Miners - Part 9

 Poland

These are Polish coal miners being exposed to Sollux lamps for light treatment in 1950.  At the time, it was thought to be beneficial for men who worked in the dark all day.

A 2009 photo of the changing room at the Boleslaw Smialy mine.  Note the clothes hanging from the ceiling, as in coal mines everywhere.  Photo by Jasmis.

A 2016 photo at the same mine.  The Boleslaw Smialy mine is still in operation.  Photo by Jasmis.

And, of course, Polish miners get dirty and have to wash at the end of their shift.  Photo by Stanislaw Gadomski.

Miners in Upper Silesia, Poland, wash each others' backs.  Photo by Tomas Tomaszewski.

That's good.  Now a little lower and more to the right ...

Calendars - Part 8b

Orthodox Calendar

We continue our look at the "religious" calendar that is by far the dirtiest calendar yet.

The 2016 Orthodox Calendar got even more kinky.  Here's a priest with his dog.

You can't quite see what this guy is doing to the priest, but you can guess.

And here's a 2016 image of a voyeur priest jerking off while watching two guys fuck in a men's room.  Upon closer inspection, you can see that they're not actually fucking, and there's nothing visible in the priest's hand.  But that doesn't erase the mental image that you already formed.

A priest shaving a guy's pubes while holding his erect cock.  I presume the 2016 calendar also had a standard and an X-rated version, and this is from the X-rated one.

This is the cover of the 2017 calendar.  "P.I.L.F. – Priests I'd like to fuck."  And this is the non-X-rated version!  The cover of the X-rated version is the same, but it says "X-Rated" in red letters.

Some of the 2017 photos are fairly innocuous, like this one of two guys (presumably priests) kissing in a bathtub.

This 2017 photo looks tame – only rear nudity – until you see that the priest is holding a pair of handcuffs.

This is the set of 12 images for the X-rated version of the 2017 calendar.  The previous pictures of the bathtub and the priest with handcuffs are not here, so they must have been in the non-X-rated version.  Of these 12 images, 6 of them show a guy erect and/or masturbating.

We'll leave you with this larger copy of one of the 6 X-rated images, with the priest kissing the guy's knee.  What happens next is left to your imagination.

Who thought the Orthodox Calendar would be so unorthodox?

Calendars - Part 8a

Orthodox Calendar

One of the gayest and steamiest naked calendars that I've seen is a religious calendar, of all things.  Put out by a group in Romania, the Orthodox Calendar features Orthodox priests (or models pretending to be Orthodox priests) in and out of their vestments.  The group responsible for the calendar says that they are fighting homophobia and the perception that Orthodox people are homophobic, and they are calling attention to hypocrisy and corruption in the Orthodox Church.

In their first calendar, in 2013, the priests were all clothed in their black robes, though there were some discreetly naked men as background characters.

The 2014 calendar (above) was the first one where the priests themselves got naked.

The 2015 calendar went much further.  Its theme was S.A.L.I.G.I.A., the initials of the Latin words for the seven deadly sins: pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, and sloth.  The calendar contained images of priests committing these seven sins.  The rest of the images in today's post are from the 2015 calendar.

A naked priest praying to Mary.  I was surprised that the words in the background are in English, but perhaps the calendar was aimed at an international audience.

A priest behind the altar.  The lighting makes him look demonic.

I don't know what this image is supposed to represent.  Happy birthday?  I don't think so.

This image is full-frontal, something that other naked calendars carefully avoid.  Perhaps it represents sloth?

I saw a caption that said this image represents gluttony, although the single bite that he seems to have taken out of the apple doesn't seem very gluttonous.

The 2015 calendar was available in a standard version and also an X-rated version.  This is the X-rated image representing gluttony.  Not only is it full-frontal, but the guy has an erection.

Another image from the X-rated 2015 calendar.  Oh, those naughty Romanians!  You'd never seen this in any of the British naked calendars!

We're not done with the Orthodox Calendar.  Subsequent calendars got even more kinky, as we'll see tomorrow.

Weighing In - Part 9

Krazy Horse Bennett

Charles 'Krazy Horse' Bennett, born 1979, is an American mixed-martial-arts fighter competing in the featherweight division.  He is also nicknamed 'Felony' Bennett, possibly because he has been arrested at least 16 times and convicted three times, twice for drug charges and once for aggravated battery in a domestic dispute.

I don't know the date or event for this weigh-in video, but it appears to be a Japanese shootboxing event.  Shootboxing is a form of MMA combining kickboxing and wrestling.

In this video, he first moons the audience, then, unconcerned, strips to weigh in.

Performers - Part 8

Naked Boys Singing

Naked Boys Singing is a Vaudeville-stye musical revue.  In other words, it has no plot and just consists of a series of musical numbers that the actors sing and dance.  The gimmick, of course, is that the actors are all naked, so the show consists of naked boys singing.

Here's part of the opening song, Gratuitous Nudity.  The lyrics basically say, hey, folks, we know that the reason you're here is to see us naked.  The first line of the lyrics is:

        Tonight, you'll finally get what you paid for

The source video that I took this from was obviously an unauthorized video taken by someone in the audience, and the song ends abruptly because the source video abruptly cuts to another song.  It is what it is.

