Vintage Bondage - Vince Orlandini

This image conjures up the fetish of jungle capture and prisoner of war tortures. The much maligned posing pouch fits quite well into this scenario and this is nicely compact and inoffensive example worn by a man with an appealing 'guy next door' look and an attractive physique. Kris has ingeniously used two poles to get round the practicalities of arranging tethering points but Vince is genuinely tied to them, which isn't always the case in this era.

The 'X' restraint position is very popular with fetish artists for fairly obvious reasons. Amalaric is a great fan (e.g. in Office Perks). It's not that common in solo bondage photography though. This photograph dates from 1957, when the invocation of slavery in ancient Greece and Rome was widely used by gay photographers and artists to get round repressive laws and attitudes but even so, to my knowledge, it's almost unique. Perhaps the homoerotic qualities of bondage and the way the X pose draws attention to a barely hidden groin was just too daring as a combination. Kris promoted it as part of a set, but I've not found any other examples of this model in bondage. 

See also Peter George from Royale Studio in the early sixties

This is the best picture of Vince that I have been able to find. 

He boasts an elegant shapely physique with unusually large nipples.

An unremarkable but stately pose

Is enlivened by shapely pecs and pouch.