HNT: Show some He-vage

While it’s not likely that the readers of this blog are overly concerned with the popular vis-a-vis what they simply enjoy, it’s worth noting that after two decades of smooth-shaven male models (anyone remember the Calvin Klein Obsession ads from the mid 80s?), it’s now officially okay to display chest hair.
Seriously.
From the pop culture blog [...]

Skirting an issue

Okay, normally you’ll find me writing about sexuality and aging (‘cos I’m, you know, over 50 and somewhat disposed to thinking about that kind of thing), but I stumbled across an interesting article that now has me thinking about issues on the other end of the life scale.Just the title of the article from Sunday’s  [...]

Maturation

Somebody found my blog through the interesting phrase “Mature Spandex.” I’ve long since given up trying to figure out why certain phrases lead people here (and yes, Marina Sirtis is still in the top 10), but this one caught my eye. I searched on it, just to see what came up, and as I scrolled [...]

Real Lifeguards Gain Weight

Okay, at some point in the last couple of months, The Edge of Vanilla has gone from Tom Allen’s Chastity Blog (which seems to be how half the searchers find this) to Tom Allen’s Size Acceptance Blog.
I really don’t know why this has been on my mind lately, but I find that for some reason [...]

Aesthetically pleasing is not normal

It seems like once a week I run across something interesting with regard to fashion and culture.
From The Guardian (UK)

Brigitte, Germany’s most popular women’s mag,
bans professional models

• Will only use ‘real women’ in photoshoots
• Editor sick of ‘fattening girls up with Photoshop’
Brigitte, which is Germany’s best-selling women’s title with more than 700,000 copies, offers readers [...]

More to love

Glamour Magazine, apparently emboldened by the huge number of positive responses to their September 2009 issue, featuring a normal-sized woman plus-sized model sporting some belly fat, rounded up some other attractive, normal-sized women plus-sized models for their November issue.
Kudos to Glamour Magazine, and to the designers with an eye for the average woman. [...]

Artificial Beef

I know that it’s a fantasy of many chastity enthusiasts to have their keyholder lock them away and to use them as a human dildo. Some take this a little further and enjoy thinking that they will be “replaced” by a strap-on piece of silicone, or perhaps a Magic Wand.
Now we can add another level [...]

Normal-size Me

Those of you who are too intellectual (or too busy) to read the media gossip rags might have missed the latest buzz. Apparently, Glamour Magazine is publishing a picture of a model.
No, wait — not just any model. They are publishing a picture of a model who looks like a, well, less like a model [...]

This Old Body

I saw this picture in the Sunday paper, along with an article about this man and some of his work. You are looking at a recent picture of Dr. Jeffry Life.
Dr. Life was 67 years old at the time this picture was taken.
If you ignore that he has a head that looks like your grandfather, [...]

Hot ‘n’ Heavier

Okay, the comments and emails about one of my recent posts regarding heavier women having more sex than their thin sisters brings up some good points:
From Rose -
It thrills me to see someone, or to be more specific, a MAN writing freely, and unabidingly on the topic of heavy-set women, and in such a positive [...]