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Maximum availability

March 21, 2013

On AZBlogX, a piece on maximum availability of the body in sex in Gayland (the fantasy land depicted in gay porn), contrasting two men. Another installment in a series about taking things to the max, taking off from Linda Williams’s notes on maximum visibility in gay porn:

8/22/10: Collages Over the Max: piling on of sexual images (link)

10/17/10: To the max: top to the max; two cocks are better than one; many cocks in one scene (link)

Plus postings on dick size and on group sex. There will be more.

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Watersports

January 24, 2013

(Not about language.)

On AZBlogX, three substantial postings on gay watersports (the sexual fetish, not the athletic competitions). These postings look at the Gayland (fantasy) version of these practices and also at the real-life practices (the roles, routines, and rituals that organize this sexual subculture). The first prong is a kind of literary analysis, of the sort I’ve used in talking about Gayland in other postings; the second is a kind of anthropological analysis, of the sort I’ve used in talking about the customs and practices of the (real-life) gay baths in other postings.

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Kinu Sekigushi

January 19, 2013

(About male art, not mostly about language, though taxonomies figure prominently.)

Max Vasilatos has been sending me postcards from a collection of Kinu Sekigushi’s Manga Boys cards (2005), from his Manga Boys book of 2004. KS is a gay French artist living in Paris, apparently self-taught, creating manga/anime — sensual, homoerotic images — outside of the Japanese yaoi tradition of manga, but clearly influenced by it, as well as by the conventions of American comics (link). He draws very masculine young men in close to equal sexual relationships (though b/t coding — roughly “bottom” vs. “top”, see here — is almost inescapable in these matters), young men of complex racial/ethnic identity (as this is represented in the comics).

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A matter of size

January 12, 2013

(Mostly about sexuality/sex, rather than language.)

[TMI Warning: The following posting contains information, opinion, or reflection that some readers might find uncomfortably or unwelcomely personal, private, or intimate in topic or content: too much information, as the saying goes. As a general observation, I’m willing to go almost anywhere in my postings, including some places that some readers don’t want to go.]

From the NYT Magazine “The Lives They Lived” section of  12/30/12, on Paul Fussell (born 1924), by Dwight Garner:

The most profound tectonic shift in our literary culture in 2012 was one that, by and large, no one noticed. The last of our great curmudgeonly essayists — Gore Vidal, the art critic Robert Hughes and the historian and social critic Paul Fussell — died this year. Add to this list of punishing, witty and literate writers Christopher Hitchens, who died at the end of 2011, and it begins to seem as if the Mayan calendar, which predicted global ruin, took aim instead at our stinging public intellectuals, our necessary horseflies.

… In 1987, the inspired editors of GQ magazine sent Fussell to a far-flung nudist colony, and the resulting essay, “Taking It All Off in the Balkans,” is something to behold. It contains dozens of memorable observations. Among them: “Fat people look far less offensive naked than clothed. Clothes, you realize, have the effect of sausage casings.” About penis size, Fussell said: “You will learn that every man looks roughly the same — quite small, that is, and that heroic fixtures are not just extremely rare, they are deformities.”

All true. But there’s a a whole complex world in which this deformity, this abnormality, is celebrated and venerated: the world of gay male fantasy, especially as represented in gay porn imagery. A place where the gigantic and grotesque are worshiped. Case in point: the pornstar Ken Ryker.

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Velasco strikes again, trochaically

November 12, 2012

In the last slutwear (for hustlers and lovers) episodes, we saw a P.O.V. toga line on this blog and an Andres Velasco sheer fishnet line on AZBlogX. Now Undergear offers more black sheerness from Velasco, in a Marrakesh line of sheer black lace underwear that’s a bit too revealing to be WordPressable. You can view the Andres Velasco® Marrakesh thong and bikini on my XBlog, along with the metrically interesting ad slogan:

Racy, lacy wrappings
For private celebrations

and some delicious ad copy.

