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Male Submission Art

Male Submission Art

Art and visual erotica that depicts masculine submission.

We showcase beautiful imagery where men and other male-identified people are submissive subjects. We aim to challenge stereotypes of the "pathetic" submissive man. Learn more….

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Sun Apr 5
A naked young man kneels over the corner of a bed, looking over his shoulder as a smiling, simply dressed young woman stands behind him with her whip at the ready.
This great picture suggested by Derek Isme has a distinct look of (I think) an oil...

A naked young man kneels over the corner of a bed, looking over his shoulder as a smiling, simply dressed young woman stands behind him with her whip at the ready.

This great picture suggested by Derek Isme has a distinct look of (I think) an oil painting. It’s the kind of artwork I would love to hang on the walls in my theoretical house because it’s, “a nice drawing of a simple domestic scene," as Derek described it. Derek goes on to say, "I like how this normal appearing, and normally dressed, woman (no dominatrix!) has a little smile on her face, I like how the guy looks back at her, and I also like that the much larger man is not restrained in any way but is submitting willingly to this punishment.”

I am not convinced this scene is one in which punishment plays any involvement, and I also have grave misgivings about the way in which corporal and impact play is in general often conflated with punishment scenarios. I thoroughly enjoy being spanked, punched, whipped, and generally manhandled (and isn’t that an interesting, loaded word?) in a play context. Do athletes “punish” themselves when they push their bodies to the limit and enjoy it?

-maymay

Update: I recently got some excellent feedback on this post that was very enlightening. As someone who is uninformed about the finer points of such things, it’s extremely educational when someone chooses to share their knowledge with me. Ilyena wrote in saying that the top in this picture is not at all “simply” dressed:

Those are either jodhpurs or riding breeches and good riding boots…and those aren’t cheap, or simple. Neither is that top, in all likelihood, but I can’t tell well enough. And with her hair pulled up in a dressage knot like that? That’s a powerful, rich woman wearing clothing and coiffure that proclaims it quite loudly.

Which is totally gorgeous and powerful and I really, really love that picture.

-maymay

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Two shirtless men stand inches apart, the taller of the two with his hands cuffed above his head.
I like this suggestion from psychoadept a lot because the pose is a familiar one?standing inches away from a top can be either teasing or intimidating...

Two shirtless men stand inches apart, the taller of the two with his hands cuffed above his head.

I like this suggestion from psychoadept a lot because the pose is a familiar one—standing inches away from a top can be either teasing or intimidating or both and more all at once—and because the bottom is the taller of the two men. Human behavior does not extend from our anatomy alone, and the fact that physically small people can be dominant while larger people can be submissive should serve as a reminder of this. On top of all that, the men in the photograph strike me as looking somewhat androgynous, which is sexy in its own right.

-maymay

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Sat Apr 4
A man in crotchless leather pants leans back as his top pulls on chained nipple clamps leashed to the first manÿs penis cage.
In this photograph suggested by psychoadept, itÿs interesting to me to note how much influence the penis and, more...

A man in crotchless leather pants leans back as his top pulls on chained nipple clamps leashed to the first man’s penis cage.

In this photograph suggested by psychoadept, it’s interesting to me to note how much influence the penis and, more generally, phallic power has over the notions of dominance and submission. Sometimes it’s difficult to tease apart the many interwoven strands in our understanding of sexuality; where does anatomy end and psychosexual influence begin?

I spend a lot of time comparing and contrasting the ways in which “straight” (often heterosexual) fetish culture de-sexualizes the male genitalia in bizarre and absurd ways, while the hyper-masculinized gay culture focuses much of its iconography on the penis in very objectifying, sexual ways. Never is this radical difference more apparent to me when looking at male chastity play. In both gay and straight cultures, chastised submissive men are kept under lock and key, but it’s almost exclusively in the heterosexually-focused chastity communities where the penis is derided or viewed in a negative, repulsive light. The iconography of male gay chastity play, on the other hand, often involves penile decoration more reminiscent of jewelry, which I’m much more partial to.

-maymay

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A man soaked with water kneels in front of a barred door, his hands tied through the bars behind him. His thin white T-shirt and underwear are somewhat translucent from the wetness on them.
I really enjoy this picture for the obvious bondage, but...

