Aussielicious

On Monday morning, I was driving to work when a woman called in to the radio station I listen to, to complain about Fair Day, one of the big events on Sydney’s Mardi Gras calendar. It had been held in a big park the day before. In part of that park is a public swimming pool which was closed because of Fair Day.

The woman was complaining that “The Majority” don’t get a street parade and a big fair day that is unwelcoming to others. I beg to differ. In Sydney ‘The Gays” get one parade a year, one big Fair Day and a handful of other events.

Given that the “majority” is 9 out of 10 people and we are just one out of that 10 I believe they get a lot more than 9 times the number of Fairs, fetes, music festivals and countless other events where gay people are distinctly made to feel uncomfortable and perhaps even unsafe.

She proposed a “Majority” parade with women in power suits and men with briefcases. I don’t know what planet she’s living on but a lot of us, “the minority” wear suits and carry briefcases and walk amongst the “majority” every day, unnoticed. Our Mardi Gras parade started over 30 years ago as a protest for gay rights and all the participants were arrested. Our parade today still calls attention to inequality and unfair treatment, as well as celebrating that we have actually come some way forward towards equality which she would take from us no doubt.

What would her parade celebrate? Keeping us from being married? Keeping us from being able to adopt? Keeping us from being able to donate blood? The caller has just proven how far we have yet to go in our fight for our rights. Thankfully the radio hosts basically told her that her parade would be bloody boring and that she was being a bit unfair.

After committing to having an exhibition, shooting for it and staging it, I was really happy with the results and the challenge and motivation that doing it provided for me. So, to keep the momentum rolling along, I’ve already booked the gallery for next year’s Mardi Gras festival and I’m doing my first shoot this weekend.

This series will be different in that it will be shot outdoors using natural light instead of in a studio and the theme, while still nudes, will be in and around water. The series above is not my photography but I thought you’d all appreciate the eye candy.

I’ve posted in the past about being keen to try a mud bath thing at some stage. The place I’ve gone nude camping has photos up of a bunch of people being covered in mud from the river but when I’ve been there I haven’t found the muddy spot in the river.

Over the years that I’ve been keeping an eye on Burning Man I’ve seen several photos from a mud pit created there but don’t know if it’s something that happens regularly or not. The practicalities of getting cleaned up afterwards in the desert are a bit hard to fathom but I really hope to experience it there.

It would also make for some amazing photo opportunities.

Last night on television, a character was looking at online dating profiles (straight) and came across a profile of an “adult baby”.

That is one fetish I just don’t understand. I know a lot of people are into role play of various forms but a grown man wanting to be treated like a baby baffles the hell out of me. When it came up my flatmate told me that he knows a tv personality here in Australia is into it too.

My question is, how far do you take this role play? With adult babies, do they like to soil their nappy/diaper and have someone clean it up? Or is it more about being dominated and totally reliant on someone else?

A few years ago I came across a guy who was right into rape fantasies. He asked me straight away if I knew anywhere I could tie him up, rape him and then abandon him. Now I came over all practical and asked how he would get out and he just said, leave that up to me. For real? What if someone came along and found him like that? Do I end up with the police after me? What is it about being “raped” that can turn someone on.

I understand that a rape scenario is very different to being raped. By defininition, rape is sex without consent and against your will. So if you pre arrange it and enjoy it, it’s acting.

If anyone out there is into any of this, I’d love to hear from you! Please comment or email me.

After interviewing the 19 year old nudist last week and talking to lots of nudists over time, I started wondering when did nudity become shameful and civilised become equated with being clothed?

Tribal nudity seems to be acceptable, but nudity amongst your peers is shameful. It does feel like that society really is going backwards at times. I’m often intrigued that some people are so comfortable nude that they will happily be the first and only one nude in a crowd yet others wouldn’t ever be seen nude by others unless forced at gunpoint.

I know it’s a dream that will never become reality but wouldn’t it be nice if one day, being seen nude caused absolutely no shame, guilt or embarrassment?

