ManLove Monday: When Posts Collide!
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Don't get your panties in a bunch, it's time for more ManLove Monday! ]
[music: Young The Giant - Cough Syrup]
That happy moment when ManLove Mondays collide!
David Giuintoli of Grimm poses with Cullen Jones, Olympic swimmer.
Guess those snuggles made a splash...and is that a bit of scruff I spy, Cullen? We've come full circle! Is this a sign that the universe is sharing in ManLove Mondays? I like to think so.
Now, onto today's manlove moments...
♫ Come with me, and you'll see,
Abercrombie and Fitch frequently denies claims that they use gay imagery or target gay demographics, yet have some of the most homoerotically charged ads around. A man pole dancing while a group of grinning, pleased men pull down his shorts to reveal tight, white underwear, anyone? I could probably do an entire series of ManLove Mondays just on the material provided by A&F print ads alone, but today, I'll focus on a more recent filmed ad; if it was a 1950s film, giant Broadview subtitles would proclaim "Steamy Encounters of the Man Love Kind!" and "Now with more gay sex!".
One of their most recent outings (pun sort of intended?) teeters on a shower fuckfest.
The commercial was produced by Bruce Weber, the Abercrombie and Fitch photographer who's usually making sure our supply of kinky male twincest isn't running dry. A man after my own heart; I mean, what? Who said that?
Sets of twins from left: Kyle & Lane Carlson, Juan & Cesar Hortoneda, and Zac & Jordan Stenmark.
The Carlson twins foray into long hair when they got older really reminds me of Josh Pence, who incidentally also modeled for A&F at one point I believe and played one half of The Social Network's Winklevoss twins. It all comes back to homoerotic twins in this post. Blame Weber.
This go around, Weber's vision uses film vs. print and features men grappling, wrestling, stripping down, writhing about in positions indicative of sex, caressing, and kissing--all while beneath an open-air, cascading shower that leaves them sopping wet.
Oh, you're really reaching here hardysmidgen, what's homoerotic about that?!
I can't decide what is the most charged here...
You'd never know it but they're attempting to sell clothes (by showing you how fun their brand is to take off!). So what clothing are they hawking? I'd wager it's primarily athletic shorts (given the ad's "wrestling" angle), though you only see the A&F logo for a moment on shorts riding below their hipbones, sometimes framed so low as to be non-existent in most shots and further implying a naked showering man. The only other articles of clothing are the occasional dripping wet tees, clinging to their bodies like a second skin.
To watch the boys clamoring all over one another in full homoerotic glory underscored by a "let's get down" beat reminiscent of James Brown's "Sex Machine," watch Bruce Weber's entire Abercrombie & Fitch ad here.
Does anyone else remember those great MadTV parodies of A&F with Josh Meyers, Ike Barinholtz, Ron Pederson, and Michael McDonald? They did such a bang-up job parodying the company's denial / unwillingness to acknowledge their blatant homoeroticism ("Let's all be skins!") and shining a spotlight on their conspicious avoidance of depicting anyone who wasn't a young, ripped white dude rolling around on top of more young, ripped, white dudes. If you've simply walked past an A&F ad/store before, you'll probably get it. I've never shopped at A&F or its Hollister ilk, but you can see their "style" of branding a mile away (and smell them, too). If you've never had the pleasure of catching the MadTV sketches on TV, here's a Youtube compilation of some of the show's A&F sketches over the years. Worth a chuckle or two.
Don't get your panties in a bunch, it's time for more ManLove Monday! ]
[music: Young The Giant - Cough Syrup]
That happy moment when ManLove Mondays collide!
David Giuintoli of Grimm poses with Cullen Jones, Olympic swimmer.
Guess those snuggles made a splash...and is that a bit of scruff I spy, Cullen? We've come full circle! Is this a sign that the universe is sharing in ManLove Mondays? I like to think so.
Now, onto today's manlove moments...
♫ Come with me, and you'll see,
Abercrombie and Fitch frequently denies claims that they use gay imagery or target gay demographics, yet have some of the most homoerotically charged ads around. A man pole dancing while a group of grinning, pleased men pull down his shorts to reveal tight, white underwear, anyone? I could probably do an entire series of ManLove Mondays just on the material provided by A&F print ads alone, but today, I'll focus on a more recent filmed ad; if it was a 1950s film, giant Broadview subtitles would proclaim "Steamy Encounters of the Man Love Kind!" and "Now with more gay sex!".
One of their most recent outings (pun sort of intended?) teeters on a shower fuckfest.
The commercial was produced by Bruce Weber, the Abercrombie and Fitch photographer who's usually making sure our supply of kinky male twincest isn't running dry. A man after my own heart; I mean, what? Who said that?
Sets of twins from left: Kyle & Lane Carlson, Juan & Cesar Hortoneda, and Zac & Jordan Stenmark.
The Carlson twins foray into long hair when they got older really reminds me of Josh Pence, who incidentally also modeled for A&F at one point I believe and played one half of The Social Network's Winklevoss twins. It all comes back to homoerotic twins in this post. Blame Weber.
This go around, Weber's vision uses film vs. print and features men grappling, wrestling, stripping down, writhing about in positions indicative of sex, caressing, and kissing--all while beneath an open-air, cascading shower that leaves them sopping wet.
Oh, you're really reaching here hardysmidgen, what's homoerotic about that?!
I can't decide what is the most charged here...
- Two men writhing leg-locked on the shower floor
- The guy gasping into the naked torso of the guy balancing above him, suspended by his own leg strength via a half-split
- Casual intimacy and hand placement during the emotionally charged, sopping wet forehead kissing
- A gentle, sensual caress down another's back as they strip down, shorts already so low as to falling off their hips
- The orgy pile up at the end with progressing nudity and hand holding
You'd never know it but they're attempting to sell clothes (by showing you how fun their brand is to take off!). So what clothing are they hawking? I'd wager it's primarily athletic shorts (given the ad's "wrestling" angle), though you only see the A&F logo for a moment on shorts riding below their hipbones, sometimes framed so low as to be non-existent in most shots and further implying a naked showering man. The only other articles of clothing are the occasional dripping wet tees, clinging to their bodies like a second skin.
To watch the boys clamoring all over one another in full homoerotic glory underscored by a "let's get down" beat reminiscent of James Brown's "Sex Machine," watch Bruce Weber's entire Abercrombie & Fitch ad here.
Does anyone else remember those great MadTV parodies of A&F with Josh Meyers, Ike Barinholtz, Ron Pederson, and Michael McDonald? They did such a bang-up job parodying the company's denial / unwillingness to acknowledge their blatant homoeroticism ("Let's all be skins!") and shining a spotlight on their conspicious avoidance of depicting anyone who wasn't a young, ripped white dude rolling around on top of more young, ripped, white dudes. If you've simply walked past an A&F ad/store before, you'll probably get it. I've never shopped at A&F or its Hollister ilk, but you can see their "style" of branding a mile away (and smell them, too). If you've never had the pleasure of catching the MadTV sketches on TV, here's a Youtube compilation of some of the show's A&F sketches over the years. Worth a chuckle or two.