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Gallery II: Stolen Hairiness

All pics on this page are stolen from the depths of the internet, or from various magazines. Actually, I would love to link to the nice places I got them from, but if I do, everyone - who doesn't consider me to be one yet - will think I'm a pervert for visiting such horrid locations. As for now, I'm just a hypocrite. ... For revenge, anyone may take pictures from here and put them anywhere they like.

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	A cute guy riding an Israeli train and ... blowing soap bubbles.  (Yes, you guessed right, this is from a gay site ...)
	Some Turkish oil wrestlers. Wouldn't you just love to join them ...?  (Find out more about this fascinating tradition - Kirkpinar in Turkish - at this Japanese page, and see more nice pics at this French page.)

	Gay, but not goy, love. Look at that nice arm ...
	Slightly censored, but despite that, quite enjoyable. (Hey, I've got family members looking at my pages! Also, I'm a nice, idealistic person somewhere deep within all the corruption.)  Still, he really is too muscular for my taste. But I do think my mother will like him ...
	An Arab guy with a hairy chest.
	A guy with a furry back.
	A Russian guy from Perm, with a removed half with an unnecessary female companion. Not that he's too attractive, but just for the fun of it. Photograph by Yury Vladimirovych Chernyshev, who shares an online gallery with some slightly more talented people.
	What a sweet little one. And the wristwatch is there, too.
	One of the advantages of being very hairy is that you can express your creativity in interesting ways.
	This was simply too good to retouch, and I hope no one takes offense. It's just so funny ...
	A very cropped picture. (Why do they have to pose like that, anyway ...?)
	Examining his chest's hairiness.
	A slightly older guy, for those who like that.
	I might consider descending to a cliché, and titling this one 'sleeping beauty', if he only had a bigger nose.
	That's the kind of eyes I like. His lips I'm not so sure about ... the risk is, that they would make mine (which usually seem perversely large if I wear even the least bit of lipstick) look rather thin in comparison.
	The camel is hairy ...  This is a photograph of the camel driver Amour and his dear camel friend (whose name is unknown to me), taken by Robyn Hills. See more pieces by this photographer.
	Here's a sweaty Turk, apparently from Istanbul, with eyebrows that grow into each other.
	Hairiness in tropical environment. Awww, isn't he just adorable?
	The guy in the back looked scary, so I cut away most of him. The guy in the front also looks a bit scary, but he has nice eyes ...
	This little one is trying to look a bit dangerous in his leather jacket. The texture of his hair is quite interesting.
	This guy in a purple shirt isn't hairy, but he looks nice otherwise, so he can be here, too.
	Something for us who like ears that stand out.
	A young guy who looks very sweet, and should find something better for himself than posing for porn videos.  In the pornography debate, people always talk about how it's 'degrading' for women, but they keep forgetting about the fact that there are men who work in the industry as actors, too. Is pornography as 'degrading' and 'objectifying' for men as it is for women? Certainly.
	A leaner guy, who is also yet another example of how  people from this region tend to insist on ruining their wonderful hair by putting smelly gook in it. Furthermore, he's wearing slightly embarrassing clothing. (I wouldn't be caught dead in those shorts ...)

Pic from the Swedish Assyrian Youth Organisation. Pic by Chris Powell, crappy scan by me and Mårten.

Nuri Kino is a Swedish journalist with Assyrian background, who says that "for us Assyrians, vanity is a spice", and thus likes showing off his nice chest hair.  After fleeing Turkey with his family, he went to school in Germany and Sweden, and they settled in the latter country. Nuri became (among other things) caretaker, teacher, barman, medical secretary and pizza baker, until people forced him to go study journalistics. After becoming a freelance journalist, Nuri very soon won the 'Golden Spade' prize for investigative journalism together with Wolfgang Hansson in 2000, for a reportage on human smuggling in Europe.  Nuri loves his Sweden, his Mesopotamia, and his boundless net of contacts. Some of his many mottos are: "The limits are in your way of thinking", "Facts are sacred, opinion is divine", and "You have to love what you're doing, or you might just as well quit". He wants to be a journalist who fights for the weak. And he swears that he will never ever sell his soul.  (Two interviews with Nuri, in Swedish: Assyriska Ungdomsförbundet i Sverige <> Journalisten)

Abdul Ahmad from Afghanistan has been selling carrots for a year now. Before that, he was unemployed, due to his disability, and "just sat around at home sleeping", as he puts it himself. But through the Swedish Afghanistan Committee's rehabilitation program CDAP, he received a grant to start his little business in Talokán. "I'm doing very well, I can support my family!", Abdul says with a broad smile. I kind of fell for the young man in the background, with his one eyebrow and his smile perhaps even more irresistible than Abdul's. But the Swedish Afghanistan Committee's magazine Afghanistan-nytt, from whom I've stolen the picture, won't tell me who he is ...  (And no, I do not subscribe to the magazine only because it has pictures of hunky Afghans in it.)

