Comments on: What’s It Take to Make a Calvin Klein Ad ‘Pornographic’? A Hot Guy

By: Phelicity

Phelicity — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:24:20 +0000

It’s sexually provocative and children view it and think that society expects that of them when they grow up… which lately according to them is around 11 years old!!! It’s disgusting, yet effective…

By: romeo

romeo — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:10:36 +0000

hmmmm, he either has a chubby or he’s hugely hung. Now THAT’S a discussion topic.

By: hardmannyc

hardmannyc — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:04:42 +0000

First off, anything can “cause controversy.” I strongly suspect that vast majority of Downtown Manhattanites could give two shits about this.

Second, Calvin Klein is pretty much “out” these days. He just hasn’t proclaimed it on “Oprah.”

Third, does the model have woodie?

By: terrwill

terrwill — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:28:11 +0000

#6 B: That quote was tounge in cheek. :-P Of course, Calvin Klein knows what Gay men want……………….

He is just so damm straigt!!
For the freakin life of me, I still can’t figger out why he has refused to come out of the damm closet after what 50 years??? Like it is going to be a absolute bombshell that a designer is Gay???????????

By: romeo

romeo — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:54:49 +0000

Jason: your theory doesn’t explain football or wrestling ! The inner queer is totally out of control there. LOL

By: LOL

LOL — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:47:28 +0000

No. 16 really doesn’t know women AT ALL!!!! just like gay men we appreciate the male human form and we don’t greet the sight of the female form with ewwwws

By: jason

jason — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:25:59 +0000

Straight guys hate it when confronted with nice male bodies. It brings out their latent bisexuality, which they hate.

Face it – there are millions of straight guys who avidly control their same-sex attractions by ignoring them or avoiding scenarios. When it’s imposed on them by a billboard, it’s a situation they’re not controlling, hence the outrage.

Women can also be unbelievably prudish vis a vis the male form, partly because women like to be the center of attention. They hate it when men are sexier than they are. It inverts the buyer-seller paradigm wherein women are usually the sellers and men the buyers.

By: jason

jason — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:20:54 +0000

This phenomenon raised by Queerty is fascinating. It points to the hypocrisy of women, the hypocrisy of conservatives, and the hypocrisy of liberals.

The best analogy can be found in the bisexual double standard. If it’s “two hot chicks”, all of the above are usually singing its praises. But if it’s “two hot guys”, they’re against it. It’s a combination of anti-male and anti-male-to-male.

A lot of this hypocrisy can also be seen in the porn industry and how it promotes female bisexuality as normal and compatible with ordinary heterosexual acts. Male bisexuality, on the other hand, is marginalized and segregated.

By: Republican

Republican — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:56:00 +0000

Ted,

True. The prudishness is pretty annoying though, especially when there isn’t even actual nudity or fucking involved. His underwear is barely pulled down. What a country.

By: Republican

Republican — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:51:57 +0000

Joseph,

Nice

By: Ted C.

Ted C. — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:43:29 +0000

But the examples you’ve chosen have a basic pattern: Shots with a single person are acceptable, but shots with multiple persons in intimate contact are not.

If you want to illustrate sexism or homophobia, I don’t think you’ve succeeded. It might just be that having multiple models in close contact is more suggestive of sex.

By: Joseph

Joseph — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:30:17 +0000

The pic at the link of the exquisitely beautiful Jamie Dornan might be confused for pornography, but certainly not the one with Mendes.

http://gay.skinindex.com/archi.....n-nude.jpg

By: Republican

Republican — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:58:19 +0000

Romeo,

He DOES look disgusted. Kinda like he’s dealing with a straight chick who won’t take no for an answer.

By: Quake

Quake — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:38:52 +0000

Society has made male sexuality scary and women’s sexuality angel like.

I just hate these double standards, but people will be people. Dumb and insane

By: romeo

romeo — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:11:16 +0000

Calvin Klein straight? Since when?

By: scott ny'er

scott ny'er — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:08:54 +0000

Latebrosus is correct.

QFT

By: B

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:01:09 +0000

terrwill wrote, “I still don’t get it after all these years………how come a straight man like Calvin Klein always has such Gay ads??”

He knows which men are most likely to buy sexy underwear? :-)

By: Keith Kimmel

Keith Kimmel — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:50:04 +0000

This country can be so Victorian sometimes.

By: terrwill

terrwill — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:40:07 +0000

I still don’t get it after all these years………how come a straight man like Calvin Klein always has such Gay ads?? :-P

By: romeo

romeo — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:18:49 +0000

It amazes me that anyone in SoHo would think THAT was pornographic. Besides, he’s looking down at her hand like “what does she want with my underpants?” LOL

By: Latebrosus

Latebrosus — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:09:01 +0000

Naked mens is threatening, whereas naked womens is not. Go figure.

By: Republican

Republican — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:52:40 +0000

Oh come on, you can’t even see anything. Fucking prudes.