One naked man’s ass is held gently by the outstretched arm of another man.
Although hard to find explicit submission in this photograph, I like it because of how explicitly it sexualizes the male form. Admittedly, it does so with homosexual connotations, which I remark on only because of how accustomed I am to seeing the male body sexualized in photography almost exclusively by other men. Nevertheless, perhaps thanks to the omission of a penis, the image seems to subvert the stereotypical male gaze (homosexual or otherwise) by the passivity implied on the part of the bottom.
By most societal norms, masculinity is both reduced to lust and defined by aggression—sometimes violently—such that men are all but required to be aggressors in any sexual encounter. Similarly, many people incorrectly couple this notion of being sexually aggressive with being the initiator of sex. Together, this is called “being the active partner.” This view is unnecessarily restrictive because it arbitrarily limits the activities one can have. In fact, activity or passivity have little to do with initiating sex, and much more with the intentionality behind the initiation.
(via pornotumble)