The Manparts Series: BubbleButt Bonanza

Manbutt is something that a guy is born with.  It shapes over time. Firm manbutt is awesome.

Some guys have sagging butts, but other guys seem to hold their bubblebutt for a very long time.

Here are some examples of pillowy soft mancheeks. Behold and enjoy.

The Manparts series. Abs and hips are hot!!!

the most beautiful part of a man’s body
I think it must be there,
where the torso sits on and, into the hips,
those twin delineating curves,
feminine in grace, girdling the trunk,
guiding the eyes downwards
to their intersection,
the point of pleasure.
DUANE MICHALS, from The Nature of Desire

Couldn't agree more. Here are some for your visual pleasure.

Patrick Angus, an unequalled male erotic artist, who should never be forgotten.

Sometimes cleaning out forgotten book shelves, uncovers some beautiful gems.

I was a acquaintance and buddy of the legendary endowed porn star, Scott O'Hara, publisher of a very erotic quarterly, STEAM, during the mid 1990s.

This morning, while getting a head start on some spring cleaning, I came across illustrations of the under appreciated erotic male artist, Patrick Angus in the Spring 1995 issue of STEAM. What a master artist and illustrator Patrick was. Here are some samples of tributes written about this under appreciated, but now, recognized artist, belated accolades that he really deserved during life.

http://martinmasetto.blogspot.com/2009/10/patrick-angus-strippers-saunas-and.html?showComment=1328898095314#c1995282344107096040

http://www.erato-net.de/en/arts/patrick_angus.htm

American social–realist painter Patrick Angus died in 1992, at the age of thirty-eight, of AIDS-related complications. His was a short, unhappy life but almost miraculously, Patrick died in a glow of contentment, a kind of apotheosis. His greatest malaise was fear that his artwork would never be seen and indeed that it would end up in a dumpster. This paranoia that his work would never be accepted was reinforced by the reality of the art scene in New York and captured on film in Resident Alien, a documentary on the life of Quentin Crisp. There we see the playwright Robert Patrick drag the reluctant Patrick Angus to show his work to a smart dealer in the chic East Village. The art dealer does indeed recoil in horror, and Patrick, deeply humiliated, rolls up his canvases (too poor to afford stretchers) to retreat to his tiny room. However, in the final year of his life, after no previous showings of his work, he enjoyed three one-man exhibitions, and was included in several group shows. On his deathbed in St. Vincent's hospital, I was able to show him the colour proof sheets for a book of his paintings, and he whispered, "This is the happiest day of my life."

Patrick Angus, Boys do fall in Love

Patrick would be gratified to know that his work was shown recently at a prestigious international art institution, the Akademie der Künste in Berlin. The stupendous 100 Years of Gay Liberation exhibition was a kind of World's Fair of Art and History. David Hockney once said if you have to be in a group show send a big picture. Hockney lent a big picture to this exhibition, and one of its organisers Andreas Sternweiler (of the Gay Museum in Berlin) chose an equally big canvas by Patrick, his Boys do fall in Love. The two hung side by side in Berlin. A detail of this painting was used as the cover illustration for Die Sehnsucht der Menschenfrescher, by Alfred Chester (Albino, 1993).

Although he has been called the "Emily Dickinson of the art world" and the "Toulouse Lautrec of gay Times Square", Patrick Angus work remains unacknowledged by the American art establishment. But his genius for observation, his humanism, his compassion for his subject, and the obvious power of his artistry mean his pictures have only to be seen once to be remembered, and to create a desire to see more. They are unique and beautiful accounting of a fascinating époque, and they will take their place in our cultural history. They will survive.

Douglas Blair Turnbaugh

When It was Hot to have a SexVibe. Why did these kind of safer sex publications go away?

SexVibe had a four year run and was published by the AIDS Project Los Angeles when zines were all the rage before web pages,blogs, tweets and grindr.

It reached out to gay escorts through their Sex Essentials working group, which held safer sex workshops and made safer sex fun again and not scary.

Such workshops held included subject matter as "Latex, Lube and Beyond", Understanding Ourselves, and the HIV Negative Men's Discussion Forum.

The successful sexual encounter support group was a maintstay discussion group meeting throughout the brief existence of the zine.

My understanding of it was to teach guys to negotiate safer sex guidelines before actual intercourse.

I know most guys just like to plunge into sex, but beyond vanilla, limits should always be discussed, and the top guy MUST ALWAYS fuck with a condom, NO EXCEPTIONS.

Of course, foreplay is what makes sex sizzlin hot.

So if you and your fuck buddy hook up on VD weekend, remember to MAKE IT HOT and PLAY SAFE!!!

The Manparts series. Hey dude! What a hot pair of man thighs you got!!!

I thought I start this series with a photo essay of all things manthighs, in honor of Super Bowl Sunday.

The manthigh is one of the male body parts that attracts the attention of gay men. I really have not met a gay man who doesn't appreciate the manthigh and all of its beauty.

Strong, muscular manthighs are admired almost universally.

Let's see if these guys meet the tree trunk test.