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Bundling and the penile raphe
(There’s actually some languagestuff here.) Over on AZBlog X there’s a posting “Bundles of love”, about an ad for a holiday sale at the gay porn studio C1R. The sale offers bundles of C1R flicks, each...
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Unintended
Heard in a tv commercial for Scratch-Aide: Let’s face it: if you’ve got wood, you’ve got scratches. Unintendedly, with an ambiguity in got wood: the literal ‘have wood’ and the idiomatic ‘have an...
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Darius Ferdynand
(Very little about language. A ton of frank talk about men’s bodies and man-man sex, but no actually X-rated images. Still, definitely not for kids or the sexually modest.) Yesterday’s morning name,...
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boxboys and transitive bottoming
(Lots of plain talk about bodies and sexual practces, so not for kids or the sexually modest. But also plenty of stuff of linguistic interest.) An ad for a Christmas sale on gay porn at an aggregation...
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Morning name: Baskit
My recent “boxboys and transitive bottoming” posting led me to the informal English vocabulary for talking about the male genitals euphemistically: package, box, basket, junk, stuff, sack, unit, …...
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On urinals and the conventions of the men’s room
I have need (for a posting in preparation) to talk about the classification of urinals, the naming of the types, and the sociocultural conventions that surround their use. Start with Wikipedia: A...
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The news for urinals
Follow-ups to yesterday’s posting on urinals, starting with a photo of a rainbow men’s restroom that illustrated the piece on “Homophobia in the Bathroom” I quoted from in that posting: (#1) Such a...
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Testigraphmanteau
That’s for testicular photograph portmanteau, in a portmanteau. The Steam Room Stories episode (very fit guys, gay and straight, clad only in a towel, in a steam room, talking about their bodies and...
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Misogynistic urinals and sinks
(This posting is packed with pretty direct talk about bodies (women’s and men’s) and sexual practices (mostly, but not entirely, straight, and some kinky). While NSFW, the images are technically not...
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Urinating superheroes
(Considerable frank talk about men’s bodies and sex between men, so not for kids or the sexually modest.) Armed by two recent postings on urinals — January 1st ,”On urinals and the conventions of the...
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Two teases
(Not about language, but about hunky guys doing cock teases. Yes, it’s shallow.) Two images passed on to me by Mike McKinley (with Chris Ambidge): (#1) (#2) Both guys are sporting moose-knuckles, and...
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Iron Man, Captain America, and antique slang
From Michael Carden on Facebook recently, this comic strip panel from Marvel, showing an exchange between Iron Man (whose nickname is Shellhead) and Captain America: (#1) Carden commented: Marvel has...
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Dance time
(Mostly about dance and male bodies, with only a bit about language.) From balletomane (and sometime dancer) Mike McKinley a little while ago, this wonderful photo he found on the Male Ballet Dancers...
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Penis size in the steam room
Today’s Steam Room Stories (which you can view here) circled around once again to a topic always of fascination to the young men in the steamroom: penis size. One guy confessed that he was down because...
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The undercut
A Pinterest page on male haircuts led me to the undercut, a cut I’ve seen but had no name for (but this is a good one). From the Max Mayo site on men’s fashion (2/25/15, “45 Stylish Looks of Undercut...
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More Cristiano Ronaldo
On Saturday I got a copy of GQ magazine — The Body Issue, for February — in the mail, with an announcement from Condé Nast that Details magazine had been closed and they were sending me GQ {for...
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Huge News For Men!
The News for Penises, 1/26/16 edition. In the February issue of GQ magazine (pp. 80-83, 119), this feature article: Heavy phallicity from the outset: the symbolic cactus, the U of Huge made into a...
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Bruce Bruce Bruce
Or: Australia Australia Australia! From Daily Jocks on the 25th, this example of their own AUS line (with my caption appended): (#1) A triple threat: proudly Australian, proudly Working class, proudly...
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Dean Phoenix, Dirk Yates, and curvature
On AZBlogX on the 26th, a posting “Dean Phoenix in disguise” that starts (#1 there) with an ad (titled “Ahead of the Curve”) for the Dirk Yates gay porn flick God Was I Drunk (2013), in which the DP...
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Notes on male ballet dancers
Two recent items passed on to me by Mike McKinley: one a photograph of young male dancers at the barre, the other a video compilation of dancer Joseph Gatti in an assortment of his roles. The...
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