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A stone solid pro
(Largely about male prostitution, so distasteful to many, but not, I think, actually over any lines.) A stone solid pro, a street hustling boy, plying his trade for a better grade of customers,...
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The flowers that bloom on the 6th, tra la
My birthday — 9^2, 3^4 — rolls around again, in its relentless way, and people are sending me flowers. Well, electronic images of flowers. (Meanwhile, I’m wearing my, sigh, gay dinosaur t-shirt, and I...
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Read the message in my face
(Warning: there will eventually be a naked male pornstar, but without his naughty bits visible, plus some mention of feminism and same-sex attraction.) Two faces that recently caught my eye. I saw them...
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Carnival for catamites
(As you should be able to guess from the title, this posting is going to discourse on men’s bodies and sex between men, and then mostly in street language — this is the last time you’ll see the learnèd...
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Cruising in his long johns, take 2
(Men in various states of undress, visibly tumescent while minimally clothed, looking for sex with other men — so not for everyone.) Yesterday’s mail ad from Daily Jocks, a carefully composed, even...
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Now we’re cooking with carrots
From Ann Gulbrandsen (in Sweden) on Facebook today, a wonderful still life of earthy carrots: Ann wrote (in Swedish; what follows is the Google Translate version in English, which is, um, flatfooted,...
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Skylunch 4, in Chicago
A few years back, members of the Chicago Iron Workers local #1 remade the famous “Lunch atop a Skyscraper” photo originally taken in New York in 1932. In 2017 the two photos — which I’ll label Skylunch...
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Who was that man?
I start with a photo quiz. Four pictures of men working as models under several professional names, taken over a roughly ten-year period — during which, being models, they might have changed various...
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Hustle 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...
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VDay kisses
For Valentine’s Day, sexual (rather than social) kisses. And since this is my blog, male-male kisses, which have moved me since I was a child. The spurs being some male-male kisses recently in the...
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Three men at play
(It’s actually about the art of photography, but showing men’s bodies and man-on-man sex and discussing these in street talk, so it’s not appropriate for kids or the sexually modest.) The Falcon /...
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LET 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...
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Underwear model with tire
Today’s ad mailing from the Daily Jocks homowear company came with an artistic allusion (plus some fairly routine ad copy): (#1) [ad copy:] 20% OFF – FETISHWEAR Welcome to The DailyJocks Backroom, from...
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Forty facial years
More precisely, 1958 through 1995, so not quite 40 years. For my face, in 8 shots, the last two providing more of my body as well. Today just the visuals, with little commentary, beyond locating the...
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The life she lived
First, a Google Alert on 7/27, leading to a notice for a gallery retrospective of Jill Zwicky’s photography, that notice in turn leading to an extraordinary obituary for the artist — not so much a...
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The character of a creature
… as explored in the playful animal artwork of photographer Yago Partal, available for inspection in his 2017 book Zoo Portraits and for sale from his on-line site. The book cover, which shows a panda...
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Swimmer’s bodies
For a while last week, most googling I did in which men were involved brought me, as the top hit, an Etsy supplier of framed reproductions of vintage photos, offering this 1952 black and white photo...
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Male art: the hidden talent of the conch
(There will be discussion of penises and vaginas, some of it using street language, so not for kids or the sexually modest.) Having discovered and posted about a vintage photograph of three young men...
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A just-installed photo gallery on the wall above the desk in the study of my condo. An addition to the visual density of the place, providing enjoyment for me, but also intended to absorb and please...
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Two household photos
Following up on earlier postings about additions to my domestic environment, which came with mumblings of getting pictures of these things (I have no way to take photos myself any more) — now fulfilled...
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