Wednesday 2 February 2011

Really looking

One of the things I love about taking photographs is that it seems to give you a licence to really look at something, even the familiar.


The first pair of images -- self-portraits, actually -- by this photographer plays games with tight cropping and inversion, but they still feel relatively conventional.


It's when he goes all macro on his own body that things start to get really fascinating.


This pair of shots may not be wholly unfamiliar to those of us who spend significant parts of our lives either photographing the objects concerned or in close, er, facial proximity to them.


But how many of us have really studied the glorious and complex skin structures of the scrotum:


And how many of us would immediately recognise this?:


(In case you're confused that was the frenulum, a small dart of skin which connects the foreskin to the underside of the penis. A similar structure with the same name connects the base of your tongue to the bottom of your mouth.)


So often in sex we're anxious to be doing things to or for our partner, and we spend much too little time in looking and exploring. But the intimacy that goes with that more relaxed approach to time -- to just being with each other -- can be extremely rewarding.


God, I'm so sorry: this is beginning to sound like an idiotic sex manual, explaining in po-faced language the things you already know much better than the author. Apologies. Now, back to the cock.

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