Team Stomp Wrestling: Come for the Beefcake, Stay for the....

I don't know exactly what Team Stomp Wrestling is.  Its website doesn't work, and its Facebook page is a masterpiece of lack of information.  All I've been able to discover is:

1. It's in Lima, Ohio.

2. It's not the high school wrestling team.

3, Member regularly photographed with their shirts off.

4. All ages.

5. The Facebook page contains no photographs of anyone actually wrestling, just a lot of guys hugging.

6. The address is a long, low, nondescript building next to Rex Auto Supply and Brown Supply Company.

7.  They have a dog.

8. They have golf as well as wrestling.

9.  They go on field trips to statues of buffed guys (I'm assuming Neptune).

10. Their twitter page has a post from a guy named Zach, a "rock star pro wrestler," who is proposing to his girlfriend.  He thanks her for "being my Dwayne Johnson."

The next 100 posts are of people congratulating them with memes.

I'm guessing it's some sort of wrestling club.  I just came for the beefcake, but if you are interested in attracting new members, wouldn't you, like, somewhere on your social media sites, say what the group is?

Or do you expect everyone to just come for the beefcake?

The Many Faces of Sam McCarthy

Sam McCarthy stole the show on Dead to Me, flawlessly portraying Jen's teenage son as by turns vulnerable and angry, bitchy and endearing.  So naturally I wanted to research this up-and-coming teen idol.

He was born in 2002, son of former Brat Packer Andrew McCarthy.  He has been performing on screen since 2016, with guest roles in 4 tv series (The Family, The Jim Gaffigan Show, The Blacklist, Teen Wolf) and recurring roles in 2 (as main characters' teenage sons in Dead to Me and Condor).

Also a movie role: in All These Small Moments (2018), he plays the brother of a teenage boy who is infatuated with an older woman.

And the upcoming 18 to Party (2019), about some 8th-graders in 1984 trying to get into a nightclub.

Doesn't look like a lot of gay interest, but give him time.

An image search was not fruitful. There are dozens of "Sam McCarthy" different instagram, twitter, and facebook accounts.  It's a horrendously common name, and half the people who have it are girls.

This is definitely the right Sam, and I think the top photo is, too.

This is not the right one, but ripped anyway.




















Maybe what Sam looked like a few years ago.

Maybe what he will look like in about 10 years.

Nice abs on this Sam McCarthy.  Or is Sam the girl he's with?

A Sam McCarthy from Blenheim, which is a parish in Oxfordshire, England, home to the famous Blenheim Palace.





















This Sam McCarthy lives in Hornchurch, Barking and Dagenham, East London, about 18 miles from Trafalgar Square.  How'd you like to write all that on a trick card?

And one of these guys is a Sam McCarthy from Padua College in Australia.

There are about 8 Padua Colleges in Australia.  I don't know which one it is, except maybe the one in Victoria that represents the student body with photos like this.

I assume that one or more of these guys is named Sam McCarthy.

See also: Dead to Me.

Wrestling Mistakes

It's not what you're thinking.  These are the times I made a mistake in naming a photo that I downloaded, so trying to track down the actual high school, college, or city turned , so it turned into a major hassle, if it was possible at all.

1. Atlantic. A wrestling conference?  Florida Atlantic University.?  The singlets don't help: "All I see is gold" and "Westlaw," which is a legal publishing company.

I tried "Atlantic High School," and came up with Atlantic, Iowa, 2000 miles from the Atlantic Ocean.

2. Creek High School.  There's a Cherry, Fall, Spruce, Silver, Indian, Middle, Clear, Summer, Queen, Stewart, Tate, White, Sand, Harper, Sage, Goose, Bear, and Deer Creek, and just plain "Creek High Schools" in Georgia, Florida, Virginia, Texas, Colorado, and Karachi.  Maybe I should have been a bit more specific.

3. Dory.  Like John Dory from Fear the Walking Dead?  This one was easy to fix: Derry High School, Derry, Pennsylvania. Isn't there a poem in the Lord of the Rings with a refrain "Derry down derry?"

4. IgnacioBobcat.  I assumed that Ignacio was the name of the wrestler, and started searching for Bobcat teams.  35 Bobcats later, I searched for schools, on the off chance that someone would name their high school Ignacio.

Yep.  Ignacio High School, Ignacio, Colorado, home of the fighting Bobcats.  Not a very cheery place: the home page has links to Financial Transparency, Safe 2 Tell Anti-Bullying, Suicide Prevention, and a list of students honored for their citizenship, responsibility, or TRRFCC.

5.  HasbroHeights.  No such place: "Hasbro" is a toy company.  But there's a Hasbrouck Heights in Bergen County, New Jersey, home town of Frank Sinatra, Tony Orlando, and Jason Biggs.  Hasbrouck Heights High is home of the Aviators.
















6. Bergen.  Sounds like Bergen, New Jersey, and there's a "New Jersey" on the poster behind him, but there is no high school or college named Bergen. 

North Bergen High has red singlets.

Turns out that there's another Bergen, New York, with a Byron-Bergen Senior High, home of the fighting yellow Honeybees.

