I don’t know the model’s name, or the photographer’s, or the name of anyone else involved in putting Helgi3 together, but they all deserve some credit for producing a fine piece of male photography. I note that what to have the model do with his hands is ever a puzzle for photographers of men’s underwear ads. The photo - call it Helgi3 - deliberately draws attention to Helgi’s really big hands (he also has really big feet, as we’ll see in Helgi1 below), knit together in a gesture I don’t know how to interpret I’m happy to entertain speculations. But he’s arrestingly handsome, and the photo in #1 is wonderfully posed, his body slightly turned, so we get his package in outline (beautifully matching the outline of his left pectoral muscle above it), half in shadow half in light (highlighting the curves and planes of his body, and making his belly seem curiously vulnerable).

In fact, all three photos were taken on the same set, and that set was almost surely in Australia, where DJ is - a long way from Scandinavia. Given his looks, he’s probably not actually Scandinavian. Though they look more like dancer’s tights than like men’s underwear tights, which usually have a fly.)

(Looking ahead: I would call the form-fitting garment - hugging his buttocks as nicely as his package - that Helgi is wearing tights. I’ll revisit those two appearances (with notes on the sociosexual worlds of gay men) and then turn to the English garment lexicon, focusing on long johns, tights, leggings, and the union suit.īut first, a bit more about the presentation of Helgi in #1. (#1) Call him Helgi (it’s Scandinavian and heroic) he’s posing in the trendy bathing room from two other recent appearances of his - on 11/12 in a much cruder pose but still in Helsinki Athletica long johns and then on 11/3 in very brief white DJX Signature briefs, apparently contemplating the excellent penis contained within Yesterday’s mail ad from Daily Jocks, a carefully composed, even elegant, presentation of a muscular young man posing in fashionable form-fitting long johns that highlight his weighty package, while he fixes us with an intense gaze that gay men use in cruising for sex with other men (in another context, it’s the intense, fixed smoulder that straight men use in trolling for sex with women): (Men in various states of undress, visibly tumescent while minimally clothed, looking for sex with other men - so not for everyone.)

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