PHOTOS: Gentlemen Of A Certain Age Captured Beautifully In These Erotic Nudes

“I believe that every age and body type deserves to be photographed,” Olivier Autissier tells Queerty. “I do not just want to photograph ‘beautiful’ people. I want to photograph all types of men. Because aren’t all men beautiful?”

Related: Sexy Body-Positive Photo Series Challenges Perceptions Of Male Beauty

Autissier lives and works in Paris. He’s been photographing male nudes for about six years now. Most of his models are men in their 40s, 50s, and older.

Related: PHOTOS: These Everyday Guys Captured In Provocative Photo Series Will Leave You Breathless

“I’m so tired of photographs of younger men–hairless, thin, between 20 and 25 years old,” he explains. “What about men who are 50 to 70 years? To me, there is no specific age when a person stops being erotic or glamorous or worthy of being photographed.”

Scroll down for a sampling of Autissier’s work, and see more very NSFW images on his Flickr page and website…

www.queerty.com/photos-gentlemen-certain-age-captured-beautifully-erotic-nudes-20160925?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+queerty2+%28Queerty%29

Road Trip With A Hustler, Gay Acrobats In Love, The Moment You Become A Real B*tch

Gay acrobat lovers create a truly mesmerizing performance art piece — quite unlike anything we’ve ever seen before:

Ever wonder what it’s like to be an Orthodox Jewish gay man? A new documentary called “Who’s Gonna Love Me Now?” will school you right quick:

A gay road trip with a lonely middle-aged man and a hustler? What could possibly go wrong? A new drama called Retake takes a walk on the gritty side:

Everyone remembers that pivotal moment when you’re finally accepted as being a total friggin’ goddamn bitch.

Didn’t get enough of the gravity-defying gay acrobats in love? Here, they talk about why they decided to make the video:

www.queerty.com/road-trip-hustler-gay-acrobats-love-moment-become-real-btch-20160925?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+queerty2+%28Queerty%29

Flip Flops And Armpits And Corpses, Oh My! Guys Describe Favorite Fetishes

What is a fetish?

According to the Merriam Webster Dictionary, a fetish is “a need or desire for an object, body part, or activity for sexual excitement.”

How normal is it to have a fetish?

According to Jake Myers, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist based in Los Angeles, fetishes are a totally natural part of being human.

Related: Five Ways To Embrace & Enjoy Your Kinky Fetish

“Fetishes, while often seeming strange to many of us, are most often harmless,” Myers tells Queerty. “In fact, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V) does not include them as a disorder unless they cause significant distress, in which case they are classified as a paraphilia.”

Myers continues: “Research is still being done about fetishes and what causes them, and while results are still confusing and inconclusive, many theorize that they are the result of an early ‘imprinting’ in the brain, where sexual stimulation was somehow merged with a particular image, act, body part, or idea in while the brain was in development phases.”

Related: PHOTOS: Nothing Is Off Limits Inside Amsterdam’s Most Popular Fetish Club

“From a therapy perspective, I think it is important to remove the stigma that many fetishes often have,” Myers continues. “It’s not ‘perverted’ to be attracted to a particular thing or idea (while some things are weirder than others!), as long as it’s harmless. In fact, often where the worse damage can occur is from repression of that desire and the shame that one can carry around because of that.”

Here’s what five different guys had to say about their fetishes…

Nolan

Age: 24

Location: New York

Sexual orientation: Gay

Fetish: Armpits (A.K.A. maschalagnia)

I’d been curious about armpits since I was in middle school. I was still figuring out my sexuality and sometimes seeing or smelling a guy’s armpit in the locker room really aroused me. Throughout high school I lusted after pits from afar, and kept it very much to myself. Then I was hooking up with a guy in college and he just started licking my pits, which I took as an invitation to return the favor.

There is something about armpits that I find particularly masculine–something to do with the hair, the sweat, the smell, or a combination of all these things. I also have a bit of a submissive streak, and licking and smelling a guy’s pits has undertones of submission (at least to me). I love burying my face in a guy’s armpits, inhaling his scent, and licking and tasting them. It feels somewhat primal, and there’s something about the dirtiness of it–that it’s not supposed to be a desirable thing–that makes it hot as well. To a certain extent, the sweatier and stinkier the better.

Alex

Age: 37

Location: Los Angeles

Sexual orientation: Bisexual

Fetish: Flip flops (A.K.A. retifism)

I am from Brazil and everybody there wears Havaianas flip-flops. Those are the only ones that I have a fetish for. I remember playing checkers with a friend in my bedroom when I was 10 or 11. We decided that the loser had to pull his pants down and the winner would smack his ass with his Havaianas. I would always try to lose because I used to get erections from getting smacked. Maybe it stems from that.

