A clothed woman stands above a man who is kissing the toes of her feet while he is kneeling on the floor, naked.
I like this photograph because, despite containing classic fetishistic imagery that is sadly often tainted for me (namely the “clothed female, naked male” and foot worshipping fetishes) I feel that these things are actually decently positively portrayed here. Neither partner seems disinterested, perhaps because both are obscured to some degree, and she does not look like an advertisement for a fetish shoe company.
Now, kneeling at the feet of a dominant partner (especially while I’m naked and they are clothed) is something I personally enjoy a great deal, and so the fact that these activities are viscerally difficult for me to enjoy due to the negative connotations of being pathetic, worthless, or “not man enough” that are present in other such pictures is an extremely unpleasant reality in which to have sex.
Moreover, all too frequently, I hear self-identifying submissive men ask questions like “Are submissives thought of as weak?” These men are trying to act on their desire to please a dominant partner, but so much in the world tells them that this inherently makes them less of a man. They wonder, does the word man fade away during role play? And how could they not wonder this, when so many representations of dominant women and submissive men explicitly choose words like “worm” over words like “man” in text and in speech?
(via soumis)