Hot, shirtless men in public libraries

[+ friendofsheila]

They can be found.

 

At least in my library, there are tons and tons of them on the carousel displaying all the romance novels. It's pretty odd.

[+ purplekow]

I have a casual acquaintance who looked very familar to me from the first time I saw him. It was not until we attended the same barbecue and he took off his shirt to go into the pool that I recognized him as a coverboy for many romance novels. During the course of the day, I manage to get him alone and asked him if he did indeed model for those covers and he sheepishly said he did but he did not want his wife and family to know that he was making extra money in this way. So it remain our secret. By the way, he was impressive in real life but those covers really showed his body off to its maximum potential.

[+ beethoven]

I'd think that any photograph on the cover of a book was heavily retouched, Photo shopped, etc. I'm surprised that you could recognize a person on a cover by seeing him. Especially if you recognized him from his body, not his face.

[+ purplekow]

I recognized his face only after i saw his body which did not appear to be muscularly shredded in the clothes he usually wore. The pictures were definitely retouched, accenting the positive. Once I realized who he was, I was surprised I hadn't placed him sooner.

[Samai139]

It is incredible to me that this "cover-boy" could keep his modeling from his wife and family. How many years ago was this? In todays social media fever wouldn't he have been "outed" in days??

[+ purplekow]

1990s at the dawning of the Age of No Secrets

[whipped guy]

Incidentally those hot shirtless guys have often been know to be seen in the normally staid, proper, and reserved setting of Barnes and Noble as well!!

 

Almost made me want to checkout a pirate novel with Fabio on the cover... Almost!

[+ Gar1eth]

When I was a child and early adolescent, I loved it when my parents took me to Six Flags Over Texas. At the time they had the 'Canoe Ride- 'real' canoes where you paddled and there were either one or two shirtless adolescent to early 20's males, in buckskin pants, paddling and and steering. The guys were tan from having worked outdoors all summer without their shirts and were all in pretty good shape considering they were paddling canoes all day. I always told myself I wanted to get in good shape like them. But - oh well at least I had the opportunity to look at them if not look like them.

 

Gman

[+ friendofsheila]

If a cute guy (a live one, not on a book cover) EVER appears in the library, he never appears again.

[+ friendofsheila]

If a cute guy (a live one, not on a book cover) EVER appears in the library, he never appears again.

 

A cute guy just appeared in the library (I'm using a library computer now).

 

He gave me a look! Then went past.

 

Then went past the other way and glanced down at me! Then went into the children's section.

 

The children's section???

 

What to make of this? You tell me.

[gallahadesquire]

The Children's Section is This:

Some men you should not Miss:

I tried to emulate Dr. Seuss

And ended up with a goose.

[gallahadesquire]

When I was in Medical School, I found refuge in the Library at WPI.

[a.k.a. Whoopie Tech, a.k.a. Worcester Polytechnic Institute].

 

It was a lovely, quiet place to watch Hunky Nerds go about their

business. Alas: I never met one in the Men's room or elsewise.

 

Pity.

[+ friendofsheila]

Well, he gave me his look more than once. Then he didn't respond much as I gave him half a smile when I passed him on the way to the hold shelf.

 

Then he came to the checkout machine with two boys. One of them called him "Daddy" and then asked "Is Mom home?"

 

What a life he must be leading, trying to pick up middle aged gays like me at the library in between babysitting his kids and getting them home.

 

Weird.

[+ friendofsheila]

The Children's Section is This:

Some men you should not Miss:

I tried to emulate Dr. Seuss

And ended up with a goose.

 

Given what I found

It's nothing I want

What trial it must be

for blowjobs to haunt.

 

(I'm not as good at poetry as you.)

[+ friendofsheila]

I just saw him again. He didn't give me a second look.

 

Maybe it's the facial hair I have now.....

[+ friendofsheila]

I just saw him again. He didn't give me a second look.

 

Maybe it's the facial hair I have now.....

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