A blindfolded man sits between two women, handcuffed and naked, as the scantily-clad women touch him with their hands and mouths.
There’s simultaneously something attractive and a little off putting in this photograph, but it’s subtle enough that while looking at the image I wonder if I’ve simply become too jaded over the years. Specifically, the degree with which the women modeling here are fetishized by virtue of their dress (shiny, heeled boots, or perhaps their lack of dress) makes me think this is really a male photographer’s fantasy more than anything else, and if that’s so, I question whether the image is depicting subservient female dominance instead of masculine submission.
Now the question becomes: is that so wrong? Of course, the answer is no: value judgements about sex are inherently subjective and, for the most part, kind of nonsensical. However, this site wouldn’t exist if, somewhere among the plethora of sex imagery so easily available today, there existed a space wherein I could spend my time looking at pornography that doesn’t jade me. Since that space doesn’t yet exist, value judgements that I pass on imagery like this to highlight the lack of other forms seems more than reasonable to me.