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BoysDo vs Patreon: The Tip Jar vs. the Storefront
The Photographers Who Made the Male Body Art
There is a lineage. It doesn't announce itself, but it's there — running from a Harlem studio in the 1970s through a California beach, a Berlin apartm...
Bruce Weber: The Homoerotic Ideal and Its Reckoning
There is a Bruce Weber photograph from 1982 — shot for Calvin Klein, which means it appeared on billboards, in magazines, on the sides of buses — of a...
BoysDo vs xVideos: The Other Largest Tube Site
Herb Ritts: The Classical Gaze
Herb Ritts photographed the male body the way other people photograph mountains — as something vast, elemental, shaped by forces larger than any indiv...
BoysDo vs Instagram: The Funnel and the Destination
Robert Mapplethorpe: The Man Who Made the Art World Look
There is a photograph by Robert Mapplethorpe of a man named Thomas in a three-piece suit. The suit is impeccably cut. Thomas is seated, composed, his...
BoysDo vs FetLife: The Kink Network and the Art-Erotic Feed
Helmut Newton: Desire as Architecture
Helmut Newton did not photograph the male body often. He is known, overwhelmingly, for his images of women — powerful, dangerous, frequently naked, al...
Wolfgang Tillmans: Intimacy as Practice
Wolfgang Tillmans does not make his images look like art. This is the most deliberate thing about them. A Tillmans photograph might be a man's torso...