A man wearing a jock strap kneels in the corner of a concrete room with twenty dollar bills and ejaculate strewn about his back.
Preconceptions and prejudices about prostitution are so deep-seated in our culture that the profession is almost always thought of as a woman’s job. In fact, so thoroughly does this belief permeate our society that the entire traditional courtship ritual revolves around the woman attracting, seducing, providing sexual satisfaction for a man, and the man pursuing her and showering her with material things. These “rules of flirting” have always felt sexist and wrong to me.
That’s why I can’t help but wish this photograph didn’t have quite so much of an obvious male gay aesthetic, because I feel like gay men are often lumped together with women in the eyes of hegemonically masculine men. How much more queering would this photograph have been if the man was a stereotypical, straight, “all American man,” yet without losing any of the erotic quality the dollars bills deposited on his ass have?
(via theonlygayinthevillage)