Just looking at a guy wearing Havaianas turns me on. I like guys to wear them when we have intercourse. I also like them to smack my ass with them. I am not sure why, but I think it might have to do with the submissiveness of it that excites me.

Very few times has someone called me a freak because my fetish. Usually guys who go along with it also want for me to perform their fetishes. Once I met a guy that was totally into socks and made me wear them the entire time we hooked up. He even picked out the socks for me, I guess, to make sure I met his fetish expectations.

Gustavo

Age: 26

Location: New York

Sexual orientation: Gay

Fetish: Dentistry (A.K.A. odontophilia)

There’s just something about watching a hot guy in dental scrubs put on a tight pair of gloves. I love watching him snap them on and then hearing them being taken off. I usually watch YouTube videos of guys “gloving” instead of porn. 

When I go to the dentist, I love sitting in the chair and waiting for him to get his needle and numb me up. I don’t know why. There’s just something about watching him with the syringe that I really, really like.

It is not easy finding guys who are in to my fantasy. It’s very specific and some would say “extreme,” and it’s almost impossible to find dentists in New York to go along with it. I used to live in Dallas and found it easier there. Mainly now all my play has come from Craigslist. I’ve found a couple on Recon and FetLife, but mainly I have to use Craigslist.

Michael

Age: 29

Location: Los Angeles

Sexual orientation: Gay

Fetish: Water sports (A.K.A. urolagnia)

I’ve been into water sports for about six years. I think seeing it done in porn planted the seed for my fetish. My first actual experience with it was after I replied to a Craigslist ad of someone looking for a “recipient” partner in a NSA anonymous setting. I replied, exchanged the usual details as one does when responding to a Craigslist post of this nature, then had him over.

I really enjoy the submissive aspect of water sports. My favorite scene to do water sports is in a group setting. I’ve found that when it’s 1-on-1, the water sports part only lasts a couple of minutes at the most. When there’s a group setting, there are more people so the play lasts longer. I’ve found several sex parties that host water sports events. I’ve also found some bars in Europe that have tubs in their backroom sections. The crowds at these places are usually into pig play/fetishes which makes it easier to find like-minded people to play with.

This isn’t something I’ve shared with any of my friends. As for lovers, I’ve found it difficult to bring it up with guys I date/have stronger emotions towards. I find it frustrating how difficult exploring and enjoying fetishes can be when sex culture is kept “hush hush” and underground. It’s really refreshing when you meet people who have similar tastes in fetishes.

Bill

Age: 49

Location: New Jersey

Sexual orientation: Gay

Fetish: Playing dead (a.k.a. tier 1 necrophilia)

My interest in death goes back for as long as I can remember. Definitely back to childhood. I can remember pretending to “kill” my friends in some sort of play mode. I was, like, 10 years old. It was definitely not sexual at that point. I also remember having a fascination with pictures of dead people, too.

I didn’t come out until I was 24. Once I became sexually active, it wasn’t long before I started acting out my fetish. Probably 25 to 26 years old. I prefer men pretending to play dead over pictures of real dead people. I like to undress the “corpse” and feel them and move them around and manipulate them. It’s about having complete and utter control over someone.

I spent years in therapy and doing self-help to try and understand all of this, and really drove myself crazy for a while. Here is the outcome I’ve come up with after 35 years of self-analyzation: All this is is a sexual desire. It does not define me, own me, run my life. It’s just a fetish and there is nothing wrong with it.

www.queerty.com/flip-flops-armpits-corpses-oh-five-guys-talk-favorite-fetishes-20160925?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+queerty2+%28Queerty%29

7 Gays & Lesbians Working To Put Hillary Back Where She Belongs: In The White House

Comparing Donald Trump’s campaign staff to Hillary Clinton‘s is like comparing an alfalfa sprout to a redwood. While Trump is happy to rely on a skeletal staff (whom he doesn’t always pay), Clinton is running a high-powered machine with approximately ten times as many staffers as Trump. When it comes to LGBTQ support, the disparity is even greater. Trump’s gay supporters can easily fit in a restaurant booth and are noteworthy for not looking anything like the rest of the community. Clinton’s gay supporters are far more numerous, pegged at 84% in one poll. 

Clinton’s campaign reflects those numbers in its staff, including the most powerful positions in the campaign. But it’s not just the campaign staff pulling for the candidate.

