Romance for Real Women

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

As a “woman of a certain age” and that age not being 25, I find looking at young gorgeous men is becoming more and more satisfying. This has nothing to do with the real world, my marriage or anything I actually want to do. I just like looking at them. And for the most part, the young men are images on the internet, some with names and some without.

My first visual crush was David Beckham, the most photographed man in the world. If you doubt that, you haven’t been paying attention. Or searching each week for new pictures to send out to a couple of friends in an email titled Becks Friday. Every week for over two years, I had to cull through dozens of new photos to pick out just two. Hard work but someone had to do it.

About two years I decided to expand my Friday offering to include other gorgeous men, Brad Pitt, Gabriel Aubry, Beiron Andersson, and many more made their way into my picture stash and Hot Guy Friday was born. My email distribution list has grown and HGF is forwarded to many more eager women, so we thought Real Women would enjoy a weekly treat as well. So to kick off my guest blog, the original Hot Guy, David Beckham.

First his Emporio Armani advert…

And an all time favorite, his Motorola RAZR2 advert:

The man is an inspiration…….

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.