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More vignettes from gay life

January 13, 2012

Following on the first batches of XXX-rated comic homoerotic collages in the Vignettes From Gay Life series (links here), a final set: “Seven more vignettes” (9-12, but missing 11, and 17-20), here; vignettes 13-16 and 21-24, here; and the final dozen (29-40), here.

Like the earlier batches, these are not for the kiddies or the easily offended. Definitely not safe for work.

 

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Vignettes from gay life

January 12, 2012

On my X Blog, the first three installments of “Vignettes From Gay Life” (actually, from the fantasy world of Gayland): XXX-rated comic homoerotic collages. Vignettes 1-4 here, 5-8 here, and 25-28 here.

 

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Collage crop

September 16, 2011

On my XBlog, more in the series of postings of (comic homoerotic) XXX-rated collages (following those listed here)

9/16/11: Two snapshot collages (C-Note and Girls) (link)

9/16/11: Collages with friends (link)

9/16/11: Fortune cookie collages (link)

9/16/11: Collages: more favorites (link)

9/16/11: Six more collages (link)

There are some G-rated and R-rated items mixed in there, but mostly it’s brand X.

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Collages on AZBlogX

September 12, 2011

A pile of recent XBlog postings with (comic homoerotic) XXX-rated collages:

9/10/11: Collages: the dog series (link): 6 dog-centered collages

9/11/11: Collages: two snapshots (Eric and Bud) (link)

9/12/11: Snapshot collages: a dirty dozen (link)

9/12/11: Eight more snapshot collages (link)

9/12/11: Collages: a few favorites (link): 8 favorites

 

 

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Underwear gods

October 19, 2010

From Federico Escobar, this wonderful quote from Don DeLillo’s Cosmopolis (2003):

Eric watched them cross the street, stunted humans in the shadow of the underwear gods that adorned the soaring billboards. These were figures beyond gender and procreation, enchanted women in men’s shorts, beyond commerce, even, men immortal in their muscle tone, in the clustered bulge at the crotchline. (p. 84)

I got this in my role as Underwear Guy, a sideline career that I seem to have stumbled into back in 2005. Some linguablog discussions of categories and terms in the domain of clothing, mostly men’s clothing, mostly underwear and related items (heavy homo-content in many of my postings):

AZ on LLog, 3/19/05: Tidy-whiteys (link)

ML on LLog, 3/20/05: Raising and lowering those tighty whities (link)

AZ on LLog, 3/20/05: Tighty-whities: the semantics (link)

AZ on LLog, 3/27/05: Underwear sociolinguistics (link)

AZBlog, 9/23/09: Lifting shirts (link)

AZBlog, 11/27/09: Hybrid underwear (link)

AZBlog, 4/29/10: What IS that garment? (link) [on the “swim brief”]

AZBlog, 5/1/10: DEFINE “SCRIMMAGE T-SHIRT” (link)

AZBlog, 5/2/10: Wife beaters (link)

AZBlog, 5/13/10: Short shot #47: underwear models (link)

AZBlog, 7/1/10: Golden State Rufskin tit (link)

AZBlog, 7/27/10: Collage essays: from concealment to display (link)

AZBlogX, 8/2/10: Five from 2005: XXX-rated collages (link) [collage “Exposure” on shirt-lifting]

AZBlogX, 8/14/10: Pits ’n’ Tits: five underwear models (link)

AZBlogX, 8/15/10: From 10percent 8/15/10 (link)

AZBlogX, 8/16/10: Hi-def (link)

AZBlogX, 8/16/10: The triad: jockstrap, locker room, shower room (link)

AZBlogX, 8/18/10: Hommage à Rusty (link)

AZBlog, 8/21/10: Return to rainbow flagwear (link)

AZBlog, 9/17/10: Update: an endnote on shirt-lifting (link)

“Five underwear models” has illustrations of some underwear gods, including the first Top God, Mark Wahlberg.

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