A naked man is tied spread-eagled to four stakes in the ground. The wilderness is sandy and a mountain range is in the distance.
I’m uncertain whether the man in this photograph is smiling or not, but either way I like that we can see his face (although I do wish the knots in the ropes holding him between the stakes were better). The image almost looks like it was taken from a movie, and so I’m extremely curious about what its context was. Have you noticed that, in almost every medium, whenever the notion of tying someone up outdoors comes up there’s an explicitly sexual connotation to the activity if the bound person is a woman, but if the person is a man the context is one of “man versus nature,” suddenly turning barbarian-esque? Even as a young boy, that difference was not lost on me, and it resulted in some very strong desires to become a woman.
(via pornotumble)