Laying on his back on a large bed, a hairy naked man spreads his legs, which are tied to his arms.
The bondage in this photograph is fantastic, and I love everything about it. That out of the way, what I actually want to focus on in this picture is the man himself and, more precisely his hair. It’s not on his head; most of it is on his chest and the rest of his body. It’s disturbingly rare to see men with visible body hair in most mainstream images of us that are designed to be sexy. Once again, only in gay media is a diverse representation of the male form actually celebrated.
Though invisible to many people, men face similar body image pressures from many sources (including pornography) just like women do. However, while the hegemonic definitions of what sexy feminine attractiveness can be are relatively broad, there is only a narrow view of beauty when the subject is male. It’s so narrow, in fact, that Hudson News will literally obscure mainstream magazine covers when a man gets to be “covergirl,” and even some women will decry diverse representations of men, citing “boys pictured are effeminate and not arousing.”
(via theonlygayinthevillage)