	This would seem to be a nice guy to wake up next to, even though he shouldn't have shaved quite as recently ... And he's also doing something strange with his ear. In the other picture, his nose looks a bit too small. But I like his armpits ...
	Brad Hunt is not Arabian, but he's trying very hard ...
	Two cute diving instructors on the island Kish in the Persian Gulf (made famous by Marziyeh Meshkini's film The Day I Became a Woman). On the left, Ali, and on the right, Hamid. See more of Ali's and Hamid's adventures on photographer Kaveh's page.
	Zanyar Adami, of Iranian Kurd origin, is one of the hottest guys in Swedish media today. He started out as a columnist for Metro and later DN, and founded the magazine Gringo, which in a humorous way protests against the stereotypical depiction of non-european immigrants in the media . He is adorably idealistic and wants to change the world, in a collective way. He says his personal trauma is that all the other men in his family have gorgeous singing voices, which they've always been able use for charming women, but that his own voice sucks. But Zanyar - if you'd just take off your shirt while singing, slowly, gradually exposing your breathtaking hairiness, your voice will surely be the most beautiful thing anyone has ever heard ... (I'm dead serious!)

How hairy is the Russian rock band Splin? A screen shot from the slightly gross video of the song Pil-Kuril (concerning itself with drunk driving and insane hospital staff) reveals that almost everyone is, except - oh, fate, why do you mock me? - singer Vasilev, the one whose hairiness I had been hoping the most for. But I guess he compensates with his most adorable voice ... The five furthermost people, from left to right: tour manager Morris, guitarist Stas, singer and guitarist Vasilev, drummer Nava, flutes/backing vocals/percussion Yanik; and right behind Vasilev - bassist Vados. But where is Koka-Kolya (piano, keyboards and such) ...?

Am I a hypocrite? In one of the descriptions above, I wrote that the guy should leave the pornography business, if he hasn't already, but at the same time, I'm posting his picture here on this site, albeit in slightly cropped form. 

Is this site pornography? I've left out the exposed genitals in all images except the towel trick picture, and most men here have only their chest and arms exposed, if even that. But when I don't know anything about the guys' personalities, I agree that they really are presented in a very one-sided and objectifying way. And it would certainly be hypocritical to argue that personality would matter more than looks here, since the whole concept of this website is about - looks. Hairy Middle Eastern looks.

I don't wish anyone to take offense from the contents of this site. Men in my society are often not allowed to perceive themselves, or to be perceived by others, as beautiful. Innumerable are the times I've heard people - both men and women - say that women in general are beautiful, and men aren't. I think this is false. These people only think so, because magazines, TV shows and commercials are filled with young, attractive women, while men are very rarely shown this way. But men are beautiful, and one should be allowed to look at men in the same way that everyone looks at women. 

I got the idea to make this website when I realised how hard it was to find pictures of attractive men on the internet. This place is virtually flowing over with lightly dressed or nude attractive women. The lightly dressed or nude men that can be found are, for the most part, rather unsympathetic, and while women in erotic pictures are quite often made to look somehow 'cute', this as good as never happens to men. Men are for the most part pictured as raw, emotionless, muscle-packed machines, and not as sweet, sensitive and funny.

I've tried to create an exception to that tendency. I don't know how well I've succeeded, though. Judging from the response to my survey, the utmost majority of my visitors are male; either interested in other hairy men, or hairy themselves and interested in people who like hairy men. 

There is very little erotic art/pornography/whatever you wish to call it, that is made for straight women, who are interested in seeing attractive men, and that actually appeals to these women, too. I've tried to create something that at least I would have appreciated if I had come across it unsuspectingly. But where are all the female visitors?

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(Someone who shares my ambitions and, to some extent, methods is the Swedish photographer Britt Marie Trensmar with her project Mangrant / Play the Man. Some scorn her for objectifying men in exactly the same way as women are constantly objectified, while others (women, too!!) are happy to see attractive, funny men in inviting poses ... In any case, all men are nicely hairy, and some of them are pretty good-looking, although they are Swedish.)

Compiled by Tinet Elmgren 2001-2003