OCTOBER IS GLBTQ+ HISTORY MONTH! Equality Forum maintains the History Month website for the GLBTQ+ community. They feature a different honouree for every day of the month. Please click the link below: GLBTQ+ History Month Naked hugs! ~ Roger ~

A Very Bromantic  Pose! Dark-skinned Rhyheim   Shabazz  and Brazilian-born Felipe   Ferreira  share a lingering embrace together! Both men are proudly gay and entirely comfortable in appearing together without any clothes whatsoever! Their nakedness is one of confidence and dignity! Thank you both, Rhyheim  and Felipe! Naked hugs! ~ Roger ~ Please note: The next post here is published on October 1, 2024!  

  Within the Northern Hemisphere, one of the more popular of summer activities is skinny-dipping (swimming naked)! As the idea of an actual "swim-suit" gaining popularity and becoming fashionable during the Victorian Era (middle 1800's), it is not surprising that swimming without  any aquatic apparel whatsoever is once again becoming the "stylish" thing to do! Before the introduction of garments specifically designed to wear while swimming, everyone engaged in nude aquatics. The widespread growth of modesty and the Christian religion led to the practice of gender segregated swimming (such as the females in the morning, males in the afternoon). Most swimming was limited to natural sources of water, such as beaches (oceanic), lakes, rivers, etc. The massive construction of man-made pools didn't begin until the early 1900's. Almost everyone complied with the gender restrictions by municipality. In the books written by Mark Twain (Thomas Clemens), such as To...

  UNFORTUNATE AND UNLUCKY: FRIDAY THE 13TH! Introduction: There are three major reasons for the association of Friday the 13th  being considered unlucky. One reason is from a Norse legend and the other two are from the Christian religion. The Norse (Viking) legend relates how twelve of their gods were having dinner while in Valhalla. The trickster god, Loki, wasn't invited but arrived anyway. He caused a disturbance that resulted in the god, Hoor, shooting and killing the god, Balder, with a mistletoe-tipped arrow. Upon his death, the Earth darkened and mourned. One of the Christian origins is that when the Last Supper was held, the evening before his Crucifixion, twelve disciples shared the meal with Jesus Christ. Judas, who would betray him, would have been the thirteenth person present at the meal.  The second Christianity inspired tale concerns the Crusader initiated Order of the Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and the Temple of Solomon (Knights Templar). They were the...

  As a bare practitioner, a proud same gender loving man who prefers his nakedness, we all understand that our nakedness will, at times, produce a reaction that is totally natural; such as a casual erection that we simply didn't forsee immediately. We just act natural and keep on with life! Naked hugs! ~ Roger ~