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Fetish & Fetters: A Selection of Art Work by The Hun

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Bill "The Hun" Schmeling has been pushing us to our limits artistically for over 30 years. His vision of men echoes that of the late Tom Of Finland, in that enormously exaggerated physiques with outrageously proportioned genitalia threaten or face peril on every page. Fluids spew, sweat flies, lips leer. This is danger in pen and ink.

But there is something else at work here. Collected among the more than 100 images are perilous situations and the men are frequently at the edge in their playing, but The Hun's work often carries a wickedly subversive sense of humor. If you read the captions on the "walls" of some of these drawings, you'll find a delightfully (and I mean this in the most complimentary of fashions) sick mind at work, with a host of bad puns and backwoods humor. It makes for some strange juxtapositions in a book filled with so many images of terror and pain.

Probably one of the most exciting things about The Hun's work is that it runs right up against taboo items and slams into them with no holds barred. There are scenes here that will cause you to question exactly why these images stimulate you, because they are most certainly NOT politically correct. If The Hun can keep you at the edge of your seat now, as he has through four decades, then you know exactly why "Fetishes And Fetters" is such an essential, must have book.

Intersting book full of the distinctive stye of the Hun. His drawings are certainly fanciful, but they do not dissapoint. He draws a world of fantasy where the erotic parts of this subjects are larger than life, for example, sex organs are bigger, chests are more hairy, armpits more sweaty, the sex is rough and testosterone rolls from the pages. If this is intereting to you then you will enjoy this slim though impressive retrospect of artwork by The Hun

I have a problem with this book: I do not like Hun's style. I find his men too raw, unfinished. They have this barbaric faces I do not find sexy but ugly.

This aside, I can find no fault with his drawings: Hun surely knows his job, has his own personal drawing style and is able to convey the sexy situations he has in mind. His men are not only huge but dirty, rough and involved in extremely hot acts.

The similarity to Tom of Finland is very superficial.

This is why the five stars: I do not like his art but I can find no fault in it.