With my love of holidays, and holiday imagery, it's taken me far too long to include celebrating Hanukkah on the site. Although I'm not Jewish, I love, and have featured many Jewish men, and I love the themes of rededication and the visuals, especially the menorah and the eight night celebration of lights.
I have wanted, and even started Hanukkah in the past. I always came to a road block when searching for images to include When it comes to Christmas, a simple search for 'sexy Santas' is all you need. Almost every model, at one time or another, has put on a Santa hat for a photo shoot or selfie. Searching google for 'Hanukkah hunks' didn't exactly bring up the same number of results.
Searching for sexy, naked men is usually a fun task, but finding just the right images for Hanukkah was harder than I expected. Of course there are thousands of hot Jewish male models and men, but they don't always pop up when searching. Google responded to my request with mostly images of famous Jewish actors and celebrities. A more refined search however, did lead me to a sites and calendars from Nice Jewish Guys to more Naughty Jewish Boys.
Neither the Nice or the Naughty Jewish Boys were porn sites, but G and PG rated calendar projects. While I liked that Jewish men were getting a spotlight, I wasn't sure about the images. Some were certainly sexy and fun, but most of the images were also depicting religious and cultural stereotypes and I wasn't sure whether they were just harmless and fun, or verging on the offensive.
I decided then to go back to the FH basics, simply looking for a great looking model to help celebrate the day. My only requirement, in addition to being Jewish of course, was that the images were hot. Culture representations, but not cultural stereotypes. Check out Perseus, my choice of model (and images) to honor the day in the post below.
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