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Il Leopardo di Sparta
(About men’s bodies and fetishwear, so not to everyone’s taste.) Today’s bulletin from the Daily Jocks company, introducing a new brand (Sparta’s) on their site, with the image below — to which I’ve...
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Come lay your carnal weapons by
… an arresting line from the Sacred Harp (1991 Denson revision), #404, Youth Will Soon Be Gone, suggesting perhaps: OUR CARNAL WEAPONS (#1) adj. carnal: relating to physical, especially sexual, needs...
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Giovanni in Ferragamo
In the NYT Style Magazine (Men’s Style) on-line on 9/5/19 (in print 9/8), a remarkable piece by Hilton Als, “‘Giovanni’s Room’ Revisited”, with the subtitle: “James Baldwin’s 1956 novel is a layered...
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BOY Party!
E-mail from the Stanford linguistics department on the 10th, under the header: Save the Date: BOY Party 9/27 Whoa! I thought, conjuring up images of a department party featuring attractive young men —...
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The hollow
In a comment on my 9/14/19 posting “Clavicular knobs” (aka Ricardo’s acromia), Robert Coren writes about “the hollow space above the inner end of the collar-bone”, and I confess to not knowing a name...
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In the cowboys’ locker room
In today’s mail, a wonderful conjunction of two images: a vintage ad for Spangles (a classic British sweet, or candy), subject (in modern eyes) to an entire constellation of giggly racy...
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Gender notes: transgender fashion models
From the attitude (UK) site on 9/11/18, “Underwear brand Marco Marco features all trans models at New York Fashion Week: The groundbreaking runway show featured some of our favourite transgender...
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Musclemen from Mars
(There will be rampant male shirtlessness. Just a friendly warning, or an invitation, depending on your tastes.) It’s a Zippy strip (today’s!). It’s another gender note (about masculinity). It’s yet...
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Up to the line, and sometimes over
(About men’s bodies in very plain terms, and about the fantasy world of steamy male underwear models, and a bit about the social and sexual practices of gay male life, so not for kids or the sexually...
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A man, his hands, his pants
(That’s AmE pants, roughly equivalent to BrE trousers. This posting is about men’s clothing and men’s bodies and gets fairly racy — it starts with a guy with his hands in his pants and sex on his mind...
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Penguin aerodynamics
(Not much linguistics, but there are penguins and mammoths.) A late birthday present on Friday, wrapped in rainbow tissue paper: (#1) From the Sock It To Me company in Portland OR: “Penguin Taking...
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Suit and tie
The One Big Happy for September 8th, which came by in my comics feed recently: (#1) Miss Avis gives Ruthie career advice, and once again, Ruthie is up against the sense of a word — here, suit, roughly...
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Butch fagginess, take 3
(Underwear models performing displays of their bodies as sexual objects and, through their attire, stance, and facial expression, projecting personas. So: definitely carnal, but not down and dirty —...
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Space Candy
(Highly sexualized men’s underwear, leading to blunt talk of men’s bodies and mansex. Lots of other content, but this is enough to put it out of bounds for kids and the sexually modest.) Today’s Daily...
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Adventures in homomasculinity: the pink jock
(A lot about jockstraps and their contents, so not to everyone’s taste.) Following on my postings about butch fagginess in men’s underwear, more intersections of styles of masculinity with styles of...
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Sexual adventure beyond space and time
(About gay porn as a genre, therefore matter-of-fact discussion of men’s bodies and mansex, though not in particularly graphic terms; the explicit stuff, with penises, is in a 9/21 posting “Costume...
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OUTiL: a historical note
For LGBT History Month, some notes on a little piece of that history in linguistics, in the loose network of academic acquaintanceship that formed at the Linguistic Institute at UC Santa Cruz in the...
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Reaper days
For the dead season, Grim Reaper cartoons from Will McPhail. For today, Halloween, the GR goes trick-or-treating in the city: (#1) ReaperWeen in McPhailia And for tomorrow, the Day of the Dead, a whole...
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HardSoft
(Hunky young men with very little on, in a sexualized context, so not for everyone.) The Daily Jocks ad for 11/13, with ad copy, plus a caption, and then further illustrations for the caption: (#1)...
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A regular festival of ambiguity
(Later in this posting there are a couple of raunchy men’s underwear ads, and some cautiously worded references to men’s bodies and mansex, so some readers might want to exercise caution.) Ruthie and...
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