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Minimalist, and sometimes anti-bacterial

(Extremely minimally dressed men, with discussion of their bodies and of mansex in street language, so not for kids or the sexually modest.) Annals of men’s underwear, starting with some extremely...

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Masturbation May finale: the naked brownies

(Consider the title: not for kids or the sexually modest.) (#1) Josh Rider and his baking pan; his half-hard dick has been cropped for WordPress modesty, but can be viewed in my AZBlogX posting today,...

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A hose in your pocket

This is a piece of moderately raunchy silliness in a time of great difficulty. (I am trying, with increasing desperation, to write just one blog essay a day as proof that I’m Not Dead Yet, but I didn’t...

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At the Paleo Cafe

Today’s Wayno/Piraro Bizarro strip (Wayno’s title: “Farm to Slab”): (#1) (If you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Dan Piraro says there are 4 in this strip — see this Page.) A combination...

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In Pouchland, where body size is irrelevant

From Ann Burlingham on Facebook yesterday, a heads-up: I’ve been seeing this [Hanes Every Bod] ad, which it seems came out last year, and enjoyed the men singing about underwear in a way that women in...

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Let them eat cake

(Totally unsuitable for kids and the sexually modest.) From the Raging Stallion gay porn studio, the 2020 flick Cake Shop, focused on cake ‘buttock’ and especially on cum as a culinary ingredient. The...

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Le Male, the men’s fragrance

(Well, it’s about perfumerie, but it’s Gaultier, he’s flagrantly homoerotic, and he’s going to take us to men’s bodies and mansex. So pieces of this posting are definitely not for kids or the sexually...

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Hard-core gendering

Now visible on tv and on the net: Manly Bands, wedding rings and engagement rings for real guy guys: deeply masculine bands that avoid the mere prettiness of so many of the usual rings (and any...

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Annals of remarkable commerce

(About anatomical organs and sex between men, totally not suitable for kids or the sexually modest) On the Naked Sword site yesterday (9/19), this remarkable ad for Fort Troff BOOF CBD suppositories...

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Macho toys: the ads

(Plain talk about sex toys for men and about male genitalia, so not for kids or the sexually modest. ) A Daily Jocks mailing back on 2/9 offers a novel solution to creating visually interesting ads for...

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The brain health product

Yesterday’s Doonesbury has Mike (Doonesbury) and (his wife) Kim (Rosenthal) listening to a mock Prevagen® commercial in which the dietary supplement is openly hawked as a useless (but expensive)...

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Notes of cade oil, spikenard, and labdanum

Among the scent notes in the “unisex perfume” A City on Fire — burnt match is another, but that doesn’t require looking things up — from the Imaginary Authors company, whose remarkable fragrances come...

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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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Johnny Rapid evolves

(Men’s bodies and talk about sex between men, in street language, so not at all appropriate for kids and the sexually modest) A follow-up to my 3/13 posting “Pornstars do this so you don’t have to”, in...

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Mitch is always DTF

(A lot about dildos and their uses, so probably not for kids or the sexually modest.) The mail header on today’s Daily Jocks ad. DTF was new to me, but then I’m far from plugged into things — WTF I...

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Annals of commercial naming: Bear Naked Granola

Brought to me by Facebook in recent days, advertisements for two playful trade names: one — for the Boy Smells company, offering scented candles, unisex fragrances, and (unscented) underwear, all for...

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Cuticura, it’ll cure ya

(As far as I know, not actually used as an advertising slogan for any of the line of Cuticura skin care products — probably too jaunty and wise-cracking for the company, which seems to have been...

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Powerfully eruptive, yet respectful of his anatomy

(Men’s underwear and its symbolic values, frank talk about male sexuality, but otherwise not over lines; use your judgment.) Powerfully eruptive, yet respectful of his anatomy: the vaunted twin virtues...

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Comes a pause in the day’s occupations

… that is known as Miller Time … when you deserve a beer break today. None of this makes sense unless you know the advertising slogans: It’s Miller Time (for Miller High Life beer, not for novelist...

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