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Going against nature
A Styx underwear ad that apparently can be found in underground stations all over Prague. Showing a gay couple in Styx underwear, advertised as a present for Valentine’s Day. Elizabeth Daingerfield...
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Cock tease
(About male models, sexuality, and underwear. Not much language in here — but there is some.) Not all male models do nude shots, and a fair number who do nevertheless avoid what’s usually called...
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Three underwear postings
On AZBlogX this morning, three underwear postings: “Sexy St. Patrick’s” (link), with an Undergear ad for St. Patrick’s Day (a model doing the Basket Gaze at his green bikini briefs), plus an ad for...
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NuttyBuddies and Nutty Buddies
While looking up the botanical term nut, I was taken to the page for the NuttyBuddy, a piece of protective athletic gear for men, combining a cup with compression shorts. That’s nut as in nuts...
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The Hamm knuckle
Passed on by Karen Erickson on Facebook (with general agreement from the readers that I would appreciate it), this photo on the HappyPlace site from 9/10/12: HappyPlace commentary: Jon Hamm’s penis...
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Dance belts
In a comment on my “dress left/right” posting on Facebook, Mike McKinley asks for a posting on dance belts. (We seem to be in the Crotch Zone at the moment, what with that posting, the one on Jon...
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More shirtlifting
In their most recent ad, Undergear is back into shirtlifting, now combined with pants lowering: Soft porn in the underwear catalog.
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The Trocks
That is, Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, the drag ballet troupe. The segue into that topic is my recent posting on dance belts (and ballet tights for men), and a comment from Mike McKinley on...
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Calendars: Boy Next Door, Philip Fusco
(A little bit of language stuff, but mostly about male photography and homoeroticsm.) As Mr. April was replaced by Mr. May in my Boy Next Door calendar (photography by David Arnot), I reflected once...
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Maximum exposure on AZBlogX
On AZBlogX, two postings about men’s underwear with maximum exposure (offered in an UnderGear sale): one set from the Good Devil company, one from the Male Power company (with leather-like fetish...
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X or not?
A few days ago, an intense Benno Thoma postcard from Max Vasilatos (in an envelope), with the note: “This could probably go in the regular mail, but I’m taking no chances.” The issue is whether the...
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Rainbow pizza, rainbow underwear
In celebration of the resumption of same-sex marriages in California and of Pride Weekend in San Francisco, I offer two takes on rainbow pizza (two out of a huge number you can find on the web), and...
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Shirtless on the Great Plains
(Not much about language.) Tim Evanson reported on Google+ yesterday that he was driving to North Dakota. And posted this scenic photo: (#1) [Tim writes:] Denizens of North Dakota look like this....
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Tennis hunks
(Not about language.) Having gotten off onto shirtless abs-displaying hunks in acting and modeling (Kellan Lutz, Josh Duhamel, Taylor Lautner), I pulled up shirtless tennis hunks, including two recent...
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Moose Knuckles Canada
From Chris Ambidge, this photo of a window in a camping supply store on Rideau St. in Ottawa: (#1) Moose Knuckles turns out to be the name of a brand of sportswear — distinctly Canadian, and also...
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Steve Grand, DNA, Timoteo
(Not a lot about language, but mostly about music, sexuality, and the display of men’s bodies.) This is about the country musician Steve Grand, the cover musician Steve Starchild, and the underwear...
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More tennis hunks
(Not about language, but mostly about men’s bodies.) This seems to be a Morning of Shirtlessness. Following on a posting about musician Steve Grand working as an underwear model, I now return to...
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Odds and ends: portmanteaus to penises
An accumulation of miscellanea: portmanteaus, porn flick and pornstar names, (in the continuing Remarkable Underwear series) black lace skivvies, and (in the continuing News for Penises series), the...
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Jockstrap Man, Hutspah shirts, and Nudie Cohn
From Facebook friends who passed this image (from Kitsch Bitsch) on: (#1) Clearly a page from a catalogue, offering jockstraps (from an unnamed company) and Hutspah shirts, with the models arranged so...
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Not your grandfather’s Sears catalogue
From the Canadian pandas (Leith Chu and Chris Ambidge) on Facebook, an image from the Sears catalogue of a handsome model in a men’s 4-piece adjustable harness (plus a black pouch, sold separately)....
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