A young man is bound and gagged as a fully-dressed man stands over him tickling the soles of his feet.
There are some pretty obvious reasons why I liked this picture: the cute guy, the focus on the submissive partner, and the obvious effect that getting tickled is having on him. I also liked the simplicity of it, as though these two men were just fooling around and, yes, playing without any need for validation or pretense. It turns out such play, sexual and otherwise, is incredibly important for children and adults alike.
I wonder if some people don’t use tickling as an excuse for laughter in the first place. Many people have a crazy idea that submissive men should be silent, stoic, that they should “take it like a man,” which always seems to describe the epitome of terrible communication. Even more people believe that such behavior—a lack of connection to emotionality—is engrained in men’s genes, but it is in fact culture and social rules that work to stymie men’s emotional expression.
[Via] manfever

