Soap Studs

'Soap operas have the same hypnotic power as witnessing clothes turning in a washing machine - if you don't look away quickly, you'll be watching until the end.'

Stewart Stafford

Until beginning FH, I never saw myself as a Soap Opera watcher, nor even really a fan.  Slowly however, with each soap hunk that I researched and featured, I realized how significant soaps had been throughout my life.  It began when I was very young.  My mother watched both Another World and Texas and every day after school, I'd come home, make a sandwich, and sit in the rec room as she watched her stories.

Although I didn't watch the entire hours, and missed many days, I soon knew the basic stories, and who was who, even if I couldn't remember their names.  When I was in Jr. High, I had a girlfriend who loved The Young & The Restless, I used to go to her house after school and watch, mostly on Fridays.  When I was in University, I worked night shifts and the woman I worked with used to bring in her VHS recordings of Santa Barbara and Days of our Lives.

I didn't continue watching the soap with any regularity, but did find myself tuning back in on sick days from work, and especially over the Christmas holidays.  There was something sort of comforting about checking out a soap family celebrating the holidays.  I started DVRing Days of Our Lives  for a short while after reading about Will's coming out story and still watch Days and Y & R once or twice a month, especially on a day off, or around the holidays.

I also check them out when I see a soap hunk I want to feature.  Many of you may remember there used to be an incredible site devoted to soap hunks that sadly long gone, but several of my favorite sites still cover the studs of soap land, and their many scenes of shirtlessness!  Playgirl featured many of these men, especially throughout the 90's and I've managed to find and feature most of the soap hunks Playgirl spreads on FH.   Seeing the cover of the Playgirl Soap Studs issue, had me searching for more, and featuring a few soap studs I not uncovered before.