Product Description

Pedro Virgil's styled portraits of athlete's bodies celebrate testosterone-laden masculinity. With elegant poses and vivid coloring Virgil manages to create tension as well as including a tongue-in-cheek pathos that will bring a smile to your face. Muscular machos that will set your fantasies ablaze and subtle gay scenes mix together and unquestionably leave a lasting impression.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #379532 in Books
• Published on: 2008-04-15
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 224 pages

About the Author
Australian photographer Pedro Virgil has been making waves with his work for years in magazines like BENT and DNA. He has also photographed for ROLEX, DIESEL and others. He puts a lot of work into all his images, resulting in professional high-gloss works of art of the superlative! These photos were taken for a calendar being sold to support of the McGraith Foundation.

Customer Reviews

There are better books out there on the sporting male form
I just received this much-anticipated book, and overall, I am very disappointed with it. Though the men are indeed extremely rugged and handsome, the images are hardly racy or tantalizing; it's clear the men were very uncomfortable with their nudity as most images have the men with their jeans pulled partially down their backside, and any frontal images have the genitals hidden behind shadows or hand-held towels. Strangely, there are several images spread over both pages, but the second page is completely blackened (for effect). Overall, the images are staight out of a men's fitness magazine like Exercise for Men Only.

There are better books that portray the male form more vibrantly and sensually: the various Bondi books and the Dieux du Stade books - all which I highly recommend.

Expensive and Disappointing
This is a very thick and overpriced book. If you were looking for full frontal nudity, spend you money some place else. The photography is rather dark. And it is most annoying, that each one of the photos has the models with some grease on their bodies. What is that about ? Don't waste your money.

Not so divine
Having been a fan of the Dieux Du Stade series of DVDs, and the book, I decided to check out this one since it looked similar. I have found that there is a huge gap in quality and presentation.In this book, there is even less nudity than there is in the Dieux Du Stade series which normally feature more backsides than frontal shots. While these footballers are nice to look at in this book, I just wanted more. I don't need full frontal shots all the time (of which there are none in this book), just some great nude shots would be nice.Well, the number of nude shots are scarce here, even if the main form of these shots is of the rear. These rear shots are the bright spots of the book, as there are a some buns featured that could be used as flotation devices - nice and muscular even when shown through white underwear.Most shots, though, have the athletes covering up their frontal regions, or presented in jeans and white briefs/boxer briefs. So much so that this whole book could sub for a catalog for said items. And since these are footballers on display, why are they put in fighting poses? One pose even has an athlete choking another from behind. The guys are even covered in dirt and look messy, but not in a sporty kind of way, posed in some kind of abandoned warehouse.There are some poses performed in a locker room, but the guys are still mostly covered way too much.And do you like plumber's crack? Well, you'll get your fill, as a lot of poses have the top part of some of the guys' peach fuzzed buns popping out of their jeans. Some of these shots are kinda good, but guys sagging could have been shown a lot more hotter than is presented here. It's Unfortunate that most of the overall poses featured are just not that artistic, nor interesting.Another gripe is the wasted pages. While the Dieux Du Stade book had pictures of a barren locker room and field of play to fit in with the theme of the athletes, and this book has maybe one shot of a used locker room, many pages are just wasted with nothing. Turn the page and you'll see the white blank on another side; another page may just have blackness. Total waste of paper and potential.Overall, this quality pressed, grand book is just not really erotic, nor interesting, even with some scarce, nice shots and cute guys on display. In using leftover pics from the well intentioned calendar, it is shown why they weren't used in the first place. With this book it is shown that Pedro Virgil and his crew have a long way to go to truly give the artistic presentation true athletes deserve. That's something that the Dieux Du Stade series already does - and does well.