Photos by our beloved Milo :)
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Wet Wednesday *12
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Periodical Political Post *15
Queer News
- 6 people stabbed at Jerusalem gay pride march
- Putin’s party launches a “straight pride” flag
- Why is there no marriage equality in Germany?
- Australian PM about to break equality vote promise?
- Actor amazed by impact of gay storyline on The Fosters
Other News
- Porn will be next on Australia’s website-blocking agenda
- The arrogance behind the UK’s censorship campaign
- Sex-themed e-books are given curfew in Germany
- Jimmy Carter: US an Oligarchy with unlimited bribery
- Mass shooter not a terrorist but animal activists are?
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Skyclad Saturday *10
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Sporty Sunday *10
The Patrick Stewart imposter in the background knows what’s up ;D
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The Boxers that hide your Boner
Bloxers solve a peculiar problem—that of the public erection. Not ill-considered municipal sculptures, but something equally embarrassing: the untimely engorgement of the male member. Bloxers boxer shorts are sewn with a special interior panel that deflects “the dreaded public boner” down and to the side, thus hiding it from view.
The folks behind Bloxers call this panel the “Deflector Shield,” and buyers can pick a model with the shield positioned on the left or the right, depending on to which side the gentleman dresses. The shorts are cotton, and the shield is a nylon/elastane mix.
Is this a joke? No. I asked the appropriately-named Chris Woods, one of the people behind Bloxers, whether they were real. He sent me a picture of a prototype, which looks just real enough, including the shield (Chris asked us not to publish the photo, as it doesn’t show the finished design).
So who will actually buy these things? “From the interest we have gotten, the demographic that has been most enthusiastic about our product has definitely been teenage boys,” says Woods No surprises there. Teenage boyhood provides just the right mix of social awkwardness and unpredictable tumescence to make Bloxers an essential purchase.
“Most of our buyers however, havecome from an older demographic mainly buying Bloxers as a funny gag gift for friends, not necessarily to solve a major problem they themselves face,” says Woods.
It’s easy to laugh, but it’s also possible that many people will be—if you’ll pardon the deliberate pun—cock-a-hoop with the Bloxers. And Bloxers certainly aren’t the first functional garment that saves embarrassment or changes the way we show our bodies to the world.
The list is pretty long. Padded training bras for young girls might be the closest-related to Bloxers, but we also have all manner of girdles and pressure garments to hide and reshape fat, or more functional items like Always Discreet for women, pads and underwear which absorb urine leaks.
The one thing that all of these articles have in common is that we don’t like to talk about them. From leak-stoppers through belly-flatteners to Bloxers, we might want their effects, but we don’t want anyone to know about them.
This shame, Woods believes, is what’s behind his Indiegogo campaign’s poor sales (currently at $2,000 of the $20,000 goal). “The teenage boy demographic tends not to buy things themselves but instead they ask their parents to do so for them. Bloxers aren’t exactly something a teenage boy would be comfortable asking their parents to buy.”
To combat poor sales, Woods is trying to get Bloxers stocked in “stores that sell funny gifts.” And this, ironically, may end up making them more available to the teens that need them. Like old folks that buy trekking poles from sports stores instead of walking sticks from, uh, old-people stores, it’ll be a lot less embarrassing for teens to order Bloxers from Amazon than to ask their mom to buy a pair from Indiegogo.
via Fast Company
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Teenage Dance
Andrew, who’s playing the main character, submitted this and wrote: “Here’s a short film I acted in called Teenage Dance about one teen’s decision whether to attend their school’s dance as they appear or want to appear in their dreams.
The short film was featured on CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) this past July [2014], and at LGBTQ film fests in Toronto, Winnipeg, Ottawa, Kingston, and Albuquerque (where it screened in a shorts series with your recently-posted film Hey Kowalski!). It’s also on a youth issues compilation DVD curated by the International Film Festival Rotterdam and used for sensitivity training by a consulting firm in Scotland.
I was cast because as a genderqueer person, the director felt I understood this character’s emotional background and journey.
