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Sunday, May 25, 2025
On the Side
I love a great side view, especially when the hottie is only wearing a traditional bahag.
Wing Men
'Look, up in the air. It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a high-flying comedy - where the laughs always arrive on schedule!'
The 1990's was truly a great decade for sitcoms. Some the highest rated, and critically acclaimed shows aired over the 10 years. Some of them included; Friends, Mad About You, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Everybody Loves Raymond and Will & Grace. Frasier all made it's debut in the 1990's, shortly after Cheers said goodbye. Both Frasier and Cheers were created by David Angell, Peter Casey and David Lee.
Another sitcom by the three writes and producers made it debut in 1990 and ran through 1997. Wings didn't get the critical acclaim that Cheers and Frasier received, but it was a decent show and better, than most gave it credit for. Like their other shows, Wings had a defined work setting, in this case a small airport in Nantucket, as well as a solid group of characters and actors to portray them.
Maybe one of the reasons Wings didn't get the same attention as Cheers and Frasier were because it's two male leads were played by two hot, ad relatively young actors. Both Tim Daly and Steven Weber were in their early thirties when the show premiered. Daly and Weber's looks were also certainly used by the writers frequently. There were plenty of shirtless shots, and even implied 'nude' scenes, which is one of the reasons I occasionally tuned in.
I recently caught the episode, Death Becomes Him, on one of my retro channel. The episode included the scene I've capped here. Although I've featured both Weber and Daly on FH before, I thought it time to take a deeper dive into their sitcom skin baring scenes, as well as their nude scene in other shows and movies. Check out my findings on FH HERE:
Put Me In Coach!
'I feel a deep calling to help others (just like you) awaken your senses and unlock the unique secrets of your pleasure body.'
Devah Curlechéile
Some of you may have heard of the new UK reality series Virgin Island. The channel 4 show takes 12 adult virgins to a Mediterranean island to live together. With so many people are remaining virgins for longer, the show welcomes the adult virgins on a journey. The goal, an unique intimacy course with the goal for the 12 participants to overcome their intimacy anxiety.
'We're going to invite you, one by one, to claim your body. We're asking the group to take off their robes and stand in front of the mirror, and in front of the group.'
Episode four is all about helping the 12 virgins reclaim their body. They do this with a little exposure therapy. The participants are asked to strip completely naked in front of the group, then step in front of a mirror to won and reclaim their body. There are helped by the shows sex therapists, and for this episode, by sensuality coach Devah Curlechéile.
Devah strips down and shares that although he now loves his body, he struggles with dysmorphia. When Devah looks into the mirror, he shares he doesn't see the same thing that everyone else does. Growing up in Ireland, Devah always had strong intuition that there was more to existence than he was being shown or taught.
'This curiosity led me to leave the country at the age of 21 and start traveling the globe to find answers to questions I was unable to even articulate at that time. I travelled the earth for more than 20 years gradually unlocking the pleasurable potential of my human experience through tantric practices, meditation, shamanic healing and sexual intimacy.
Some highlights of this journey were teaching myself tantric orgasms while recovering from my broken back in 2009, experiencing the complex world of the Japanese BDSM underground in Tokyo, and meeting a recent lover who understood tantric energy circulation in a way that allowed us both to reach transcendental states of consciousness through love making… a potential that I know resides within you too!'
'People might think that a penis really sensitive and, like, delicate or something, but it's not- you can really apply a lot of pressure. It doesn't hurt, you know? This is obviously the shaft, here. This is the glands. And this part back here, the frenulum- well on me, anyway-it's the most sensitive part.'
Flora and Fauna: Chris by Studio1x
'Lull’d in these flowers with dances and delight.'
William Shakespeare
In A Midsummer's Night Dream, Shakespeare used the word Lull’d to describe how the forest caused a soothing and calming effect, in the particular case of the quote, on the fairy queen Titania. In the play, the forest represents magic and transformation, contrasting with the structured world beyond the trees and the woods. Within the woods, the world is not limited by the laws of nature, but is wild and untamed.
Like the characters in A Midsummer's Night Dream, so many of gravitate towards art, and visuals of the nude male form, to escape. Escape the pressures and restrictions so many of us must contend with in our daily lives. I've written before, that FH was created out my personal need for a creative release. With a full time job assisting others with their emotional struggles, I needed a creative outlet, to both explore and as a release.
The phrase 'flora and fauna' refers the plant and animal life in a specific area or location. It's the way of describing all living things, both plants and animals that exist within a particular ecosystem or environment. In Shakespeare's forest, the flora was both beautiful and chaotic, The fauna; fairies, actors and young Athenian lovers.
Shifting to a more recent environment, Jim's, (Studio1x) old studio on the West Coast, the fauna were mostly of the male variety. The plants, a variety of florals and greenery. The flora was often used to contrast and accentuate the nude male form.. Over the years, I've featured many of Jim's flesh themed floral shoots.
I've featured Jim's work with Dex, holding his long stemmed sunflowers, (HERE:) and Alexander with a single rose. (HERE:) Earlier this year, FH slid into spring with a feature spotlighting Chris, also tightly griping just one red rose. (HERE:) Regular FH readers have previously enjoyed Chris and his long stem, as I've featured his work multiple times over the last six years.
It's not really by chance, that Jim, as well as many other photographers, use flowers and plants in their work capturing the male form. There's an organic connection between man and nature, and man and his environment going back biblically to Adam, the very first male form created. The flora connected with Adam is of course the fig leaf from the Ficus carica tree. Those first nude forms were created in a forest paradise and we humans have been drawn back to the woods ever since.
Of course according to the Book of Genesis, that fig leaf was used to obscure the male genitals. Fig, and other leaves, were also used in many cultures, including art, especially in Western paintings and sculptures. Artists would use the leaf to hide the genitals, and keep the censors and those pearl clutching puritans at bay. What it took them awhile to figures out, was that those big leaves actually heightened the sexual aspects and arousal. As we learned from Adam, there's nothing more succulent and satisfying than a bite, or in this case a peak, at the forbidden fruit.
As can you beautifully see, Jim and Chris don't use their flora to hide or conceal. The large banana leaf Chris is posing with may obscure his equally impressive penis briefly, but here is no embarrassment or shame associated with the nude male form here. The leaf actually works more like a theatre curtain, swinging out the way to give the audience a clear and unobstructed view. To see more of Jim's work with Chris, this time with the flora being fern, not fig, head on over to the NEXT PAGE HERE:
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