Comments on: MaleSubmissionArt.com or Why I Am Crowdsourcing My Own Pornography

By: maymay

maymay — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 08:49:36 +0000

[H]ow do we email/talk to you and give you suggestions…?

Thanks, D! The best way to suggest imagery for the site is to use the contribution form on the Male Submission Art site. A contribution guide is on the project page.

By: D

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 08:42:23 +0000

Hi, how do we email/talk to you and give you suggestions, or even some nice chat?

Here are some artwork from one of my favorite artists that I want to suggest. Pick as you please.

By: maymay

maymay — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:25:58 +0000

Oh, D, thank you so much. :) That is all so wonderful to hear!

By: D

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 07:30:21 +0000

Hi.

I have been a fan of your malesubmissionart site for a few years now. Submissive men have always been my interest but I never got my feed from anywhere. I needed something of quality, refined, aesthetic, relatively tasteful (I even got away browsing this at high school), and believable without turning to stereotypes. I am thankful that you made it. I am an artist who draws submissive men (usually straight and masculine) and I come regularly to your page for inspiration. Your collection shows male submission without resorting to ridiculous sexist and homophobic (even transphobic) stereotypes and values such as “forced feminization” and automatically pigeonholing any male erotica as “gay”, which reflects the cultural assumption that the gazer is always male.

In a world where sexism, homophobia, and other silly assumptions are perpetuated by pseudo-science, bias, and even genuine fear of the different, I felt that my pursuit for truth, my values, my way of thought, my logic, and my own self was validated when I found your site and realized that I am not alone.

I felt so alone in my way of thought that I was planning on making a similar collection myself (the kind that had quality, refined, believable, and aesthetic) but I was new to it, clueless, and young (I was fifteen). I am glad I am not a pioneer. It gave me a peace of mind that not all of the world is as fucked up as it seemed.

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 22:23:07 +0000

thanks for posting these items, and thank you more for informing people that this is art.
Bob

By: Vivssub

Vivssub — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 20:17:05 +0000

Just had to take the time to echo some of the earlier comments.
Great idea. Great choice of imagery. Keep on keeping on, guys, and enjoy life.

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Link Love: Inspirations | The Andro-Aperture Project — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 00:43:15 +0000

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By: My unreal experience on the Kink, Inc. Armory Tour « Maybe Maimed but Never Harmed

Mon, 02 May 2011 11:24:08 +0000

[...] I started MaleSubmissionArt.com to counter the systemic bias of over-representing dominant men’s gazes in porn and the net result has been amazing. In 2008, when the project began, if you searched Google for “submissive men,” you would be accosted with images of women tied up. Today, you’ll still find plenty of images of that sort when you do a Google search for “submissive men,” but now most pictures of men that appear on the first page have been, at one point or another, featured on MaleSubmissionArt.com. I literally changed the landscape of the Internet’s porn featuring men who are submissive, and I am angry because the relative ease with which I did so undeniably implicates companies like Kink, Inc. and their defenders in not only doing nothing to combat the sexist monopoly of male desire and female desirability, but in perpetuating it. [...]

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 18:37:14 +0000

I just want to say thank you both for doing such an awesome job bringing male submission into light in a decent light.
I found your web page through another where someone recommended looking at your work, and I am happy I took the time to look it over; so much so I sent in a few pics for you to post or not.
Regards
Bob

By: Women with male gazes: Why “Lady Porn Day” is neither inspiring, nor impressive « Maybe Maimed but Never Harmed

Sun, 20 Feb 2011 00:59:22 +0000

[...] And for those keeping score on the racial and body size fronts, there is only 1 dark-skinned model in the entire collection, and 1 model even remotely approaching “plus” size. But at least they are token-included. There are, of course, zero submissively-depicted men. [...]