Wrestlers look a certain way

“I like devastation. I like exhaustion. I really like seeing someone that I know can’t barely get up.
“There never seems to be a wide range of emotional definitions of men. And I think in wrestling you really see so many different emotions, so many different reactions and interactions.”
“A theme of twinship has always run through my work, of people that look alike. And that was another reason I was drawn to wrestling because I feel like wrestlers look a certain way.”

Collier Schorr

Narcissus

Thomas Eakins, 1884-85. Swimming Hole.

it is wonderfull being a man
and
washing your body down at the sink
in the early morning
with a flannel rough as a badgers arse

Billy Childish

Horizon of Expectation

Adi Nes

Coming out, He went to the Mount of Olives, as He was accustomed, and His disciples also followed Him. When He came to the place, He said to them, “Pray that you may not enter into temptation.” And He was withdrawn from them about a stone’s throw, and He knelt down …

Camaraderie

Kobi Israel

“The thin line between homo-social and homo-erotic in army life can be so confusing and torturous for a gay soldier. Soldiers hug and kiss each other, say “I love you brother” to each other, sleep together – sometimes lean on each others’ chests, sometimes share a tiny mattress, have communal showers where they play “boy games” like throwing water and soap on each other, sometimes share a hot shower, sometimes masturbate together.”