A muscular gray-haired man is tied naked to a chair with his arms and crumpled shirt behind him.
The vast majority of pictures I post to this site depict “young men,” but sexual expression is not merely the realm of the young. Sadly, older adults are often even more socially stigmatized for their sexual desires as younger people are. I like this picture because, forgiving the relatively haphazard bondage, the man is an obvious (perhaps overly built) symbol of sex and yet still bears some of the markers of old age, such as graying hair.
America’s puritanical, sex-negative culture treats sexual expressions in old age as a shameful taboo. The ageism is so bad that recently Massachusetts state representative Kathi-Anne Reinstein has introduced a bill making it a crime for anyone over 60 to pose nude or sexually for a film or photo,
as Dr. Marty Klein wrote in his post against the bill. Criminalizing the choices consenting adults can make is a direct attack against individual freedoms, and this proposed bill is simply one example of many similar attacks against the rights of polyamorous, kinky, and other people considered sexual outlaws in America, and all other countries with such draconian laws.
(via theonlygayinthevillage)