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Revisiting 41: roses for remembrance

A very sweet Twitter comment on my posting yesterday “Roses now, or roses later”, from London Sacred Harp (@LDNSacredHarp): Read these beautiful reflections on singing from the #SacredHarp in the face...

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Another Super Bowl Sunday

(For me, Super Bowl Sunday frequently erupts into a festival of sex, either literal or fictional, between men, so this posting about my relationship to the event will be awash in male bodyparts and...

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Lincoln Darwin Valentine Day

(Uncompromisingly raunchy references to male bodyparts and mansex, so absolutely not for kids or the sexually modest.) Lincoln Darwin Valentine Day lies in the cleft between Lincoln Darwin Day,...

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Timothy and Agrimony

(Plants, but also gay male life, with the latter focus leading to talk of mansex in street language (also with some deeply carnal (but fuzzed) photos of 69ing), so not for kids or the sexually modest.)...

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A clean t-room is a *happy* t-room

(T-rooms, lots of men’s naughty bits and raunchy doings, so not for kids or the sexually modest.) From David Preston on Facebook, this public service ad from the US Centers for Disease Control, which...

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Tragedies of the pandemic

(Penises play a significant role in this posting, so it might not be to everyone’s taste.) We regret to report the end of Lord Alfred Douglas, famed devotee of fellatio. Yes, it’s (A) goodbye to Bosie,...

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Higashi Day cartoon 5: hoods and newts

(Little kids, but I pursue them into the weeds of sexual anatomy, though without the photos or raunchy talk. Take appropriate cautions.) The One Big Happy cartoon from 2/9: (#1) Once again, about the...

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Mexican dicks with super-spiny nipples

(The penises (and nipples) are all symbolic, but if that troubles you, the title should be a warning.) Yes, the News for Penises is back in business, with a bulletin from our floral department,...

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Three men

More News for Penises. About three men who make a living by “bodywork”: Jack Vidra, Seth Fornea, Hayden Clark. About their penises as the driving elements of their livelihoods; their penises as...

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St. Martin des Poires

(Nothing actually crude, but a lot of mostly high-falutin’ sextalk that might give some people the fantods.) In yesterday’s mail, a postcard from Ryan Tamares (a Stanford friend who is now socially but...

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Annals of sexual slang: peacocks

News for penises, in Latin. Mike Pope, posting on Facebook yesterday, this Duolingo example: (#1) Eyebrows were immediately raised. For reference, a peacock — a male peafowl, a bird whose name is a...

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Easter eggs 2020.1: Mussorgsky chicken with crocuses

The first of two entertaining Easter egg postings on material that came in my mail today. This one is sweet and playful; the other one is raunchy and homoerotic. There’s a lot you can do with eggs....

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With spear, shield, robe, and wreath

… Helvetia stands guard over the Matterhorn, and by extension, all of her Swiss domain, in this excellent poster (source still untraced): (#1) Not only the Matterhorn in the background, but also the...

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Conceptually artistic dicks

(Consider the title: not for kids or the sexually modest.) In today’s AZBlogX posting “VT’s Banksy’s Magritte”, two Vadim Temkin take-offs on a Banksy take-off on a Magritte — one, in the negative,...

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Roll my log for Pride

(Well, it’s Tom of Finland, so pretty much saturated with the worship of men’s bodies, especially their genitals, and allusions to, or outright depiction of, incredibly enthusiastic mansex. But no...

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Flowers and a watch

… not to mention insects. And mortality. From Hana Filip on Facebook, this extraordinary still life by 17th-century artist Abraham Mignon: (#1) Still Life with Flowers and a Watch (c. 1660 – c. 1679) —...

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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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Pretty, and sometimes protuberant, in pink

(Largely about men’s bodies — not crudely, but the topic will be uncomfortable for some readers, so be warned that skin and bulges are on the agenda.) From Romania, through the fabled sensuality of...

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Hiding homosexuality: JCL

Via Pinterest today, a story from the Messy Nessy site, “Hiding Homosexuality on the Cover of America’s Magazines a Century Ago” from 2/5/19, about illustrator and commercial artist J.C. Leyendecker...

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His banana Ana and his avocados Arnold

(Rudely suggestive song taking off on the names of toys for infants, so sure to be offensive to some.) Sighted by Ann Burlingham at a toy store in the Pittsburgh suburb of Oakmont (and posted on...

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