7. IenelPahtherhawkx.  Panther Hawks?  Sounds like a weird hybrid beast.  No high school or college team with that name. 

No city named Ienel.

Cornell University's team is the Black Panthers.

I suppose Ienel could turn into Cornell,but what's with the hawks?











8. SekmaSuperman.  No high school or college team named The Supermen, no town named Sekma.

Sekmet is the ancient Egyptian warrior goddess,but no teams named after her.

Google images kept wanting me to say Selma instead, but neither of the two Selmas have grey singlets.

Maybe he's from Seckman High School in Imperial, Missouri, home of the Jaguars.

Yep: I even found the original article, where he's a two-time champ who plans to go on to Arizona State.

9.WS.  Western State?  White Sands?  Warren School?  Who knows?

The Beefcake that Might Have Been: Missed Opportunities for Physique-Watching

You walk into a restaurant.  There's a cute guy sitting at a booth, and an empty booth next to him. Beefcake alert!

"A booth, please," you ask the hostess.

And she leads you right past the cute guy to a booth on the other side of the room!

Beefcake potential lost forever.

Or you're sitting next to an empty table, and the hostess brings a muscle god and his female companion over.

"Please sit facing me!" you pray.  "Please, please, please!"

But he sits with his back to you.  For the next 45 minutes, you're looking at the back of of a muscle god.










Or you're sitting in the Student Union, playing on your cell phone, when a tall hunk of military massiveness passes.  You snap his picture -- but he turns his head at the last minute.

What's the point of a body without a face to attach it to?

Here are some more of my regrettable missed opportunities.

The bear's not bad, but you should have seen the mega-hottie sitting opposite him.

I walked past on the way to the bathroom to get a good frontal look.  Breathtaking.  A side view behind a booth doesn't do him justice.  I got a clear view of his girlfriend, though, if you're into that sort of thing.

Camera facing a bright window.  No matter how I fiddle with it, the photo won''t come out.  Believe me, the guy was hot.

A college football jock hiding behind his mother's bare back.  Have you ever noticed that the ordinary outfits of women show a lot more skin than the ordinary outfits of men?  Bare arms, shoulders, fronts, backs.  It's not fair!

What compelled him to sit facing that direction, while his unattractive friend faced me?

You had to pick that moment to turn your head?



















The waiter's not bad, but the guy he was serving was astonishing.

See also: Physique Watching at the County Fair

10 Swim Team Mysteries

In my quest for small-town beefcake, I've accumulated a lot of photos of small-town high school and college swim teams posing for the camera.  Most of them are straightforward, a row of guys in speedos standing in front of a swimming pool, arms crossed or behind their backs, with a coach in the middle.

 Sometimes two rows.  But a few of the photos are just -- well, odd.  One has to wonder about the mindset of whoever thought it was a good idea to publish the photo on the team website, or in the newspaper.






1.  How old is this team? The guy on the far left looks around 30, and the fourth over, about 10.

2.  Speaking of age, did one of their dads get into the photo by mistake?  Dig the false smile of the guy standing next to him.

3.  N.O.L. must mean "blond only."

4. Dude, when the coach said "Wear speedos," that's not what he meant.

5. Ok, I guess it's a swim cap, but it looks like green glop on his head.


More after the break

The Homoerotic Icons of George Platt Lynes

George Platt Lynes (1907-1955) was an intimate of many of the gay writers and artists of Paris between the wars, such as Gertrude Stein, Thornton Wilder, Rene Crevel, and Jean Cocteau, as well as the gay literati of 1940s New York, such as Paul Cadmus, Jared French, and Gore Vidal.


He photographed any number of luminaries, many of them his lovers, as well as a stable of young musclemen, many of them his lovers, too.

But his most beautiful and homoerotic photos were taken in 1943, featuring the lithe, muscular, very well hung Charles "Buddy" Stanly.

Most involve a partner, Charles "Tex" Smutney.

We are told nothing more about them except they were gymnasts, and sexologist Alfred Kinsey expressed surprise that they never got erections, in spite of their intimate poses. In his memoirs, Lynes' lover, novelist Glenway Wescott notes that they did get erections, off camera.

Who were these icons of homoerotic art?

I find no further mention of Buddy Stanley, but Charles Smutney moved far afield from Texas, to become a choreographer and dance instructor at Smith College in Massachusetts.

All we have are the photographs, a memory of a long-ago summer day

10 Black Guys in Bondage

If you are attracted to black men and to men in bondage, why not combine the two?

It's not that easy.  There are very few gay black men into BDSM, and those few are usually tops.  After years of collecting, I have only about 100 photos and videos, and those are mostly movie caps.

Here are my favorite non-movie photos of black men in bondage.

1. Nice biceps and abs on display.

2. The cropping is a little off, but you can't complain about that sculpted physique.

3. Two guys together is always hotter than a guy alone.

4.  Where to classify him: black men, bondage, or men in suits?

5. The red shorts contrast beautifully with the gleaming abs.

More after the break.

6.  Arms behind the back, and a camouflage jockstrap.

7.  Not very muscular, but have you ever seen such long arms? 

8.  Mature men in bondage.

9. Massive chest.

10. Spreadeagle on the bed.

See also: 10 Black Guys in Bondage: The X-Rated Version