Category Archives: Male Nudity

Dazzler of the Day: Jonathan Bailey

A captivating white suit seen around the world would have been enough to capture this coveted title of Dazzler of the Day, but Jonathan Bailey has a body of work culled from the last few years of his career that solidifies this current crowning. From taking on the risque business of charm and seduction at the heart of ‘Bridgerton‘ to the compelling dramatic soul of ‘Fellow Travelers’, Bailey has worked his magic on the screen, and looks poised to continue that enchantment with a turn in the upcoming movie adaptation of ‘Wicked’

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Ben Cohen’s Naked Holiday Pic

Nobody knows how to take some cheeky male nudity and turn it into gold for a worthy cause better than Ben Cohen. (And nobody knows how to pose for a sexy calendar better than Ben.) This time around, he’s helping to raise awareness of the importance of cancer checks, in the upcoming ‘The Real Full Monty’. Taking it all off and teaching in the process – Ben Cohen knows how to do the damn thing

{See more Ben Cohen here.}

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Green Day

Happy St. Patrick’s Day to all who celebrate! Not gonna lie, I have no idea what we are celebrating, and I’ve long since lapsed in practice and memory to the point where I simply cannot recall who St. Patrick was. Regardless, today is their day, so kudos to all of that. My own hat tip will have to be done in the shades of green seen here. Fronted by a trio of Hermes fragrances, spring will come with its own olfactory soundtrack – fresh and bright and verdant

May the luck of the Irish be with each of you today! [Launching the leprechaun kick-line now…] PS – Say hello to these gingers.

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Unhappy Ass Wednesday

My own ass is undergoing its own issues as I continue to expel the remnants of the nasty stomach flu that is going around and felling people right and left. To that end, a few other good men will have to step up and show off their assets for this special Ass Wednesday post

Let’s begin with a man whose very name is indicative of his talents: Stuart Reardon. He’s never been shy about turning the other cheek, and it’s only right that he should lead things off here. 

Orlando Bloom gives good peach (and some censored eggplant) in this previous post

Chris Salvatore has already dazzled us twice here and this butt-baring shot reveals why. 

Finally, Nicholas Hoult is tasked with bringing up the rear of this post, and as evidenced in this naked post here he is more than up for the task. Happy Ass Wednesday everybody!

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Full-Frontal Friday!

This may be the beginning of a very popular feature: Full-Frontal Friday. The time for the cock has come! Based on the appearance of the penis in just about every trending television show and movie right now, the male anatomy has never been bigger. On this day of all days, it sees fitting to finally do a full-frontal reveal, as this website winds into the winter of its existence and there are hardly any barriers left to surmount. 

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It’s coming…

 

 

and I’m not just quoting a Madonna song

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…because if I were quoting a Madonna song it would probably be something from ‘Vogue‘ or ‘Like A Prayer‘ or ‘Ray of Light‘, and not a rather under-rated single from the magnificent ‘Erotica’ opus

Besides, for a full-frontal Friday assault, it seems more fitting to reference some gratuitous naked moments on this blog

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After all, we all came into this world naked, as God intended us to be, even on a Friday during Lent…

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So, without further ado about nothing, I give you our first, and likely final, Full Frontal Friday shot! 

Happy April Fool’s Day!!! 

{Did you forget how absolutely annoying I can be?}

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Channing’s Cheeks

Thank you very much to V Man magazine for capturing these shots of Channing Tatum, in service of his latest film no doubt, and if it’s the fun-looking one with Sandra Bullock in a sequin gown, and cameo by Brad Pitt, I’m all in. Channing has given good face here before, and there are links galore in that post so I won’t bore you with them here, here, or here

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Day-Glo Words on a Day of Worship

As someone who loves writing, I usually like to tell a story or ten behind the photos I post here. On this day, I’m going to let other more capable artists tell hints of what inspired these pictures, while letting the pictures speak for themselves, no matter what they might say. 

“A funny person is funny only for so long, but a wit can sit down and go on being spellbinding forever. One is not meant to laugh. One stays quiet and marvels. Spontaneously witty talk is without question the most fascinating entertainment there is.” ~ Diana Vreeland

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time. Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, the only fact we have. It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death–ought to decide, indeed, to earn one’s death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life. One is responsible for life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return.” ~ James Baldwin

“I just feel like we as a human race tend to fear that which we don’t understand. It’s cause for a lot of bad things and bad behavior to exist on the planet. Artists have a way of touching people and changing minds in a way that sometimes other mediums don’t.” ~ Billy Porter

“The letter, written in absorbed solitude, is an act of faith: it assumes the presence of humanity: world and self are generated from within: loneliness is courted, not feared. To write a letter is to be alone with my thoughts in the conjured presence of another person. I keep myself imaginative company. I occupy the empty room.” ~ Vivian Gornick

