A group of men in their underwear lasciviously surround a blindfolded and shirtless man wearing jeans.
I have to confess some confusion over this photograph, suggested by Psychoadept. Where is the submissive subject? Where’s the dominant one? Is there one, or either? I can project a fair amount of submission onto the blindfolded man in the middle. Naturally, the fact he’s blindfolded helps, as does the relatively passive pose he’s in when compared to many of the other men in this picture. I can also imagine all of them as submissive to a dominantly voyeuristic viewer.
However, why’s everyone else already more naked than he is and what, if anything, does that say about the way the blindfolded man is ostensibly depicted as the object of a sexualized gaze? Ultimately, I don’t know the answers to these questions, but I like that the photograph made me ask them. I also like the fact that these men are in physical contact with one another, which I don’t see in fashion shoots often unless the models are women.