NOTE: Overnight, I understand Karel tried several times to comment on my latest Eros and Chrysos post that and all his attempts failed. I don't know the reason why this happened. On checking the blog all appears to be in order and so I am sorry Karel that I can't explain why this happened to you. I suspect - but don't know for certain - there might be a size limit on the maximum number of characters that can be used in comments. I will investigate this further.

However, I know how important it is to you personally to be able to comment and to add your unique perspective to my posts and I thank you for the attached which I am posting to the blog for the benefit of our readers.

FIRST PART OF KAREL’s COMMENT

 

GREAT  Chris, more than ever I am enraptured and excited by the exceptional beauty of this post, also because more than ever, I feel in it the “heavenly taste” of the most outstanding past masterpieces by the incomparable Jean-Christophe ! …….. the “heavenly taste” of almost a “chapter” of those extraordinary “long stories by Jean-Christophe” that have delighted and aroused thousands and thousands of readers and admirers all over the world, and that have even really marked and changed the recent history of the best gay erotic Literature. Those wonderful long stories by Jean Christophe that thousands and thousands of faithful fans and admirers not only in this blog, but all over the world, yearn and hope that soon you will start again to write.

Really this magnificent post reminds me a possible “chapter” of one of those long stories …… or possibly more than one ! …….. not only for its unusual length, but also for the uncommon abundance of many and many ingenious situations, ideas and hints that could really inspire and be developed in much longer descriptions and in whole chapters of an elating possible long story.

Let me give just few examples: e.g. it might be the character of a much longer story, that might inspire and fill with her “deeds” more than one whole chapters, the libidinous, aged and ugly Roman Matron who requests  …… for “good fortune” (!) (but what you say about this is perfectly historically correct ) …… to grasp and hold in her hand the big phallus of the poor disgusted and appalled Eros, while “she prays Priapus” (fabulous ingenious idea !) …. the same lustful and dissolute old horrible crone that cruelly and lewdly “DIPS HER SCARF INTO THE BLOOD OF A WOUNDED (OR KILLED) GLADIATOR”  (what a sadistic but fully historically realistic detail !) …… or that, more importantly, “KEEPS HANDSOME, VIRILE MALE SLAVES TO BE MILKED FOR THEIR SEMEN WHICH IS THEN MIXED WITH HER SKIN LOTIONS AND POTIONS IN THE VAIN ATTEMPT TO WARD OFF THE RAVAGES OF OLD AGE.” another extremely sadistic but fully historically correct and plausible detail !

Just these few very concise details are worthy to inspire and to be developed in MUCH longer stories or chapters of a longer story !

 

Karel

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Another just briefly mentioned scene, that is worthy of a much longer and detailed description is e.g. when the old ugly and loathsome witch, before choosing the massive genitals of the poor appalled and nauseated Eros for her obscene “prayer”,  “CAREFULLY CHOSES WHICH SLAVE TO USE” among the six slaves and litter-bearers of the Senator. I imagine how excitingly your Art, Chris, could effectively describe in full details the aged crone thoroughly and at length feeling and checking, many and many times, with her loathsome hands and “talon-like fingers”, the massive hard bulges in the skimp loincloths that hardly contain and cover the big genitals of the hapless six slave-youths, obliged to stay motionless and totally passive, hiding their humiliation and disgust, while the horrible hag carefully inspects and checks the size, weight and “toughness” of the huge cocks and balls of the miserable young slaves !

What a magnificent and extremely arousing scene, worthy of a much longer description in a much longer story in which the horrendous lustful crone might even be one of the characters !

Allow me to add that I personally like and find exciting scenes like these ones, even involving female characters, especially when the female characters (even best if old, ugly and loathsome as well as also lustful and cruel like this appalling aged Roman Matron) dominate and torment helpless young, robust and cute enslaved males. So in this case I do like and I totally agree with the choice of Chris of introducing this hideous and repugnant female character.

However I think that, for those readers who on the contrary fully dislike the presence of female characters, this same series of scene will still keep the same marvelous literary and sadistic beauty and excitement, if e.g. the old Matron would be substituted with an equally old, lewd and loathsome aristocratic Lord (e.g. according to Latin satiric poets even various “debauched” rich Roman old noblemen used to have their healthiest, sturdiest and most masculine young slaves regularly “milked” for using their sperm as a “rejuvenating potion” and drink and as an ingredient in “beauty creams” for massages in “the vain attempt to ward off the ravages of old age”).

A last comment about the scene of the old matron: what you say Chris, about the amazingly frequent use in ancient Rome (even in necklaces of prepubescent boys !) of the erected PHALLUS, represented in countless different materials and forms, as an extremely effective “good omen” and amulet, is perfectly historically correct. It was the “divine attribute” of the great god Priapus and its images were also the object of a real and intense religious cult.

But let me recall that a similar “good omen” function was played (and it’s somehow even today played, at least in Italy !) by the feeling and light squeezing also of TESTICLES, especially if these male gonads are unusually big, firm and weighty like the massive balls of the young “stallion-slave” Eros !

