In an outdoor setting a young man stands against a wooden post with his hands secured behind him, his shorts pulled down to his knees, and his erection in full view.
This photograph was suggested by Derek Isme, who says, “I like this rather grainy picture because it doesn’t appear to be (even if it is) a staged porn shoot. In my imagination I can happily place myself in the same position as this guy.” Relatively few of the images I choose to editorialize about on this site are sourced from a stereotypically “staged porn shoot,” but despite what some may think, I’m not actually biased against such shoots—or wouldn’t be if the imagery they produced was not so radically different from the kind of imagery you see on this site.
In point of fact, as Derek’s comment implies, very little of what is staged porn is appealing to me, and as a result it is very difficult to imagine myself a part of the staged scene. This is in direct opposition to the most often cited reason pornographers seem to give me when they defend the stylistic choices they give to their work: “sexualizing men turns men off, and anonymizing men makes it easier to see yourself in the model’s shoes.” Bluntly, these pornographers are being sexist and stupid.