Codpiece in Art

pornofan

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fashion-in-pictures

Once burned, twice shy. Utter failure during recent power outage means I'm not going to try to post any of these images, but some
are certainly worth looking at.

It is not that the area at the front of well filled jockstrap (or "jackstrop" as I like to think of it) of the trousers or leggings is necessarily form-fitting and revealing, and some of it is obviously exaggerated, but it is interesting that there was a time when men made a point of calling attention to their package by putting it on public display so as to cry out, "Look at me. See what I have here."

It turns out that those who attempt to recreate Medieval dances get a whole different effect when the women have very low cut
bodices and the men's display bounces and jiggles with every hopping step.

Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver tried unsuccessfully to bring back the codpiece decades ago, but I think that effort was even less
successful than the Dolce and Gabana designs where the waist was so low cut as to feature vast thickets of prominently advertised
pubic bush.

Some recent fashion shows in Italy and elsewhere have featured male models with publicly dangling naughty bits, sometimes displayed in
peekaboo gloryholes for voyeurs to squint at, but apparently that was not a serious attempt to sell revealing designs but an effort to attract attention and, perhaps, epater le bourgeois.

Seems as though the only phallocentric men's clothing aimed at the general market is in swimming briefs, Speedos and their competitors.
That's fine, and a little mystery goes a long way, but would it not be nice if someone figured out how to feature the crotch as deliberately as
women's fashions feature their breasts? A "wardrobe malfunction" in that case would be pretty entertaining, and as more and more male nudity is included in mainstream movies, and even on the electric television machine, the male sexual apparatus is likely to be more accepted and less negatively judged as time goes by.

For years, one way a man could bolster his sexual suggestiveness was to wear tight trousers that made the bulge highly prominent, even when not aroused and signaling enthusiastic interest. Then, an entire US generation seemed to think that was infra dig and that They were such sexy studs they did not need to show off what they were packing, and opted for the baggy look, revealing nothing.

Perhaps these antique paintings of men with codpieces to display at least the presence (if not the outline) of their package will inspire someone to take future designs to a new level of exposure that flaunts the parts of a man's body that a man enjoys most.

cannonmc

Topical article

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/apr/30/wolf-hall-codpieces-too-small-says-literature-researcher

PS pornofan, no need to change 'http' these days, the site has redirection on

kagaminelen

i liked the idea of it
:love: :love:

pornofan

Thank you, cannonmc, for the good news. Wish I had read that before, because I just posted a couple of things (one of them twice, which seems to be a clue that it is actually Me. Grrr.) with the XX changes. Won't make that mistake again. Wd like to say I won't double or otherwise multipost again either, but….

Markovin

Lovely idea.