Jonalysis

You look cute in leather.

A display in a JetBlue Airways aeroplane.

You look cute in leather.
Enjoy your comfy leather seat.

The same display a moment later.

It angers me if a man is smug, arrogant and showy in an unrestrained way. However, it may arouse me if a man is smug, arrogant and showy in a playful and teasing way. In a way that signals: “I’m not really a prick. Well, maybe just a little. But you just like it, don’t you?”

Watching the music video “Can’t hold back” by Kaz James did not anger me.

I liked Kaz’s expressions and gestures in the video. The lyrics of the song promote the impression of arrogance: “Money, fame, true love is bullshit but baby I’ll take it.”

Kaz wears black leather pants in the video. That is, of course, not a disadvantage of any kind if you ask a leather fetishist like me.

Somebody claimed the other day that as one gets older, one gets more selective with regard to men. Perhaps that is true in some respects, but it is not true for me as far as the looks of men are concerned. The older I get, the more often I find something sexy in many kinds of men.

One of the biggest changes of heart has been my attitude towards facial hair. As a teenager, I found all facial hair unattractive. However, something changed, because in my late twenties I was already dating a man with a goatee and a moustache. Today, I find my boyfriend’s chin strip only adorable.

I am not an unqualified fan of facial hair by any account. I still dislike a full beard, for example, and a moustache without hair on the chin makes my skin crawl. However, I must admit that there are men who look more handsome with a bit of hair on their chins.

Henry Cavill seems to know this: it is difficult to find a recent photograph of him without some kind of stubble. Not that I’d necessarily want to. Cavill plays Charles Brandon in The Tudors. The third season of the series is being produced and it will be aired in 2009.

Years ago a friend of mine wanted to buy a head harness from the United States by mail order. He did not have a suitable credit card, so he paid the head harness in cash to me and I ordered it with my credit card.

I received a notice by mail that I had received a package from the United States. I went to the customs house to claim the package. I was about to leave with the package under my arm when the customs official called me back.

“The package was sent from outside the European Union, so you may have to pay customs and value-added tax on the contents”, he explained. “In order to find out how much you have to pay, you have to show what the package contains.”

I opened the package and showed the head harness to the official. He looked at it in amazement.

“Just a moment, please”, he said and left for a moment. Then he returned with a colleague. They both wondered at the head harness for a while and whispered something to each other.

“Is this… Does one use this on animals?” one of them asked. “No, it is for humans” I answered, smiling.

Now they looked even more baffled. They took out a big book and began to browse through it. After a couple of minutes, they consulted me.

“We are not sure what tariff applies here. Is it all right with you if we categorize this shipment to miscellaneous metal products? Miscellaneous leather products would be another possibility, but that would cost you more.”

Have you sent some of your photographs to some profile site? What are you trying to achieve with your photographs? How many photographs do you believe you need in order to achieve what you are trying to achieve?

I recently examined a sample of the GearFetish members that have photographs in their profiles. The sample consisted of the 164 members who had uploaded photographs to their profiles during the preceding twenty-four hours. This is what I found:

• 46 per cent of the members had at least 50 photographs in their profile.
• 29 per cent of the members had at least 100 photographs in their profile.
• 14 per cent of the members had at least 200 photographs in their profile.
• 6 per cent of the members had at least 500 photographs in their profile.
• The largest number of photographs in a profile was 5588.

I do not know what hans1943 tries to achieve with his photos in GearFetish, but I doubt that he really needs 5588 photographs to achieve it.

How to promote a profile site? That was the question that recon.com wanted director Marco Puig to answer. His answer? Four videos, featuring a boxer, a skinhead, a biker and a rubber man, and a fifth video, a collage of them all.

A beautiful answer.