Stories worth losing yourself in. Deep dives into gay visual culture, the art of the male form, and the platforms that actually deliver what they promise.
Video has won. By almost every metric of consumption, attention, and platform dominance, moving images have defeated still images in the competition f...
Herb Ritts photographed the male body the way other people photograph mountains — as something vast, elemental, shaped by forces larger than any indiv...
Mainstream erotic photography has a default. The default is the heterosexual male gaze directed at the female body — the conventions, the postures, th...
Jack Pierson makes photographs that feel like something you remember rather than something you saw. The light is a little overexposed. The composition...
Touko Laaksonen drew men who did not exist in 1950s Finland. He drew them into existence anyway. This is the essential biographical fact about the ar...
The fine art nude is one of the oldest subjects in Western art. From ancient Greek sculpture to Renaissance painting to twentieth-century photography,...
