Though they look more like dancer’s tights than like men’s underwear tights, which usually have a fly.) (Looking ahead: I would call the form-fitting garment - hugging his buttocks as nicely as his package - that Helgi is wearing tights. I’ll revisit those two appearances (with notes on the sociosexual worlds of gay men) and then turn to the English garment lexicon, focusing on long johns, tights, leggings, and the union suit.īut first, a bit more about the presentation of Helgi in #1. (#1) Call him Helgi (it’s Scandinavian and heroic) he’s posing in the trendy bathing room from two other recent appearances of his - on 11/12 in a much cruder pose but still in Helsinki Athletica long johns and then on 11/3 in very brief white DJX Signature briefs, apparently contemplating the excellent penis contained within Yesterday’s mail ad from Daily Jocks, a carefully composed, even elegant, presentation of a muscular young man posing in fashionable form-fitting long johns that highlight his weighty package, while he fixes us with an intense gaze that gay men use in cruising for sex with other men (in another context, it’s the intense, fixed smoulder that straight men use in trolling for sex with women): (Men in various states of undress, visibly tumescent while minimally clothed, looking for sex with other men - so not for everyone.)
