Two male-hunk calenders, one with an image for the Christmas season. Mr. December from the Meet the Bern calender, supporting Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders:
(#1)
And the cover image from the Calendrier des Pompiers calender, with homoerotic male photography celebrating French firemen:
(#2)
(Hat tip to several Facebook friends for #1, to Kim Darnell for #2.)
Bern. The Sanders calendar (note: not an official product of the Sanders campaign) has attractive men in little or no clothing, most having bits of language play (including double entendres) supporting Bernie. From BuzzFeed:
Twelve months of dudes wearing not much more than a Sanders sticker — sometimes even less than that — plus a centerfold.
#1 above has a minimally clothed underwear model putting a Bernie doll at the top of his Christmas tree. Here’s Mr. May (the models are of a wide range of physical types) with a jokey caption and a Bern pun:
(#3)
Les Pompiers. From the Bright Side website, which says:
These firemen from France have released the most stunning 2016 calendar you’ve ever seen
#2 I recognized as the work of male photographer Fred Goudon, who I’ve posted about twice on AZBlogX: “Concealing and revealing: Fred Goudon” of 11/16/10; and “Concealing and revealing: more Fred Goudon” of 11/23/10. In the latter posting I wrote:
Cinq is thoroughly erotic in tone, focused on beautiful, sensuously presented, young men (as are Goudon’s four other books).
(A sixth book, Summer Souvenirs, has now been published.)
Wikipedia on Goudon:
Fred Goudon is a French professional photographer. Originally from Cannes ([in the] south of France), he is now based in Paris.
He started shooting when his father gave him a camera as a gift on his 16th birthday. His work includes shooting of the 2006 issue of Dieux du Stade, (English: Gods of the Stadium) calendar and DVD, featuring nude and semi-nude photographs of members of Stade Français, a Paris-based domestic French rugby team as well as at times players from other rugby union clubs and athletes from other sports. He was invited again to shoot both the 2014 calendar issue and the 2015 issue of the series. He publishes some of his work in books through Bruno Gmunder publishers.
Two covers of the Dieux calendars, for 2014 and 2015:
(#4)
(#5)
And one more shot from the fireman calendar, a voluptous nude shot (but with the man’s penis concealed):
(#6)
Intensely masculine men. And then Goudon does underwear photography as well, for a number of companies. A fabulous video spread of this work can be viewed on YouTube here, set to the song “Let Me Be Your Underwear” by Club 69.
