpse of his genitals under his small loincloth or seeing his genitals bouncing and flopping around his sweat covered thighs.
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That's because they're both hot scenarios. For me, the only hot thing about loincloths is if they're being inadequate for the job. Pubes poking out the top and, as you say, a glimpse of the genitals through the side. It's teasing "modesty" without actual modesty.

But of course full nudity is always good too. Win-win for the spectator, lose-lose for the condemned.
 
BondageBoy said:
Back in the 70’s I participated in a youth Passion Play at CYO camp and played the part of one of the thieves. I was a young swimmer so my physique was both slim and smooth.
Rehearsal’s were done in camp attire (shorts and T-shirts). At the actual performance we were encouraged to wear our shorts underneath our loincloth costumes, but I chose not to. Thankfully there wasn’t any kind of wardrobe malfunction during our performance.
We were given a long strip of white cloth and I remember wrapping myself and the softness of the cloth rubbing against my genitals caused an instant and very noticeable erection. My “co-stars” loincloths looked like boxer shorts but I was skilled enough to wrap mine around my hips and between my legs and tucking the loose end in the front which created a much briefer type of loincloth.
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You should have helped each other putting it on! Is it not the idea of such camps that the people learn to work together?

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On the topic of loincloths, here's an interesting one from a 19th century study
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and some more, from my 2008 archive
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The second last one looks like a setting for one of your passion play stories, @dfg42
 
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