10:55 am - 02/05/2013
An inside look at One Direction, Homo-eroticism, and Testicle Slapping.
If ever there was a pop group perfectly engineered to fuel the fantasy lives of adolescent girls (and a subset of grown woman and gay men), it’s One Direction. The Simon Cowell-managed and -manufactured fivesome are equal in looks and charm (if not necessarily in talent) and sing about parties, kissing, and girls who don’t know they’re beautiful, in songs tailor-made for the Twilight generation.
But One Direction differ from the all-male singing groups that came before them in other, less superficial, ways as well. Take the video for their latest ditty, Kiss You, in which Harry Styles, riding on a motorcycle behind Zayn Malik, reaches forward to cheekily tweak his band mate’s nipples.
Or their previous hit, Live While We're Young, in which the boys wrestle, hug, and play with giant inflatable banana. Not to mention the countless TV appearances, interviews and live concerts in which the band have groped or mock-kissed each other for the cameras.
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One Direction and the rise of Gay Acting Straight Men
An inside look at One Direction, Homo-eroticism, and Testicle Slapping.
If ever there was a pop group perfectly engineered to fuel the fantasy lives of adolescent girls (and a subset of grown woman and gay men), it’s One Direction. The Simon Cowell-managed and -manufactured fivesome are equal in looks and charm (if not necessarily in talent) and sing about parties, kissing, and girls who don’t know they’re beautiful, in songs tailor-made for the Twilight generation.
But One Direction differ from the all-male singing groups that came before them in other, less superficial, ways as well. Take the video for their latest ditty, Kiss You, in which Harry Styles, riding on a motorcycle behind Zayn Malik, reaches forward to cheekily tweak his band mate’s nipples.
Or their previous hit, Live While We're Young, in which the boys wrestle, hug, and play with giant inflatable banana. Not to mention the countless TV appearances, interviews and live concerts in which the band have groped or mock-kissed each other for the cameras.
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The blonde one is pretty cute, imo.
lolling at them giving the Liam Liam's tattoo
Also here because I track the 1D tag. I have nothing else to contribute
Lilo and Zouis are the cutest ships though.
They have literally been inseparable the last few months. It's adorable.
don't even want to refer to them as friends rn
the kpop gifs made it worth reading tho.
Get the person a clue.
How is this mainstream now?! I nearly died laughing when I read that.
...Mostly I'm just wondering, as I so often am, if this comes from real life or from Tumblr. Like, is the author saying this because of an actual objective observation, or because they stumbled across the fanfic and wanted to know where it came from?
Homosocial and homoerotic often is intertwined tho b/c they can overlap
It's what fuels slash fic and shipping that I love oh so much with my musicians and actors and fictional characters!
(for entertainment purposes. I'm not a crazed fan)