whiskeylovelace:

malesubmissionart:

A large man smiles in obvious delight, enjoying the sensation of two clothespins on his nipples.

Peter suggested this awesome photograph, and wrote:

On the rare occasions that a submissive male is portrayed, he is usually depicted as skinny, young, effeminate and shy. I love this picture because it does not fit in any of those clichés.

I would add only one more cliché, perhaps the most important of all: that submission is portrayed as something undesired and undesireable. That cliché is the most insulting, dangerous, and untrue of all.

Submission is freedom, and can be healing if you let it be. It’s okay to want permission to be what, who, and how you are, connected with another or with yourself by a resonance of your own making. Like a tuning fork, loud and insistent but audible only once grounded with a force that you embrace.

It’s okay to want such permission, even if you don’t need it. Because, actually, you don’t need permission from anyone but yourself.

-maymay