Sunday, March 09, 2008

The Golden Book of Gay Porn

I enjoyed looking at the Golden Book Encyclopedia so much last night that I'm going to base a second post on it. (And if nothing interesting happens at work tomorrow I'll base a third post on it. So there.)



Yes, that's an illustration of naked men wrestling. It may very well be the most homoerotic illustration to ever appear in a children's book. Two of those guys are practically having full on butt-sex.

I have a confession to make. For some reason as a little kid I always liked this drawing. No idea what appealed to me then. Maybe I liked it because I hadn't ever seen anything else like it. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. I was also sneaking out my dad's girlie magazines around the same time, so I was an equal opportunity preschool pervert.

On a historical note, the naked man standing on the right appears to be using a strigil. When I was little I couldn't figure out what he had in his hand. I thought maybe it was a razor. Looking at it a few minutes ago I realized it was a strigil. So these aren't just naked men wrestling, no, these are oiled up naked men wrestling.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go cleanse my palate by looking at some pictures of naked girls.

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