A muscular man is gagged with fabric between his mouth and bound with ropes encircling his waist and wrists.
I really like this photoraph. I like it a lot. Admittedly, a gag across one’s mouth like that doesn’t actually muffle speech very well at all, and I have a pet peeve against movies wherein damsels in distress fake being unable to speak when they’re gagged in this way. (Trust me, I can speak just fine with fabric parting my lips.)
That said, thanks largely to Hollywood, the aesthetic of this sort of gag is doubtless one of the most culturally engrained symbols of the helpless, innocent victim and so there is a certain emotional attachment many people have to it. In particular, I enjoy finding a picture where a male model can so accurately exemplify the role of damsel in distress, which is typically reserved for female-bodied people in heterosexual circumstances or effeminate men in homosexual ones.
(via ireensarrows)

