Male Nudes on the Net is a links portal to Web sites displaying male nude photography (Art not Tart*). The presence of any link doesn't imply anything other than I like the site or think that it might be useful or interesting to visitors.
Although I've taken a look at all the sites listed, I can't be held responsible for any of their content or links, or any offence you might have. I've had to delete some because their URLs have been taken over by pornographers, their content has shifted or because they required visitors to register.
Please note that Male Nudes on the Net is not an agency of any kind and cannot offer or arrange modelling work. I will however list agencies or individual models if I feel they are suitable for listing.
Please email me with any suggestions for sites to be added, to tell me of any broken links or with any other comments you might have.
Please don't ask to have any site listed that is pornographic or that requires registration, except to post content such as on message boards, even if free. I also don't list any sites that only work with Internet Explorer or which are, or appear to be, primarily to present ad links.
There's no advertising on this site and I don't charge to be listed. I fund it and so please don't get nasty if I don't want to list your site.
Barry Leighton FRPS
Last updated - 12 November 2008
I also follow the netiquette of not asking every site for permission to include a link. The web is a public place and the vast majority of people want their sites to be publicised and linked to. If you find your site listed here and don't want it to be, then please send me a polite email asking me to remove it and I will (i.e. not a terse line or two that gets caught in my Junk mail filter). If you believe that I should have asked your permission first and get rude, then please remember the old adage - 'When in Rome'.
* By 'Art not Tart' I mean not pornographic or 'adult' sites intended to earn money for those who run them. It is a subjective decision, not least because I consider that erotic, fetish, glamour, muscle, etc., soft-core and hard-core pornography are just positions on the same scale. If the intention of a photograph is to arouse sexual feelings, then it's a matter of where on the scale that it falls. Nudes in themselves are not pornography. If someone gets aroused sexually, even though the photographer didn't intend it, then that is hardly the fault of the photographer. Go down that route and photographs of any part of the human body, and in some cases animal bodies, shoes, clothing, almost anything, would have to be banned.
I include sites that have some so-called erotic or fetish photographs for a number of reasons. One is because art is in the eye and pornography is in the thigh of the beholder. Some photographs intended as pornography have some artistic qualities, it just depends on the way they are looked at. Another is because I feel that the photographer needs 'to get it out of their system', whether that be the novelty of photographing naked men or getting aroused when doing it. Also, I might consider that to exclude them would mean excluding other, more wortwhile, work on the site.
So not moralistic, but my own subjective opinion on what I consider to be interesting or quality photography. Many more sites are excluded because I don't think them interesting or of high enough quality. If you don't like this, then I suggest that, instead of bullying me to include your site, you set-up your own links site.
Life isn't simple.
