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Polar Bear Club plunge: No shrinkage here!

Whoever said it (It's variously attributed to Socrates, Heraclitus, Solon of Athens, Pythagoras, as well as several others.), you sir, clearly DO "Know thyself"...or at least know your ability to fill out a tight pair of speedos despite bone-chilling (ha!) conditions.

For that, I salute you!

2012 will be a year like no other: Beatcoxing? ...Or cockboxing?

Resist the urge to click away during the hard-to-watch intro full of brah-worthy bravado and facial contortions and you'll be rewarded with a display of true ingenuity I encourage more of us to foster in ourselves and others.

My hope for 2012? He - or others like him - will take his show on the road.

Happy 2012, everybody!

(Reliably, haters have left disparaging comments about this guy's dick size, only this time, they're claiming it sounds small? Wow. A whole new area of expertise!)

Via Ricardo and The Blackout Blog's Facebook.

Oh, Us.

You speak my language/are hateful/still won't give me what I want.

(All the photos? Hardly.)

FYF After Dark: The Door(s). The End. (NSFW!)

It's/They're both.

Also, superlative. 

See for yourself after the jump.

FYF After Dark (Remember, that usually means NSFW): Martial Arts or Partial Hard(on)s?

Full (NSFW) image after the jump...

Even vegetarians love this hot beef...

Looks a bit "dumb-as-dirt" (Sorry Marky!), but Mark Sanchez holds on as an object of lust here at FYF (this side of the editorship anyway).

And speaking of preferring thighs to breast (though these men sure ain't chicken.), Dhani Jones (subject of an adulatory post I seem to remember doing for FYF, but can't seem to locate via our sometimes feeble search engine.) - he of Travel Channel's "Dhani Tackles the Globe" fame - is appearing in Bryant Park this coming Wednesday, June 8th from 12:30pm - 1:45pm to discuss his new book, The Sportsman: Unexpected Lessons. (Unexpected? How so?)

Follow Dhani on Twitter in case he tweets more photos from a shoot like this one:

And check out the list of things he's looking for in a prospective mate here. Could you be his one?

More Dhani (just for...um...fun.):

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Photo of Mark via

Photos of Dhani via (speedo) and Travel Channel.

Whoever said NYC was flaccid?

Stop touching it! You're just making it worse!

Street artist (hmm.) BEAST cleverly tweaked the MTA's subway map to make a not-so-clever statement regarding Bin Laden's death's effect on NYC.

I'm worried about the porn the guy is watching.

That said, I always knew I loved this city...

Speaking of focus...where's yours while watching this video?

We're getting a reputation with all these Undergear posts, but there's something simultaneously titillating (er...dicknotizing?) and repugnant about the brand's presentation that creates a whole (not hole) that's fascinating for a wide variety of reasons.

Some thoughts while watching this video:

• There are clear pros (both at walking and stealing/holding the spotlight) and amateurs in this line up.

• It's as fun (maybe more so?) watching the audience as it is the models.

• Expert(?) lighting, again, both spotlights and obscures the object of everyone's my focus when we get down to briefs and smaller.

• I've never noticed that much...er, movement in a show before, but I must have seen other shows with models wearing jocks, briefs and thongs or similar. Maybe it's the "construction" of the garment that gives the model's "walk" such "life"...

• My favorite - Ben - looks like he just adjusted before taking his final turn. He has been appealingly bashful every time he's appeared.

• Last thought: Mr. Guardino (Shaved head. Next to last in the final walk.) is having his moment, damn it!

Photo of Undergear model Christopher Fawcett that gives quite a bit more..."information", via (I am not - in any way - a fan, but just happened to run across this picture yesterday. [demur, demur])

Faucet Queen?

"Faucet Queen Helping Hand".

Watersports enthusiasist, clearly.

What you missed a few Fridays ago at the Undergear event at District 36...

...can be summed up thusly:

My favorite - there on the far left - does not appear in any of the underwear runway shots.

There's some others who do (below), but who cares if it's not him? 

Thank GOD! New York City Firefighters Calendar is back for 2012.

After four years without the "official" NYC Firefighters due to "that scandal" involving the last firefighter featured on the cover (NSFW. Make sure your "SafeSearch" is off), the FDNY Firefighters Calendar is back for 2012.

FYF's gone B-A-N-A-N-A-S!

Here're some you forgot/didn't know about, Rod.

A few more (more NSFW than this), after the jump...

Meatball Shop makes balls for tonguin'; has co-owner who inspires lust.

Yeah, shove 'em in your mouth.

Speaking of delicious...

His name is Michael Chernow (that's him on the right), he's got some tangy, mouth-watering balls, he can kick your ass and he's totally unavailable. The perfect mark/trick/man/marriage potential, right? (Wrong! But I'm not fucking spoiling the fantasy right now!)

