Weirdness often seems to occur at the intersection between the ordinary and the extraordinary. For example, while BDSM dungeons are unusual places, I don’t find them weird at all. Everything is in a common context. However, discovering one of my distinguished elderly aunts sipping a cup of tea while browsing a collection of nipple clamps in a dungeon, now that’d be weird. And possibly therapy inducing.
Pornography is a similar story. I can look at a picture of a bound man sucking a half naked transsexual and just think it’s a hot visual. Yet, occasionally there will be some weird juxtaposition of elements in a scene that turn it into WTF moment. Take the shot below for example. It’s not the dog hood alone that makes it weird. It’s the nonchalant way he’s wearing it, relaxing on the living room couch in his weekend casuals. Exactly what’s the role play here? I think if he was naked and leashed on the floor, in a bizarre way, it’d be a lot more normal a scene.
I found this on the All About Me (aka dominant damp knickers) tumblr. It’s originally from the Sharing My Wife site.
As Hunter S. Thompson wrote: “When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.”
This post (and picture) cracked me up. I know EXACTLY what you mean about that creepy, strange feeling of weirdness. Context really is everything, as you noted.
That is really a weird photo. I looked at it for two or three minutes.
Thanks! I like your blog.
Miss Margo
Glad at least one person spotted the quote where the post title came from! I always loved HST’s writing, and that quote in particular.
As I was writing the post I kept going back to the picture and starting at it some more. It made me smile and frown each time. I think it’d be odd with a normal hood, but the dog hood just makes it extra strange. Particularly because the face looks kind of happy and perky!
Happy to hear this entertained you 🙂
-paltego