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P.S.
In a two weeks, I will delete all older posts from this blog.

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Top 10 St. Patrick’s Pinups

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The Holidays are coming and it’s time for a good, old fashioned count-down of the 10 best St. Patrick’s Day Pinups. Put your green shades on and have a sexy St. Patrick’s day.


The old cheesecake masters didn’t really use to draw anything special for St. Patrick’s Day. I could have listed all the pinups dressed in green, I could find, but green was a popular color, back then. So I pulled up my sleeves and went out to find specifically-made St. Patrick’s pinups. It’s not sophisticated, but it’s a delight.


#10 My Virtual Lady
I’m not a big 3D girlie art fan. Something about the empty eyes. This is a nice attempt, though, found at Cafepress’ My Virtual Lady. The Shop has a wide variety of themed 3D pinups. Worth a brows.









#9 Free Code Source
MySpace, of coarse, never skips a holiday, and although modest, compared to Halloween and Christmas, there are a couple pinupish layouts offered at FreeCodeSource. Strangely enough, it’s all about fairies and pixies.


#8 Send a Sexy St. Patrick's Day Card
This St. Patrick's Pinup is interactive. You can send her as a sexy St. Patrick’s e-card. She’s a little pixie-ish, too. Is there a fairy fad I'm not aware of?!


#7 Facebook for PinupsJoin Love of the Pinups on Facebook. They post excellent pinup pictures. That’s where I found these three beauties.


#6 Too Kinky Even for Erotic Costumes
St. Patrick's Day costumes are a little new for the whole erotic costume niche. After all, it is a little kinky to fuck a leprechaun, no matter how sexy it is! :P (click on one of the costumes to get to the original page.)










#5 The Irish Rose
Another piece from Cafepress. Brought to us by the Las Vegas Pinup Shop. The Irish Rose is a fun work of digital art. I’d take a look around at the shop as well, lots to see and very finely executed.


#4 Tinkerbell and Shamrock on Ebay
This caught me by surprise, but isn’t Tinkerbell a hot little number? She is the skimpiest Disney character, other than Ariel and Princess Jasmine (Can we say Veil Fetish?), but still sweet as apple pie. Put her together with a shamrock and there you have it: A St. Patrick’s Day Pinup.










#3 Kay Does St. Patrick's
Kay Ohara is one of the more playful neo-pinups, so you can always trust her to have something for the holidays. I'd like to note the detail of Kay's bare feet.














#2 St. Patrick's Antique
Antique postcard from 1910, when ankles were so risque. I think that’s a pipe she’s lugging around. You can purchase at Rasmussan Collectibles (it’s number 115).














#1 St. Patrick Pasties
Isn’t she a doll?! This pinup and this idea just stole my heart. So simple, so pretty. Of course, if you want these little four-leaf-clover pasties, you can head on to ThisNext.


Have a happy St. Patrick's and don't forget to take a look at my own St. Patrick's cheesecake. ;)

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Gay Men Still Produce the Best Beefcake

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Between the 1930’s to the 1960’s Beefcake was at it’s hight. Very popular in gay circles and very much in the closet- sold as health pamphlets.

It’s not easy to find beefcake. Not even on the internet. And even when you find it, it lacks the luster and playfulness, found in it’s female pastry counterpart. I’ve searched high and low for male pinups and managed to find a few gold nuggets worth your attention.

Bob Mizer
Creator and founder of the Athletic Model Guild (AMG), Bob Mizer started photographing in his own garage. And soon the photographs and models became popular and infamous. When Health and Strength magazine’s postal permit was threatened by the U.S. Postal Service, the stopped distributing ads by AMG. Mizer started distributing his own magazine, Physique Pictorial, which featured full frontal male nudity, which resulted in his arrest, in 1947. On his release, Mizer continued his work, but was busted for running a gay prostitution ring, in the 1960’s.

The Athletic Model Guild exists today and works in Bob Mizer’s tradition.

To get a glimpse of Mizer's work and other fabulous photographers, I recommend Big Kugels.


Tom of Finland
Probably the most famous beefcake artist, to date and maybe the one responsible for their current existence, at all. Born Touko Laaksonen, in Kaarina, Finland, he has drawn beefcake from an early age. He was a commercial artist and found his fame and name with Physique Pictorial, to which he submitted a few drawings, under the pseudo name “Tom”.

In 1979 Laaksonen founded The Tom Finland Foundation, which is dedicated to collecting and preserving homoerotic artwork. The foundation is also probably the best source of beefcake online.


Why Don’t Boys Just Want to Have Fun?
Most beefcake, can be found in Photography form, in the gay blogosphere. What fascinates me is that when men fantasize about women they have much more fun and flexibility than when men fantasize about men. Most of the photos are uninspired. The men look so serious it’s intimidating. I’ve managed to collect a few fun pieces, but it was a tough search. Most sites that do exhibit beefcake are membership sites, or have a block on the images, so I can’t show them here. So I’m passing the stick to you: Got any real beefcake? Email me, or add them to this comment section.


Thank God for the World Wide Web
A minute before I was ready to give up, and pronounce beefcake dead, I was lucky enough to stumble upon Flickr. Where there are few serious collectors:








Beefcake is scarce, but it’s out there.



Additional sources:

• http://andrejkoymasky.com/liv/fam/biom5/mize2.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_of_Finland

Special Update:12.3.08
A friend just sent me a video, which I find very appropriate to the beefcake issue. I'm gonna have to change my thesis and ask: Has beefcake moved to television?

Thanks Kauaiguy :)

And here is a link to another beefcake portal (Thank you Stonebear :) ):
HotGum

Apparently I have a male counterpart, who creates a blog all about beefcake (thank you Alan :) ):
V-M-P Vintage Male Physique

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