• Inwood Singalong

    Inwood Singalong

    Back in September, we turned a memberโ€™s Inwood apartment into a gay piano bar for this monthโ€™s shoot. The setting was fitting because the host, longtime participantย Jake Oswell, has been a steady part of Natural Pursuits and is now preparing to premiere his own cabaret show in New York City. Since the show is this…

  • Feeling Gourd-geous

    Feeling Gourd-geous

    Weโ€™re celebrating Halloween week with images captured by Avery Alejandro from our pumpkin carving event earlier this month. Avery brought along an Instax camera and was kind enough to scan the photos so we can share them with you. Since announcing the pumpkin-carving theme, weโ€™ve received the same response a bunch of times: โ€œSomeoneโ€™s going…

  • Pumpkin Patch

    Pumpkin Patch

    This month, Natural Pursuits invited people over to carve pumpkins. Last week we shared some candid photos from the day, and today weโ€™re sharing photographs taken by Nico Kiray. Because it was a rainy day, we had to make the best of the one window with good light. Thank God the table we were using…

  • Chastity and Nudism

    Chastity and Nudism

    A few weeks ago, someone messaged Natural Pursuits with a simple question: โ€œIs it appropriate to wear a chastity cage at a nudist event?โ€ For us the answer was simple. Yes. It’s not uncommon to see a cock cage at one of our events and we’ve held events that specifically celebrated chastity. We understand, that…

  • Dicks in Flicks: Horror Revisited

    Dicks in Flicks: Horror Revisited

    Last year, we published a Dicks in Flicks entry that examined how horror films use male full-frontal nudity to explore power, vulnerability, madness, and control. At the time, examples were rare. A few directors had dared to center the male body as a site of fear or fragility, but those moments felt like exceptions within…