In art school, his naked-man fantasias were dismissed as frivolous — even as he continued to win scholarship after scholarship.

“I took delight in horrifying all the tutors with naked bodies and massive dicks,” says British artist Matthew Stradling. “The images had filtered into my work from porno magazines. The tutors were all serious academics. Their concerns were for the very dry, almost scientific aspects of art, which I really had no time for. I wanted to see SENSUALITY and I wanted to see it BIG! It was my coming out as an artist.” (more…)

Yes, we think so too. Brad Pitt looks pretty in pink.

Brad would be one of our Raves. As would the Advocate, which inspired this piece. Thing is the Advocate would be one of our Rants, as well:

We love the Advocate, surely the magazine of record for Gay America. But sometimes we find it a wee too earnest. A wee too parochial. And just telling us more than we could ever use about happily married lesbians and Gay-Straight Alliances in the Midwest. (more…)

You decide.

In William Dean’s latest story, Paris is a circus of sex, a whirligig of willing boys in alleyways and under bridges. “It’s about a horny American,” says author Dean, “who finds himself pimped in Paris.” But is the hero of Under the Lamplights of Paris really pimped? Or is he punked?

You’ll have to get to the end of the story to figure it out. All we’ll say is that our hero is a trust-fund horndog who has but two goals in life: to stay drunk on pastis and to get nailed by every major French dick in the Marais, the gay district of the city. (more…)

The Suck, as you surely know by now, is what Marines called Iraq during the Desert Storm campaign of 1990. What sucked in Gulf War I was not any ass-backward strategy of the Pentagon but the monotonous absence of bloodshed — at least from the point of view of the Marines. (more…)

But officer, she looked like Cher!

The trannies of Bangkok have a new way of welcoming lonely tourists to Thailand. The Associate Press is reporting the arrest tonight of three she-males, members of a “transvestite gang” (we can only imagine!), who have confessed to concealing strong sedative pills under their tongues, then spitting them down the throats of their victims during “deep kissing.” (more…)

Justin can’t wait to get back in the water. Frat parties are cool but there’s nothing like being 100 feet down with all the fish.

You can see Justin in and out of his wetsuit by diving into the Inner Circle and watching his very private, very intimate, very wet-hot videos.

Go on! — get in there!

(MEMBERS / non-MEMBERS)

Imagine driving through town and seeing the above contraption placed in front of your neighbor’s garage. What in the hell is it? Who made it? And more: What are they doing with it? Fret not. Author and photographer Timothy Archibald explains it all to you in his fascinating book Sex Machines. (more…)

Exactly how merry were those Merry Men? That is the question. We like the answer Italian artist Valeriano Elfodiluce came up with for his homo-hot comic Robin Hoog, available online in both Italian and English.

In the adventures of this cock Robin, we enter a Sherwood Forest that is cum-drenched to its very roots. Panels are jammed with balls-to-butt sexcapades and the guys rarely come up for air, having to advance the plot between “mhhs”, “ahhs” and “omygods.” (Elfodiluce makes a valiant but happily futile effort to actually tell the story of Robin Hood.) Maid Marian is but nowhere to be found and in her place we meet such burlesque punchlines as “Robert of Cocksley,” “Sir Guy Dickmore” and — of course — “Friar Fuck.”

Even Sherwood Forest is here renamed — somewhat perplexingly — as “Shamewood Forest.” (Hey, Valeriano, didn’t you get the memo? We’re modern queers now. We left shame at Stonewall.) It’s a total homo retrofit and the storyline bares not even an idiot cousin’s resemblance to anything Errol Flynn ever attempted in the classic Warner Brothers version of the legend. (Correction, ever attempted onscreen. Flynn was the Colin Farrel of his day, in both Black Irish good looks and bad-boy pluck.) (more…)