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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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.
@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.
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.
Yeah, my mental health definitely improved when I made fedi my only social media network.
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Daniël Franke 🏳️🌈