Two men sit in a dark, spartan kitchen using a trash can for a dinner table. One man wears only underwear and eats while the second is naked and loosely bound to his chair.
This photograph is really interesting, and the submissive aspects of it are simultaneously obvious and a little hard to grasp. For me, the image evokes one of playing with hunger, which isn’t something I hear people talk about explicitly a lot but that comes up time and time again. Puppy boys being given—or denied—scraps of food at dinner, starving slaves in dungeons, or being given edible treats when one behaves well are activities that all boil down to a similar core: resources, and control over them.
When sexualized, this can be powerfully erotic. I recall numerous occasions going out to dinner when Eileen ordered for me—a few times not very much at all. Curiously, we never did get over that initial awkward moment of the waiter’s surprise when she did that.
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