Babygirl, unpack yr sweaters and get FABULOUS in FALL gay homo queer &c 2012

rev and i tore up the dancefloor in seattle tonight! it was super-fun

yaaaaaaahhhhh, it was ~magic~

Pics!!

sorry, no pics

Enjoy.

http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/2012/dec/09/anti-nudity-law-an-example-of-gay-mainstream/

ugh lame

On Friday I persuaded Nicolas Jaaar to squeeze my left arm in appreciation.

But Wiener said the naked guys are the No. 1 problem he hears about from constituents — exceeding homelessness and transportation — and the people who complain most frequently are homosexual men.... For them, being a husband, mom, uncle or resident isn't about tearing down the community. It's about protecting it.

Fucking people.

are they complaining about the existence of public nudity, or about the quality of public nudity

Are the bodies you see parading around nude in public usually the sort of bodies you'd want to see parading around nude in public?

"councilman, i DEMAND you do something about these naked butts and why their skin is so loose and saggy."

The discoloration! Why won't anyone think of the discoloration?!

the only things i have to post in this thread are updates of everything my bf is cooking for me

so much amazing food, i am eating so well right now

I just made shakshuka this morning for a friend that stayed over last night; it was v good if I may say so myself!

http://theshiksa.com/images/2010/07/Shakshuka-Main-640x480.jpg

i have never heard of that but is it eggs poached in tomato sauce?

essentially yeah, a really chunky spicy cumin-y tomato sauce w/ chickpeas and feta

Guys I think we should talk about jockstraps for a bit. Do any of you own or wear them?

i'm very very pro-jockstrap

My roommate gave me one a few months ago; I never really wore it until I decided to wear it under my jeans for a date a few days ago and it gave me this unexpected boost of empowerment and confidence!

But then yesterday I accidentally wore it to work and it felt really bizarre :/

i'm a fan but haven't worn or owned one since high-school football

never worn/owned one, won't rule out possibility that i might someday

I love jocks.

i've never worn one, not even when i was on the wrestling team (lol) but i wd now

i mean i definitely appreciate them on certain bodies, for sure, but i don't feel my ass is quite deserving of being framed so

Own one, love it (and love love love them on guys), but don't get to wear often; not my bf's preference for sexywear.

jockstraps are a thing i fundamentally don't get

As Roger Ebert says, you can't argue someone out of an erection.

I find them more quaint and amusing than genuinely arousing

Have any of you just worn them in place of underwear before? To work or school or wherever?

i don't wear them... i like to see them being worn

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Yeah. No big deal.

I mean, they're really no fun unless in the bedroom. Or, you know, being used for their actual purpose, I suppose.

I'd never heard of shakshuka, but it looks delicious! And very easy to make.

Jock straps make me feel uneasy, both wearing them and seeing them worn.

I'm with rev, can't see the appeal of jockstraps. I like sock garters on some men, but not jockstraps. They look tacky.

I own but it's been awhile since I've put it on for recreational fun.

Stevie, since my mouth tastes like socks from the pills I'm taking, I challenge you to cook me something I can taste.

i posted this quote re: jockstraps in the summer 08 gay thread:

"... perhaps the quintessential homoerotic ritual robe because, just as it enshrines the symbol of the myth of masculinity, so too the straps that originate in the top elastic circumscribe the buttocks and disappear in the anus, bringing us to that place where masculinity meets its mythic undoing. And so, as suggested by the versatility of Apollo, there are two sides to the jockstrap that symbolize the homoerotic paradox: the pouch in the front as the shrine of masculinity joined to the straps in the back framing its mythic violation."

it bears repeating

mythic myth

why the fuck is the anus the "mythic undoing of masculinity"? Who wrote that?

writing (homo or hetero) that gets all "worshiping at the mystical shrine of genitalia" seems so silly to me

jockstraps have always seemed too, idk, functional and sporty to be sexy to me

steve: http://books.google.com/books?id=6uk7y9hdkqwC

functionally, jockstraps are about range of motion and keeping yr sensitive junk stationary and protected throughout those movements -- i've not read that book (tho i find that quote kind of hilarious) but i think the erotic appeal of the jockstrap is about its place in athletics & physical culture in general, about the forbidden rush seeing bodies in the locker room, and about the titillation of a transitional state of undress (concealed from the front, naked from behind)

imho

as I'm sure I've said before in these threads, my taste in guys runs distinctly toward the femmey. I've never had that sort of idolization of the athletic body.

oh i love the athletic body but i'd far rather see it in sports kit (or, like, naked) - i think 1) jockstraps aren't a very british thing, so i don't have any sensual irl memories of them, 2) i do have irl memories of locker rooms and as much as hot naked sportsmen are great, locker rooms are basically kinda gross, esp school locker rooms

iirc the ideal placement of a jockstrap is on the beefy hindquarters of a rugby player

locker rooms are basically kinda gross, esp school locker rooms

otm x1000

few places i'd less rather be than a locker room

rugby players take the athletic body too far for me. TOO beefy really

different strokes, but i am mostly about THAT ASS and also THOSE THIGHS

This thread keeps pushing me closer to the realization that my tastes have been ruinously malformed via porn. Or else I'm the only one admitting it.