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Locker Room Nudes: Dieux du Stade The French National Rugby Team

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Synopsis

This remarkable collection of candid nude photos of France’s national rugby team goes beneath the uniform to reveal what real jocks look like underneath it all. Each image taken by leading French photographer François Rousseau depicts the rugby player?alone or with teammates?undressing, lounging on the bench, showering. Locker Room Men is at once a celebration of athletes and the beauty of the male form as well as the fulfillment of the fantasy of going behind the scenes in a winning team’s locker room. Sure to appeal to both gay men, these photos are unusual because the men are not models. They don’t work out just to look good?and look good they do?their bodies are sculpted by winning victories on the field. They aren’t made up, shaved, or prettified in any way. These are some of the world’s best rugby players?brawny, tough, competitive.

Since 1999, the French national rugby team has posed nude or semi-nude for an annual calendar. The purpose behind the calendar was to get wider “exposure” for rugby and the team. In 2004, François Rousseau was selected as photographer, and he successfully brought out the sensual beauty and sexiness inherent in the rugby players’ rough and tumble exterior. The calendar became a cult hit, and thus the book was born so that even more of these unparalleled images could be savored.

Whether or not rugby will become more popular in this country remains to be seen, but this book will certainly raise the game’s profile…

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Book Hardcover: $44.99

Availability: In stock and ready to ship
Dimensions: 11 X 13
Photos: Black & White
ISBN: 9780789313072

Publisher : Universe, Dieux du Stade

Customer Reviews

Dieux Du Stade Locker Room Nudes: Showcasing The Beauty of The Male Athlete

Webb Masters (postmaster@GayNYCity.com) wrote on 11/09/2005:

What do you get the gay man who has everything for Christmas? How about a trip into the winning team's locker room? Thats what you get with Dieux Du Stade: Locker Room Nudes! There's a haunting quality to the photos in this book. It's a page turner, but you'll want to turn them s-l-o-w-l-y! Francois Rousseau showcases The male beauty of the athlete in a beautifully bound coffee table book like no one else has since Bruce Weber with his project Bear Pond. The French National Rugby Team has more than its share of stunningly beautiful male bodies, and in Locker Room Nudes those bodies are showering, undressing, sitting alone on the bench, and are all completely nude. Not since the creation of Michelangelo's David, has there been such effort exerted to show just how beautiiful the nude male form can be. Locker Room nudes is almost unintentionally homoerotic, but homoerotic it is!
That's why GayNYCity chose this book as the number one choice of Must Have Christmas Gifts for 2005!