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Wednesday, February 12, 2025
Bed of Roses 🌹
Image by Marlen Boro
Image by Briancan
Jacopo Garfagnoli
Derek Diamond, Playgirl
I wanna lay you down in a bed of roses...
Kai
Laying in a bed of rose petals is a really romantic visual, but I think some forget that Bon Jovi followed up the lyric by saying tonight, he'll be sleeping on a bed of nails. There are a lot of stories about the meaning of the song, but in several interviews Bon Jovi shared it was about his own marriage, and the trappings of fame and it's impact on relationships. This is especially true for a hot rock star, who spent so much time on the road.
I like the visual, especially when the on laying in rose petals is a hot nude male model. I think the theme represents one of the many reasons I love showcasing holiday imagery. When I first started the site, if you looked for searched for 'sexy holiday imagery', the results were almost always all female models. Even now, in 2025, the results remain predominately women, although a few shots of men, mostly shirtless Santa's, do pop up.
Aquiles Paris
It was the lack of holiday imagery featuring the male form that had me first seeking photographers and models to create original imagery for the blog. I think it began with Halloween. When I was sending on samples of what I was looking for, my inspiration for the site's first male witch came from images of pin-up girls posing with pumpkins or in witch hats. Today, there's far more holiday visuals featuring the male form, and I love that men are able to dive into beds of rose petals to be both a symbol of romance, or be their own romantic hero.
Some of you may remember the Bearded Silver Fox, (Marc-Anthony) from his previous appearance on FH. (HERE:) Although I loved his previous modeling work, The Bearded Silver Fox tells me his work has gotten even more erotic since.... Hopefully he'll share more of his work soon! In the meantime, you can check him out on BlueSky HERE:
The origin of giving red roses on the Valentines is rooted in Greek mythology. One story tells us that the first red rose was created when the Greek Goddess Aphrodite was scratched by a white rose's thorn. Her blood, caused the white rose to run red. Another story says that the first red rose grew on the ground where Adonis, Aphrodite's lover, had recently died. They say it was the Goddess's tears that fell, created and then nourished the first rose.
Dark Eros: Jacob by Studio1x 🥀
The heart was made to be broken.'
Oscar Wilde
For every angel floating around doing good deeds, there's a little devil causing trouble. For every Santa spreading joy, there's a Scrooge stealing spirits. On Valentine's Day, for every well intentioned cupid, there's an equally determined Dark Eros. They're just waiting for the opportunity, to turn love into heartbreak. No one goes through life unscathed, we all experience heartbreak, and for many, it can be an enduring weight that hits harder, and lasts longer than most people think.
If I had to pick one holiday that might not survive, it would be Valentine's Day. So many thing about love and relationships have changed over the years. The holiday as it was intended, is already beginning to disintegrate. The antiquated visual of a husband, arriving home from work with a bouquet of roses for his wife, seems like something you'd see in a television show from the 50's or 60's.
So many of the messages we were fed as kids no longer fit the way we live. Most of the taglines in Valentine cards and on sweetheart candy, are today, but inappropriate and even offensive. Today, fewer people are getting married, many have the figure around 45 percent or less. Stats tell us about 50% of people struggle to ever find true love or a long-term fulfilling relationship. and 20% of people, never experience true love at all.
The world has changed, there are far less reasons to have to partner and procreate. Women can make their own money, and raising children, has never been more expensive. Advancements in technology and changes in social systems have also made it easier to live alone. There are also less societal pressures, leading many who live alone to thrive, both socially and financially.
They say there's an epidemic of loneliness, and they say it more, after someone commits a violent act. Personally I struggle with it being called an epidemic and i also struggle with connecting loneliness and aggression. Loneliness and depression cause people to feel sad, not necessarily mad. Aggression isn't an emotion, it's an action, and people choose actions.
If you read the history of Cupid, you'll learn that the little cherub didn't always choose actions which resulted in love. Often, his arrow's prick led to heartbreak and pain. Dark Eros was a sexually mischievous little rascal, who loved to watch people's lives implode after his poke. If we take a look back at one of Cupid's first targets, you'll see what mean.
After Apollo provoked the fierce fury of Venus’ son by mocking his seemingly toylike weapons, Cupid took his revenge. He pierced Apollo’s heart with a golden arrow, causing him to fall passionately in love with the nymph Daphne. Daphne however, was a sworn virgin, and Cupid shot her with a lead arrow, intensifying her loathing for all things amorous. This led Daphne to repel all of Apollo’s advances.
In this series of images, it's Jacob who takes on the role of the sexually mischievous Eros. Some of you might remember Jacob, and his work with Jim from Studio1x, from his previous appearances on FH. (HERE:) I especially love Jim's shots of Jacob sensually crawling across the clouds, lurking and looking for his next lovelorn victim.
If the clouds and the black wings look familiar, Jim shot the beautiful Jordan, another evil, but sexy cupid for my 2021 Valentine edition. (Passionately Wicked) Jim spent hours cutting pillow fill and attaching it to the studio walls to get the sky and cloud effect. With so much work put into the planning and preparation, it was too good of a set-up not to have another hot model, strip down and crawl across the clouds.
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