Sunday, March 12, 2017

Nude restaurant in Spain allows diners to eat their food directly off the naked bodies of their model waiters and waitresses

Innato Tenerife opened this week and encourages diners to strip naked to eat
Guests have to hand over their mobile phones before entering for extra privacy
An 'aphrodisiac menu' allows diners to eat their food directly off a model's body
'The Happy Ending' also allows guest to eat from chocolate-smothered models

The naked truth:
A couple hold hands over the table at the new nudist restaurant in Spain

A new nude restaurant in Spain will allow diners to eat their food directly off the bodies of their model waitresses.

The Innato Tenerife - which opened in January - encourages diners to peel off for a mouth-watering menu in what owners describe as an 'orgasmic atmosphere'.

Guests have to check in their smartphones and cameras to spare other customers' blushes before they are led to a changing room to strip down to a bathrobe.

The happy ending dessert:

A male model poses with chocolate all over him ready to be eaten

Can I take your order, please?
A waitress takes down an order at the bar of the new restaurant

Then they walk to their candlelit table where they take off the robes and soak up the intimate atmosphere.

Discreet bamboo partitions screen tables from each other so customers are able to let themselves go without the fear of being seen.

Specials include the 'aphrodisiac menu' served on male and female models who serve as human tables, with just the odd fig or vine leaf to cover their modesty.

Especially popular is the 'Happy Endings' dessert, where the models smother themselves in melted chocolate sauce so diners can dip their strawberries.

Al fresco:
A waitress performs with fire in the outside dining area of the Spanish restaurant

Standing to attention:
Two male models guard the doors to the Innato Tennerife in Spain

Hot food:
Performer at the restaurant breathes fire in a performance for bathrobe-clad diners

Other favourites on the 150-EUR (129-GBP) a head menu include a dish called Pulp Fiction, with octopus, potato and paprika, and Olindo Lobster, with lobster mango, mustard and brandy.

Owner Tony de Leonardis - who was inspired by London's The Bunyadi pop-up restaurant - says customers at his venue in San Isidro soon get used to eating in the buff.

And some, reports local media, have revealed that the experience even revives their love lives.

Jules Bacon Photographed by Al Urban

From: Male Models Vintage Beefcake

MY WINDOW

BRAZILIAN MODEL B. PHOTOGRAPHED BY FEDYA ILI
From: Summer Dairy

Mesmerizing

http://camerons1874.tumblr.com/post/158320216538/hunghairybear-mesmerizing

JAMES DEEN

From: Flesh 'n' Boners

It’s James Deen the male porn superstar who went semi-legit via his mainstream role in a Lindsay Lohan movie (The Canyons).

What happens to the Bel Ami models after they are no longer young enough to appear in BA videos? For Renato Amoroso, he put on some weight and became a professional escort named Gary (at least, that’s what Gary said).

It’s quite HARD to believe Gary was twinky Bel Ami boy Renato but they have identical little freckle in the middle of upper chest.

Some might not be happy with this transformation. But, at least, George Duroy didn’t left his model starving, right?

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April, 2006

March, 2008

Judge Orders Wife Of Pulse Shooter To Stay In Jail Until Trial

Bond has been revoked in Orlando for Noor Salman, the widow of Omar Mateen
From: NewNowNext

A federal judge in Orlando revoked bond on Friday for Noor Salman, the widow of the man responsible for the massacre at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub last June, USA Today reports. This means that she will remain behind bars until her trial date.

U.S. District Judge Paul Byron’s new order reverses an order from earlier this month in California that allowed for Salman’s release. Salman had moved to California after the shooting to be closer to family. Her bond had been set for $500,000.

Salman has pleaded not guilty to aiding and abetting husband Omar Mateen’s support of ISIS, as well as to obstruction of justice in the mass shooting that left 49 people dead. While some have labeled Salman a co-conspirator, others have suggested that she was another victim of Mateen’s violence and manipulation.

Prosecutors have alleged that Salman accompanied her husband on scouting trips for targets, including Disney World and the Disney Springs shopping complex. She reportedly watched Mateen leave their home with a gun and a backpack full of ammunition on the night of the attack.

Salman faces the possibility of a life sentence.