Related: Seven Gay (Or Gay-ish) Men Who Helped Unleash Awful Donald Trump On The World

Here’s a rundown of seven people (or, in one case, group of bros) both in and outside the campaign, angling for Clinton’s election…

Robby Mook

Clinton chose Mook last year to be her campaign manager, and true to his reputation, he’s run a drama-free shop. Even as Clinton’s lead has been shrinking in the polls, Mook has been focused on the Election Day ground game. “We expect it to tighten even further,” Mook told the Washington Post. “That’s why we built a robust campaign in all 50 states, but especially in the battleground states.” Mook is trying to duplicate the data-driven efforts that put Obama over the top in 2008 and 2012. Should he succeed, he will likely have a choice position among the inner circle in a Clinton White House.

Heather Stone

Helping Mook in the campaign is a long-time colleague, Heather Stone. Stone, who is among the staffers featured in the campaign’s Pride Video, serves as the operation’s chief of staff. In that role, Stone is responsible for making sure that the various departments within the campaign work well together. It’s a behind-the-scenes position, but one with a lot of influence. Stone had previously served as deputy national political director at the Service Employees International Union, which may have helped Clinton secure the 2 million-member union’s endorsement last November.

David Brock

Brock started his political career as a hatchet man for the right wing in the 1990s, trying to tie the Clintons to all sorts of nefarious activities. Now he’s a hatchet man for Clinton, running a super PAC, Correct the Record, that coordinates with the campaign. Brock’s conversion came, he says, when he realized that all his conservative peers were homophobes. (His critics say that explanation is more convenient than true.) Say what you will about his motivations, Brock goes after the right with the same gusto that he went after the Clinton’s 20 years ago. One example: Brock is offering a $1 million reward for anyone who can come forward with dirt on Donald Trump.

 

Dominic Lowell

Lowell serves at the Clinton campaign’s LGBT liaison. You would think this would be a slam-dunk position, but Lowell has had his share of grief, most notably when his boss suggested that Nancy Reagan was a great advocate for AIDS causes. Lowell was on the receiving end of a lot of irate phone calls from people old enough to remember a far different reality. Clinton quickly apologized and was just as quickly forgiven, but the episode served as a reminder that Lowell still has to deal with friendly fire.

Brynne Craig

Craig got her start in 2008 as a field organizer for Clinton’s campaign, just a year after she graduated from Smith. Now she’s chief of staff for field operations for the whole campaign. Another friend of Mook’s, Craig usually arrives at the campaign’s Brooklyn headquarters before 7 a.m. to coordinate multiple projects and keep things moving in the right direction. Craig epitomizes the campaign’s reliance on young staffers, who will continue to play a significant role in Democratic politics long after this election is over.

Dennis Cheng

You’ve probably never heard of Cheng, but he has one of the key positions in Clinton’s campaign: as finance director, he’s the man responsible for fundraising.  Cheng has a reputation for being disciplined and detail-oriented, qualities that were in short supply in Clinton’s first presidential campaign. Cheng worked on that race, and then followed Clinton to the State Department and ultimately the Clinton Foundation, where he was the development office. came to this race via the Clinton Foundation, where he served as   Cheng is just one of several out staffers working on the finance side of the campaign. For example, Aditi Hardikar, who was the Obama administration’s LGBT liaison, is finance director for coalitions.

Related: Be Very Afraid: 7 Ways Donald Trump Could Become Our Next President

Bros4Hillary

Bros4Hillary is an L.A.-based group with more than 11,000 members, or about 11,000 more than its counterpart, Twinks for Trump, has. Although open to anyone, the Bros are mostly gay, as the shirtless hunks in their recruiting video attest to. Just in case you still had a question, you can join them at one their debate parties.

Ellen DeGeneres

DeGeneres is probably the highest-profile out celebrity backing Clinton. She’s been a vocal supporter of Clinton for years, and is representative of Clinton’s deep Hollywood support. “I think you stand for everything that I want in a president,” Ellen told Clinton last January. DeGeneres may be a high-profile backer, but she’s hardly alone. Among Clinton’s other entertainment industry supporters are Jim Parsons, Matt Bomer, Rosie O’Donnell, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Lee Daniels and Ricky Martin.

That’s in contrast to Trump’s band of has-beens, like Scott Baio and Antonio Sabato Jr.

Photo credit: Vincent Secrease via Twitter

www.queerty.com/seven-gays-lesbians-working-put-hillary-back-belongs-white-house-20160925?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+queerty2+%28Queerty%29

PHOTOS: Go Hard With The Guys In Greece

www.gaycities.com/photos/323-sodade/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+queerty2+%28Queerty%29

Feminine Revelations (Photos)

www.advocate.com/photography/2016/9/25/feminine-revelations-photos

Pride in California's Capitol (Photos)

www.advocate.com/pride/2016/9/25/pride-californias-capitol-photos