A man lays on a bed with his shirt pulled over his head and behind his neck. He is naked and clearly erect, blindfolded, and restrained with leather cuffs.
I love this picture. The only thing I don’t like about this picture is the fact that his restraints seem to be attached to one another with an easily removable clip, but that’s a largely insignificant detail considering the beautifully submissive pose (his head is turned aside…) and explicitly sexual objectification (his legs are spread open…).
Sadly, we are so used to hearing many of the words we use to describe our desires as negative references, that I think many people too often imbue sexuality itself with the negativity they hear referenced. This has far-reaching consequences, but none more personally damaging than the shame, guilt, and internalized self-loathing this causes. Rather than paint oneself into a negative corner due to a preconceived notion that something is bad, that sexual objectification is bad, why not separate the facts from the emotion; sexual objectification is neither good nor bad on its own, and can be one or the other depending on the context, social interaction, or other variables that make up the totality of corporeal experience.
(via realprincess)