As for his co-owner and their shop, they're aiming squarely below the belt (among the geiz, anyways). I mean, this picture? Come ON! Further evidence: Run your mouse across the meatball sandwich on the top right of their home page. Scripted for porn, no?

Oh, and they're doing damn well as far as business goes, too.

Interestingly, Mr. Chernow reminds us a bit of FYF Friend Paul Pino, who's also in the food business. Head over to Good on Greenwich Avenue (just down from the Shequinox flagship!) for brunch on Sundays (It's delicious!) and tell him we said, "Hello!".

This whole reverie triggered by Dave Bry over at The Awl.

Turns out there's much I didn't know about Fred from Scooby-Doo.

Like that he's uncut and...well...see for yourself after the jump!(NSFW but very informative!)

Image above via

Spooked! (An ongoing appreciation for sweatpants and the men who wear them.)

NYCSubwayGuys has the video. 

Have I mentioned my love of sweats?

FYF Escapism: Let's get ready for summer!

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So what if the temperature's just barely above freezing or that the detritus of Winter 2011's snow banks are still littering the streets of the city, let's turn our minds to beaches and warmth and swimwear options - preferrably swimwear options that contribute to the heat?!

Sungas, for example, have provided resolution to a multitude of issues for me related to appropriate/attractive swimwear options, being gay, visiting Fire Island, having hips, etc.

They also provide a connection to Brazil...for which I'm never ungrateful.

As you can see here in photos handpicked from Braziliantrunks.com, sungas have a characteristically Brazilian way of looking utterly nonchalant, yet highlighting the "important" things. It certainly helps if you are Brazilian and those things come "standard with every model", but - even if they don't - sungas provide a less problematic alternative to the standard speedo so prevalent amongst the gays/Europeans.

Though you may (rightfully) question the fit of these suits in the photos here, the sunga is actually incredibly comfortable and quite easy to wear. The tendency upon first putting them on is to try too hard and pull it up or make it tight but it's meant to be worn low and loose, which is where these photos do it an injustice. On the other hand, these photos are styled "just so" with a different purpose in mind, I believe, so...take that into consideration when you make your assessment.

Oscar AND more explicit sex in movies follow-up mash-up!

We're combining a theme I wouldn't shut up about touched on last week (sex in film) and Oscars' wrap-up in one post! It seems Best Picture award-winner The King's Speech shared its primary location (Geoffrey Rush's speech therapy office) with at least one scene shot by British porn producers non-pareil UK Naked Men. More evidence after the jump (also NSFW).

Now you can re-watch The King's Speech with a whole new appreciation for Best Actor award-winner Colin Firth's struggle to "relax the throat".

Sleuth work by Queerclick.

Private screening of 'Now and Later', Part Two

Another (far more puerile) highlight of Now and Later for me was the awkward and never fully rationalized (but really, who cares?!) three way between the the two main characters and a visiting lover of hers, played by Adrian Quinonez. Following up on my lust for attraction to the handsome actor (the lead is no pushover in the looks department, either, just to be clear.), I discovered:

1. Mr. Quinonez' IMDB headshot does him so wrong, and
2. He doesn't seem the least bit timid, having appeared very naked while playing(?) gay in both Dante's Cove and Eating Out 2. (That's him on the left in the Eating Out 2 cover photo.)

Contrary to what you might assume based on his appearing in those two productions, his performance in Now and Later doesn't betray casting based solely on his physical attributes, either: he's got some acting chops, as well.

By way of contrast, here's a sampling of his work in that soap dropera, Dante's Cove. (And there's more of Adrian - NSFW! ...Click through!)

Meanwhile...who he?

Mr. Eric Decker has escaped my awareness 'til now somehow. A little too cute, perhaps...but cute! Any relation to Brooklyn Decker, by chance?

And is he stripping here??

Civilization Progress Report: Ask yourself this President's Day if Paris Hilton would make a better American leader than Sarah Palin

Q1 of every year is, without a doubt, the most agonizing part of every year. We're still working our way through blizzards. There really aren't any major holidays. Basically besides giving New Yorkers a chance to showcase their wide variety of scarves and strut around in boots or, on Valentine's Day ideally, grab their paramour by the lapels of their peacoat and whisper Spice Girls lyrics to them, the first three months of every year is miserable. Which is why this weekend--a long weekend for many of us!--is a boon. Most of us have probably been burning the candle at both ends! So take this weekend to sleep more, eat more, exercise more, dance more, and then start back at square one. And somewhere in there, make time to look at the paint peeling off the walls of civilization.

• Through the miracle of geotargeting,Facebook has made available to users in nations where being a member of the LGBT will not get them jailed or murdered the option to more accurately display the nature of their relationships, with options like IN A CIVIL UNION WITH. [Redmond Pie]

• Which is great news for all the betrothed same-sex folks in Hawai'i, as civil unions are being passed into law! [Reuters]

• Meanwhile, Maryland could be verging on passing gay marriage into law any day now. [Baltimore Sun]