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alter egos

Of Bondage And Baseboards: HGTV "Design Star"'s Porn Star

Remember the olden days when you had to settle for the occasional porn star sighting on cheesy reality shows or MTV or cheesy MTV reality shows? Suddenly, HGTV is more than just about flipping houses and designing on dimes: first we hear that one of its former hosts is starting his own naked goth girl site, and now our intrepid colleagues at Gay Porn Blog have revealed that current "Design Star" contestant and Le Corbusier fan Michael Verdugo received some valuable hardware and still life training appearing as "Jeremy Wess" in movies like "Rope Rituals" for legendary bondage producer Tom "Ropes" McGurk.

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beefcake watch

PREFMag Is Kind To Trees (And Good For Wood In General)

Much as we enjoy jetting over to Paris every month to pick up the new copy of PREFmag—and then jetting right back to Fleshbot Central once we have it in our hot little paws—we have to admit feeling a tad guilty about that whole carbon emissions thing. So we're glad that our French friends have sent us a preview of the contents of their latest issue, which include new photos by Fleshbot faves EXTERFACE and Mikel Marton (of Toxicboy fame) and which you'll find after the jump. We'll miss seeing Jean-Luc and Pierre in customs regularly (bon jour, boys!), but at least we'll be resting easier at night knowing that we're doing the envirnomentally correct thing. And isn't that what looking at hot photographs of hot naked men is all about ... or should be? More »

at the movies

"Watch Out": Amateur Web Porn, Now In Movie Form!

Dr. Joseph Suglia's 2006 novel "Watch Out" flew under a lot of radars, including ours. As we understand it, the novel has something to do with the assassination of Britney Spears and a man who can't get enough of himself—and judging from Suglia's tongue-in-cheek, egomaniacal MySpace page and some of the copy we've seen ("I am the Him. The absolute being ... The history of humanity is nothing more than a preparation for My emergence into the world."), we're guessing it reads an awful lot like "American Psycho" meets "Myra Breckenridge" Which is not a bad thing. But what really piqued our interest—and what will pique yours, we presume—is the trailer for the upcoming movie of said novel, which features the dreamy Matt Riddlehoover taking pictures of his naked manbits. Is it just us, or do you think someone watched a lot of Xtube in preparation for his role? (We can dream, can't we?) More »

OK, so we've been kind of busting on New York lately (and not in the good way), and we feel bad about that. Really, we do! So this morning, we began making amends by flipping through the online version of New York magazine and lo, after a few clicks it became quite apparent that the city was trying to woo us back: not only did we find a shirtless pic of hockey star and fashion-curious Vogue intern Sean Avery, but two shots of a yet-to-be-identified beartastic Vivienne Westwood runway model. Oh NYC, you really do have something for everyone! (nymag.com)

We wish we could get more excited about the fact that Mario Lopez has "bared" it "all" for People magazine ... but what do you know folks, we're totally not! Especially after NBC had to go ahead and raise our hopes by pixelating his crotchal region in a preview of the spread they ran earlier this week; considering the fact that People airbrushed every last vestige of pube into oblivion, we don't know why they bothered. (Oh, and? Burt Reynolds was like a thousand times hotter anyway.) (towleroad.com)

Hockey Jock Doesn't Speak, Still Carries A Big Stick Well hello there, dreamily heterosexual Los Angeles Kings right wing Dustin Brown. (Ed. note: That's a hockey team, which is why we used "stick" in the title of this post. Clever, no?) Funny you should wander into the right side of the frame during this (vintage*) ESPN interview with one of your teammates and start peeling off your jockstrap—er, not that we kept rewinding it so we could get a better look at your junk or anything. You know we just watch ESPN for the sports talk, right bro? (Video after the jump.)

Mario Cazzo Is Freshman Of The Year
We're trying our best to get excited about the fact that someone named Mario Cazzo (aka "Phoenix" from Next Door Male) has been crowned Freshman of the Year, but (1) we'd never heard of him before this week, (2) he apparently just beat out Fleshbot Crush Object™ Kurt Wild for the honor, and (3) he's smoking on the cover, which is gross. Still ... uh, congrats Mario! We look forward to getting to know you and your nine inches better over the course of your reign. (gayporntimes.com + Myspace + nextdoormale.com; more [eventually] @ freshmen.com)

Shirtless Male Celebs Prove That Some Hippies Really Are Good For Something We generally feel the same way when we see the word "hippy" as Herman Göring did when he heard the word "culture". But we'll gladly put our hippiephobic predilections aside when it comes to this curiously named photo blog, which does a capital job of presenting lovingly crafted screencap tributes to male celebrities in various states of PG-13 undress; in addition to the usual suspects like Ryan Phillippe and Richard Gere, it gets extra points for featuring less obvious snack packages like Dominic Purcell, an all grown up (and totally humpastic) Fred Savage, and the divine JP Pitoc. Hey, maybe hippies aren't so bad after all! (squarehippies.com)

More French Kicks @ PREFmag #26 We always appreciate when the boys at Paris' PREFmag send us a preview of their new issue since it gives us an opportunity to bone up on our French reading skills. Trouble is, we never get a chance to read anything since we're always to distracted by ... uh, other things. (And yes, we said "bone".)

