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The Hottest Beefcake at the Hottest Colleges in the U.S.
College Magazine also lists the colleges with the hottest guys. I'm not sure how you can generalize the hotness of thousands of guys, and isn't it supposed to be in the eye of the beholder. But let's...
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10 Black Guys in Bondage
If you are attracted to black men and to men in bondage, why not combine the two?It's not that easy. There are very few gay black men into BDSM, and those few are usually tops. After years of...
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Maxwell Caulfield: Responding to Gay Rumors with Homophobia
Have you heard of Maxwell Caulfield? During my senior year in college, he was being hailed the Next Big Thing.Born in Scotland, Caulfield moved to London at age 15 and became a nude dancer at the...
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Henry Willson: The Man Who Invented Beefcake
During the Cold War of the 1950s, the Clark Gable-Cary Grant- Fernando Lamas model of masculinity, the suave, sophisticated bon-vivants who sipped champaign at El Crocadero, fell into disfavor....
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The Most Exclusive Athletes at the Most Exclusive Boarding Schools in the U.S.
In the United States, there are about 26,407 public secondary schools (for 9th or 10th through 12th grade, typically ages 14 to 18). Tuition is free, paid for by property taxes.There are 10,693...
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Cairo Beefcake: the Southern Tip of Illinois
When you tell people you're from Illinois, they immediately say "Oh, Chicago!" They can't get that you can be nearly 400 miles from Chicago, and still in Illinois.Cairo is at the southern tip of the...
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Donald De Lue and the Male Nudes of Public Art
The Boy Scout Memorial, on the Ellipse in Washington DC, gives visitors quite an eyeful. A muscular man who has apparently just stripped is walking beside the boy scout.He represents nothing more...
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Massillon: The Bodybuilding Capital of Ohio
Massillon, Ohio is a suburb of Canton, which is a suburb of Akron, which is in the metropolitan area of Cleveland: it's at the end of an urban sprawl of Targets, Wal-Marts, McDonalds, and little...
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The Beefcake of Meh-Ville, Missouri
St. Louis suburb Mehlville, Missouri, population 28,000, draws the eye because it's spelled wrong. The author of Moby Dick is Herman Melville.Maybe it comes from "Meh!", the Jewish expression for...
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Falling Asleep during "Troy: Fall of a City."
I went into the Netflix tv series Troy: Fall of a City expecting a vast canvass, a lot of spectacular special effects, and nonstop beefcake. After all, a new take on one of the most familiar stories...
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Searching for Beefcake in "The Judgment of Paris"
"The Judgment of Paris" appears only in snippets in ancient Greek literature. Basically the story is: Hermes, messenger of the gods, asks the shepherd Paris (who may or may not be the same Paris as the...
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Omar Sharif and His Grandson
When I was a kid in the 1960s, our newspaper, The Rock Island Argus, had several interesting columns: Dear Abby, a criptoquip, and "Omar Sharif on Bridge."Nazarenes weren't allowed to play cards, so I...
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Pasolini's Canterbury Tales: Gay Characters and Nudity
The Canterbury Tales (I Racconti di Canterbury, 1972) is my favorite of Piers Paulo Pasolini's Trilogy of Life (others include The Decameronand The Arabian Nights), maybe because the set-up and many of...
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The Top 10 Hunks of "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend"
The second and third seasons of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend are up on Netflix, continuing the saga of Rebecca Bunch (Rachel Bloom), who runs into her grade-school crush Josh Chan (Vincent Rodriguez III) one...
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The Small-Town Beefcake of France
Finding small-town beefcake in France is not as easy as it sounds. There just aren't a lot of pictures of swimmers, wrestlers, and other beefcake icons posted online. But by doing a judicious search...
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Deciphering the Mysterious Water Polo Team Photo
This photo of buffed guys holding soccer balls over their crotches is labeled "First Year CBC JV water polo team finishes third in state tournament."I have no idea what any of those words mean, but the...
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Top 12 Public Penises of Central America
I've never been to Mexico, except a few times to Tijuana, which hardly counts. People keep inviting me to the gay resorts of Cabo San Lucas and Mazatlan, but I want to see the archaeological sites;...
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Top 12 Public Penises of Spain
Spain is my favorite country in Europe. Interesting cultural and archaeological sites, multiple languages, vibrant gay culture, and the cutest men this side of Estonia. And an extraordinary amount of...
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The Small-Town Beefcake of Spain
Finding small-town beefcake in Spain is somewhat easier than in France. Every town has a Club de Natación, which sends swimmers to provincial and national contests. But the photos commemorating their...
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The Clones of "Saved by the Bell"
During the 1990s, as advertisers were squabbling over the affluent teen market and cable stations were struggling to fill slots,Saved by the Bell-like teencoms appeared regularly: Welcome Freshmen...
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