Joni Sledge of Sister Sledge Dies @ 60

From: Boy Culture

Joni Sledge in the late '70s

So many musicians of the '70s and '80s are dying way too young — the latest is Joni Sledge, one of the family act Sister Sledge, whose “We Are Family” was one of the most memorable hits of the late '70s.

We love you Joni. pic.twitter.com/6Zxj6gLoQh

— Sister Sledge (@SisterSledge_) March 12, 2017

Sledge's body was reportedly discovered in her Phoenix home Friday. A family statement read:

Yesterday, numbness fell upon our family. We are saddened to inform you that our dear sister, mother, aunt and cousin, Joni passed away yesterday. Please pray for us as we weep for this loss. We do know that she is now eternally with Our Lord.

Nile Rodgers, who co-wrote “We Are Family” with the late Bernard Edwards, both of Chic, posted a remembrance of Sledge on Twitter:

#RIPJoniSledge #WeAreFamily My heartfelt condolences to your family because they are my family too. We did something pretty amazing together https://t.co/2UPcaD1zUL

— Nile Rodgers (@nilerodgers) March 12, 2017

In an age when so much female-fronted music is little more than bragging about having purchased the biggest butt around, the feminist slant of “We Are Family” is to be admired:

The group is responsible for a song that may be in my personal Top 10 of allllll time:

History's 125 Hottest Gay-Porn Stars:

From: Boy Culture

How about a little towhead?

Generally speaking, it's thought that women probably emotionalize sex a bit too much for their own good. But if that's true, then men definitely mythologize it too much for our own good. We can sometimes treat our partners like crap while still

holding our heads up high, yet can wax nostalgic about unbelievably satisfying sexual encounters, revering them as if they were religious experiences.

For gay men, with no societal instruction on what happens when two guys fall in love or even just lust, pornography was for decades the primary means by which we could discover those answers

Perhaps those two observations help to explain why we take our porn so very seriously, why we could probably talk for hours about specific scenes that opened our eyes to new activities we'd previously never dreamed of and why we are so madly in love with certain familiar faces (and other parts) who seemed to teach us how to do "it" and gave us permission to stop worrying our parents would find out so we could simply enjoy being pigs—at least on occasion.

My clone and only

With all of that out of the way, what follows is my list of History's 125 Hottest Gay-Porn stars...note the hyphen, because I have no way of knowing which of these guys were/are gay-for-pay stars, I just know I've seen them in at least one in at least one dirty movie targeted to gay men, and that they did something primal for me.

Many of them are dead—not many from the Golden Age of gay adult films (let's say the '70s through 1990?) didn't contract HIV since they were working condom-free both on and often off the screen. Many others have succumbed to vices perhaps more common among guys who sell sex than among the general population. That's another thing to think about, how porn is a lot like America—obsessed with sex but too ashamed of it to deal with our interest in it, or to deal with the very real issues that pop up among those who make the porn we order but who are often shunned in practice while being venerated in theory.

Speaking of the dead, I've attempted to include their years of birth and death (along with the cause) so that there would be some kind of minimal info on each guy.

If you are any of these guys, have information on any of these guys' birth dates, death dates, what they were like in person (if you met them), where they may be now or any other tidbits—or if you would like to scream and holler at me for leaving someone out or including someone—please do comment. I look forward to it.

ENJOY THIS LIST...

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He likes to watch

#125
Mark Dalton
(Jeremy James Sons)
1980—

He's a bit of a stick-in-the-mud for avoiding having actual sex in his work (he's the king of solo pleasuring while other men have group fun around him), but this married bodybuilder—who's been convicted for possessing drugs and spent time in jail after assaulting a female acquaintance—is still quite the looker. Or rather, on-looker.

Entertainingly, he once appeared on Jenny Jones to confront a high school bully of his:

17 Days of the "Luck of the Irish"

Jackson Grant

Prince Eric Does Not Like Fish

'Bridges of Madison County' Author Robert James Waller Dies at 77

'Bridges' turned the unknown writer into a multimillionaire and made Madison County, Iowa, an international tourist attraction.
From: The Hollywood Reporter

Robert James Waller, whose best-selling, bittersweet 1992 novel The Bridges of Madison County was turned into a movie starring Meryl Streep and Clint Eastwood as well as a Broadway musical, has died, according to a longtime friend. He was 77.