If you haven't yet caught a TV broadcast of this episode of MTV's "True Life" which follows three young people who happen to have sex-related jobs (including gay-for-pay Jet Set exclusive Aaron James), here's your chance to see what happens when people stop being polite and start being real ... er, we mean what happens when people have to balance a sexy job with an otherwise unsexy life. (Trust us, we know the feeling.) (mtv.com, via nakedcity.com)

We're glad to see that one of our favorite sexy blogs is back in convenient book form, and while it'll be great to take Alex's cock hunting adventures to the beach with us this summer we're a little worried already about getting the pages all sticky. (With suntan lotion, people. We're very careful about these things when it comes to one-handed reading, you know.) (amazon.com - thanks Robert)

Michael Lucas has been called many things, but we're pretty certain this is the first time he's been called "Gay porn's neocon kingpin". (Or anyone else, for that matter — we checked!) Note to the commenter who asked whether he showed the New Republic his "infamously big dick": somehow we doubt it, but you can see it right here if you're still curious. (tnr.com)

Anderson Cooper's Sticky Wickets Is it just us, or does Anderson Cooper seem a little too excited reporting about hot naked streakers being tackled on playing fields and a little too eager to use phrases like "sticky wickets" and "bits and pieces" when doing so? Nope, it's not just us. (Gawker)

Sure, it's great that we're finding out more about the extracurricular porn careers of contestants on the American version of "Big Brother" ... but let's not forget that their foreign counterparts still have us beat when it comes to sporting wood on the show itself. We still have a long way to go, people. (madeinbrazil.typepad.com; still more "Crazy" James action @ dudetubeonline.com)

great moments in media

"Project Runway" Brings Us All A Little Closer (To The WWE Divas)

Does Bravo, the network for all things fabulous, have another secret agenda besides ... you know, that gay one? First, "Make Me A Supermodel" brings viewers from every end of the Kinsey scale together for two consecutive pansexual orgies of naked model ogling — and now "Project Runway" serves up the biggest helping of cheesecake and camp since "Showgirls" as the remaining half dozen contestants are asked to design outfits for the WWE Divas themselves. Aside from offering up plenty of jiggly eye candy for the three or four heterosexual male PR viewers, the episode was also significant in reminding us that everyone can appreciate a little hot girl-on-girl body slam action and spandex-straining side boobage, especially when it's covered in sequins. Oh, and that Candice Michelle totally has a little drag queen in her. Work! It! Out!



· WWE: Superstars Divas (wwe.com)

· Project Runway (bravotv.com)

· ''Project Runway'': Pins and Needles (spoiler alert! @ ew.com)

television

"Make Me A Supermodel" Raises The Bar On Gratuitous Supermodel Nudity

As if last week's polymorphously perverse poseathon wasn't enough to cement Bravo's "Make Me A Supermodel" into our weekly must-see viewing schedule, we were treated to even more gratuitous boobage (male and female) in last night's episode as the latest dubious "challenge" involved having the contestants pose nude for an art class at the Parsons School of Design. Typically for basic cable, the more egregious fleshy and/or dangly parts were blurred out during the broadcast; untypically for television in general, ass cracks and butt cheeks galore were shown in their full, uncensored glory. And we didn't even have to miss the season premiere of "Lost" to see it all! Is this the best show in the history of model-based reality programs or what?

· "Make Me A Supermodel" (bravotv.com)


It's rare that a mere television show can get folks from every part of the Kinsey scale to unite for a pansexual orgy of hot fetish-flavored seminaked model-on-model action ... but that's exactly what happened on Bravo's "Make Me A Supermodel" last night. And you thought it was just about watching a bunch of pretty people taking their clothes off? (Defamer)

Continuing his quest for Total World Media Domination, Michael Lucas has allowed half his face to grace the cover of the new issue of Genre; the other half, presumably, is busy plotting how to appear on the cover of Vanity Fair. Hey, we're sure it's just a matter of time. (lucasblog.com)