A naked man is bound in thick straps, clothespins lining his scrotum and a sex toy in his ass, as his penis’s erect length is measured by another man in medical attire.
Although I like this drawing because it conjures fantasies of being a helpless subject in experiments, three things instantly betray its artists’ likely intended subject: the caliper being used to measure the bound man’s penis, the chart of penis sizes above him, and the difference in sizes between the submissive man’s penis and the dominant’s. In a huge amount of stereotypical fantasy material, submissive men’s penises are smaller than average (as shown in this picture) yet in reality neither penis sizes nor even their existence correspond to dominance or masculinity in any way.
As I discussed at length in some parts of Kink Of Tap Episode 1: The Big Hard Cock, much of society (in communities both hegemonic and otherwise) tends to act as though there is some threshold of penile anatomy that equates to being manly. Phallic symbolism is often taken to extremes in art, but just like the ignorance of religious literalists, taking phallic symbolism too literally can be dangerous. The idea that a penis makes a man is misguided at best and downright prejudiced at worst. Hell, you can even be a man without a penis at all.
ATTRIBUTION UPDATE: Naamah wrote in to let me know that this drawing is a commission by none other than P.L. Nunn, whose work, we both agree, “is often just really arresting.”
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