Its rare that a photographer’s sense humor shows through in their work, but this weeks artist has some how pulled off. I would normally would tell somebody that footed pajamas and a large ginger beard are kink blasphemy, but in this case, I feel he has put me in his place.
For those looking to view more of his work, you can visit his website here.
All Images are posted with the permission of the artist.
With halloween around the corner, maybe you can go as…
Spandex Spandex Everywhere! This weeks artist Rob A. Johnson, seemingly one of the masters of spandex photograpahy. If you enjoy his work, check out his Deviant Art Account.
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The dreamy and professional work of Steven Kauk is one my recent discoveries through his Deviant Art account. Though, I’m starting to suspect that rabbit pictured below, might not be the real easter bunny. Much rather, the by product of what happens when you get caught stealing his eggs.
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This weeks “artist of the week” is brought to us via HWV. Located in Tacoma, Washington, his work can be found through his account on tumblr.
All Images are posted with the permission of the artist.
For those of you unaware of the famed “Dan Savage”, he is, without a doubt, one of the blogging pillars of the gay rights movement. Recently he posted a response to the question “Is Folsom Street Fair Relevant”. His answer went straight to the point…
Question:
I was wondering what you think about the Folsom Street Fair, the annual gay leather/fetish/BDSM street fair in San Francisco. Do you think it is still a socially relevant display? Or do you think that in this time when we are fighting for civil rights and equality that it does more harm than good?
Answer:
Better Displaying San Francisco
I’m pretty sure that the Folsom Street Fair remains socially relevant—and highly so—to folks in the leather/fetish/BDSM scene in San Francisco. It’s also relevant to anyone who believes in freedom of sexual expression. (For an idea of what Folsom looks like, and to see the scale of the thing, search for “Folsom Street Fair” on YouTube.)
And it’s important to emphasize that the Folsom Street Fair, which took place last weekend, isn’t exclusively gay. Thousands of straight kinksters attend every year. About the only difference between the straight attendees and the queer ones is that no one claims that the kinky straight people at Folsom make all heterosexuals everywhere look like sex-crazed sadomasochists. (For the record: Sex-crazed sadomasochists are my favorite kind of sadomasochists.)
Straight people, of course, aren’t fighting for their fundamental civil rights. Kinky straights can marry in all 50 states, after all, and no one is pledging to kick kinky straights out of the armed forces or to write anti-kinky-straight bigotry into the US Constitution. So maybe it’s not the same—maybe it’s not as politically risky—when straight people come out in bondage gear, leather chaps, and pony masks. But straight people are a big part of Folsom, too.
But you didn’t ask about kinky straight people. You wondered if the Folsom Street Fair was harming the struggle for LGBT equality.
The Folsom Street Fair has taken place on a Sunday in September in San Francisco every year since 1984. Pride parades have been taking place on a Sunday in June in cities all over the country since the early 1970s. And every year, we hear from concern trolls about the damage that’s supposedly being done to the LGBT rights movement by all those drag queens, go-go boys, dykes, and leather guys at Pride or Folsom or International Mr. Leather.
But everyone acknowledges—even our enemies—that the gay rights movement has made extraordinary strides in the 43 years since the Stonewall Riots in New York City. We’re not all the way there yet, we have yet to secure our full civil equality, but the pace of progress has been unprecedented in the history of social justice movements. The women’s suffrage movement, for example, was launched in the United Sates in 1848. It took more than 70 years to pass the 19th Amendment, which extended the vote to women. In 1969, at the time of the Stonewall Riots, gay sex was illegal in 49 states. Gay sex is now legal in every US state, gay marriage is legal in six states and our nation’s capital (and in all of Canada), and gays, lesbians, and bisexuals can serve openly in the military. (The armed forces still discriminate against trans people.) And we’ve made this progress despite fierce opposition from the religious right, a deadly plague that wiped out a generation of gay men, and—gasp—all those leather guys at Folsom and the go-go boys and drag queens at Pride.
We couldn’t have come so far, so fast if Folsom or pride parades were harming our movement. And I would argue that leather guys, dykes on bikes, go-go boys, and drag queens have actually helped our movement, BDSF. They demonstrate to all people that our movement isn’t just about the freedom to be gay or straight. Our movement is about the freedom to be whatever kind of straight, gay, lesbian, bi, or trans person you want to be. And freedom, as Dick Cheney famously said, means freedom for everyone—from pantsuit-wearing POS sellouts like Mary Cheney and Chris Barron to kinky straight people and hot gay boys in harnesses.
I don’t think it’s a coincidence that cities with big pride parades and events like Folsom are more tolerant and more accepting of sexual minorities than cities that don’t have big gay parades and fetish street fairs. If an event like Folsom were actually counterproductive, BDSF, you would expect San Francisco to be less tolerant and less likely to back equal rights for sexual minorities, not more likely.
And finally, BDSF, any attempt to shut down the Folsom Street Fair—or to ban drag queens, go-go boys, dykes on bikes, or leather guys from pride parades—would be so poisonously divisive that it would do more harm to our movement than a thousand Folsom Street Fairs ever could.
This months “Wonderfully Offensive Comic” comes to us from Montreal with Jeffery Jones’s Down and Out. This is a great up and coming web comic following gay rights. I look forward to watching it evolve.
Georgia Republic architect, Irakli Kiziria, has designed a Louis Vuitton condom, enveloped in the label’s notorious brown packaging and adorned with what looks like raised lettering (for enhanced pleasure?). The luxury rubbers are priced at $68 each, according to the “official” website. To put the price in perspective, $68 could buy you about six 12-packs of regular condoms.
I always find it fascinating when people adapt general furniture for bondage needs, but this one takes the cake. Brought to us by “The Upper Floor“, this dining table reaches 71 feet and has built in stocks and restraints.
Despite writing for a website like this, I can’t say I’m a big consumer of porn. That said, documentaries about making porn are something I can very much appreciated. I found this little gem on behindkink.com. Its always nice to see porn makers with a sense of doing something that’s funny on purpose.
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