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Hello All,
Some of you may have noticed I'm posting less in the last few months. There are a couple of reasons for this. Mainly, good quality vintage photographs of naked men are getting harder to come by. eBay was my main source for the six and a half years I've been running this blog, and for those years before when I had several iterations of Tumblr blogs. eBay no longer allows most male nudes to be posted uncensored. I really enjoyed finding scans of the original prints of the great early male nude photographers, especially Bob Mizer, Bruce of LA, Lon, Milo, Douglas of Detroit and others of that era, and in most cases digitally removing dust and fingerprints etc., cleaning them up and adjusting the image tones. The images were large and sharp, and I loved bringing out the hidden detail. I know I've been successful because my meddled-with pictures tend to pop up all over the net, which is great. I've really no interest in posting well-recirculated or low-quality images, or new images of guys who shave and tattoo their whole bodies.
Also, the jpeg format is slowly being replaced by other types of files which require more effort to capture and edit, and the quality and clarity is often lacking. As it says on the blog I do this mostly to amuse myself, (and hopefully others in the process.) If it's work it's no fun.
There are currently 3,465 posts on this blog, many with multiple images. Over the life of the blog there have been a lot of visits here, according to Blogger statistics:
United States-2.81 million
France-309 K
United Kingdom-272 K
Germany-251 K
Canada-221 K
Australia-158 K
Singapore-112 K
Russia-101 K
Spain-95.2 K
Netherlands-78 K
Brazil-74.5 K
Italy-68.7 K
Mexico-40.5 K
Finland-37.4 K
Hong Kong-36.9 K
South Africa-26.7 K
Belgium-24.9 K
Poland-21.1 K
Argentina-21.1 K
Other-595 K - Including China, Japan, India, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Israel, Belarus, etc.
It was sad to see views from Ukraine diminish and then disappear in the past couple of years.
Age verification is coming and may kill all adult blogs. I've started getting occasional email notices from Google that a post or two have been put behind an adult warning label, which is silly because they already are. The notices are quite random.
I don't know what the future of this blog looks like right now. If I come across an image I feel like sharing I will, but I'm focused on other things. You all have been remarkably kind and supportive and I'm grateful for your enthusiasm and invaluable contributions of knowledge and photos. I'm not the best at names and faces, so thanks for that especially.
Bob
