Olympics - Part 8

Olympics 1988, 1992

The 1988 Olympics were held in Seoul, South Korea.  Above, a Cambodian postage stamp celebrating the upcoming Seoul Olympics.

And this is a Hungarian coin for 500 Forints (worth about $10 in 1988) honoring the Seoul Olympics.

Now for the athletes who participated in the Seoul Olympics.  Above, Brazilian football player Romario.

U.S. runner Carl Lewis had won gold in the 1984 Olympics, and he won 2 more gold medals in 1988.  Photo by Annie Leibovitz.

British runner Colin Jackson won a silver medal in the Seoul Olympics.  Photo by Herb Ritts.

German wrestler Alexander Leipold. 

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1992 Olympics

The 1992 Olympics were held in Barcelona, Spain.  The poster above by Guillermo Perez Villalta oddly omits something that should be hanging between his legs.

A more conventional poster at least has a hint of male parts.

Athletes who competed in the 1992 Olympics included American weightlifter Mark Henry, above.

U.S. boxer Oscar de la Hoya won a gold medal in Barcelona.  Above, he weighs in at Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas.

U.S. tennis player Pete Sampras played in Barcelona.  Above, we see something peeking out.

American runner Michael Johnson won a gold medal in Barcelona, and went on to win gold at the 1996 and 2000 Olympics as well.

German discus thrower Lars Riedel.

Hungarian gymnast Szilveszter Csollany.

We end with American cyclist Lance Armstrong, who competed in Barcelona as well as the 2000 and 2004 Olympics.  Photo by Annie Leibovitz.

Next time: The 1996 Olympic Games.

Performers - Part 58

 Album Covers part 4

Here are some more album covers featuring nudes.  Above, Facades by Limp Wrist, 2017,with the backside of drummer Paul Henry being fondled by guitarist Scott Moore.

Day of Darkness Festifall by Impaled Nazarene, 1991.

Rugby Songs Volume Two by the Jock Strapp Ensemble, 2018.  Good old-fashioned naked male bonding.

Tin Machine II, 1991, features an ancient Greek kouros.

The front and back covers of Something to Give Each Other by Troye Sivan, 2023.

The cover of Achtung Baby by U2, 1991, was a collage of images ...

one of which, cleaned up a bit, shows bass guitarist Adam Clayton naked.

Animal Park by Unrest, 1994, needs no cleaning up to see dick.

Erector by Whitehouse, 1981, has a cover that lives up to its name.

A Promise by XiuXiu, 2003.  Not clear from the picture what he's promising.

Going for the One by Yes, 1977.

In a previous post we saw the famous album cover with John Lennon and Yoko Ono naked.  But did you know there's a photo (above) of John and Yoko in which John is, shall we say, excited?  It's not an album cover, but it's a classic photo of these performers.

Calendars - Part 59

 Royal Dick Calendar

The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, commonly referred to as Dick Vet, is the veterinary school at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.  The name of the school does not refer to the King's dick.  The school was founded by William Dick in 1823.

Above, veterinary students with Exmoor ponies posing for their 2018 calendar, called When Vets Undress.

The students have produced a couple of naked calendars in support of a All4Paws, a local veterinary charity that provides veterinary care for the pets of homeless people in and around Edinburgh.

What does a Scotsman wear under his kilt?  Nothing, as this student demonstrates.

A student with an Exmoor pony.

The calendar project was run by a female veterinary student, and most of the calendar photos showed female students.  I've concentrated on the photos that showed males.

Our last 2018 photo shows the same guy with an Exmoor pony being ridden by a female student who isn't even naked.  Unfortunately, despite the school's name Royal Dick School, these calendars, like most British charity calendars, do not show any dick.

Two years later, the veterinary students produced another When Vets Undress calendar for 2020.  Again, most of the photos showed female students, so I have concentrated on the few photos that show males.  Above, students with birds of prey. 

Two students with some less exotic animals, but vets need to learn how to care for them.

We end with a 2020 calendar photo of two naked students arm in arm looking out over the countryside and perhaps thinking about their future as vets.

Vintage Military - Part 64

 Fort Sheridan part 4

Today's post shows the last of my collection of Fort Sheridan photos.

Note: I have edited some photos to improve brightness and contrast.

Fort Sheridan was an Army base just north of Chicago.  During World War II, it was an induction and training center, processing over half a million inductees.

(Note: the photo of 9506 is partial, not showing the rear view.  I have not found a full version of 9506.)

As part of an Army project to study different body types, some of these inductees were photographed nude.

These photos are sometimes confused with the Ivy League nude posture photos or the Navy pre-flight school nude photos at St. Mary's, but these photos are easily distinguished because each man stands on a base labeled "Ft. Sheridan".

A few dozen of these photos have been found (I have 36 of them), but the numbers on the base that each recruit stands on makes me wonder whether over 9000 inductees were photographed.

One of my readers noted that there was also a prisoner of war camp at Fort Sheridan, and he wondered if these might be German POWs.  It's possible, but most of the sources I've seen refer to these men as American Army inductees.

That's it for my collection of Fort Sheridan photos.

Events - Part 61

 Folsom Street Fair 2023

The Folsom Street Fair is an annual event in San Francisco celebrating the alternative sexuality, kink, and leather communities.  Above, Twister at the SteamWorks booth is always popular.

The fair draws large crowds.  Most are fully dressed, but many dress minimally, such as this guy in a harness and jockstrap ...

that provides this alluring rear view.  As his tattoo says, Woof!

Minimal briefs can be pulled down if the occasion arises.

And some attendees are totally naked.  Public nudity is illegal in San Francisco except at an event that has gotten a special permit, and Folsom is one such event, so the nudity at Folsom is perfectly legal.

However, knowledgeable attendees wear shoes, if nothing else, because your feet are likely to get stepped on in the crowds.

Public sex is not legal in San Francisco, but at Folsom, with all those naked guys around, it happens ...

and it happens ...

and it's certainly in public, as seen above.

Here two "dogs" are going at it, surrounded by crowds ...

and the crowds obligingly part to let them do their thing.  Well, it's San Francisco, and it's Folsom.