Here's part of another song, I Beat My Meat, from the same source video, with another cut-off ending.  No, the actors don't beat their meat during the song.  They do slap their thighs and clap their hands at an accelerating pace to suggest the action that they're singing about, but the result is hardly erotic.  In fact, the whole show is completely non-erotic.  You very quickly get used to the fact that they're naked, after which it's just good old singing and dancing.

But, obviously, what draws the audiences is the fact that you get to see naked guys on stage (the songs aren't that great).  The show opened off-Broadway in 1999 and ran until 2012, and later that year the Provincetown version of the show opened off-Broadway, and it's still running today.

Instruments - Part 2

Saxophone

The saxophone is a favorite instrument for jazz and big band music.

Note how it's bigger at the end.  Hey, get your mind out of the gutter!  I'm talking about the saxophone.

The Danish title says "The naked truth."

One of Arthur Tress' surrealistic images: "The Saxophone Player", 1977.

My previous post on artist Akihiko Kurokawa showed several of his sculptures of a naked man playing a saxophone, found in cities throughout Japan.  This one is in Tokyo.

How to look debonair and naked at the same time.  This is a soprano saxophone, a higher-pitched version of the instrument.

We close with two guys having sax in a hot tub.

Vintage Military - Part 12

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Ads - Part 7

AussieBum

AussieBum is an Australian maker of men's underwear and swimwear.  This "slot machine" commercial cleverly shows off their underwear, while keeping our interest with a little rear nudity.  Will we hit the jackpot of full-frontal nudity?  Afraid not, but there are times when we can glimpse a model's junk between his legs for an instant, like at 53 seconds.  AussieBum is sold worldwide, but I'm guessing this commercial was not shown in the U.S.

Events - Part 10

Maslin Beach Nude Olympics

To celebrate the Tokyo Olympics that officially starts today, we present the Maslin Beach Nude Olympics in Australia.

Maslin Beach, near Adelaide, South Australia, has been ranked in Australia's top 10 beaches.  It also became Australia's first official nude beach in 1975.

Starting in 1983, the Maslin Beach Nude Olympics was held there.  In 2013, the Australian Olympic Committee objected to the name.  What spoilsports!  Event organizer David Pillar, owner of a nudist resort on the Murray River, was forced to rename the event the Maslin Beach Nude Games.

It could be argued that this event is truer to the spirit of the ancient Greek Olympics, where the athletes competed naked.  But the truth is, under any name, the Maslin Beach Nude Olympics would never be confused with the real Olympics.  It features competitions such as frisbee throwing (above) ...

the Tissue Box Competition, which seems to involve competitors shaking their booty to try to remove what appear to be ping pong balls from the tissue box ...

the ever popular sack race ...

the water fill competition, in which I'm guessing the competitors are racing to fill a container using these plastic buckets with holes in them ...

a tug of war ...

and the Best Bums competition, in which contestants' upper bodies are covered so they are judged only by their bums.  The Best Bums competition is divided into men under 35, men 35 and over, women under 35, and women 35 and over.

This photo was unlabeled, but I think it shows some of the Best Bums winners.  The blue ribbon seems well-deserved.

Enjoy the Olympics!

Artists - Part 10

Douglas Simonson

Douglas Simonson is a Hawaiian artist and photographer whose work frequently features nude males.  You saw two of his photos of surfer Kaimana in yesterday's post.

Here's another photo of Kaimana, who seems to be one of Simonson's favorite Hawaiian models.

This photo of Kaimana was made into a painting.

Here's the painting, done in a somewhat Impressionist style, called Hawaiian Nude with Surfboard.

Other paintings are more stylized, like Blue Chair.  This was done in Mexico, where Simonson has also worked, as well as in Brazil.

Here's a video from his website https://douglassimonson.com showing his process of creating a painting from a photograph.  His website contains hundreds of his photos, drawings, and paintings, but you have to register (free) to see the nude ones.  I edited out about half of the video, but you'll still get the idea.  He made a drawing from the photo, and then painted in the drawing, looking like someone doing "paint by numbers".  (To his credit, he does do shading and blending, so it's not just paint by numbers.)

Is Simonson a great artist?  No, in my opinion.  He's a guy who has found a way to make a living from selling his photos and paintings on his website, while doing what he loves.  And that's not bad.

Beach Bums - Part 5

Surfing

Another nude beach activity, if the water is warm and the waves are right… surfing!

Surfing was invented by ancient Polynesians and reached its height in Hawaii, where it became part of the culture and was connected to the religion.  Of course, the ancient Hawaiians surfed naked.  In 1866, while visiting Hawaii, Mark Twain observed, "In one place we came upon a large company of naked natives, of both sexes and all ages, amusing themselves with the national pastime of surfbathing.”

Eventually, surfing spread to other warm-water places like California and Australia.  Here are Joe LaManna and Jay Dickens in a 1960s Champion photo.

Naked surfing still happens in Hawaii, but unofficially, since there are no legal nude beaches.  This surfer is Kaimana, photographed by Hawaiian artist Douglas Simonson.

The surfer paddles out with his board past the breakers.

Then he waits for the right wave to come along.  This is Kaimana again, photographed by Douglas Simonson.

When a good wave arrives, the surfer stands up on his board ...

and rides the wave ...

for as long as possible ...

until he wipes out.

Here's a video of the whole process.  Location unspecified, but it looks like Black's beach, San Diego.  I added the soundtrack.  Cowabunga!