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Youthful balls
A story that’s been making the rounds; I first saw it in “News of the Weird” in Funny Times; here’s a version from Yahoo! Lifestyle on June 11th, “Does your tackle need tightening? How George Clooney...
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Kissing the rose
In a set of notecards, a reproduction of a sensuous painting, The Soul of the Rose (1908) by John William Waterhouse: (#1) The woman is smelling the rose, but she’s close to kissing it, close to...
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Double double entendre
From John Wells this morning, this advertisement (“currently to be seen on suburban commuter trains in the London area”) for a pharmacy that supplies medication for erectile dysfunction: (Not a great...
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Brief mention: a genital portmanteau
Via Ellen Seebacher, a link to a HuffPo piece on Cliteracy 101: Artist Sophia Wallace Wants You To Know The Truth About The Clitoris Yes: clitoris + literacy. Sophia Wallace isn’t the first to coin the...
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cherry
Some time ago on Facebook, several posters ended up chatting about the vocabulary for talking about a gay man’s anal virginity. The term cherry plays a central role in this vocabulary domain — taken...
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Sexual -zillas
Scrolled past in the avalanche of spam this morning, a penis enlargement ad that promised to give me Cockzilla. Surprisingly, I hadn’t noticed this use of the libfix -zilla (from Godzilla) before — but...
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Zippy on the brain
Yesterday’s Zippy: Neurology is different in Dingburg. Then there’s the name Pons Varoli. From Wikipedia: The pons … is part of the brainstem that links the medulla oblongata and the thalamus. In full...
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Posture photos
From Chris Ambidge yesterday, an Ivy League nude posture photo — an image from an odd moment in American collegiate history. Here’s the photo with the naughty bits fuzzed over: From Wikipedia: The Ivy...
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Cod loins
From Ellen Seebacher on Facebook, this puzzling ad: (#1) Cod loins? Loin is an unusual body-part term. AHD2 on the word: the part of the body on both sides of the spine between the lowest (false)...
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bitchtits
(The title provides a warning for the sensitive.) On the 11th on Facebook, Greg Parkinson commented on steroid-induced gynecomastia, with this image: Tom Kirkland followed up with: What surprises me...
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An epicene protest
In a bizarre response to the winning of the Eurovision Song Contest by a bearded drag queen, Conchita Wurst singing “Rise Like a Phoenix” (reported in almost every media outlet), some Russian men have...
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Parts of the body: the handout
I discover that I never posted the handout for my 2012 Stanford Semantics Festival talk, “Parts of the Body”. Here it is, somewhat belatedly (and with somewhat awkward formatting): Parts of the Body...
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Abs of the week
… plus a kilt and an implied (sort of) apology: (Hat tip to Paul Armstrong.) It’s been a while since I posted images of shirtless men with astounding abs (and pecs, delts, traps, and biceps, but oh,...
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Clipped musculature
My most recent posting had a cartoon pun on abdominal (muscles), muscles that have been featured prominently in huge numbers of my postings on shirtless men, under the name abs, for abdominals. The...
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Traps
Yesterday I looked at the informal names for muscles abs, pecs, glutes, delts, and traps. The last two of these might not be as familiar to most people (who aren’t in the fitness / bodybuilding world)...
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Calendar boys
From Victor Steinbok, a link to the Hunks & Horses charity calendar, showing off naked guys and their horses. For June 2014: (#1) Tons of naked hunk charity calendars are available, especially from...
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Annals of euphemism
A Clive Goddard cartoon from the January 2015 Funny Times: On the left, a woman shopping for products to use during menstruation, euphemistically called sanitary products. On the right, an unsavory guy...
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Crick in the neck
I’m suffering with one at the moment. And for (almost) everything, there’s a cartoon, in this case a Perk at Work strip by Jason Salas: From OED3 (November 2010) on crick: Sudden stiffness or...
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Set of three
A crop of three comics for today, on three very different topics: a One Big Happy with an inventive reinterpretation of an expression; a Zits on the evolution of writing systems; and a Zippy with...
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New Year’s specials
[Bluntly sexual language here, though the images are elsewhere.] On AZBlogX, a posting “For the new year”, with two displays of penises. From that posting: All about the cocks, but in different ways....
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