(This posting — with its depictions of and street-language descriptions of, sex between men — is totally unsuitable for kids or the sexually modest.)
An ad, both very carefully and pleasingly composed and also goofily absurd, for the HUNT eZine gay porn sale for Valentine’s Day 2021, plays on movie clichés of tango or flamenco dancing, in which a red rose (symbolizing sexual passion) is held between the teeth of one of the dancers in a couple, most commonly the woman, but sometimes the man. (Note: roses, of whatever color, between the teeth play no role whatsoever in actual tango and flamenco.)
The ad shows two men who are fucking, not dancing, but the top (exhibiting a fiercely ecstatic facial expression) has a red rose clenched between his teeth, as a symbol of his overwhelming desire for the bottom (whose eyes are closed and whose mouth is half open, in receptive ecstasy):
(#1)
I don’t know if #1 sells any products for Falcon or Naked Sword (the sponsors of HUNT), but I’ll have a lot of good things to say about the ad as a composition and the performances of the two actors involved. I would have all those good things to say about the ad if the red rose weren’t in the picture. With the red rose, I find it not only beautifully composed, skillfully performed, and (frankly) really hot, but also laugh-out-loud funny.
In general, put a rose between any guy’s teeth, and he’s going to look at least faintly ridiculous — as in this image from the depositphotos site:
(#2) Seductive shirtless man, holding rose in mouth, invites you to tango (photo by hannatv, 6/3/19)
Now to #1. First, I am assuming that the image can be viewed on this blog (though not on Facebook) because it shows no cocks, balls, or assholes. The top’s cock is out of view because it’s thrust into the bottom’s asshole. The bottom’s cock is out of view because I’ve fuzzed it out. (It is, in fact, one of the virtues of this position for sex that the bottom’s cock is so easily available for the top to play with — and in #1 you can see that the top has made a fist, preparatory to his jacking off the bottom while he fucks him.)
The arrangement of the bodies. Three V shapes: a fairly large-angle V formed by the two men’s torsos; a large-angle V formed by the top’s spread legs; and a narrow-angle V formed by the bottom’s thighs. Plus the parallelism of the top’s forearms with the bottom’s legs. In the resulting composition, the two men’s bodies are inextricably interwined — a nice symbolism.
Then the sight line of the two men’s gaze — what the faces are doing is crucial in any composition involving people — is parallel to the bottom’s left leg (which is held straight up in the air).
The composition is then visually very satisfying. #1 is an ad based on a specific gay porn flick (I don’t know which one, nor do I recognize the two actors), but it’s not a screen shot from the flick; ad material is almost always posed separately (so that sometimes an ad shows a scene that doesn’t actually appear in the flick); the pleasing arrangement of the bodies in #1 is then not just good fortune, but is the result of a collaboration between the photographer and the performers.
Part of this collaboration involves the performers arranging their bodies in ways that can be physically challenging for them, at least if they had to hold the position for any amount of time. So, in #1, the bottom is holding his legs in just the right position for the composition, without any support for them. And the top is holding his body several inches off a surface, apparently mostly using the strength of his thigh muscles, so that he can lean forward in the composition (also so that he can maintain the right angle for fucking the bottom; see the section on the sex act below).
The hanging plant. Presumably this was on the set of whatever flick #1 is taken from, and the company just left it in for the ad. But it performs some useful functions. It makes a nice counterbalance to the main image. It provides color to a composition that is otherwise all flesh, plus the red rose.
And it domesticates, humanizes what would otherwise be entirely a sex scene, taking place in an empty Sex Zone.
The sex act. Known in some of the popular literature on positions for fucking as Pile Driver / Piledriver (or Jackhammer), for its hard driving of the top’s cock into the bottom’s asshole. It is famously challenging for both participants.
From Wikipedia (noting that the act has both vaginal and anal variants, and applies equally to both female and male receptive partners):
Named after the downward motion of an actual pile driver, the position is executed by the receiving partner lying supine bent into a front bend in a pose similar to the yoga plow pose, bottom up, with legs bent over head, while the inserting partner stands above and inserts a penis or other object downwards into the receptive partner’s vagina or anus.
Though the position is quite strenuous for both participants, it is particularly so for the receptive partner, who is severely constrained by the front bend.
Then from The Sword site, “The Sword’s Guide to Gay Sex Positions: Piledriver” by Harlan on 7/31/18:
While it presents its own challenges for both the top and the bottom, the piledriver can be a feast for the eyes of porn viewers
… the difficulty for the bottoms comes with prolonged blood flow directed to their heads while top can find extreme stress placed on their quads – all while maintaining an erection and working towards orgasm.
(with video examples from gay porn).
#1 shows a particularly challenging variant of Pile Driver, beginning with a negotiation that’s not visible the viewer: finding an angle of entry into the bottom’s body that’s comfortable for both participants.
But the image is at least (just barely) displayable on this blog. Other examples have to be relegated to AZBlogX — hence my posting “Pile Driver / Piledriver” there earlier today. With three examples.
— #1 there: Pile Driver from my 12/7/12 AZBlogX posting “Sex Advice”:
In this variant, the top has leaned far forward to support himself on his hands on the bed, while the bottom is supporting himself by holding onto the top’s arms.
Plus two variants from the “Gay Sex Positions Guide” site (with examples from gay porn).
— #2 there:
The top is steadying himself by holding the bottom’s ankles, but otherwise is just thrusting his cock deep into his bottom’s asshole from a standing position. The bottom is using his hands on his thighs to hold his spread legs up for his top to use this way.
— #3 there:
The top here is also standing for his drives, steadying himself only by one hand on the chair behind him (while using his other hand to guide his thrusts into the bottom). Meanwhile, the bottom is steadying himself with one hand on his fucker’s thigh, while he jacks himself off with the other hand.
And that’s how gay porn actors celebrate Valentine’s Day: a red rose in the teeth and a Pile Driver fuck. Romance and raw sex.
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