Before America got all Maude Flanders about skin cancer, we used to lionize golden-brown sun worshippers like George Hamilton, Georgio Armani, Zonker from Doonesbury. Then we all learned about melanomas and even the gays started getting spray tans. Well, grab the cocoa butter and Zinka, folks, because the leather-skin days of yesteryear might be making a comeback.
According to The Wall Street Journal, the rooftop pool at the James Hotel in New York has its own tanning concierge:
[Harrison] Anastasio, a rising senior at Edward R. Murrow High School, is one of two attendants at the James hotel’s rooftop deck, where he’s paid $15 an hour to supervise the four-foot deep pool, serve water to guests, and ready lounge chairs for optimal sun or shade. A certified lifeguard, Anastasio is also the pool’s tanning concierge—a job the hotel created this summer in partnership with a sunscreen maker.
As concierge, Anastasio must ensure pool patrons remember to turn over at designated intervals to evenly brown their front and back sides.
If this was a gay porn from the ’80s, Anastasio would totally be played by Joey Stefano. (NSFW)
Jack
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wantNeed! a tan! Im so pale it’s disgusting I have that kinda red irish skin I just want a lil tiny bit of tan but I’ll probably get Skin CancerGeorge412
They have done this in P-Town for decades at the Boatslip. Every so often you have to move chairs so as not to get burned.
AedanRoberts
Yuck. I likes my men pale and sun-damage free. I seriously don’t understand the appeal of something that inherently makes you look 40 by the time you are 29. Oh well. This is a “trend” I will be bucking every time it rears it’s wrinkled face.
Joe
That video is only SFW if you happen to be employed by the US House of Representatives.
WHERE'S THE SAFE?
Even an activity as ordinary as suntanning is dangerous. Is there anything in the world that’s SAFE? I don’t know. I don’t know. I think blue doesn’t cause any harm. And yellow. Yellow doesn’t cause any harm.
Dali
VIDEO: Mostly safe for work?
I didn’t know watching some guy’s butthole was now considered safe for the workplace. I guess I just didn’t get the memo.