Which way do you swing?

You're probably bored sick of these photoshoots, but I am besotted with them -- and this one is among the best yet.


This lovely-looking man -- really, very beautiful-looking -- clearly has had some problems with self-harming.


As I was reading his story (which also involved sleeping on the streets and heroin addiction), I felt almost overwhelmed with compassion.


My first reaction in the circumstances was that it seemed inappropriate to continue lusting after his body.


But then I decided that was absurd: it's as if I was denying the right of people with mental health issues to be sexual beings, to be fully human (with all that means in our world of being objectified and lusted-after and desired).


I'm still conflicted. But I thought you might like to make up your own minds.