“History isn’t something you look back at and say it was inevitable, it happens because people make decisions that are sometimes very impulsive and of the moment, but those moments are cumulative realities.” ~ Marsha P. Johnson

“Some people are born in the mountains, while others are born by the sea. Some people are happy to live in the place they were born, while others must make a journey to reach the climate in which they can flourish and grow. Between the ocean and the mountains is a wild forest. That is where I want to make my home.” ~ Maia Kobabe

Strike a pose. There’s nothing to it.” ~ Madonna

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Dazzler of the Day: David Pevsner

This rather naked day on the blog feels especially fitting for the Dazzler of the Day, David Pevsner, who earns his first crowning thanks to a decades-long show-business career, as chronicled thrillingly by his book ‘Damn Shame: A Memoir of Desire, Defiance, and Show Tunes’ – which just about says it all. With another penchant for modeling in the buff, Pevsner appeals to the spectacular space where art and beauty and the human body collide. A Renaissance man in the truest senses of the term, Pevsner has just about done it all – and all of it pretty magnificently. 

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A Gratuitous Glimpse of Julian Morris

If you’re brave enough and bold enough to bare your naked ass in a photo shoot, you deserve a feature here. Celebrating the beauty of the body, the freedom of one’s birthday suit, and the artful eye of a talented photographer, these photos of Julian Morris stand alone as a testament to the enduring and timeless appeal of prettiness tinged with moodiness. There is a provocative and evocative thrill to certain photos, a thrill that will appeal to different people in different ways. That’s the gorgeous beauty of art. 

Mr. Morris has appeared here previously as a Hunk of the Day, and it may be time for a second crowning. 

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Happy World Naked Gardening Day!

If ever a non-holiday had an awkward-sounding name, this is it! Welcome to World Naked Gardening Day. This spin-off of guerilla gardening, it was created by Mark Storey and Jacob Gabriel, who have since steppe into the shadows of promoting it, but it’s taken on a life of its own because being naked in the garden is part of our Adam and Steve DNA.

Since our gardens are a bit behind this year, and the pool is still closed, I won’t be frolicking in Adam’s original outfit in real time (I know, such a lost opportunity…) However, in keeping with the spirit of things, I dug out (get it, like with a garden spade?) some old photos of nakedness near the garden because it’s always fun to join the celebration. 

 

“Do you, good people, believe that Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden and that they were forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge? I do. The church has always been afraid of that tree. It still is afraid of knowledge. Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas. So does whiskey. I believe in the brain of man.” –Clarence Darrow

{See also these posts: World Naked Gardening Day 2016, Getting Naked to Get Happy, Birthday-Suited Butt BoyNaked and Sunny Counter-Programming, Birthday Suit,  My Ass, My BallsStormy CounterprogrammingBirthday Suit Mayhem.}

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Project of the Past: StoneLight

Our homebound circumstances showing no signs of letting up, here is the start of a limited filler-series spotlighting former projects. First up is ‘StoneLight‘ from 2007, which feels like a lifetime ago. Who is that naked guy coaxed into a stillness as solid as stone, touched only by the light, and the shadows? C’est moi!  It formed the naked-ass impetus for my very first gallery show ‘The Eye of the Ego’ the following year. More moving to me was the dawn of the realization that I was documenting what would one day be no more – youth and innocence and abs – in the ongoing quest for an identity I sought to both embrace and destroy. ‘StoneLight’ was an effort to still time, to capture and freeze a moment, to bend and twist the cruel ticking of the clock. A futile effort like it always would be, it partially succeeds because the images are still here, even though thirteen years have passed.

Crumbling gravestones will not mark the dead forever. I do not have the faith in humanity to believe this earth will spin on in perpetuity. Look around – we inch closer to its destruction at an increasingly alarming rate. But for this moment, for this corner of the internet, perhaps I have slowed or given pause in the rush of living and dying. When light and shadow work together, the beauty of their marriage creates a magic that lasts a little longer than it should by traditional measures and means.

See the rest of ‘StoneLight’ here.

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Evening in Solitude

“I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.” ~ Henry David Thoreau

Alone in the bedroom, on a day when the sky is blanketed and buffeted by a cover of clouds, I stand before a window illuminated by the sort of bright gray that could denote the first light of the morning, or the last light of the day. In this case it is the latter, and I wonder if loneliness is more pronounced first thing in the morning or in the early reaches of night. Each holds its ghostly splendor, each holds its haunted dreams.

“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.” ~ Michel de Montaigne

Somewhere along the line society got it in its warped head that solitude was bad. We have since, particularly in the last decade or so, made it so that we are never alone. Within our hands is a device that can connect us to millions of other people with a tap and a swipe. We have the capability of reaching out to the rest of the world, and they in turn have a way of reaching us. Even when we’re alone, we’re never really alone – there’s always somewhere nearby to plug in, to reconnect, to dip into the relentless flow of information. Yet all of it is mere distraction. It seems we’ve spent our technological advances just to feel less alone, and less lonely, but it hasn’t really worked out that way. In the way of the most sinister fables and legends, we’ve only ended up growing further apart. And so I return to solitude, in an attempt to find out how to be alone again.

