By Jesse Archer

In Los Angeles, the only thing I pumped at the gym was my dick. At brand name gyms, I winked my way through workouts and afterward wasted precious water jerking off with that perfect specimen in the shower opposite. Instead of muscles, I developed a keen ability to perceive the size of bulges beneath towels. My physique was disappearing, with a puff of white vapor, into the steam room. In New York, I vowed to workout more than just my forearm. I needed a gym where sex was not just unaccepted, but impossible. Along the East River, past the projects and the condemned boardwalk, just beyond the low-income housing of Stuyvesant Town, I found my answer in an elegant building that was once a public bath. Asser-Levy is a Parks Department recreational facility housing a spacious gym. (more…)

Posted by Adam on Thursday, March 11, 2010 | 2 Comments » | Email a Friend

In January we announced that director Travis Matthews was looking to cast an actor for his first feature film, a gay micro-indie based on the ‘BUTT MAGAZINE: IN THEIR ROOMS‘ videos he created for our website. It wasn’t an ordinary casting call, as whoever applied needed to be both a good actor and comfortable bottoming on film, (like Shortbus, the film features real sex). Now Travis has sent us word that he’s found his Rock Hudson in young Brenden (above), a handsome 28 year old San Franciscan who is ready to be a star. As the kids these days say, ‘drool.’

Posted by Adam on Thursday, March 11, 2010 | 6 Comments » | Email a Friend

Dominic Vine, who was interviewed in BUTT 11, is a member of a queer group called the Eternal Order of the Sons of Peregrine who have regular art-and-culture themed gatherings in Brooklyn. At the end of their last party, the group was laying around naked, which is when Dominic spied his friend in an alluring pose and snapped this photo.

Posted by Adam on Wednesday, March 10, 2010 | 3 Comments » | Email a Friend

Interview by Adam Baran
Portrait by Regis Trigano

Young filmmaker Loo Zihan’s first film Solos was a frank portrayal of a gay affair between a teacher and a young student, played by Zihan himself. Unsurprisingly the film was immediately banned in Singapore upon its release in 2007 due to ‘explicit content’. Zihan and I have become friends over the years and when he recently emailed me to say he was coming to New York for a working vacation, I figured he meant writing, or directing, or working on a film in some other capacity. I was more than a little surprised when I found out that the work that brought Zihan here was a week-long stint of go-go dancing at the city’s only Asian gay bar called The Web, an underground club on 57th Street that I’d always heard about but never went to. Every night Zihan, who now lives in Chicago and studies art and film-making, dressed up in inventive costumes that most go-go boys no longer put the effort into – Olympic swimmer garb one night, Shibari Japanese rope bondage another, and a full on leather-man look with nipple clamps the next. It didn’t take me long to realize that more than likely, this experience would be more than just an easy way for Zihan to make money. It’s probably going to end up being his next film… (more…)

Posted by Adam on Tuesday, March 9, 2010 | 2 Comments » | Email a Friend

It’s Monday morning, the best time of the day to begin a brand new column, titled ‘Butthead of the Week.’ Each week we pick the butthead we fancy the most and make him answer five hopefully revealing questions, shining a little light on the person, and perhaps inspiring you to click on his picture, drop him an email, and perhaps meet up for a shag. Our first Butthead of the Week is Niall from Dublin, Ireland. Isn’t the look on his face adorable? Niall’s only been on Buttheads for a few days, so he’ll naturally be looking for someone to help show him the ropes. Any takers?   (more…)

Posted by Adam on Monday, March 8, 2010 | 12 Comments » | Email a Friend

by Owen Myers

When I went to see the Brooklyn band Vivian Girls play in London a few weeks ago, I came away more smitten with the support act than the headliners. The band in question, Veronica Falls, play perversely catchy pop songs inspired by suicide spots and haunted graveyards – but it was their adorable drummer, Patrick, that I couldn’t take my eyes off of. Last weekend I met up with fellow BUTTHEAD Patrick over pints of traditional cider to reminisce about New York and talk about our shared obsession with movies about teenage girls. Don’t you just want to put him in your pocket?
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Posted by Adam on Friday, March 5, 2010 | 7 Comments » | Email a Friend

I’ve been obsessing over this video by X-Tube user ‘DanMils’ from Tennessee, which I first noticed on Dudetube during my morning j/o session yesterday. What’s so strange about this video is that the appeal of most X-Tube videos is the simple Warholian lack of artifice in their asthetic – subjects train an unmoving camera on themselves and jack off or fuck themselves with dildos to completion. There’s no artifice, no ridiculously staged premises, and no endless ‘under the balls’ penetration shots that go on for 20 minutes. But ‘DanMils’ X-Tube video ‘watching porn’ uses standard cinematic editing. Dan, who is 23, half-Russian, and lives with his parents in real life, plays himself in the video. He watches porn at a table, and we see reverse shots of the porn he’s viewing, and then an angle underneath the table where he takes out his large cock and jacks himself off. It’s the reverse shots that I find so strange, and yet I’m drawn to them, wondering whether they enhance or detract from the titillating amateur aspect of X-Tube. (more…)

Posted by Adam on Friday, March 5, 2010 | 7 Comments » | Email a Friend

Gan Ha’Atzmaut – or Independence Park – is widely known for being Israel’s No. 1 waterfront cruising park, conveniently located near  the Tel Aviv Hilton. In recent years nighttime revelers have been increasingly frightened off by uncomfortably bright lighting fixtures installed by Tel Aviv’s municipality. However, as this photograph bears witness – taken by German tourist Jürgen during a recent trip to the Holy Land – there’s still some fun left to be had.

Posted by Felix on Wednesday, March 3, 2010 | 2 Comments » | Email a Friend

BUTT’s 28th installment and it’s filled to the brim with gorgeous international males: Brazilian stunner Lorenzo Martone; video artist Ryan Trecartin; masseuse extraordinaire Corey Corey; the adorable former escort, and star of his own cockumentary, Greek Pete; a whole BUTT A LA CARTE section (yum!), and much, much more. For the dashing cover story, singer Kele Okereke of UK indie band Bloc Party was photographed in and out of the shower by Wolfgang Tillmans.