Presenting yourself
Following up on yesterday’s (3/12) posting “Masculine flamboyance” about the political commentator Jon Favreau’s presentation of himself in an advertisement for Crooked Media’s Pod Save America show:...
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adj. flamboyant: (of a person or their behavior) tending to attract attention because of their exuberance, confidence, and stylishness … [from NOAD] Last Saturday I made the acquaintance (in the first...
View ArticleHunky idolators
Steven Levine on Facebook yesterday, contemplating Poussin’s The Adoration of the Golden Calf (1633-34) at the National Gallery in London: (#1) [SL:] Those golden idol worshipping Israelites were...
View ArticlePleasantly gay and deeply serious
Noticed for the first time yesterday, on Alex Wagner Tonight on MSNBC, 6/28, in “‘Republicans in robes’: Supreme Court critics see politics behind action on [the Grabpussy] immunity case”, on-line...
View ArticleA band of four, conferring
(Not for kids or the sexually modest) A particularly well-made ad in my e-mail on 6/8, which I’ve cropped so as to split off two aspects of the composition: (#1) The Band of Four, who I’ll refer to...
View ArticleToday’s Gaze Downward
(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 ArticleTwo Pec Men posting in thongish briefs
(Gay porn actors displaying their bodies entertainingly in minimalist briefs. But yes, man-on-man sex in street language, so not for kids or the sexually modest.) Just for gasps and laughs. Posted here...
View ArticleBrief shot: three gay porn faces
(Well, about gay porn and men’s bodies and man-on-man sex, discussed in street language, so not suitable for kids or the sexually modest.) Today in my e-mail, a Lucas Entertainment new (gay porn)...
View ArticleAnother gay porn one-day sale
(One photo of one bare-chested and one entirely naked porn actor apparently about to get it on, but otherwise it’s about facial expressions; the posting is, however, about a piece of gay jack-off porn,...
View ArticleMonday male photography: Vallantiro14
(Images of the male body as sexual object, with discussion of male genitals and man-on-man sex in street language, so not suitable for kids or the sexually modest) Beginning the new week with some racy...
View ArticleZwicky on the Art of the Skateboard
Notified via Google Alert on Saturday: on the Jenkem Magazine (skateboarding) site, “Allies: Calder Zwicky of MOMA” (with a YouTube video) by Alexis Castro & Ollie Rodgers on 10/2/18. Another...
View ArticleThilopyrus flamminips Wants YOU!
(Content warning: men’s bodies, references to sex between men, not suitable for kids or the sexually modest. On the other hand, there will be some delightful birds.) Yesterday’s Daily Jocks sale ad...
View ArticleReading the face, reading the body
Reading the face and body that nature gave me — what do these features mean? and where did they come from? — and the face and body that I have fashioned, and re-fashioned, over time — what was I aiming...
View ArticleRomper buddies
Taking off from a delightful ad for Romperjacks on Facebook back in November and December: Here I give you the ad photo, and inventory some of the things it inspires me to write about in future...
View ArticleLET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS BLACK WOMEN
What I posted to Facebook on 4/8, on the occasion of Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation as an Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court. My follow-up said that, yes, the reference was to Agee (the...
View ArticleThe Aussie firedog
(There will be a few excursions in passing about men’s bodies and man-on-man sex. If you can manage an appearance or two of the sexual verb fuck, you’ll be ok.) From Ann Burlingham a couple days ago, a...
View ArticleThe statue’s gaze
(hunky men modeling underwear or underwear-adjacent garments, classical male nude statuary, references to the male body in sometimes intimate detail, so some might want to exercise their judgment about...
View ArticleMen’s Briefs: the locked gaze
(A little tribute to, among other things, man-on-man anal sex in the Cowboy position, and the facial expressions and gaze accompanying the act — so definitely not for kids or the sexually modest. There...
View ArticleHustle and trick: the cruise pose
(Note the title. Stud hustling and men tricking with men, so not for kids or the sexually modest.) The Daily Jocks ad in my e-mail on 2/7 reproduces the archetypical cruise pose, deployed in both...
View ArticleHelgi Narcissus (again)
(Attractive men modeling underwear, some of them contemplating their genital packages. But nothing raunchy.) Yesterday’s Daily Jocks ad with the model I’ve called Helgi in Helsinki Athletica Kasper...
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