So I have no doubts, that in her “fervent prayer” the old, ugly Matron would have at length felt and tormented not only the massive male shaft of the poor boy, but that she would have at length felt, hefted and squeezed in her loathsome hands also the huge firm and massive testicles of the hapless and helpless  Eros !

 

Karel

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But the outstanding beauty of this post expands even beyond the very exciting episode of the aged and lustful horrendous Roman Matron !

Also the other (unfortunately just mentioned and too briefly described) episode of the “VASTLY OVERWEIGHT” mature Senator, who is “  PERSPIRING PROFUSELY AND IS DISTRESSED ALMOST TO THE POINT OF EXHAUSTION” for the “UNBEARABLY HOT DAY” and of course (I suppose) also for the “UNENDURABLE FATIGUE OF BEING BROUGHT ON THAT HORRIBLY WARM DAY IN HIS CERTAINLY VERY COMFORTABLE LITTER” by his eight or twelve herculean litter-bearers ! …….. that vastly overweight mature Senator (and for sure also very LUSTFUL) who requests the permission “TO USE THE SWEAT OF ONE OF MY SLAVES TO COOL HIS FEVERED BROW AND FACE ” …. after having certainly already dried and fully drained the equally copious sweat of his own young litter bearers ! ……. is a strikingly beautiful and arousing scene whose situation and character would be worthy of being developed and described in much, much longer details in a longer story on in one or more chapters of a long story.

E.g. the amazingly inspiring and exciting situation in which the loathsome, ugly, old fatso “WIPES THE COPIOUS SWEAT FROM THE SMOOTH BRAWNY CHEST AND BELLY” of the poor disgusted Chrysos “ BEFORE WIPING HIS CHUBBY ARMS.” …… and even more when the filthy and repugnant obese aged Senator shows all his uncontrollable lasciviousness for young males by “REACHING BETWEEN THE THICK THIGHS OF THE POOR CHRYSOS” and “SOAKS UP THE SEX SWEAT FROM CRYSOS' GROIN  FOR WIPING HIS BROW AND FACE ”   ……. while (rightly) the lucky Master of Chrysos and Eros jeeringly “SMILES INWARDLY KNOWING THAT THE OLD LECHER WAS SAVOURING THE SLAVE'S AROUSING SEX SCENT” …… are admirable examples of the greatest and most arousing gay BDSM Literature, outstanding scenes that would deserve to be developed and described in much longer details (together with the character of the loathsome lecherous VASTLY OVERWEIGHT” mature Senator) in a much longer story !

 

Karel

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Last but not least, among the many other very beautiful and exciting just mentioned details of this post, that might be “hints” for much longer descriptions, let me mention just the following three points:

-         One is the detail of the two additional robust slaves, that follow in his litter-trips the Senator, besides his four litter-bearers. Of course (as it really happened in ancient Rome) these additional muscular escorting slaves (often in the number of much more than just two), who walked alongside or behind the litter, were primarily used first of all as brawny “burden-beasts” for carrying e.g. (as Chrys says) “WINE AND TASTY MORSELS OF FOOD” for the Master on short trips, and for carrying, on longer trips, the much heavier and more numerous pieces of luggage of their Owner. Moreover (as correctly described) some of them were working as body-guards while other ones were “HELPING THE MASTER TO ENTER AND EXIT HIS LITTER ”. An important and  VERY SADISTIC detail of this latest slave-duty, worthy to be mentioned and more deeply described. was that often –when the Master was entering or exiting his litter- one ROBUST SLAVE WAS OBLIGED TO KNEEL AND BOW ON HIS FOUR ON THE GROUND, SO THAT THE MASTER COULD CLIMB WITH HIS FEET ON THE SLAVE’S MUSCULAR BACK for more comfortably enter or exit the litter! In a similar way, in ancient Rome it was very common that also when a Master was e.g. mounting a horse for riding, one of his brawniest slaves was forced to kneel on his four or to deeply bow so that his Master could mount with his feet first on his sturdy back and then on the horse !

I’m sure that this certainly happens also when our Senator enters and exits his litter; and maybe this is a very sadistic detail worthy to be emphasized and described.

-         The fact that our Senator prefers that his slaves  “have fully glabrous torsos”, limbs and sculpted musculature, is linked not only to his “refined aesthetical taste” about the gorgeous look of his “transport animals” …. but also to a much eviler and sadistic reason: body hair –especially when it’s so abundant and thick like on the chest of the macho Chrysos- can significantly impair and mitigate the “duly prodding” and rightly painful effect of a spurring whiplash or quirt-blow on the chest of a slave. Rightly the Senator keeps fully glabrous the vast chests and bodies of his litter-bearers, so that the blows of his whip and his quirt can exert all their full and most painful violence in devastating and tormenting, for spurring, the big bulging pectorals of Eros and Chrysos and of their other slave-fellows !

-         The episode of the two street-robbers that assault the Senator and that later he makes sentenced to be nailed on a cross, is a true “story inside a story” . Even by itself alone this episode would deserve to be developed in a fully dedicated story, or in one or two Chapters of a long story.

           

Great, great Chris, let me finish this unusually long comment that however says all my extraordinary liking and excitement for this exceptionally beautiful and thrilling post.

Thank you with all my boundless admiration for your incomparable Art

 

Karel