#contemporary men

[srednod]

Salman Toor, Over His Shoulder, 2021

[prolibytherium]

Just in general I think trying to look to pre-late modern period history for validation of LGBT+ identities is an absolutely useless venture. Every single underlying human experience defined through the lens and framework of LGBT identity has always existed, but it's impossible to pin down Exactly who and what a figure might have been if they existed in this contemporary context and decided to self identify via these labels.

It's also a wildly reductive lens that flattens the complexity and variety of how sex and gender has been constructed across time in different cultures, how sexual norms have varied, etc. This is not a constructive approach to learn about history and you're never going to be able to fit historical figures neatly into little identity categories.

[dogandcatcomics]

#repost @piu_kun Ana Klein (Berlin, Germany). Los Gatos, 2020, oil on linen. Thanks to @masculin_masculin for the tip.

[paullorenz]

I am thrilled to have three photographs in this upcoming book. Huge thanks!

[soracities]

Mohja Kahf, from "Men Kill Me", E-mails from Scheherazad

[dance-world]

 Diego Tápanes Valdés - Complexions Contemporary Ballet - photo by Eduardo Rawdriguez

[macho-village]

Dudes stink. And we love it

[the-eclectic-wonderer]

Between the hotvintagepoll, the vintagestagestars poll and the vintagetvstars poll, my conviction that people were just hotter last century is getting increasingly cemented

[toyastales]

For you to see beauty here does not mean there is beauty in me, it means there is beauty rooted so deep within you, you can't help but see it everywhere.

Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey

Photographer: Unknown

[mysterei]

Installation view of Kehinde Wiley: An Archeology of Silence, de Young museum, San Francisco, 2023.

[fillejondrette]

the very common practice of girls and young women being married to adult/older men has imo played an underacknowledged role in reinforcing patriarchy. for one thing, if a girl is married off at 14, she has little opportunity to develop an identity or interests separate from her husband. secondly, it makes male domination within marriage seem "natural." a teenage girl with little to no education or experience of the outside world will naturally feel intellectually inferior to a 30 year old man, no matter how mediocre he may be. he can therefore control her more easily, and mold her to his tastes.

[srednod]

George Thomas Georgiadis (1933-2010) Getting Ready

[suckmydictionary5]

[kenichimurakami]

Kenichi Murakami, MONK, Oil on canvas, 41x24cm, 2024

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saatchi art

[laurelnose]

“Just what is it that runs in your veins, Jedao?”

“You’re welcome to cut me open to find out. Knife’s on my left hip if you forgot yours.”

“Oh, I intend to.”

spent most of my Sunday on @figuwhump day 12, which dovetailed really nicely with a couple of MoE thumbnails I was saving. ‘this looks like consensual kink, is this actually whump,’ you might be asking, and to that i say, with Kujen & Jedao it can be both

[animaorphei]

Untitled, Pen & Ink with Acrylic