Jeff's Men

I'm in my mid-sixties, I'm an experimental physicist who no longer does lab research, I'm an amateur musician. I've been writing and publishing dirty stories for all of this century. I like images of men--erotically, aesthetically, and narratively. I've been with my husband since 1992; we've been married since 2010. We live in the suburbs of Washington, DC, with our 3 greyhounds. I regret that the way these images have come to me over time means that most have lost their attributions, image credits, or model IDs. If you can provide any of that information, please do and I'll update the captions. (Please: Include URLs.) Thanks! I welcome comments but I will delete without notice irrelevant, rude, psychotic, or incomprehensible comments, particularly those that I deem homophobic, unless they are amusing.

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Tubby around the pool

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Come have a look at "Jeff's Men in Speedos (Mostly)", which is where I'm posting these days. Just follow the link for where this picture came from.

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Come have a look at "Jeff's Men in Speedos (Mostly)", which is where I'm posting these days. Just follow the link for where this picture came from.

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Come have a look at "Jeff's Men in Speedos (Mostly)", which is where I'm posting these days. Just follow the link for where this picture came from.

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Come have a look at "Jeff's Men in Speedos (Mostly)", which is where I'm posting these days. Just follow the link for where this picture came from,

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Come have a look at "Jeff's Men in Speedos (Mostly)", which is where I'm posting these days. Just follow the link for where this picture came from,

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There are three main models of disability that are in common use. The moral model, the medical model, and the social model.

You may not have heard of the moral model before, but if you are disabled, you have felt the impact of it. The moral model is disability as a failure of character. It sources the problem of disability in the character of the disabled person. It's the people who insist that if you just tried harder, were better, had a better attitude, that you would no longer be disabled. It is a model that is used by ableists in order to conceptualize of disability as a failing of the individual. An extreme example of this mindset are the Christian Scientists, who believe that all illnesses and disabilities should be healed by the grace of their god and that if you are not healed, something is wrong with you. It is the the most cruel of the models, and the least successful at assisting disabled people.

The medical model is the model used by the medical establishment and by those who put their stock in medical authority. It sources the problem of disability in the body. It measures disability against a theoretical average person, and seeks to make disabled people match that average person more closely. This model works very well for disabled people with disabilities that can be measured, have a potential treatment plan, and want their disability gone. It does not work very well for people who do not match all three criteria. If they match the first and second but not the third, then strict adherents of the medical model often fall back on the moral model, stating that they are stupid, lazy, or selfish for not being interested in being cured. This also often happens if treatment fails to improve the condition of the disabled person.

The social model is a newer model, largely designed by disability activists and scholars and often defined in opposition to the medical model. It sources the problem of disability in the interaction between the disabled person and their physical and social environment. It argues that the solution of disability is to change the environment so that impairments are no longer an issue. This model works very well for disabled people who consider their disability not to be an issue when fully accommodated. It does not work well for people who consider their disability an inherent impairment and/or desire a cure. Strict adherents of the social model often fall back on the moral model when considering these people, stating that they are short-sighted or that they worship the medical model. These are the people who state things such as that depression would not exist in a world without capitalism.

When a disabled person fails to behave as expected by the model a person has of disability, the moral model is almost always the fallback position, because many people cannot conceive of why someone would disagree with them other than a lack of good character. This is a problem, because the moral model proposes no solution but to ignore or abuse the disabled person until they behave as expected.

Another notable interaction is that adherents of the medical model can often be persuaded to support the more traditional parts of the social model, such as providing large text resources to people with impaired vision, so long as there is empirical research backing it. However, they rarely support more radical arguments that challenge how we define disability and how society should be structured or restructured.

All three models have major failure points. The moral model fails every disabled person it is applied to. The medical and social models both fail different disabled people when adhered to strictly. The best approach at the moment seems to be hybridizing the social and medical models, so that they cover each other's weak points and fit the needs of the widest spectrum of disabled people. The main barrier to this is that they are often defined in opposition to each other.

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Temptation of Adam & Steve - My slight revamp of, Adam and Eve, by Peter Paul Rubens, 1628

Astra Zero revamp of, Adam and Eve, by Peter Paul Rubens, 1628 CENSORED VERSION HERE …

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