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To the liquor of your laughter / And the lacquer of your limbs
Yesterday’s offering from Daily Jocks (with a caption; notes to follow): (#1) At first it was spectral, ghostly, Visible only in blue light, at an Acute angle, scarcely a real Body part. Gus stroked...
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The Halloween sale
Halloween playfulness, using the Daily Jocks ad for today: (#1) Mark is all a-quiver Over the sale — the Troy quadruplets can be Booked at half price; Mark Wants Tom Troy so bad he Lives in Tom’s...
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Breasts and bras
In the November Harper’s Magazine, a fine piece by Sallie Tisdale, “Miracles and Wonders: One woman’s search for a perfect bra”, touching on almost everything bra-related. Here I’ll look at four...
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On the cellblock, in the dugout, at an ambush
(The male body, man-man sex, and roles in sex. You have been warned.) Yesterday’s Daily Jocks ad brings us some commanding presences: (#1) Dominic in Dugout briefs (#2) Mester in an Alpha harness...
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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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PUMP! Boys and Trojans
(Not much about language here — mostly about men’s bodies and the projection of personas.) Saturday’s ad from Daily Jocks, which led me to a rich collection of images from the PUMP! underwear firm....
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Movies and tv: Grimm
(Mostly about the tv show, but with some linguistic digressions.) (#1) left to right: the characters Monroe, Nick, Hank From Wikipedia: Grimm is an American police procedural fantasy television drama...
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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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Novelty ties
On the penguin watch. On the front page of yesterday’s NYT, a color-splash of an ad for Salvatore Ferragamo ties, one of which clearly had litte penguins on it. Ferragamo novelty ties, 100% silk,...
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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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An underwear Thanksgiving
Today’s Daily Jocks ad, wishing us Happy Thanksgiving through a stud with a carefully sculptured body, wearing an Ibiza Brief in white, from Marcuse; and, as it turns out, offering gift boxes and gift...
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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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Thomas Gibson
Another in a series of postings on actors, especially on tv, whose work I’ve enjoyed. Today it’s Thomas Gibson, currently playing the central character in the tv series Criminal Minds (which I’ve...
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Perplexed
Today’s Daily Jocks ad, offering a sale on 2(X)IST items: Trapped between Gymnast Dude on one side and Sock Freak on the other, he came to Question his orientation towards Boxer briefs — what to do?
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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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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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BCNÜ
(Lots of gay sex stuff in here, so use your judgment.) The most recent Daily Jocks ad: (#1) BCNÜ have launched their all new Varsity collection of sports tanks and shorts! The slick, sporty gear has...
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The strap snap
(Men’s bodies and practices involving them.) The latest Daily Jocks ad is an offer of Mystery Underwear, with the model apparently about to snap the strap of his jock: But he might be doing a...
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