Photographers - Part 89

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Calendars - Part 90

Dieux du Stade 2009

The Dieux du Stade (Gods of the Stadium) calendar, put out by the Stade Francais rugby team in Paris, got an early reputation as one of the best calendars of naked athletes.  Today we look at the 2009 calendar.

The first part of January features Gonzalo Canale.

February first part: Mirco Bergamasco.

February second part: Alexandre Flanquart.

March first part: Alexandre Pellicier.

April second part: Thomas Combezou.

May first part: Steve Meyer.

May second part: Arnaud Marchois.

June first part: Loic Mazieres.

August second part: Guillaume Bousses.

September first part: Pierre Rabadan.

September second part: Juan Martin Berberian.

October first part: Matthieu Nicholas.

October second part: Robins Tchale Watchou.

November first part: Nikola Karabatic.

November second part: Romuald Lauret.

December second part: Jean-Baptiste Peyras.

And the back cover.

Protests - Part 89

IMF Protest, Prague 2000

In September, 2000, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) met in Prague.  The IMF is an agency of the United Nations.  It acts as a lender of last resort, lending money to member nations having a balance of payments crisis.

The 2000 meeting drew a crowd of 400 activists, criticizing IMF for the harsh requirements it makes when it lends money to poor countries.

Above, the crowd of protesters saying "Balls to the IMF".

One of the protesters got naked.  He was from Switzerland and identified himself as Rafael.  We see him here by the line of police.

"This is a battle for equal justice worldwide," said Rafael.  His painted message says "Fuck you new feudalism."

Here is Rafael with another protester.  Eventually the protest turned to violence, with the protesters throwing paving stones and Molotov cocktails at the police, who responded with tear gas and a water cannon.

Note Rafael's imaginative decor criticizing capitalism: a dollar bill stuffed in each ear, and another dollar bill pierced by his penis.

Ivy League Posture Photos - Part 68

Ivy League Posture Photos

Yale started taking nude photos of incoming freshmen in 1919 as part of a program to detect and correct posture problems.  The Yale photos have erroneously been associated with William Sheldon, a psychologist at Harvard and author of Nazi-like eugenic theories who used Harvard nude posture photos to illustrate his theory of somatypes.  The Yale program predates Sheldon, and, as far as I can tell, the Yale photos were never connected to Sheldon's work.

Here are posture photos of eight more Yale students that I had the opportunity to acquire.

This is Yale freshman B. M. on Oct. 7, 1953.

In 1952, Yale installed an apparatus using mirrors to photograph the front, rear, side and top view.

This is Yale freshman J. M. on Oct. 20, 1953.

Note the strange pins stuck to each student's back and chest.  The pins were stuck on at specific points for later posture analysis.

This is Yale freshman Burt Thomas Ryan on Oct. 4, 1940.

Photos taken before the fall of 1952 show only a side view.

This is a second photo of Yale freshman Burt Thomas Ryan taken on Dec. 2, 1940.

If posture problems were detected, the student had to attend remedial posture sessions, and a second posture photo was taken.

This is Yale freshman Albert Dominic D'Antonio on Sept. 30, 1941.

Supposedly, by examining the angles formed by connecting the points where the pins touched the body, certain posture problems could be detected.

This is Yale freshman Daniel Fine on Oct. 4, 1941.

Freshmen were told to report to Yale's Payne Whitney Gymnasium, and once there, they were told to strip.  

This is Yale freshman Eskine Howard Courtenay, Jr. on Oct 2, 1941.

The photography and analysis of the photos was conducted by the staff of the gymnasium.

This is Yale freshman Kevin Farrell on Oct. 2, 1941.

Nobody outside the gymnasium staff saw the photos.  The photos were not published for other students to see.

This is Yale freshman Robinson Gaylord on Oct.  8, 1941.

The posture photo program was discontinued in the 1960s, and later, most of the photos were burned.  However, some of the photos escaped burning, including the photos that I have been showing in this series.

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Note: some of my followers consider these photos an invasion of privacy for the students.  To protect the privacy of the students, I redact the names of students who may still be alive.  I only publish the names of students who have died.  Legally, the right to privacy does not extend beyond death, i.e. it does not extend to spouses and relatives of the deceased person.

I consider these photos to be a historical record of the time.  Almost all of the Ivy League posture photos were burned when their existence became widely known.  In my opinion, that was akin to book-burning of books that someone claimed were obscene.  These photos are not obscene.  They should be celebrated, not hidden away.

Ads - Part 87

T-Mobile My Wallet

This commercial for My Wallet from T-Mobile was run in Poland in 2013, showing a bunch of happy nudists in a store buying things with My Wallet.  There's no male frontal nudity, but there are plenty of rear views.

Weighing In - Part 89

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Events - Part 89

Gay Naturists International 

Gay Naturists International (GNI) holds a gathering each August in the Poconos in eastern Pennsylvania.  It's like a summer camp for gay naturists.  Today's photos are from 2023.

The resort has extensive grounds.

You can wander the grounds ...

explore the woods, or relax by the two large swimming pools.

But there are other activities, including workshops and discussions ranging from musical theater and massage to fetish and kink.  Something for everyone.

Hey, I'm on TV!

This is the Mr. GNI contest.  I do not know who the winner was.

But here's the winner of the Mr. GNI Leather contest.

In 2023 this guy got body painted, apparently with a different paint job each day.  Above, painted like a Piet Mondrian painting.

The same guy, now wearing painted formal wear ...

and now wearing a painted T-shirt and shorts.

But my favorite was when he got painted as an elephant.