(lots of discussion of men’s bodies in street language and similar references to sex between men, so not for kids or the sexually modest)
Stylish? Or in costume? There can be a fine line here, often crossed flagrantly — in my opinion, at any rate — in high-fashion shows. And then also in the far reaches of premium underwear for men, especially from the raunchily named Breedwell company — whose name includes the sexual verb breed ‘pedicate a man bareback (without a condom) to orgasm’.
(Translation in plain, but seriously vulgar, language: pedicate is a Latinate verb for engaging in insertive anal intercourse — fucking someone up the ass — and breed is the related slang achievement verb for bareback man-on-man sex — conveying that the fucker comes (shoots his load) in the other man’s ass.)]
I wrote about Breedwell over the line in a 1/11/18 posting “Electric underwear”:
Well, homowear — harnesses, jockstraps, armbands, suspenders, pouches, even socks. Queer fetishwear that glows in the dark, in four neon colors (blue, green, yellow, red) and rainbow, either in solid or flashing mode, for “guys who are ready to light up the night!” … from the raunchily named Breedwell company.
Premium men’s underwear can be sorted into three rough categories:
— everyday underwear, items that are desirable because they are generally handsome, of especially nice fabrics, in suitable colors (either interesting or unobtrusive), comfortable along a variety of dimensions, long-lasting, well-fitting, suiting the wearer’s taste in varieties (for low-rise briefs, high-rise briefs, boxer briefs. boxers, whatever), maybe a bit enhancing. Guys will be wearing these at home, maybe with an intimate audience of friends and partners of either sex. They want to feel good and look good in this underwear — or maybe just to blend in and not be noticeable; there’s a wide range of tastes. (Amusing underwear is entirely possible, but in general, everyday underwear doesn’t call attention to itself.)
Everyday underwear is for all guys, gay and straight.
— party underwear, meant to be seen and appreciated in gay-public (which is set off from the general public but otherwise open). Like everyday underwear, it needs to protect your body from the world and the world from your body, but it’s also intended to be stylish. You’re showing off for men, you want to feel desirable, attractive in one way or another, even if you’re not cruising, even if you just want to project being a nice guy, but certainly if you want to come off as a hot guy.
This is the world that homowear jockstraps are for (sportswear jockstraps inhabit a different space, though you can project a certain sweaty athleticism by wearing a plain Bike-style jock in gay-public). Homowear jockstraps work for bears, they work for twinks, they work for leathermen, they work for queens, they even work for the old as well as for the young. The question is then what to wear, if anything, above a jock: tank top, crop top, harness, tee, whatever.
You can of course present yourself in style with many crotch-level garments other than a jock. Assless garments are not uncommon, as is see-through clothing of several kinds, as well as gear designed to allow virtually instant access to your dick (for the exigencies of the moment). Unless you’re a principled nudist, however, you’re unlikely to go out naked from the waist down; the strategy is to be tempting and inviting without giving your goods out for free. Meanwhile, you can just adapt everyday underwear as partywear, if you want to; a lot depends on what your audience is like and what you hope to get from them. Maybe just some chat, some dancing, some flirting.
— costume underwear, functioning as a public performance, a display of remarkable garments, inviting applause and other forms of explicit appreciation. Breedwell specializes in party underwear, but they offer some everyday underwear and occasionally tip into costumes. Just two examples from the company: stylish, then a costume.
Breedwell: stylish, fashionable. An ad I’ve been saving for the model’s facial expression, which manages to be intense without being challenging or inviting or lewd. Just neutrally intense, I guess. The stuff he’s wearing is hot but understated:
on the bottom, an Afterhours jock in “fire” (deep red) ($35 US); on the top, an Afterhours bulldog harness in fire ($55 US)
(Afterhours is the name of the design line, meant to connote partying; I give the prices because they’re outrageous)
Breedwell: a remarkable costume. Entirely for show. But remarkable.
A Circuit Breaker chock (jock at the top, chaps on the bottom), in neon orange ($40 US)
(Circuit Breaker is again the name of the design line, meant to suggest gay circuit parties; chock is a portmanteau: chaps + jock)
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