A man soaked with water kneels in front of a barred door, his hands tied through the bars behind him. His thin white T-shirt and underwear are somewhat translucent from the wetness on them.

I really enjoy this picture for the obvious bondage, but even more so for the sense of vulnerability created through being visually exposed despite being clothed. I imagine that perhaps this man’s just gotten through being hosed down. I particularly like the fact that his mostly erect penis is visible, which I hope indicates his own pleasure at the situation.

Admittedly, my penis is a part of my anatomy I don’t always understand; sometimes it’s soft when I want it to be hard and sometimes its hard when I want it to be soft. Although jokes about the erect or flaccid state of a man’s penis are jovial, for some men, they can sometimes strike very close to home in a surprisingly painful way. I wouldn’t miss the absence of the assumption that a man is enjoying something if he’s erect and isn’t enjoying something if he’s flaccid, should we ever manage to abolish that expectation.

-maymay

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Fri Apr 3
A young man kneels on top of a bar as other men pull off his clothes to reveal his ass, fondling him and stuffing paper currency into his underwear.
There are two things I really like about this picture. First, the setting is obviously sexually...

A young man kneels on top of a bar as other men pull off his clothes to reveal his ass, fondling him and stuffing paper currency into his underwear.

There are two things I really like about this picture. First, the setting is obviously sexually charged and the objects of desire are men. You can even see a second stripper boy in the mirror near the top left corner of the photograph, complete with money sticking out of his underwear. Second, I like that this man is kneeling, head bowed, ass out, because it’s that position—not the fact that he’s a stripper—that makes the imagery a depiction of submission in my mind.

Moreover, to me, it doesn’t look like the physical money is the real currency being used here, but rather the display of sexuality. Indeed, sexuality used as a form of currency is so strongly vilified by our culture and our religions that no one—neither merchant nor customer—escapes the eternal branding of sinner. Neither misguided cultural or religious morals (nor governmental legislation) stop such activities and, worse, they also prevent the construction of support structures to help make stripping or any other sex work a physically safe and more enjoyable activity for both seller and buyer.

-maymay

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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...

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?

-maymay

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Thu Apr 2
A winged man stands naked in a shroud of clouds, his hands wrapped in thick ropes.
This composite photograph was suggested by psychoadept. I like its symbolism, and itÿs certainly sexy artwork, but Iÿd hardly call it something I can get off to....

A winged man stands naked in a shroud of clouds, his hands wrapped in thick ropes.

This composite photograph was suggested by psychoadept. I like its symbolism, and it’s certainly sexy artwork, but I’d hardly call it something I can get off to. That’s okay of course and, again, I see plenty of merit, romance, and other positive expressions of the male body here. Mostly, I have a thing for subverting religious imagery (as well as sexy angels), since I believe that the most powerful ammunition we have against radical religious extremists is a message of sexual freedom and openness.

-maymay

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A naked man is tied to a large wooden plank by another man, who is shirtless and wears a cowboy outfit.
Wendy Blackheart suggested this photograph, writing in to say ´I like cowboys, particularly gay cowboy bondage. As you may expect, its hard to...

A naked man is tied to a large wooden plank by another man, who is shirtless and wears a cowboy outfit.

Wendy Blackheart suggested this photograph, writing in to say “I like cowboys, particularly gay cowboy bondage. As you may expect, its hard to find. Note the black hat on the top—that means he’s a bad guy.”

Culture is something many people erroneously perceive as unchanging. In the pre-Stonewall gay community, effeminacy was widely accepted and hyper-masculinized imagery was a subculture underneath the already underground gay subculture. Cowboy and Western themes, notably muscled men in bondage, were marginalized. In the post-Stonewall era, the gay community marginalized effeminacy and prefers to project its hyper-masculine aesthetic to the world. I like this old image because it helps one stay aware of this constantly changing cultural stereotype, which is present in all cultures and in all situations. I hope it serves as a reminder to avoid letting cultural noncompliance result in prejudiced or oppressive actions of any kind.

