The art of the blue jeans bulge pic: Something ultra masc about cockring’d meat wrapped up in denim, buttons, and zippers. 2021 Update: this post was from an earlier era in this blog when we were able to source and attribute images from Tumblr and afford some degree of consent by way of users being […]
Fear of a Black Penis
The NYT Magazine publishes a thoughtful and well researched analysis of our cultural fear of BBC. It was both surprising and exciting to wake up today to the NYT app directing me almost immediately to an article by Wesley Morris entitled Why Pop Culture Just Can’t Deal With Black Male Sexuality. There’s a lot of […]
Dressed for Church
There’s almost nothing that compares to a big, proud, suit bulge. I don’t make enough time to people watch at home. Is what I decided today over coffee and some kind of steak and egg breakfast wrap. My (otherwise charming and beautiful) DC hotel refused to put a coffee machine in my room, so […]
Masculine Thongs. It’s a Real Thing.
Why are guys put off by one of the BEST kinds of underwear? If you follow me over on tumblr, you’ve no doubt come across one or two posts of me yelling about men who think thongs are “uncomfortable” or – weirder still – feminine. I don’t totally understand the association between thongs and women’s […]
Buzzfeed Wants To Test Your ‘Masculinity Awareness’
Can we all agree “masculinity” is the vaguest term in all of creation, though? One of the dumbest parts of art school, that still sticks in my brain, is in this really specific typography class, we learned that ‘gothic‘ meant two, pretty much unrelated things in the type world. It referred to […]
The Visceral and Poetic Classical Majesty in Delmas Howe’s Gay Artworks
The gay gay glory of the most masculine American archetypes. Delmas Howe is an artist you might not be familiar with out of the gate, but anyone with even a remedial understanding of art history or Greek mythos will be able to instantly identify Howe’s intentions in his gorgeously and painstakingly illustrated canvases. Ranging from Atlas to the Three Graces as […]