Scott Cawelti, of Cedar Falls, Iowa, told the Associated Press that Weller died early Friday at his home in Fredericksburg, Texas. He had been fighting multiple myeloma, a form of cancer.

In Bridges, which Waller famously wrote in 11 days, the roving National Geographic photographer Robert Kincaid spends four days romancing Francesca Johnson, a war bride from Italy married to a no-nonsense Iowa farmer.

Waller's novel reached No. 1 on the New York Times best-seller list and stayed on it for over three years. The Eastwood-directed 1995 film adaptation grossed $182 million worldwide.

Waller wrote a sequel, A Thousand Country Roads — An Epilogue to The Bridges of Madison County, in 2002.

Many critics made fun of Bridges, calling it sappy and cliche-ridden. "Waller depicts their mating dance in plodding detail, but he fails to develop them as believable characters," Eils Lotozo wrote in The New York Times in 1993. "Instead, we get a lot of quasi-mystical business about the shaman-like photographer who overwhelms the shy, bookish Francesca with 'his sheer emotional and physical power.'"

Readers, however, bought more than 12 million copies in 40 languages. Bridges turned the unknown writer into a multimillionaire and made Madison County, Iowa, an international tourist attraction.

"I really do have a small ego," Waller told The New York Times in 2002. "I am open to rational discussion. If you don't like the book and can say why, I am willing to listen. But the criticism turned to nastiness. ... I was stunned."

The novel prompted couples across the world to marry on Madison County's covered bridges. Around the town of Winterset, population 4,200, tourists arrived by the busloads, buying Bridges T-shirts, perfume and postcards. Thousands signed in at the Chamber of Commerce office, where they could use restrooms marked "Roberts" and "Francescas."

After the novel's success, Weller left Iowa, where he had grown up, and moved to a ranch in Alpine, Texas, 50 miles from the nearest town. He also divorced his wife of 36 years, with whom he had a daughter, Rachel Waller, and found a new partner in Linda Bow, who worked on the ranches as a landscaper.

Weller grew up in Rockford, Iowa, and he was educated at the University of Northern Iowa and Indiana University, where he received his doctorate. He taught management, economics and applied mathematics at the University of Northern Iowa from 1968 to 1991. Waller's seven books include Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend, which unseated Bridges on the best-seller list, Border Music and Puerto Vallarta Squeeze.

A musical was made of The Bridges of Madison County in 2014 starring Kelli O'Hara and Steven Pasquale with a score by Jason Robert Brown, but it closed after just 137 performances on Broadway. A national tour starring Elizabeth Stanley kicked off in 2015.

STATEMENT 45

365 Groovy Books Worth Reading

From: Deep Dish

Dingley Falls

Michael Malone

1980

The Washington Post Book World accurately described it as "a lovable, sprawling, old-fashioned kind of novel" about the residents of Dingley Falls, Connecticut (its large cast of characters reminded me of a Robert Altman film).

11 ICONIC LGBT WOMEN FROM HISTORY WHO WILL INSPIRE YOU

From: Bear World

Roberta Cowell

1918-2011

British trans racing driver and World War II pilot.

She is known as the first woman to undergo sex reassignment surgery. Her surgery was performed by Sir Harold Gillies, who is thought of as the father of plastic surgery.

8 Great Old Hollywood Feuds To Rival Bette And Joan

From: NewNowNext

Elizabeth Taylor

vs.

Debbie Reynolds

The two actresses were close starlet pals on the MGM lot and Reynolds served as matron of honor at Taylor’s wedding to film producer Mike Todd. Todd, in turn, was something of a surrogate brother to Reynolds’ husband, Eddie Fisher.

When Todd died suddenly in a plane crash, Fisher rushed to Taylor’s side to comfort her—”with his penis,” as his daughter Carrie Fisher put it. Reynolds was left to raise their two children alone, and didn’t see Taylor until years later when she had dumped Fisher for Richard Burton. Bumping into each other on a cruise, the former friends decided to bury the hatchet over dinner.

Many years later, the two appeared together in the 2001 TV movie These Old Broads, alongside Shirley MacLaine and Joan Collins.