Romance for Real Women

A few weeks back I intended to post Beiron Andersson and got distracted by Becks’ ad campaign for Armani…me and about every other woman in the world with a pulse and internet access. So today is Beiron day.

Back in the mid 1990’s Beiron Andersson arrived in the US from Sweden and got a gig doing Guess adverts. His photos became instant classics, so much so that when I first discovered him a couple of years ago I assumed he was still in his 20’s. I’ll admit felt a tiny bit guilty lusting after such a young guy, but he was sooooooo delicious I sucked up my shame and continued to appreciate. Then I discovered he is now 40ish and still totally lust-worthy. So today our hot guy is one of the all time hottest in his youthful glory.

And I also want to point out Armani used him in one of its bathing suit adverts. Gotta love Armani, at least its male models.

One Friday soon I’ll post some current pics. Hint: He’s still got it and may be even better.

Aloutte

I had the best intentions of branching out today to one of the all time hottest brunettes—Beiron Andersson– but current events…okay, maybe tabloid events…could not be ignored.

Yes, I’m talking about the five story high underwear advert on the front of Macy’s in downtown San Francisco. No kidding—David Beckham in nothing but Armani briefs five stories high. And the man himself was there for the unveiling or whatever they did, although he wore a suit not briefs whilst signing autographs.

All the fuss made me think—for years lingerie shows have been broadcast on TV and the internet with young busty models making a fortune strutting their stuff in push-up bras and thongs. (Not to mention making the rest of the world’s female population feel inadequate while dreaming of wearing a million dollar corset crusted in diamonds.)  So why shouldn’t Becks cash in while he still has the body to do it? And that body!! But don’t take my word for it…once again he just has to be Friday’s Hot Guy:

What more can I say?

Alouette

One of my friends, Alouette, distributes “Hot Guy Friday,” a delicious pictorial treat of beautiful men. Sometimes the images are ads, sometimes they’re action shots and occasionally they’re funny. But the guys are always hot.

Everyone on Alouette’s list looks forward to it and gets in touch with her if we don’t get it by mid-Friday.

She knows what is apparently news to our local newspaper. When David Beckham’s new ads for Armani underwear began appearing in local department stores, our local beacon of first amendment freedoms sent a reporter to check on female reactions to the image. (You will certainly remember it. Beckham is sprawled on a bed, his legs wide open, wearing the close fitting underwear. The ads are so hot, they reportedly stopped traffic in Milan and London where they were shown on billboards.)

“Now it’s our turn (to look),” said a “giggling” local female the reporter located in a department store. He apparently found her insight so newsworthy, he quoted her in the third paragraph of the story.

Well, it may have been news to him, but not to us. Real women like to look. It’s one of the reasons we go to movies, buy magazines and surf the net. It’s also one of the reasons some of us might feel compelled to weigh in on whether or not we really believe Beckham is also packing a tennis ball in the ads, something many bloggers appeared to believe.

The story went on to compare the “assets” of Beckham and Djimon Hounsou, also an Armani model.

I am not going to get into that discussion although I will point out that Mark Wahlberg, who did some of the early sexy underwear ads for Calvin Klein, looked pretty good to this real woman back then.

However potent the tennis ball issue, the truth is we do like to look. So in the interests of sharing the eye candy, Alouette has agreed to post Hot Guy Friday on this blog beginning tomorrow.

Enjoy. In the meantime, here is one of the Armani ads.