-maymay

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Wed Apr 1
A half-dressed man stares across a room at a woman dressed in her underwear and heels, as she inexplicably writhes against a pillar.
Okay, one last April Foolsÿ Day anti-MaleSubmissionArt.com picture and then weÿre done, I promise?really, because...

A half-dressed man stares across a room at a woman dressed in her underwear and heels, as she inexplicably writhes against a pillar.

Okay, one last April Fools’ Day anti-MaleSubmissionArt.com picture and then we’re done, I promise—really, because this series hurt me a lot more than it hurt some of you.

Another thing I despise about much of the way submissive men are portrayed is that they are de-sexualized while the cisgendered dominant woman is hypersexualized, as this picture clearly showcases. Even here, though, most of the photograph is far more focused on her than it is on him. This merely emphasizes the virgin-whore duplicity in the way such imagery depicts women, and simultaneously reinforces the insignificance of the submissive man along with both partners’ (falsely) unattainable sexuality. In other words, dominant women are at once the ultimate sex symbol and untouchable—they are put into the no-sex class—and submissive men are made instantly undesirable, incapable, and unsexy, since being sexy is a role filled by the woman.

When is our culture going to realize that sex appeal is not a zero sum game? If you sexualize women, men shouldn’t have to become less sexy, nor is sexualizing men a threat to a man’s masculinity or a woman’s femininity. Sadly, pornographers seem completely blind to these facts, and I imagine this is because their agenda is to make a buck. Even more sad, however, is that they don’t realize that their easily sustainable market of horny human beings can only grow—not shrink—if they participated in a world-wide movement to bring truly equal sexual opportunity to everybody. But, and here’s where they all fall short, it’s just not possible to do that when what you’re really after is the paycheck—which is why this site is now and will forever be non-commercial.

I sincerely hope that pornographers and other individuals will one day realize the benefits of creating an honest-to-goodness level playing field, along with new standards that actually make it possible to provide for the wants and needs of all people. The only way to make sex a positive thing, including for those people who do want to make money off of it, is to start this way: free, open, transparent, and fair in each and every way.

Please help me get us there. All right, enough proselytizing. Tomorrow we’ll return to our regularly scheduled programming of hot, hot men being all submissive and hot and stuff.

-maymay

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Some anonymous masked guy stands against a wall as a shirtless woman gives him a handjob.
In this next post in the April Foolsÿ Day series of pornography that will never make it on this site on any other day, we see a MenInPain.com shoot, although...

Some anonymous masked guy stands against a wall as a shirtless woman gives him a handjob.

In this next post in the April Fools’ Day series of pornography that will never make it on this site on any other day, we see a MenInPain.com shoot, although I’ve come to half-jokingly call the site MenGettingHandJobs.com. (Take one guess as to why.)

Probably the most aggravating thing about this photograph, however, is the fact that this man is wearing a mask. He’s not wearing a mask because it’s sexy, because if he were he would have taken it off during the post-scene interview photograph. No, instead, he’s wearing it to hide his identity. Remind me again how it’s not unspeakably sexist to make female sex workers reveal their identity while not holding male sex workers to the same standards. And, by the way, it makes for worse porn!

So, first, if you’re going to make a site about men getting hurt, hurt them. (I mean like, really, actually hurt them—consensually, of course!) Next, if you’re going to be incredibly sexist while you do it, you might as well hurt the men a lot! No, you’re right, that doesn’t actually make up for anything. I just really, really, really want to see some men actually bottoming to the same degree of hardcore play as I see so many sites have women doing. Why? Because—newsflash!—that’s what’s fun, and hot.

I wonder if the word “art” in the name of this site tends to throw some people off, because rather than worrying about whether or not their image suggestions contain erotic male submission, they worry about whether the picture is “artistic enough." Now, I want to make it clear that I certainly enjoy the very artistic, the high-fashion, and the esoteric imagery of male submission that I receive from readers and find on my own.

That said, and this is actually the second reason I want to showcase this anti MaleSubmissionArt.com picture, there is so much more of that than there is of men actually physically bottoming in BDSM scenes that it’s become a priority for me to try and find "the hardcore stuff” that doesn’t totally suck. As it happens, turns out this is sadly a huge challenge. Case in point: did you even notice that this guys ankles weren’t even tied yet?

-maymay