Photos By GianOrso: Real Bear Hotness

Photographer GianOrso's portraits of big and (usually) hairy men are playful, intimate, and most of all a labor of love: "These pictures represent a sort of self portrait, in which I reveal myself and my personal, continuous research between aesthetic balance and sensuality, between artistic elevation and porno-glamour, between iconicity and pure pleasure." Not the sort of thing for anyone who thinks objects of male desire begin and end with glabrous Bel Ami twink types, but anyone who's bummed that the end of "The Sopranos" means one less chance every week to see James Gandolfini in his boxer shorts will find plenty here to cuddle up with.

· Photos by GianOrso (gianorso.com - thanks Rico)

Previously: Chi Chi LaRue's "When Bears Attack", When Bears Attack, I Bear It, Bear Hunting On Flickr, Welcome to Woofytown!, Hot! Hairy! Holes!, The Bearcave, North Woods Guys, Football Biggins, Bearfighter