Archive for the ‘Masculinity’ Category
September 11, 2024
It started with this rich (but baffling) painting on Pinterest a little while back:
(#1) A young boy, standing in a lake or river, holds up a fish he has caught on a line, while a band of intense light (a rocket launching?) shines from the far shore — a work by Irish figurative painter Conor Walton (born in 1970), who does still lifes and commissioned portraits, but also a lot of allegorical figurative painting, on mythological, cultural, and political themes
Some searching on Walton’s website identified #1 as Walton’s Phaethon (2015), so the subtext is mythological; comments to come. That search led to a clearly myth-based painting — a male nude to boot — showing Sisyphus. Then to a political / cultural painting featuring Vladimir Putin, except that it’s also about Slim Pickens’s character Major Kong in the movie Dr. Strangelove, and, yes, it’s another male nude. And finally to a monumentally complex painting on a cultural / political theme, Darwinian evolution.
There’s a lot more, but these four should give you a feel for Walton’s imaginative side.
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Posted in Art, Comic conventions, Evolution, Language and animals, Language and religion, Language and the body, Masculinity, Movies and tv, Shirtlessness | Leave a Comment »
September 3, 2024
Back on 8/23, Benjamin Dreyer (long-time copy chief at Random House, now retired to the life of a pointedly opinionated public intellectual, and connecting with me on Facebook) celebrated the birthday of Gene Kelly, posting this portrait photo of the man:
(#1) AZ > BD: An especially fine photo. Do you know who the photographer was?
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Posted in Actors, Art, Dance, Dancers, Masculinity, Movies and tv, Photography | 1 Comment »
September 2, 2024
From Tim Evanson on Facebook this morning:
It’s Labor Day in the United States.
Here is a Labor Day image by J.C. Leyendecker, the gay illustrator who was probably the greatest magazine cover artist of the early and mid 20th century. (Norman Rockwell blatantly copied him.)
(#1) [AZ:] JCL’s tribute to both masculinity and labor; labor is conventionally represented as a big muscular man in grimy work clothes, engaged in hard physical work, typically with a sledgehammer (as here) — as the cultural ideal of masculinity
“The American Weekly” was a Sunday insert carried in nearly all American newspapers at the time.
To come: more on JCL; and more on US Labor Day images.
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Posted in Art, Clothing, Fashion, Gender and sexuality, Homosexuality, Language in advertising, Male art, Masculinity | 1 Comment »
August 3, 2024
It begins with an arresting photo on Pinterest yesterday showing two beautiful young men in each other’s arms:
(#1) From the Fashionably Male website, “STOP & STARE Alexan Sarikamichian New Work: Agus & Adriel” on 9/26/17 — a fashion spread by the film-maker AS featuring two beautiful young models, Agustin Bruni and Adriel Pino, presented as in a bromance in which the young men “experiment with new feelings about sex, brotherhood, camaraderie”
AS is then the thread leading to the third male model, Severiano Astrada, a hunky young man projecting a tough-guy exterior as the main character in AS’s short film Severiano (2018); and to the fourth, Roman Stubrin, sometimes playful, but mostly offering an unsettling gimlet stare, intense and riveting — in an AS / Benjamin Baccetti film project (in progress) focused on him, and in an extraordinary 2024 fashion piece about him on the Spanish fashion site Fucking Young!
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Posted in Clothing, Fashion, Gender and sexuality, Language and the body, Masculinity, Movies and tv, Photography, Shirtlessness, Spanish, Underwear | 1 Comment »
August 2, 2024
(Utterly unsuitable for kids and the sexually modest)
E-mail this morning from the Gay Empire site with a video on demand sale, including, from the Fuckermate video site, the kitchen-sex scene “Fresh Cream Tasting” (2021) — that is, of course, cream ‘semen, cum’ — pairing Gianni Maggio and Jonas Brown, with this arresting ad:
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Posted in Effeminacy, Facial expressions, Gay porn, Gender and sexuality, Homosexuality, Language and food, Language and the body, Language of sex, Masculinity | Leave a Comment »
June 14, 2024
(Even choosing my words carefully, a fair amount of this posting is going to be inappropriate for kids and the sexually modest; you’ll see why in a couple of seconds)
Two themes for today: tools, and their masculinity; and male-male frottage, especially one variant of the Princeton rub. Somewhat astoundingly, these two themes intersect in what I think of as the Princeton rub tool: a dual masturbation sleeve, a device to facilitate two guys getting off together face to face.
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Posted in Design, Furnishings and tools, Holidays, Homosexuality, Language and food, Language and the body, Language of sex, Logos, Masculinity, My life, Phallicity, Princeton | Leave a Comment »
June 14, 2024
First, it’s Pride month, so that runs through the 14th through 16th (today through Sunday), the days I’m focused on in this posting. Then: today is Flag Day; tomorrow is what I have wryly proposed as Flagging Day (for displaying your identities and tastes); and Sunday is five special days in one: three date-specific occasions, plus two floating-date events (some of these five are of personal significance to me, others of broader interest).
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June 13, 2024
(Utterly unsuitable for kids or the sexually modest)
My title: yes, a groaner pun bate (a clipping of masturbate) on bait ‘food used to entice fish as prey’; I am shameless.
Clearing things from my desktop (with great sadness, abandoning postings in preparation that I’d spent hours on but were clearly, in the face of new material constantly streaming in, never going to get written up) I found this site advertising a directory of jack-off clubs (/ jackoff clubs / jack off clubs / jerk-off clubs / wank clubs / masturbation clubs / etc.) — which you can think of as bate shops:
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Posted in Abbreviation, Gender and sexuality, Homosexuality, Labels Are Not Definitions, Language and animals, Language and the body, Language of sex, Masculinity, Movies and tv, My life, Puns | 1 Comment »
