Blue Moon is a ballad written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart in 1934. Over the years, it has been covered by many singers. My version uses Frank Sinatra's 1962 recording.
Of course, Rogers and Hart and Sinatra were probably not thinking about the kind of mooning that I have used to accompany the song.
Today we have a set of photos described as French POWs in a German camp during World War II.
The set said they were undergoing delousing, which would account for why they had to strip.
Whether they were actually undergoing delousing or not is hard to tell.
The photos do not show any actual treatment.
What we see is a bunch of naked guys in some kind of railroad yard and a guard with a rifle.
This last photo has been censored, but we saw an uncensored view of the same guys in the previous photo.
Antioquia was a band that started in Antioquia, Colombia, then moved to San Francisco and Oakland, California. They were most active from about 2008 to 2012. Above, an official band photo taken on Feb. 18, 2008 at Kirby Cove with the Golden Gate Bridge in the background. The band members are, from left: Craig Miller, Paul Martin, Maddy Streicek and Adley Penner.
Another photo from the Feb. 18, 2008 photo shoot, with a peekaboo view of Adley Penner.
And another photo from the same photo shoot.
The official band photo made it into this poster for the band playing on Oct. 7, 2008.
We end with another photo shoot on June 26, 2009. This one is called "interpretive swimming", whatever that is.
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Vincenzo Galdi (1871-1961) was an Italian art student whom German photographer Wilhelm von Pluschow took as his photography mentor and probably his lover. Above, a photo of Galdi taken by von Pluschow in 1890, when Galdi was 19.
Galdi opened his own photography studio in Rome and continued to collaborate with von Pluschow. Galdi took many nude photos, both male and female. Above, Four Male Nudes, c. 1905.
But Galdi's work became increasingly explicit. He was the first photographer in Italy to publish photos of men with erections.
He also published photos of couples having sex, both straight and gay. The photo above is merely suggestive.
This one takes it a little further, kissing and touching each other.
Even further.
About to do it ...
and doing it. This photo was probably hand-colored.
So, Vincenzo Galdi was one of the first porn photographers.
In 1902, von Pluschow was convicted of "seduction of minors" and spent eight months in jail. Galdi may have been arrested and sentenced in 1907 for "outraging public morals" with his photographs, and the police closed both von Pluschow's and Galdi's studios. Galdi then abandoned photography and became an art dealer until his death in 1961.
Thomas Knights is a British fashion photographer. He started photographing redheaded men, known in Britain as gingers. Knights, who is a redhead himself, was trying to fight the British prejudice against gingers, which includes bullying and discrimination, by presenting them as handsome alpha males.
By the way, as an American, I have always thought the British prejudice against gingers is bizarre. Personally, I like redheads.
Above is the cover of his 2026 calendar red Hot XXL. The cover only hints at what's inside.
For most of the months in the calendar, I was only able to find censored versions of Knights' splendid images. But I did find a few uncensored images. Above, Mr. April.
Mr. June.
Mr. August.
We end with Mr. December.
On Sept. 29, 2024, a 43-foot-tall naked statue of Donald Trump appeared outside Las Vegas, suspended from cables like a marionette. The statue was called "Crooked and Obscene", and the name evidently referred not only to the statue, but to the subject of the statue and his behavior.
Unlike some previous "Trump has no balls" statues, this one at least had a penis, though it also appears to have no balls.
A rear view. The art collective that created the statue would not be identified, which was probably wise, because the statue drew Republican condemnation.
After a few days, the statue disappeared, but it turned out it was traveling across the country on the "Crooked and Obscene" tour. On October 4 it was seen in Phoenix, Arizona, above, though its penis seems to have disappeared.
On October 11 it appeared in Detroit, Michigan, above.
On October 27 it was in Madison, Wisconsin, above.
Finally, on October 31 it appeared in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, above. Crooked and obscene? The statue, not so much. The man, definitely.
