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Morning name: houndstooth check
(No, I have no idea why these things pop up in my mind.) From Wikipedia: (#1) The houndstooth pattern Houndstooth, hounds tooth check or hound’s tooth (and similar spellings), also known as dogstooth,...
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Is that an American flag in your crotch?
(Fit young men wearing nothing but scraps of the American flag pattern, so not for those who are modest about displays of the male body or offended by casual disregard for the flag, but there’s nothing...
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Hello, sailor
(This posting is about (real or fictive) sexual encounters between men, sometimes discussed in street language, so it’s not for kids or the sexually modest.) The Daily Jocks ad from 2/15, under the...
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Golden Boy does a cock tease
(Hunky men performing suggestively in remarkable underwear, with a caption alluding to sex between men, so probably inadvisable for kids and the sexually modest.) In an ad for a Daily Jocks late...
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Fired up for the grand finale
(A right-at-the-line Daily Jocks ad today, with text that takes it over the line for kids and the sexually modest.) The ad copy from Daily Jocks: NEW DJX CIRCUIT Step up your party look with the...
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Personas and poses
(Guys in nothing but their underwear, references to their bodies in plain terms, visually close to the line — so not to everyone’s taste.) The story begins on 3/16 with a Daily Jocks mailing about a...
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TV Day
Today’s my TV — Totally Vaccinated — Day, two weeks after I got my second Pfizer COVID-19 shot, the point when, authorities think, the vaccine is fully effective. So this morning I ventured out in the...
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Assuming the position
(Men’s bodies as sexual objects — women’s, too — and sex between men, all of this discussed in street language, with edgy images, so not for kids or the sexually modest.) At the intersection of the...
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Hot Jock Crop Top
A lightning posting of today’s Daily Jocks ad, for the sake of the half-rhyming title (conveying ‘a crop top for a hot jock’), plus of course the hot hunk displaying his body seductively: CROP TOPS At...
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Cellblock ephebe with a big package
(Underwear models doing their thing, seductively. Plus Michelangelo’s David and a naked Venus by Bouguereau. So not to everyone’s taste, but not over the line.) Today’s Daily Jocks ad (for the...
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Two holidays in one
Falling together this year on 5/7: No Pants Day (the first Friday in May); and, now that you have your pants off, the way is smoothed for you to celebrate a May 7th event, Masturbation Day, if you have...
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Revelatory masks
(On homomasculinities, with plain talk about men’s bodies and sex between men. So not for the sexually modest, and at best inadvisable for kids.) The Daily Jocks mailing yesterday (5/10), with an ad...
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Fun fetishwear
(Men displaying their bodies in underwear ads, leading to men in revealing leather, engaged in kinky sex — not suitable for kids or the sexually modest.) Fun fetishwear for gay men, from the new brand...
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The Ecstasy of St. Atlas
(Much about men’s bodies and sex between men, in plain language — not suitable for kids or the sexually modest.) An ad on my Facebook page yesterday, with (as caption) its teaser copy: (#1) Now selling...
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The hairy and the smooth
(Much attention to men’s bodies, wearing nothing but what’s billed as fetishwear / kinkwear. Not over the raunch line, but possibly not to some readers’ tastes.) It starts with some photos of ensembles...
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Sacrilegious puns for Pride Month
… on t-shirts from the Hear Our Voice on-line store (“empowering feminist clothing” — also clothing on Black, LGBTQ+, kindness, and disability rights themes), in a Facebook ad today (I believe the...
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Original Penguin Pride
On Facebook yesterday, from Aric Olnes, following up on my “Sacrilegious puns for Pride Month” posting that day: Below your [“Sacrilegious puns”] post on my newsfeed: rainbows & penguins !! (#1)...
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Annals of commercial naming: Boy Smells
Smells like queer teen spirit. Ads for the Boy Smells company have been popping up with some regularity in my Facebook feed — no doubt because I posted a while back on some fragrances for men, one of...
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Rainbows and penguins at the gym
Yesterday was actual Stonewall Day, honoring the riots at the Stonewall Inn on that date in 1969 and serving as a flashpoint for Gay Pride events and political organizations — and, increasingly over...
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Lounge shorts
Ultimately, about the (semi-technical, commercial) categories of the clothing industries: named types of Xwear that mostly lack labels in everyday language. (Parallel in many ways to the categories of...
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