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Friday, November 4, 2022
Popup Post: Five times five equals twenty-five
For today's popup, I've done my damnedest to find five pictures, each with five different men, for a total of twenty-five. Having said that, some obsessive will no doubt find a duplicate.
I know that attitudes in general, let alone men's attitudes to male nudity 60/70 years ago were vastly different from today's but I have always marvelled at just how many men were happy to strip for the camera. Quite literally thousands made their undressed way through AMG over the years and most were not the bodybuilding types.
I know that in the post-war world many men had seen action or done their national service and it's just a fact that you lose any sense of false modesty in the forces as much as you do in a boarding school, but the numbers of men prepared to strip cannot be put down to the money alone.
We have entered an unanticipated era of New Puritanism which seems to require men to cover up as much as women are now able to wear as little as possible in a complete reversal of Victorian mores.
The second and third from the right seem to be having a humourous conflab over something. I wonder what it could possibly be!
So true that the general male attitude to group nudity was that it was a normal part of life. I'm grateful that I grew up in the latter years of when this was still the prevailing view. Importantly, it gave us an acceptance that physically we are all slightly different.
A delightful image. I assume the photographer's direction was to look at your reflections. But this does give an impression that they are also, and quite naturally, comparing appendages.
I know that attitudes in general, let alone men's attitudes to male nudity 60/70 years ago were vastly different from today's but I have always marvelled at just how many men were happy to strip for the camera. Quite literally thousands made their undressed way through AMG over the years and most were not the bodybuilding types.
ReplyDeleteI know that in the post-war world many men had seen action or done their national service and it's just a fact that you lose any sense of false modesty in the forces as much as you do in a boarding school, but the numbers of men prepared to strip cannot be put down to the money alone.
We have entered an unanticipated era of New Puritanism which seems to require men to cover up as much as women are now able to wear as little as possible in a complete reversal of Victorian mores.
The second and third from the right seem to be having a humourous conflab over something. I wonder what it could possibly be!
Maybe they're goofing over their own reflections. The guy at far left did some impressive, if scant, solo modeling. Wish I knew his name.
DeleteSo true that the general male attitude to group nudity was that it was a normal part of life. I'm grateful that I grew up in the latter years of when this was still the prevailing view. Importantly, it gave us an acceptance that physically we are all slightly different.
DeleteA delightful image. I assume the photographer's direction was to look at your reflections. But this does give an impression that they are also, and quite naturally, comparing appendages.
ReplyDeleteRight. There are really some mixed responses to whatever direction was given.
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