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Clean underwear

A recent tv commercial ‘Clean Underwear’ for Charmin Ultra Soft toilet paper, featuring the four Charmin bears and their mother, skirts direct mention of feces stains on underwear (colloquially...

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ExtenZe

(It’s going to be penis penis penis in this posting. But fairly decorously, and with some discussion of names, plants, and medicine.) Every so often there’s an outbreak of ExtenZe commercials on...

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Dance: Friedemann Vogel

Another installment on male ballet dancers and their remarkable bodies. Passed on by Mike McKinley, Chris Ambidge, and Arne Adolfsen from the Male Ballet Dancers Facebook page, Friedemann Vogel as...

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Les Danseurs

(Another posting about the male body, but with some fine photography.) From the models.com site on the 11th, a piece by Jonathan Shia, “Matthew Brookes’ Ballet Dancers”. Highlights: Flip through the...

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Alaskan-cod-pieces

An entertaining photo that’s been floating around the Internet for some time: (#1) In speech, the intended parsing (1) [ Alaskan cod ] [ pieces ] is indistinguishable from the humorous parsing (2) {...

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Rushing Sugar

The latest ad from the Daily Jocks company, with a caption:   (#1) The head-scratcher He didn’t know Where he was or How he got there; Last he remembered, He was rocking to “El Bimbo” at the Blue...

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Penises, poppers, and piercings, oh my!

Yes, a posting about men’s bodies and gay sex, but without pictures (those are on AZBlogX, in a posting entitled “The news for penises, Thanksgiving edition”). Still, not for the kiddies or the...

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Nugenix

A couple of weeks ago I posted about the product ExtenZe, a herbal nutritional supplement claiming to promote “natural male enhancement”, a euphemism for penis enlargement. Additionally, television...

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Annals of curvature

(About men’s bodies, not much about language.) Item 1: posted on AZBlogX today, “You go your way and I’ll go mine”, with a sexy, sweet, and (I think) funny photo of two men in bed: one with a notably...

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The revolution in men’s underwear

I start with yesterday’s Daily Jocks ad, with a Black Friday sale: (#1) Knocked Down They put him on a Black Friday Half-off sale, he felt Devalued (The briefs in the photo are apparently 2(X)IST...

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I love my Jack Adams

The most recent Daily Jocks ad, with a darkly brooding model in Jack Adams  briefs who’s performing the first step in a cock-tease show, pulling down one side of those briefs, hinting that he might be...

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José Parra

Assembling materials for my posting on Jack Adams underwear for men took me further into the world of homowear, premium men’s underwear brands (pricey, emphasizing athleticism and stylishness, plus...

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Supernatural-medical in Toronto: three hunks

(Mostly about hunks.) I’ve been catching up on the Canadian medical drama Saving Hope, which features three hunks, very different in projected persona and body type, but all three given to...

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Gay Porn Portal

(Mostly about gay porn resources, with some plain language but no actually X-rated images (though the images flirt with the rating). And there are several linguistic points.) Yesterday I stumbled...

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From the gay porn portal

This posting takes off from my “Gay Porn Portal” posting yesterday, which ended with three photos of actors in gay porn, of three different body types and projected personas (all of them displaying...

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A prevalence of left-handers

Max Vasilatos writes me to report thar she has “this notion that a disproportionate number of actors [she sees] on TV are left-handed, but that seems unlikely”, and she connects her impression to what...

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The news for penises: thinner, stronger, and more pleasurable

No, not the penis, the condom for the penis. News from the Brisbane (AU) Times, in yesterday’s story “‘Like you’re touching someone covered in a lubricant’: next generation condoms”, about hydrogel...

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On the shirtless hunk watch: the Skarsgård Tarzan

The illustration: (#1) From a piece in BuzzFeed yesterday, “the first images of the live-action film, The Legend of Tarzan, have been released and they are quite simply [hot hot hot]” by Kimberley...

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Professional muscle hunks

It started with a postcard from my friend Max: (#1) The card said this was a photo of model Nathan Black, from Body Image Productions. That led me to the company’s website (not especially easy to...

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Obviously Lumber

An offer from Daily Jocks yesterday, with an image that will be #4 below, from Obviously Apparel, advertising their new Lumber collection. Manly underwear for lumberjacks (and the men who love them)....

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