Trifecta time
(In the middle of this, with reference to my invention LDV Day, is a discussion of men’s bodies and of sex between men in elevated language — so technically not over the line, but certainly not to...
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(Underwear models in, well, nothing but underwear, with plain talk about their bodies, so not to everyone’s taste.) From the folks at Daily Jocks in yesterday’s e-mail, this ad for the company’s racy...
View ArticleDoes he or doesn’t he?
On Pinterest this morning, this entertaining vintage ad, from the site Envisioning the American Dream (“A visual remix of the American Dream as pictured in Mid-Century media”), in “Unintentionally Gay...
View ArticleIn a frenzy
In begins with (the wildly hyperbolic) jockstrap frenzy (in an ad featuring notable male buttocks), followed by some playfulness that treats jockstrap frenzy as a laughable absurdity, turns to raw,...
View ArticleP&G feel the agony of St. Sebastian
That’s Pierre et Gilles, the French collaborative artists — playful, way gay, outrageous, and exceptionally fond of sailors — and their approach to what I called, in a 5/20/11 posting, that widespread...
View ArticleLet me do few tricks
(Charms of the male body, plus a striptease song, so not to everyone’s taste) A Daily Jocks e-mail ad in my mailbox today, with this beautifully composed male figure: [AMZ caption:] Let me entertain...
View ArticleThe eminence grise of underwear models
(Underwear model leaving only a bit to the imagination, with a sprinkling of the F-word in the text, so not to everyone’s taste) The story begins with 7/23 e-mail from Bill Stewart (a friend who...
View ArticleFour models and a film-maker
It begins with an arresting photo on Pinterest yesterday showing two beautiful young men in each other’s arms: (#1) From the Fashionably Male website, “STOP & STARE Alexan Sarikamichian New Work:...
View ArticleI PAINT BOYS
(Talk about male bodies and sex between men in plain language, so, alas, not suitable for kids or the sexually modest) The artistic manifesto of Polish queer artist Wojciech Woś (now working in...
View ArticleStair cruising
[Time to return to the world of raunchy men’s underwear ads; what follows is not for kids or the sexually modest] I have a verse (which is a play on a familiar comic poem): (#1) “Stair Cruising”, a...
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