After blogging for over 5 years now and watching nearly all but porn blogs slowly drop their hits over the years as other networking and media take off, I can still be surprised from time to time. I had a text message from a friend last night saying he’d seen my blog mentioned on one of his porn blog reads.

It turns out someone at Queermenow is reading little old Aussielicious. In one of their regular gay porn roundups they have linked to my interview with a 19 year old nudist. Not porn but they find it interesting which I appreciate. Doing a search on their site for Aussielicious, as I had to do to find the link, it turns out they’d posted a couple of my pole dancing videos too. Super cool. Thanks guys.

I had an email from a reader called Kenneth. Kenneth has hit a stage in his life that he wants to be true to himself in every way. He’s 52 years old and has given up a lot in his life in the name of religion. He’s not giving up religion but is acknowledging that perhaps there is a wider view of how to live while still being a good christian.

Kenneth is entering graduate school and relocating his life. Part of being true to himself is keeping in shape and stepping out of his comfort zone. He sent me the photo above to challenge himself. Congratulations Kenneth and all the very best for this new truer stage in your life!

Now I just want to know when it’s going to be down under!!!! It looks amazing. Aerialists, fountains, reworking of old songs and hot hot male dancers. I LOVE a Kylie concert!

Matthew Brown has featured on these pages in the past with his beautiful videos. He is a friend of the ScenicBoys and has captured some beautiful imagery on camping trips with those boys. They obviously trust in his vision because they agreed to appear in this promotional video for a singer that Matthew has been commissioned to do. There was very little budget, no brief and no time. Somehow Matthew has come up with this gorgeous video with all those constraints. He used three of the singer’s songs edited together, painted Dusty and Garet in body paint and set them loose in the wilderness. Gorgeous.

Matthew is hoping to do his own version of the video with different music and using more of the footage that the record label wasn’t comfortable with, ie. the nude stuff.

I know I said it was looking likely that I’d get to Burning Man last year which didn’t happen. This year is looking much more likely. I’ve just booked two weeks holiday for the trip and bought my ticket. The two groups I was trying to decide between to camp with, are now joining forces anyway. I can’t wait.

Ever since I saw the photo in the centre a couple of years ago, I have pretty much thought I will wear a very similar ensemble, weather permitting. Now I need to do some serious saving and planning. I was hoping to get to NYC after a few days in Vegas seeing the permanent Cirque Du Soleil shows, but that isn’t in my budget, so Burning Man and Vegas it will be.

As you all know by now, my first photographic exhibition is over and done. After months of buildup, stress, excitement, nerves and creativity (I hope) the time it was on the walls of the gallery has flown by and the day after I took them down I had a case of the blues.

I’m really proud of committing to it and getting it done. To keep the momentum rolling I have already booked the gallery for next year around the same time.

However as a result of this exhibition I have 11 framed images sitting in my apartment looking for homes and many unframed prints also up for sale. If any of you out there are in the market for some photography to hang on your walls, please get in touch.

This interview came about after I had to delete a video that featured some young guys in it several weeks ago. “Tom” contacted me saying he’d seen the video and saw nothing wrong with it. Tom is a 19 year old college student who has been raised by his gay father, along with two younger brothers. They are all very enthusiastic nudists living a relatively unconventional lifestyle. I’ve changed names in this interview as they wanted to be anonymous. As long term readers will know, I’ve often wondered what it would have been like to have been raised in a nudist. I wasn’t raised to be ashamed of my body but my parents more conservative attitudes did rub off and I was very prudish for a long time. The photographs used in this interview are not the family being interviewed. Part two of the interview will be posted soon, and it will be with Tom’s father.

Have your parents always been nudists?
Dad has been a nudist since college. Mom is not and never as been a nudist. They divorced when I was around 10. My youger brothers and I live with Dad but see Mom all the time as she lives very close.

Growing up, how did your parents explain to you that not everyone walks around nude and that some people might not understand or like it?
Yes – we were certainly open about being nudist to family and friends but we were definitely told if we wanted  the freedom of being clothes free at home we could not be telling everyone about how we lived – they had their way of living and we had ours.

How open were you with friends growing up that you were a nudist?
We were very open – we all went to a progressive private school where it was common knowledge and certainly not an issue. My brothers are still at that school.

