Buttfeed

Whether he's getting fucked or getting sucked, it remains hidden — a spot for a lover to find. A lover who stays until morning and watches Florian sleep, a lover like Sam, who was probably the first guy to really notice Florian's birthmark, and probably the first to photograph it.

In 2002, East London face Calvin, as photographed by Andreas Larsson in BUTT No. 9, began an occasional zine that took a pair of cheap shears to the predominating celebrity culture engulfing Britain’s lite news agenda. The mainstream had Heat. The margins got Hate: a six issue compendium of tart asides skewering the twenty-first century celebrity skill of turning your life into a marketing plan. Calvin’s recently collated all six issues into a single bound volume. Get Hate: The Worst Of! at Calvin's website.

Michael wears his customized t-shirt at the Joiner's Arms in East London. His cat tore a hole at the nipple, then Michael was like, fuck it, and made his own BUTT tanktop.

Photographer Luke Austin, 28, noticed rough-and-ready doorman Charlie, 23, at Nevermind, a club in Sydney, Australia. It sounds totally grunge, but actually it’s full of twinks. Bearded and tattooed Charlie was more than happy to fulfill Luke’s various demands: underwear off, underwear on, around the house, in the tub, etc.

Back on the blog is Brazilian illustrator Francisco Hurtz, 25, who hereby submits a nice, straightforward, full-frontal self-portrait.

'There are no homosexuals in Iran,' the president adamantly proclaimed a few years back. And yet, my first fuck couldn’t help reminding me/himself that I was a homosexual and, more importantly, Iranian. 'They’d kill you where you’re from, right?', he asked during.

The super entertaining Taxi Zum Klo is an often-forgotten cinematographic gem from 1980, by Frank Ripploh. Telling the story of a schoolteacher’s contrasting public and private life, it’s quite pornographic, with pretty much all the major homosexual fetishes being touched upon, and the actors doing their own sucking and fucking. It’s also like a debased John Waters film, with some ‘no-they-didn’t!’ gross-out moments and a series of funny cameos by a cast of eccentric West Berlinites.

We here at BUTT are really feeling for straight-forward full-frontal nudity, such as this vintage snap of British body-building champion John Hamill taken by Paul Hawker in the mid-1960s.

During the performance of ‘Demolished Chair’, Taiwanese artist Lan Hungh disguises himself within the frame of an old armchair in the hopes that people will sit on him and use him. Hungh’s flaccid penis is the only body part that’s visible, and becomes hard as soon as anyone starts discussing the chair or sitting on…

The gay beach in Athens isn’t really a beach at all, but a sort of rocky cliff — a gay cliff. Typical. Gays always pick the hardest spot. The best time to go is in the afternoon. That’s when the action’s peaking. In the summer, it can get quite hot between one and four, so go after four or you’ll die of sunstroke because there’s not one square meter of shade.

Handsome Dan, a writer from São Paulo, is photographed here by his dear friend Rafael, on a casual Sunday evening at Dan’s parents' house while said parents were conveniently out. After eating pizza and drinking some beer, it was time to take some sexy snaps. According to Rafael, “Dan got so excited after taking this picture that he needed to jerk off.”

Now that spring is here it’s time to shed some of those comfortable winter pounds and get in shape for summer...

Seen here is Seattle-resident Nicholai, 22, a Restorative Therapy Home Care Aid who has been told by an expert pervert that he has the perfect foreskin. Says Nicholai, "she was a hooker in her youth."

Mansur has deep dark eyes, a body that’s perfectly imperfect and lots of hair in all the right places.

This is Sicilian photographer and GLBT-rights activist Andrea, photographed in Vilnius, Lithuania by his Russian-born boyfriend Stas, 26, during a blowjob-punctuated photoshoot. Stas says: “I have a strong weakness of Andrea’s chest hair, and he has the same for my butt, which he calls ‘a lunapark of pleasure’.” Coincidentally, Luna Park is the location of their former flat in Vilnius.

Francisco Hurtz likes sex, but who doesn't? His star sign is Aries. Francisco lives in São Paulo, Brazil, and he's 25 years old. He makes drawings of couples, friends, lovers. The drawings shown here are part of the 'Anonimato' series - that's Portuguese for 'anonymity'. Francisco says: "I want to represent sex in pure." He's represented by Emma Thomas Gallery, also in São Paulo.

Meet Otto, a two-year old English bulldog from Berlin, Germany. He can be seen getting comfortable on the naked lap of Blagoy, a handsome 22-year-old social sciences student originally from Sofia, Bulgaria.

Photographer David Armstrong has lived in Bedford Stuyvesant since the late '90s. He occupies 14 rooms and 4000 square feet over four floors of a townhouse that's filled with antique furniture, photo equipment, draped fabric, dried flowers, a vast assembly of random objects and a piano. It is here that he shoots most of his photographs of young men — models, friends, hustlers. David’s work captures a romantic innocence that belies his often-tumultuous life. When I meet him on an early Sunday afternoon, he first walks me through his home’s many different rooms and fixes us some hearty Bloody Maries. Once in the main salon, David lights the first of many Newport Menthol 100s, and gets comfortable on an antique daybed.

This is jock-strapped Drew Daniel, of Matmos and Soft Pink Truth fame, at the tender age of 19 or 20 when he was a go-go dancer at Club Uranus in San Francisco.

Last Sunday at around 7:30 p.m. CET at the Hebbel am Ufer theatre in Berlin-Kreuzberg, a massive iron curtain thundered upwards, marking the premiere of Bruce LaBruce’s first-ever staging of Arnold Schönberg’s melodrama Pierrot Lunaire. Leave it to Bruce LaBruce to transform Schönberg’s opera of sorts into a one-hour-long gender-bending tale of impossible love, guilt, and confusion — complete with a neo-expressionist stage design including a dick-guillotine and dildos aplenty. A day before the premiere Bruce and his art director Cyril Duval aka item idem took time out from tending to the production’s final kinks to answer some of BUTT’s pondering questions.