This was originally a very simple post – the above pic, and that’s it.
Just enjoy it for a moment – beautifully composed, great body, the veins on the hand popping as it’s holding that upright gorgeous cock – Regarder!
Any regular reader would know I am a huge fan of Ben Chapin (AKA Michel Guillot), and while I may have seen the image before, I love it and think it’s enough to feast your eyes on and not need any text or additional pics. So, I had just scanned it from a newly acquired old magazine (Jockstrap – more on that in another post), cropped, uploaded, and continued scanning the magazine when I get to – oh, you’ll see. “Porno Pet Peeve” just isn’t enough. Anyway, I gasped – what art director thought this was a good idea??? Here, a bit more Ben before we get to the porno magazine art direction tragedy that this one simple page had me gagging in disbelief (the bad kind of gagging, no?).
So anyway, I get that no one created a dirty magazine thinking decades later some old sleazy rambling porno crazed guy would be uploading pics and complaining that each image isn’t perfect – the “inset” has it’s place, and I can see that sometimes it can add some interest, or just alternating the way each page is set up makes the magazine look better. Scroll all the way to the bottom of this post and you’ll see an image that, while I would prefer no inset at all, instead seeing the full beautiful image of that man without his shoulder cut off; but I get it. But if you dare, scroll just past this and see the horror, the horror of art direction gone amuck and someone who thinks it will look nice to obscure one of the most beautiful cocks ever to make it into a magazine.
Ben! (Michel!) please avert your eyes and don’t look at what’s been done!
If you’ve gotten this far, just know that there is a place to see the image as it was intended to be – on an earlier post I made of Ben Chapin!