“If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.” ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

There is peace here. And a sense of quiet that doesn’t happen all that often these days. I’m told it’s especially elusive when one has children. I’m thankfully unburdened by such a lifestyle damper, but even I have difficulty locating the silence in this world. There’s always a neighbor, an alarm, a machine, a phone, a message, an alert – and the notion of an extended period of unadulterated quiet is a rare luxury indeed. Still, if you work at it, you can find such places. Sometimes you have to work very hard, and occasionally you have to force the issue and create the atmosphere through planning and preparation. Then, you might have a chance of slipping into the silence…

The noise of the softest coat against cool, naked skin.

The clamor of a feather drifting down from a bed pillow.

The screaming of a candle flame shifting in the air.

“Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.” ~ Honore de Balzac

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A Gratuitous Glimpse of Max in Motion

Some post titles speak for themselves. 

Others speak through the universal language of the GIF. 

Hard G or ginger G, whichever G you like, Max Emerson brings it beautifully. 

Feast your eyes upon his form here, here, here, and here

And if you still find yourself starved for links, try this naked one, this nude one, and this totally insane one. Anything to get us over Hump Day.

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Celebrating Ass Wednesday

Those nit-picky Catholics call this Ash Wednesday, but I prefer the racier spin on it. It gives us the opportunity to celebrate the booty, to toot the tush, to acknowledge the ass. We’ve done this sort of clickbait before (see this Ass Wednesday post or this one, and if you still want more see this one). 

Anchoring this post in the seaside main pic is Max Emerson, and he’s also seen below frolicking with Kyle Krieger. Mr. Emerson has been here before in equally fine fashion

In the spirit of the season, feast your eyes upon Kevin Love, who was featured in his altogether in ESPN’s gloriously infamous Body Issue

The below pair of hunks makes for doubly hot vision. Up first is Dave Marshall, followed closely behind by Ricky Schroeder

Almost hidden by some pesky palm fronds, the pert bottom of John Stamos brings back happy ‘Full House’ memories. Everywhere you go… 

Our only GIF this time around belongs to the backside of Nicholas Hoult. It’s all the GIF you need, really.

A perennial favorite for butt posts, Jack Mackenroth flaunts his assets (as in this miscellaneous collection) while Gregory Nalbone nails it as well (double time). 

Turning things horizontal but still hot, Charlie King lies down to expose all that he’s got, as he did so explicitly here and here

The greatest Olympic sport of all time, figure skating, is well-represented by Matteo Guirise, who got equally nude here

We love a dancer, hence Roberto Bolle and his previous sexy poses here. And no booty post would be complete without some Matthew Camp. [See also here, here, and here.]

Simon Dunn has made a magnificent presentation here showing off both front and backside to viewers’ delight

Bringing up the rear as only he can, Pietro Boselli has too many previous appearances to list here. Do yourself a favor and search his name in the search box at the bottom left of the page. Happy Ass Wednesday everybody! Let the Lenten games begin! 

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The Unmindful Shower

Far from the serenity of mindful meditation, a recent shower reminded me that not every moment can be mindful and not every morning allows for meditative moments. It was an average weekday, and I had to get into work a little early, so I basically bounded out of bed and into the shower. Any notion of a mindful shower, had it even crossed my mind, would have proved an impossibility. As it was, I didn’t have much time for anything besides wetting my hair and dampening down the bed-head. Some mornings are like that, and you realize almost too late that you missed an opportunity for beauty and appreciation and simple gratitude for existence.

I’ve been more guilty than most of missing the grandiosity of the smallest, most mundane efforts of an average day. I don’t chronicle the ride to work, or the fleeting lunch break, or even the triumphant scheduling of a dinner out. I miss the inherent beauty of the simple tasks of a person’s life. Lately, I’ve been opening my eyes to the beauty of these things, mostly because I feel the fleetingness of time, its incessant ticking, its ongoing tocking. Someone told me recently that many men go through a freak-out between 57 and 60 years old. I’m not quite there yet, and quite frankly I was hoping to have averted another mid-life crisis, but it seems I have yet another thing to which I can look forward and dread.

As I turned the shower off, it dawned on me that I hadn’t been mindful. I hadn’t appreciated or honored the moment, mostly because it was impossible. Well, not impossible, just not practical, and it would have disrupted the schedule of the day. Some disruptions are unavoidable, some aren’t. I promised to do better the next time, which would simply involve getting up a few minutes earlier to allow for a mindful start to the day. That makes a difference.

It takes time to make habits like mindfulness part of one’s daily existence. I’m still learning. Still working on it. Still trying. And tomorrow I’ll do better.

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