Consider the photos above, guys.

Each and every guy in the photos above has an average sized cock. Not small. Average. I’m posting this as an adjunct to a previous post about ‘beefcake’ type males, and this immediately got me thinking about the way males in Second Life portray themselves.

I’m not immediately drawn to their cocks, though. I’d say, first and foremost, I’d focus on their faces and physique. Each one is a good looking man! In the case of the scrumptious looking one with the hairy chest…mmmmmmmmm! What a hunk!

The size of their cocks is immaterial. Their cocks don’t define them.

So why is it that so many SL men have something between their legs that’s almost routinely over-sized and unrealistic?

Above is photographed a realistically sized Second Life cock (Aero’s type). Below are a series of photographs of Midnight Lotus cocks in various sizes.

Midnight Lotus ‘Humble’ sized cock

Midnight Lotus ‘Modest’ sized cock

Midnight Lotus ‘Standard’ sized cock

All three are realistic and lets face it guys, more of you are on the side of humble or modest than maybe even ‘standard’ sized. Of course this doesn’t prevent the majority of men opting for…

…the ‘Humungous’ size (and Midnight Lotus’s cocks go even bigger than this!). No fellas. You don’t look ‘impressive’. You look ridiculous. Another word of caution would be to spend some time colouring it correctly. If it’s your pride and joy, try to look as if you’ve spent some time on it, not just slapping on the first colour that comes out of the box and looks stupid. Early *cough* research would indicate that Second Life naturist males do try to get it right whereas males on a ‘nude beach’ (there appears to be a difference, mentioning no names *cough* Skinny Dip Inn *cough*) look dreadful. If I were to be indulging in, shall we say, certain physical activities with males in Second Life, I know I’d be drawn more to the naturist male rather than the badly assembled naked male at some locations.

Abigail

I think we need to sub-divide the ‘beefcake’ into a couple of different categories. Firstly, there’s the traditional beefcake (above), of the muscular male involved in some sort of sporting prowess, sometimes nude, sometimes in a posing pouch, always shirtless.

Then there’s a category I suppose I’d describe as ‘social history’. The likelihood is that the three photographs above workers, miners perhaps, washing down at the end of their shift.

The next five are of what are described as CFNM situations. (Clothed female, nude male). The quality of the photographs is sometimes so poor as to make me wonder as if they haven’t been photoshopped in some way. While CFNM situations arise in naturism, they’re more of an ‘accidental’ situation where one gender has been clothed while in the process of getting, or having been, naked. I know I’ve often been in those situations, as a clothed female in the company of naked men, or conversely as a naked female in the company of clothed males (a CMNF scenario). In naturism these aren’t the ‘fetish/humiliation’ as portrayed in that type of photography.

There’s also the situation where naked males are posed ‘classically’, like Greek gods, perfect specimens of manhood, and that was a familiar type of photograph a hundred years ago, presumably servicing two markets, the art photograph market and a gay scene.

I’m going to guess that the photo above is of an army unit exercising or washing horses. Often there appear to be photographs of nude soldiers for the simple reason that bathing costumes would have been regarded as superfluous kit and thus communal nudity amongst male servicemen was commonplace.

Many other nude male photographs exist(ed) to satisfy a gay scene.

Cecil weightlifts and poses in a gay, beefcake scenario (photos taken in the gym at French Lovers Resort-Naturist Gay Zone)

Many skins are available to give that honed, toned, six-packed look. A certain ‘ruggedness’ is also added with designer stubble (all part of the skin effect: this skin from 7 Deadly Skins: Group Gift)

There’s no reason why men can’t look this good in Second Life and be beefcake/eye candy for the ladies. So why do so many men imagine looking like a refrigerator in terms of shoulder, or thigh, size is a good look?

Beefcake, boys, I think we ladies (and most men?) prefer a beefcake look.

Abigail