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ADULT CONTENT: Access to this blog RESTRICTED to 18 years of age or older! NSFW photos and videos published here are carefully selected to assure that no model is under 18 years of age. The blogger makes no claim to ownership of any photo, video, or text published here. If you have a copyright claim or other concern I should honor, please contact me by e-mail: aomm.tumblr@gmail.com OR click "Ask me anything" and let me know. The blog began on February 5th, 2011 as an educational-entertainment site with the following principal objectives:

FIRST, to be sure we not only feel good about who we are—gay, straight or bi, but also are proud of our orientation and identity. This was the subject of our first post and thus worth putting first in this list.

SECOND, that we treat masturbation as a sacred part of our natural selves—something virtually all of us do (or have done)—a time to communicate with ourselves and enjoy the deep physical pleasures that are also part of our humanity. In doing so we counter guilt, shame, and fear that have been used to defile this sacred part of the human experience.

THIRD, that we value love in same-sex relationships much as we do loving relationships between men and women. When we feel good about and love ourselves, we are better able to love others. We celebrate same-sex relationships—men loving men—in our Loving Couples Series. The photography captures the beauty of this expression of love whether just holding hands, kissing, frotting, and the like or deeply in manly embrace. Our passion is also directed toward safer expressions of these loving relationships.  

FOURTH, that we celebrate the artistry, poetry, literature, drama, cinema, and other great contributions gay and bisexual men have made and, of course, still do.

FIFTH, that we unpack the (mis)interpretations that underlie the war between religion and sexuality that are at the root of the guilt, shame and fear that cause so much harm. For those of us who are religious to a greater or lesser degree, we can take comfort in knowing that God made us the way we are. For those of us who are secular, we see who we are simply as part of nature.

In this the blog’s second year, there is still so much to do. Please help by sending your inputs to: aomm.tumblr@gmail.com

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Sketch by Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)

We know Leonardo’s love of male figures from the many sketches he made of them preparatory to painting—more males even than of females! At 23 or 24, Leonardo was accused of making love to one of his male models then about 17, although with no witnesses the charge was dismissed. Throughout his life he was rumored to have male lovers, but he understandably remained “closeted,” given sanctions he would have suffered in 15th- and 16th-century Florence. Leonardo’s art remains, in any event, a great monument to humankind in which followers of this blog can take PRIDE.

Photo Source: http://jonnodotcom.tumblr.com/post/4635019119/leonardo-da-vinci-b-15-april-1452-a-nude-man

nude man (the Royal Collection)

In the background of Leonardo’s “Virgin of the Rocks” (see below) we see clearly the rocks as metaphor—the shape and position of an erect phallus and testicles and, if you look closely, others in the background. What message is Leonardo sending us?

For more on Leonardo’s life and his gay side:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci’s_personal_life

http://gaylife.about.com/od/gaycelebrityprofiles/f/leonardodavinci.htm

http://arthistory.about.com/cs/last_suppe1/f/leogay.htm

Fine Art & Craft of Masturbation By and For Men

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