While I’m on the forniphilia theme, here’s an image in that genre that made me laugh. The foot stool and picture look suitably cowed and submissive, but the lamp has a far more belligerent stance. It looks like at any moment he’s expecting aspersions to be cast on the quality of his lampshade, or his light throwing ability, and he’s ready to punch the person concerned. I can picture him standing guard outside a nightclub doorway, the lampshade still on his head, just daring a drunk idiot to make a comment about it.
The image comes from InerMiss on deviantART (free deviantART account required to view). The domme is Goddess Magdalena and the photograph was from the Secret Boudoir photography studio (and not the mature escort site with a similar name in the UK that turned up at the top of the search results!)
You know why?
It’s the kilt!
It doesn’t even have to be a real kilt, but you put a man in kilt-like garb and damn it all if he isn’t ready to go all William Wallace on someone’s ass!
The kilt definitely helps. It’s hard to imagine anyone pulling off the same attitude whilst wearing a chained pouch like the picture frame guy. As you suggest, it’s tricky to be a shrinking violet when you’re a guy in a kilt.
Although the pendant in me has to point out that William Wallace was around in the 13th century and kilts didn’t really exist until the 16th century. The crazy Australian guy wasn’t great on historical accuracy. Of course I’m English, so I’m not exactly unbiased on that score 🙂
The time frame just makes it worse paltego.
By the time the Celts were wearing kilts WW was the stuff of legend, suitable for inspiring fierceness in lamp stands.
There are some phrases you just know have never been issued before in the history of the world. I think we can safely add “suitable for inspiring fierceness in lamp stands.” to that list. 🙂