I didn't know about this until quite recently when I accidentally stumbled across one of these photos and, investigating further, found quite a story behind the subject. There is a horror side to this too which, one hopes, is now confined to history, namely, that a couple of centuries ago, probably going back much earlier, as well as men (and even some women) young boys were used as literal slave labour in this work, their diminutive bodies more readily able to access narrow, hacked-out corridors and into confined spaces than workers of adult dimensions. However, the men in the photos I use here as illustration, which I'm given to understand date from the 1960s and later, all appear to be in good physical condition, some even cheerful, so no appearance of forced labour here. (Sulphur mining in Sicily, to the extent that it's done at all, is now no longer by manual means. The main location of such manual mining is now Indonesia, still with hideous effects on the bodies of miners, even fatal).
Manual mining was it its height in the mid-19th century when, I'd imagine, slavery for such work would be commonplace. These days much of the mining is by automated means.
(This guy on the left, above, seems to have improvised some sort of a small 'sock-pouch' in which to insert his cock to preserve at least a minimum semblance of dignity - even if it barely suffices!)
By the way, I once read that in days of old, some miners in our British coal mines (undoubtedly in other parts of the world too) also preferred regularly to work naked, though this was never talked about of course. Then safety regulations came, including naturally the compulsory wearing of safety helmets at all times - as well as more and more protective clothing, which had to be observed not just by the men but even more importantly by the mine bosses.
In pre-electric and -gaslight days, some weak kind of illumination must have been provided by lanterns with a burning wick or just a candle - and this will have been particularly hazardous in such fetid and maybe flammable atmospheres. But such inadequate lighting must have been tempting to take advantage of by all those naked workers working together, and many darkened nooks and crannies for men to secrete themselves where they can work off their desires either alone or with others. And when those naked bodies crawling around on all fours included young boys (likely to have been forced to strip completely, no doubt!) it doesn't take much imagination to think what abuses by randy, bathed-in-sweat, lecherous, lip-slavering old paedos must have been perpetrated on them.
At the end of their working shifts, men would have showered together, like these guys below helping each other out.......
I'm not sure if this next photo relates to the working miners who are the subject of this post, though this is as good a place to post it as any.......
But there's no doubt that these next two guys genuinely are sulphur miners........
And maybe this one too. But if he's not one of them, does one need an excuse to show off a nice-bodied, nice-cocked guy? 😀..............
It's hardly surprising that in underground temperatures of 50 Celsius and higher, in bygone days many of the men would have self-elected to work stark naked, though I doubt if it would have compulsory!
(This guy on the left, above, seems to have improvised some sort of a small 'sock-pouch' in which to insert his cock to preserve at least a minimum semblance of dignity - even if it barely suffices!)
But try to imagine the smell down there. We are all familiar with the smell of a match when struck, but it does pass quickly. Now try to put in your mind that unpleasant pungency multiplied a thousand-fold - and ever-present! It must make one want to gag over and over. And fuck only knows the indescribable stink emanating from the specially designated areas which the men used as makeshift toilets!
By the way, I once read that in days of old, some miners in our British coal mines (undoubtedly in other parts of the world too) also preferred regularly to work naked, though this was never talked about of course. Then safety regulations came, including naturally the compulsory wearing of safety helmets at all times - as well as more and more protective clothing, which had to be observed not just by the men but even more importantly by the mine bosses.
In pre-electric and -gaslight days, some weak kind of illumination must have been provided by lanterns with a burning wick or just a candle - and this will have been particularly hazardous in such fetid and maybe flammable atmospheres. But such inadequate lighting must have been tempting to take advantage of by all those naked workers working together, and many darkened nooks and crannies for men to secrete themselves where they can work off their desires either alone or with others. And when those naked bodies crawling around on all fours included young boys (likely to have been forced to strip completely, no doubt!) it doesn't take much imagination to think what abuses by randy, bathed-in-sweat, lecherous, lip-slavering old paedos must have been perpetrated on them.
I'm not sure if this next photo relates to the working miners who are the subject of this post, though this is as good a place to post it as any.......
But there's no doubt that these next two guys genuinely are sulphur miners........
And maybe this one too. But if he's not one of them, does one need an excuse to show off a nice-bodied, nice-cocked guy? 😀..............
