It’s Labor Day weekend in my country — unofficially serving also as the end of summer — and we are supposed to be celebrating ordinary working people (OWP). Eventually, I’ll grind into the tangled mass of sociocultural attitudes and practices clustered around the concept of OWP in America, but today I’m starting with the small and personal.
Archive for the ‘Underwear’ Category
Labor Day 2026 #1
September 5, 2026Loci of gay desire
August 30, 2026(images that aren’t actually XXX-rated, but get as close to the line as possible while serving WordPress modesty — so some readers may choose to avert their eyes)
Briefly noted. For charging up the senses — big jolts for someone of my inclinations — on a quiet Sunday, Daily Jocks has sent out a mailer ad for thongs this morning (8/30) celebrating the male body as sexual object, close up, fore and aft:
Adam’s ribbing
August 15, 2026It’s all about men’s crotches, but it’s not actually X-rated; but, but … it is about crotches and their contents. Adam in a jockstrap, Adam in a rubber.
Faces of fulfillment
August 8, 2026(all about sex between men, described largely in street language, and utterly inappropriate for kids and the sexually modest)
Two engaging images of faces, both conveying pleasure, during man-on-man sex. What is it that these guys are so satisfied about?
The pocket bulge
May 13, 2026Fresh news for male genitalia, in a Daily Jocks e-mail ad today (5/13): DJX Prime Enhancing Underwear: an instant bulge booster. Provides the illusion of great size, thereby addressing the American male obsession with genital size as an indicator of solid masculinity, power, and consequence (one big dick to rule them all, as the saying goes). Also provides a soft but protective pocket in which a man’s package (of whatever size) can be unconstrained (hang free or peter out, as the slogan goes). And of course it comes in fabulous colors, for the fashion-minded; the ads revel in pink.
Stylish? Or in costume?
April 25, 2026(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.)]
Tell us their story!
February 25, 2026(Underwear models displaying their bodies, with allusions to various forms of intense man-on-man sex, so not to everyone’s taste)
A Daily Jocks sale ad in my email today (2/25):
[ad text:] Cellblock13 at Daily Jocks — buy 2 & save 30%
What sort of dramatic relationship from the world of the butch faggy — Red Guy and Blue Guy, resplendent in their gorgeous intense colors — is illustrated here? Tell us their story!
The pink Hello Kitty superhero
July 29, 2025A few days ago, Chris Ambidge re-posted a version of this remarkable image of a Hello Kitty Superhero, pretty in pink, as a little gift for Leith Chu (it’s a Canadian panda thing):
(#1) CA’s image — which he first posted for LC 13 years ago — came with some identifiers as to its source, while the image above, with no meta-data at all, is the one I found on Pinterest yesterday; I found Pink Hello Kitty Superhero delightful, admired his attitude, enjoyed the earnest heroic stance, the sheer cuteness of Hello Kitty and that pink bow, and the pink and red superhero costume, gorgeous in its triumphant fagginess
I had hoped to track down the source, through those identifiers, but as I was preparing to copy CA’s version to my computer, it vanished, poof, from FB — and, it turned out, from CA’s files. So all we have is my image from Pinterest (which is utterly uninformative, but apparently safe from meddling), which I’m posting on my blog but not on FB, just in case it too is in danger of being disappeared.
Before I go on to discourse on butch / macho fagginess, so nicely illustrated in #1, a few words on why I’m so bent on posting this bit of fluff today.
Stair cruising
April 6, 2025[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 lubricious variant of “Antigonish” (“I met a man who wasn’t there”)
There will be photos, of both yesterday’s (receptive) man and today’s (insertive) man, both offering their bodies, in flagrant cruise poses, clothed in sportswear offered by the Daily Jocks company — and displaying their goods on a flight of stairs. Step up and take the challenge!
I PAINT BOYS
August 22, 2024(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 Berlin), who came to my attention through this sweet and sexy (but, technically, entirely decorous) painting that came up on Pinterest this morning:
(#1) White Sock Club: one in a series with two boys, in white socks, on a blue sofa — a place where much can happen, but isn’t shown, only implied
WW is earnest and passionate about his art — and radically open in talking in plain language about what he’s doing in his art and what it means to him personally. Here’s his statement from his website (I’m giving you his text verbatim; he could use an English-speaking copyeditor to polish this text, but it’s so charming that I’d hate to mess with his voice).