Hope your fans enjoy it! “
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Tattoo Thursday *4
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Boygame
John and Nicholas are 15 years old and best friends. They’re very interested in girls but feel rather insecure when it comes to a first sexual encounter with a woman. That’s why they decide that they
will get some ‘practice’ on each other…
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Slow Sunday *2
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Sex Education in America
You can either do it the blunt way or you can tell kids that having sex turns you into a chewed gum no one wants…
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Wet Wednesday *13
by Ivan Paulick
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One Word: Pronouns
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Wonderwear Wednesday *15
Photos by Lux
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Kafka & the Teenage Nudies
We live in a time in which some Western countries have to deal with major cases of legislative schizophrenia. They want to protect kids by teaching them that sex is something dirty and disgusting.
But on the other hand they seem to have a perverted passion for destroying the lives of the very same kids by adding pre-teens to public sex offender lists, charging 10-year-old girls with rape for playing doctor or telling a teenage boy that he’ll have to get his boner photographed by cops because he was sexting with his girlfriend.
The newest fad in this kafkaesque nightmare is to treat the same person as a child and an adult at the same time. This requires some mental gymnastics you’d think no sane person would be capable of.
So here’s what’s happening: A teenager takes a selfie of themselves while they’re naked. In the eyes of the Unites States legal system this means they just sexually exploited a child–themselves. But due to the seriousness of this crime they will be tried as an adult by the courts
After a 16-year-old girl made a sexually explicit nude photo of herself for her boyfriend last fall, the Sheriff’s Office concluded that she committed two felony sex crimes against herself and arrested her.
The girl was listed on a warrant as both the adult perpetrator and the minor victim of two counts of sexual exploitation of minor – second-degree exploitation for making her photo and third-degree exploitation for having her photo in her possession.
A conviction could have put the girl in prison and would have required her to register as a sex offender for the rest of her life. [source]
If sexting is a good idea in general is a debate worth having but trying a minor as an adult is an outright ridiculous premise. But in a system that literally hands out the death penalty to minors and mentally ill people all common sense must have been gone over board a long time ago.
A North Carolina 17-year-old caught in a sexting scandal faces charges of sexually exploiting a minor that could land him in jail for up to 10 years, since the law considers him an adult. But one of the minors he supposedly exploited is himself—which raises an obvious question: how can a teen be old enough to face adult felony charges, but not old enough to keep a nude picture of himself on his phone? [source]
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Skyclad Saturday *11
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Troye Sivan goes Wild
Released from the new EP under the same name, Wild comes following a hugely successful YouTube career and his TRXYE EP last year, gaining almost three million Twitter followers and over three and a half million YouTube subscribers in the process.
The electro-pop track follows a friendship between a younger Troye and what appears to be his best friend. As the story progresses, we jump between the friendship and the current Troye clinging onto this childhood boyfriend before ending as the duo kiss.
Wild is the first of three in his Blue Neighbourhood series. Fingers crossed we see more of the adorable couple in part two and three.
Tryoe a few years ago
Talking to Popjustice, Troye revealed that he’d like to work with Years & Years’ Olly Alexander: “I think we’d have to write something new. A nice pop ballad would be really good. A GAY BALLAD. There’s not many romantic male-on-male duets.”
via GayTimes
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Model Monday *6
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Periodical Political Post *16
Queer News
- Irish president signs marriage equality into constitution
- 40% of queer teens in Japan get bullied, 20% self-harm
- Germans rather have a Jewish neighbour than a gay one
- 19 trans people have been murdered in US just this year
- The RentBoy raid is an attack on LGBTs and sex workers
- US: 200 kids stage walkout in dispute over trans student
Other News
- UK’s crippling court costs force poor people to plead guilty
- US one of the most aggressive suppliers of cluster bombs
- What fuelled the child sex abuse scandal that never was?
- Study: black students are more likely to get criminalized
discipline, while white kids receive medical intervention - Scandinavian children’s books get away with way more sex
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Collarbone Collection *1
Recognise this one? It’s one of Milo’s many remarkable features!
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Tender Thursday *9
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