Was there a stage when you or your siblings hit puberty when you felt self conscious about being nude?
We all love living nude – I honestly never recall being self-conscious – to us it is quite natural and normal. Everyone is going to ask about erections I know. We are told to be proud of them, they are part of what makes us men, and they are no reason to be ashamed.

When you came out, did it make it easier knowing your father is also gay?
I never really had to come out – I always figured I was just like Dad and he said he could tell I was gay at a very young age. . My brothers are straight.

You have two younger brothers. Is it interesting to see them growing up and going through puberty and seeing how they handle it as nudists, now that you are out the other side of it?
It has been really beautiful to see the process of  their bodies  as they grow and  and how proud they are of becoming men.

Would you say that nudists are a bit more open minded about life in general?
Oh yeah – I think it really helps you to live without judgment and accept people for who and how they are.

You attend a very liberal university where it’s not uncommon to see nudity on campus. Do you think you would be comfortable going to a more mainstream or conservative university and having to wear clothes?
No way ! On nice days it’s not uncommon to see kids sunning themselves nude outside the dorm, playing frisbee  and just hanging out. I am in a men’s only dorm and me and a few other guys are naked 24/7 there.

You’ve managed to help convert several of the guys on campus and in your dorm to social nudity. Do any of them have a problem with hanging out nude with gay and bi guys?
Labels like gay, straight, bi don’t mean a whole lot like they used to – nobody seems to cares around here – I am lucky.

As a society we seem to be getting more prudish with showers at gyms becoming cubicles instead of open showers and guys going to extraordinary lengths to not be seen nude even in locker rooms. Why do you think that is?
Guys tell me they have never seen their father naked. They had their own bedrooms and bathrooms and no one ever saw them naked growing up after they were 3 or 4 or did they see anyone else. Most schools do not require showers anymore .Guys don’t even change their underwear to go back to class. It’s gross and weird to me. But then I don’t own any underwear !!

Nude beaches are stereotypically the domain of older people, what do you think holds younger people back from being nudists?
Maybe because they think people will hit on them but we been to beaches in FL, NJ, and California where we met other kids.

Typical 19 year olds masturbate a lot, what do you do for privacy living in a share nudist house and even sharing a bedroom?
We live very simply and very green in a small house with not much privacy.  Dad, my bros and I all usually sleep in a bunk rooom together. We only have one bathroom – kind of open European style with two shwer heads – open door policy.   We even have a bider to make sure we are always real clean. In warm weather, we sleep out out on the back porch. Warm weather I love to jack off up in the tree house – I can hang out up there for hours. I do it in the outdoor shower too. But most often, there is a small loft area in the house, accessible by a ladder, where I hang out and do it.

Would you say it’s important to you to when you are looking for someone to date, that they are interested in nudism too?
Be great if he was nudist too but that’s real hard to find – just be cool with me as I am.\

Do you have anything you would like to say to the readers of Aussielicious?
Naked is cool  – just do it !!

My host has been having a couple of server issues which is why the blog has been down a bit from time to time. My apologies. I would have posted last night but it was Valentine’s Day here and I am in a surprising and unusual situation of dating someone lovely so we had a really nice night last night. To make up for the absence, here’s a little video with some cute guys.

Naked Chris Zylka Training For Self-Fellatio
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It’s always the events with the biggest build up that go the fastest. Tomorrow is the last day of the exhibition that I committed to nearly 12 months ago now. If any of you that are in Sydney want to come and see it, the gallery is open tomorrow (Saturday) from 11am – 4pm. I will be in the gallery from 1pm, so please come along and say hello. There are also plenty of prints left to buy. Hint hint. ;)

Once again it’s time for the Mardi Gras madness to begin here in Sydney. The Lifesavers With Pride, the float that I’m marching/dancing with had our first rehearsal tonight and it’s going to be another fun routine. I am not feeling that in shape at the moment but nevertheless I will have my red aussieBums on and be dancing up the street with a massive grin on my face once more. It’s such a fun thing to do and I wouldn’t miss it for the world.