I wish more masc folk would send varied cheeky flirty photos instead of just going straight to the junk. Send me pics of your hand roaming up your shirt, the trail of hairs leading down from your belly button, your thighs, the curve of your ass, your collarbones, the back of your neck - hell, your hands working, your fingers tracing things, your forearms - just tease me with your body, you've got a whole bunch of it to play with!

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Is this maybe a cis/het male thing? Alex sends fantastic flirty pics and he's queer. Hmmm.
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@welshpixie

I recommend watching Troy Sivan for inspiration. He seems to have masc/NB flirty energy in his music videos. He's cishet straight but appears quite gender fluid in the videos.

Though I started with 'One of Your Girls' where he plays a very convincing sexy woman and got into his music from there. You may like the male models too.
 

https://youtu.be/ZhGl8McrOHo?si=H-Wph1b5e7bOuNh1

Troye Sivan - One of Your Girls (Official Video)

YouTube
@srfirehorseart @welshpixie
Not to ruin anything but he's gay. I mean its great and its awesome but we gay folks do have more of a right to our own sense of sensuality since we in the eyes of the world already aren't "proper men" so we can escape some of the gender role stuff or play with it.

@ohyran
Oh that's cool.

I was confused after an article I read where I thought he was straight. Troy's singing about and kissing up guys in the videos.

He drags up as a hot woman though, which sucked me in to start with.

His videos seem to cover all genders and sexualities. Great community representation!
 

@welshpixie

@srfirehorseart @welshpixie Hey you showed me that video and its been going on repeat since so thank YOU <3

@ohyran @welshpixie

Here's another troy Sivan video I've had on repeat - Got Me Started

Excellent if you feel like dancing
 

https://youtu.be/WjLcVqjIkLo?si=9-z-HB-w1RsEOt4L

Troye Sivan - Got Me Started (Official Video)

YouTube

One of the best flirt pics I've ever gotten was just his hand from the wrist down clutching at a duvet cover and it was like

   

@welshpixie All I know is that I flirt as well as a brick under water. But that probably has more to do with traumas growing up than with being cishet
@WhyNotZoidberg Ah yeah, that's an entirely different beast, hehe.

@welshpixie it's probably cis thing. I frequent a forum with lots of gays and

- their names are almost always variation of male<height>-<weight>-<length of their member>-top/bottom-<location>

- their photos are 99.9% about their junk and asses.

On the other hand, trans people there post sometimes extremely good photos 😳

@tuturto oof XD silly mens

@welshpixie We call it sea forecast, because that's how it sounds like xD

"That and that place, temperature, visibility and sea state"

@welshpixie

My first instinct is that it's because we are not taught that we're beautiful, and so think that all we have going for us is our junk. Being queer offsets this because we see other men and non-junk attributes as attractive, so we can see that in ourselves as well.

This is just thinking out loud and reflecting on my relationship with myself and flirting.

@ainmosni There's probably some aspect of that in it, yeah. Masculinity through patriarchy is 'supposed to be' hard and strong and rough, and sure those things can be flirty and a turn on for some folk in some contexts, but internalised they probably often lead to men not feeling beautiful. Also I think toxic masculinity teaches that fems should do the chasing.

@welshpixie Yeah exactly, we're taught to be tough, strong, and that we make ourselves desirable by playing capitalism as well as possible.

And even when we get to the realisation that there's more than just playing capitalism, those other things still live in our head and are hard to evict.

@welshpixie Hell, rationally I know all this, but I still struggle with this in practice.
@ainmosni yeah, that stuff is really hard to unlearn and move away from. <3

@welshpixie

It's an ongoing process, and what's even more depressing is knowing that so many men struggle with this, but the most well known people addressing this are the ones pushing men even more into toxic masculinity for their own profit.

@ainmosni ugh yeah -.- That's one thing I really love about being on fedi though, it's far more wholesome and full of the antithesis to all that bs.

@welshpixie

Yeah, my mental health definitely improved when I made fedi my only social media network.

@ainmosni Yawp. Also led to me discovering the many aspects of my queerness. :D
@welshpixie @girlonthenet imo we’re not generally socialised to believe that we are “attractive”/“alluring” or that “teasing” is something men should do so the advice I can offer as a cishet man who never had good self image for the best part of 30y but was effectively encouraged into it is asking for specifics and being encouraging so that they learn the lesson that other parts of them are attractive and they think about their bodies differently
@interpipes @girlonthenet The simple act of just asking is a great place to start and everyone, masc or otherwise, should practice strong open communication with their partners anyway - it makes such a huge difference, for body image, for general confidence, for a happy relationship :D
@welshpixie @girlonthenet falling into d/s as I did worked very well for me on that front as well because I learned very quickly about exploiting the response I got with denial/teasing building that deep frisson of excitement, so that also was a big part of the lightbulb moment in terms of feeling/thinking about “desirable in an alternative way”.
@welshpixie That would be my (cis/het male) reckon; when I sent this photo to someone, I learned from her reaction that it’s arguably flirty.
@welshpixie As a cis/het male, I have rarely received feedback about what body parts partner would find flirty. And what little feedback I’ve ever got, I had to beg for. If I don’t beg, all I hear is “You look good in that shirt.”