More Crazy Commercial Art from the Past

Back in the days when GAY only meant "happy and joyous", and TOP only meant the upper part of anything, someone dreamed up a product called GAYTOP!  I just had to share this with you on my blog.

Next is an interesting German picture which combines the heroic male nude statues (yum!) of Hitler's Third Reich with the German eagle symbol. Wouldn't it be cool if they could make airplanes that looked like this? 

Next, another underwear ad in color. This guy might "feel like a million", but his crotch seems "dead and buried"! Poor man.

Isn't it interesting, that in the 1950's and 1960's, only women could be sexy? Women wore brassieres that shoved their chests out at the world. Here's a famous picture of Italian actress Sophia Loren ogling the "practically-falling-out-of-her-dress" boobs of Jayne Mansfield. Mamma mia.

In those days, men weren't allowed to be sexy. Like the man in the underwear commercial above, we guys were expected to "strap ourselves in" so that all traces of having male genitalia would remain obliterated. Jantzen swimwear ads never vary; the men in them have flat, flat crotches. And the waists are so darn high! 

Then we have "The Catalinas", named after that island off the coast of Southern California. The colors are nice. The material looks great. But the swimsuits have NO sex appeal whatsoever! It must have been boring to go to the beach in those days, surrounded by a bunch of "castrated-looking" guys, with no bulging crotches or bouncing buttocks to enjoy looking at. Ho hum.

Then, at the end of the 1960's, things started to change, and men were finally allowed to be sexy. Just look at these paperback novels from back then. Here are men with nice big packages in their bulging swimwear/underwear. It must have been a fantastic and delicious surprise to see these books on sale for the first time! Animan's World celebrates the natural man, "letting it all hang out"!

Look at My Underwear!

Here we are with some more vintage men's underwear commercials. This first one is interesting. This underwear is for "manly men".  Which means, that if you're a man and you don't wear it, you're not manly! (Oh no!) The boxing gloves and the trophy on the table emphasize the "Sports = Masculine" equation. But they don't mean a thing unless you're wearing the right type of panties!

Here we have the "Reliance Ensenada". Instead of just "reliance", they have added "Ensenada", the name of a city in Mexico. Why? I have no idea! Maybe it sounds more exotic. They should have called it "Reliance Enchilada", because it's one of my favorite Mexican dishes.  These two dads are pulling apart a pair of boxer shorts--look at their faces. They look like twins! That's because the artist had one model, who posed in two positions. I wonder if the artist thought nobody would notice?

Here they are--the Reis Scandals, those scandalous undergarments designed to make men sit up and take notice of what shocking things their pals may be wearing underneath that uniform. It's show-and-tell time, Guys!

This one is an actual photo. The young dude is hitching up his panties and letting his older pal get a very good look! The older guy looks like he's ready to reach out and lend a helping hand. He seems to be saying, "Nice underpants, Todd. Come over here and sit next to me, and let me have a closer look...."

All the pictures so far have shown men wearing underpants, with almost no bulge in their crotches. It's very unnatural. The picture below is different. Dad is smoking his pipe in true 1950s style, and he has a nice, healthy bulge in his crotch. He seems to be showing it off. The other man's age is in question; we don't know whether it's another dad or a younger man. His gaze is fixed squarely on dad's groin, and he himself is bent over, showing off his buttocks in the tight underpants. Even though the men are wearing clothes, this picture is just as sexy as any gay porn on the internet these days!